• foofiepie@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Ok flame away, as clearly I’m going to be downvoted to oblivion or banned, but:

    I read just now on the BBC that most of the casualties were due not to gunfire, as all the posts suggest, but to the aid Lorries driving over people in what seems like scenes of chaos and probable panic… and this is from a news outlet that leans to the left.

    I’m not pro Hamas or IDF but I feel like (deserved or not), if what the Beeb say is true, then we’re allowing ourselves to get carried away here.

    Israel-Gaza war: More than 100 reported killed in crowd near Gaza aid convoy, Hamas-run health ministry says

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        8 months ago

        When you’re supporting a far right authoritarian genocide…

        Pretty much everything “leans left” compared to your own views…

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      8 months ago

      It’s wild how you read that article and just take the Israeli claim as truth when they’re contradicted by others right there in the article:

      All or most of the casualties being treated at two other hospitals, Kamal Adwan and al-Awda, were said by officials there to have bullet or shrapnel wounds.

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        8 months ago

        It’s wild you just take those officials’ claims as truth when they’re contradicted by others right there in the article:

        A Palestinian witness told the BBC most of those who died had been run over as lorry drivers tried to move forward.

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          8 months ago

          I didn’t take any of them as truth, because we don’t know. We do know Israel lies, frequently and blatantly, so believing them over other sources is dumb.

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              8 months ago

              The person I was replying to before you jumped in for some reason apparently without reading the context.

              I read just now on the BBC that most of the casualties were due not to gunfire

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      8 months ago

      If someone opens fire at people in a crowded building and causes a crowd crush that kills dozens of people, do you blame the crowd or the dude who started mowing people down? Israel murdered those people by creating that situation regardless of the precise circumstances of their deaths.