tequila4kapp said:
10% For The Big Guy said:
oski003 said:
In addition, Hagari said, Hamas continued to use hospitals for military purposes. He noted that Israel had previously exposed Hamas's abuse of the Al Shifa hospital. He then went on to describe Hamas activities at other hospitals.
Hagari played video of IDF soldiers exposing a Hamas tunnel opening next to the Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Hospital, also known as the Qatari hospital, named after the country that funded it. He also said that Hamas terrorists had shot at the IDF from within the hospital, and played a video showing them doing so.
Could we post more misleading content? Summary:
Israel included video of a concrete structure - essentially saying it is an entry to an underground facility - in its video explaining Hamas uses hospitals as cover.
AJ determined the structure was actually a water cistern.
AJ concludes Hamas doesn't have underground facilities underneath hospitals because Israel was wrong about this piece of concrete.
The lovely dramatic music aside...Israel could be wrong about this piece of concrete AND still be right about the existence of underground structures.
Your last point is certainly true, but so far the piece of evidence they've chosen to publicly share to 'prove' tunnels under hospitals is disproven. So the benefit of the doubt associated with the claim that tunnels are under hospitals is not appropriate.
Regardless, I fully reject the premise that the evidence of a Hamas tunnel under a hospital is then grounds to bomb that hospital. Gas the tunnel, flood the tunnel, send dogs into the tunnel, send in special forces. Israel bombing hospitals is part of their Dahiya Doctrine - outlined by former IDF Chief of General Staff Gadi Eizenkot.
The Dahiya Doctrine calls for: "
the destruction of the civilian infrastructure of regimes deemed to be hostile as a measure calculated to deny combatants the use of that infrastructure and endorses the employment of disproportionate force to secure that end.
The doctrine is named after the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, where Hezbollah was headquartered during the 2006 Lebanon War, which were heavily damaged by the IDF.The UN issued the Goldstone Report following the 2008-2009 Gaza War, finding that the strategy "was designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population".
Right, wrong, or otherwise, putting aside the elementary norms of war or morality, has it been effective?
Hezbollah is stronger than ever in Lebanon after Israel implemented the Dahiya Doctrine, It's politically entrenched, considered an exceptionally capable non-state actor, has centralized command, and is well armed. Hamas is as strong as it has ever been, as demonstrated by their attacks on 10/7 and relative levels of success in guerilla warfare.
In a region with growing asymmetric resistance capabilities to Israel's military dominance, destroying civilian infrastructure has not yet proven to be effective to deter or diminish the military strength of Israel's opponents. At a time of increased political pressure, destroying civilian infrastructure has not endeared Israel diplomatically to their neighbors, and is producing negative global and American diplomatic pressure on Israel, potentially limiting the American appetite for escalation, and isolating Israel internationally moreso than ever before.