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naraburns  nihil supernum  13d ago (text post)   Edited 12d ago   4363 thread views

Quality Contributions Report for October 2024

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I looked for UN / amnesty / HRW reports and whether there were reputable new reports on it. If Hamas were employing non-teenage children in a military capacity, it would be publicized widely and talked about regularly. It would be a huge deal and an important propaganda coup for Israel/America. It would also be Israel’s #1 talking point whenever the subject of casualties come up. Not even crazed academics would be able to defend Hamas at that point.

Are you aware that people defended what Hamas did on 7th October?

And that their main tactic is randomly firing rockets into general area and suicide bombings?

Why you think that pre-teen child soldiers would phase them of all things?

Why using children as soldiers would be treated as worse than murdering children and celebrating it?

and that their main tactic is randomly firing rockets into general area and suicide bombings

You think Hamas’ main tactic is suicide bombings? Not sure if I should even request a source at this point.

Why you think that pre-teen child soldiers would phase them of all things?

First, there is zero evidence that they are employing them (lol), and no one can find evidence of it stretching back one to two decades. Second, because of a mix of norms and international pressure. Employing your own children as child soldiers is much different than a bomb exploding which impacts a child.

Why using children as soldiers would be treated as worse than murdering children and celebrating it?

You have to look at the number of children killed on Oct 7 and then determine whether they died because of a conscious decision of a Hamas soldier or because Israel enacted a military protocol of blowing up every car and building if it contained a Hamas soldier and hostage.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/israels-leading-paper-says-its-own-army-deliberately-killed-israelis-on-october-7-but-in-the-u-s-media-silence/

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/a-growing-number-of-reports-indicate-israeli-forces-responsible-for-israeli-civilian-and-military-deaths-following-october-7-attack/

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