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    First of all, no it isn’t. Second of all, nobody’s forcing the IDF to go through with the bombings anyway, sacrificing thousands of civilians while gaining nothing but the potential deaths of a few replaceable terrorists.

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        it’s not a war crime to attack a military target that is using a civilian population as cover

        It absolutely 100% is.

        The military action has to use the principle of proportionality

        Which Israel doesn’t do either, not even close

        Attacking such a site would only be a war crime if there is no valid military target.

        Which we only have the word of a notoriously dishonest government that there always is

        Also, the current news is that Hamas is blocking evacuations from this region. So that moves it from soft human shields to forced human shields.

        You mean like when Israel told Palestinians to go somewhere and then bombed them as they complied?

        You can try all the whataboutism you’d like to excuse the atrocities of the apartheid regime but, apart from the fact that the atrocities of Hamas doesn’t justify any of those of Israel, most of the time the IDF have done the same thing (including for example using human shields) or something even worse.

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            Aaand we’ve reached the point where you repeat bullshit I’ve already refuted and insist that two war crimes would make a justified military action. We’re done here, genocide apologist.