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There must have been a tragic and bizarre set of circumstances to lead to this. The IDF has assured us that they’re taking great measures to avoid civilian casualties, and their actions are fully legal and justified. Those hostages must have escaped and taken up arms and attacked the Israeli soldiers by mistake, because otherwise they couldn’t possibly have been mistaken for combatants. I’m just flabbergasted, no one could have foreseen something like this happening. It’s really shocking.

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I read the first part of this comment… then I read the second. 🥇

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Israel’s global narrative be like:

✅ Collateral damage:

- most hospitals non-functional

- 18,000+ dead

- bakeries can’t make food

- infants dead in incubators

- patients forced to “evacuate” under gunfire

- dying of preventable diseases

- 10k people missing/dead and still under rubble

- hundreds held and stripped, others detained in an “unknown location”

- journalists, UN workers, doctors dead while on duty or while sheltering with their families


😥 Tragedy:

- 3 Israeli hostages killed “by mistake” despite having civilian clothes on and being unarmed


Disclaimer: yes, of course, it’s a tragedy, but also proof that the IDF targets anything that moves.

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“Look what you made us do.”

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Which actually is true. You should spend your time condemning the terrorist elected government of Gaza, Hamas needs to be eradicated.

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how dare the prisoners of a concentration camp strike back at their guards! for shame!

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As much as I disagree with the comment you’re responding to, this is such a bullshit characterization of Hamas’ initial and grotesque slaughter of random Israeli civilians. That behavior is never justified.

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Your apology for terrorists and war crimes of the elected government of Gaza says everything.

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Why are 18k people “collateral damage” but those three are “a tragedy”? Please explain.

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Eliminate Likud and the IDF while we’re at it. Eliminate all terrorists from the area.

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I’m with you, I hate the Likud party, and Hamas is the reason Bibi and them are in power. If you don’t understand that, just do a little historical research.

And blanket stating that the IDF is terrorists is ridiculous. I know it’s hip and trendy right now to say, but that doesn’t make it true.

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You mean the tyrannical pseudo-government that does not allow dissent? The one whose majority of citizens not only did not vote, but never had the opportunity to vote?

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I mean the officially elected one that’s still the governing power there. Just bc that’s inconvenient to a false narrative doesn’t change it.

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Oh, here is riverELECTEDmonster again

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Always remember that when this person says Hamas, they mean everyone, like the Minister of Education, the telecommunication company, or that teenage girl volunteering at her government-run school.

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Inconvenient facts are definitely unpalatable to the fake narrative spread by Hamas agents and supporters here.

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Why can’t both be wrong? Neither deserves the land. I’m at the point where I’m starting to think everyone should be removed from the area of Israel and Gaza, etc. and it be declared a world heritage site with a visitor center and museum by each of the three Abrahamic religions/cultures and nobody allowed to actually live there. Everyone gets their holy land visitation and nobody owns it. The states there were artificially created, and they can be removed

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That would be cool, but who would administer this site, the UN? And I imagine there would be attacks on the site from both (if not three, if you include crazy Evangelicals) sides trying to reclaim it.

As long as these Abrahamic religions are around, people will be fighting over that land so it seems. Truly a benevolent and merciful god.

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three Abrahamic religions

so nothing for Yezidis, Zoroastrians, or any other pre-Abrahamic religions?

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So basically the Baha’i method

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Make it a Disney World

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I’d go for a world ban on religion altogether! It’s definitely a core pillar of the problem. The land is stupid… all of it. 100% agree.

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I agree except instead of museums. Nuclear bomb the whole fucking area. So there isn’t a pebble left and the whole area is irritated for a thousand years.

These religious nut jobs will NEVER give up as long as there is something there. I’m generally a preserve history buff, but while ANY of these cults exist there will be no peace…

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Yeah attacking refugee camps, hospitals and private residences will ensure peace for sure.

/s

The number of future terrorists will only increase in numbers because people will have destroyed homes and murdered innocent brothers and fathers to avenge.

FYI: Most people there just make due with what they have and do not even support Hamas.

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The number of future terrorists will only increase in numbers because people will have destroyed homes and murdered innocent brothers and fathers to avenge.

Which is exactly why Bibi funded Hamas. Nationalism is a cancer, no matter where it is.

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Co-locating in them and stripping them legally of protected status should never be tolerated, it’s good that Hamas is being executed 24/7.

I’m glad that every dead Hamas monster makes the Palestinians safer. Let’s hope we can get rid of them swiftly so that there are no further compromising of what would otherwise be protected targets.

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What about the other potentially tens of thousands “mistakenly” killed civilians or are we pretending that only those three were mistaken?

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I see no difference between Hamas and Israel, so you can go on and eradicate both if that’s your solution.

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I think wanting proportional casualties is a really horrible way to evaluate a conflict. I hear that you desire more deaths so that it’s evened out and cringe, that’s so sick man.

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An initial IDF probe into the hostage killing incident suggests all three men were shirtless, with one carrying a makeshift white flag.

On seeing them, one Israeli soldier shouted “terrorists!” to the other forces, initiating fire at the men, according to reports.

While two hostages were hit immediately and fell to the ground, the third managed to escape into a nearby building where despite pleas in Hebrew, he was also shot and killed, a military official said.

So what happened we do our outmost to protect civilian lives? Because believing that this is the first time something like this to happen in Gaza is rather naïve.

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Hey man, questions are anti-semetic. Until Israel kills six million and one people, try to be respectful.

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Basically they killed them because they shot at any civilians.

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