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Hekate

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13. Hamas is using Palestinians as human shields by digging 500 miles of tunnels...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 04:41 PM

Oct 2023

…under hospitals and every other piece of infrastructure in Gaza. Also the hospital was supposedly out of fuel, so where did the patients go. In addition (so I have read at DU today) the hospital seems to have been repurposed as a Hamas barracks.

Where does the truth lie?

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So was the only cancer hospital in Gaza bombed today [View all] malaise Oct 2023 OP

Hamas barracks. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #1

So that makes it ok.. DemocratInPa Oct 2023 #2

Actually yes it becomes a military target and that's why Hamas does it GuppyGal Oct 2023 #4

So in other words.. DemocratInPa Oct 2023 #5

I have read that there were no patients there because the hospital was out of fuel. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #9

Like a ground invasion and heavily armed troops seizing the hospital? NickB79 Oct 2023 #11

They've been warned for weeks now. Go south. Tomconroy Oct 2023 #19

That being the case, seems to me, Hamas was the first to state "fuck those patients" Torchlight Oct 2023 #25

Yep n/t SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #6

If it is no longer a hospital sarisataka Oct 2023 #8

It was still a hospital.. DemocratInPa Oct 2023 #10

It was a military barracks. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #12

One- are we sure sarisataka Oct 2023 #15

In the mind of many, yes. Even on "our side" onecaliberal Oct 2023 #16

If it was a Hamas barracks TexasDem69 Oct 2023 #47

I don't believe that claudette Oct 2023 #26

Why not? sarisataka Oct 2023 #30

Where claudette Oct 2023 #37

Is that a rhetorical question? Bucky Oct 2023 #40

At the moment there is equal proof sarisataka Oct 2023 #42

I thought they had no fuel ??? GuppyGal Oct 2023 #3

Quite remarkable SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #7

I've found it interesting that there is no power or Internet access in Gaza AZSkiffyGeek Oct 2023 #14

Hamas is using Palestinians as human shields by digging 500 miles of tunnels... Hekate Oct 2023 #13

That could be claudette Oct 2023 #28

No you're right TheProle Oct 2023 #34

You might want to do a bit of research on munitions SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #36

I don't know if we've shared. Igel Oct 2023 #38

I don't know either SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #39

ADL enid602 Oct 2023 #17

ADL is progressive. The extreme right and left have always had antisemitism in common. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #18

Destruction enid602 Oct 2023 #20

They were critical long before this xmas74 Oct 2023 #21

I remember the time when the left wing socialists were considered progressive Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #22

Fox enid602 Oct 2023 #23

Amazing isn't it FHRRK Oct 2023 #43

I looked at xitter. Not definitive but I haven't seen Tomconroy Oct 2023 #24

And you're claudette Oct 2023 #29

This is floating all over xitter by anti Israel sources Tomconroy Oct 2023 #33

And so many Mossfern Oct 2023 #31

There are now more bot posts saying the bombing Tomconroy Oct 2023 #44

The rationalization here... Le Sigh. WarGamer Oct 2023 #27

link? Mossfern Oct 2023 #32

Go on xitter and search Gaza cancer hospital. Tomconroy Oct 2023 #35

Perhaps the reasoning is that if you destroy the homes, hosptials and other infrastructure, that the former occupants Chainfire Oct 2023 #41

The purpose is to end Hamas. EndlessWire Oct 2023 #45

So, it is a case of the end justifies the means? Chainfire Oct 2023 #46

I didn't say that. EndlessWire Oct 2023 #48