CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a lost of words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.

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    11 months ago

    This is a war crime.

    On the part of Hamas right? For placing valid military targets inside of otherwise protected Civilian areas.

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      11 months ago

      On the part of Hamas and Israel. War crimes don’t stop being war crimes just because you’re fighting war criminals.

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        11 months ago

        They sort of do in this case. The reason the strike would be a war crime is that a refugee camp is explicitly civilian infrastructure. Under the conventions of war, explicitly civilian infrastructure is suppose to be spared from attack. And attacking it is a war crime.

        When you co-locate military infrastructure there it loses it’s protections as it’s no longer explicitly civilian infrastructure. And a strike against it ceases to be a war crime.