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In reply to the discussion: You can't help but notice that HAMAS hasn't shown up to protect Gazans [View all]Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)But suppose a handful of them gets past border security, travels undetected half way through the country by public transportation, passes metal detectors and armed security guards inside the hospital and casually walks into a sprawling hospital grounds full of Israelis who greet them as liberators. Let's then suppose that the hospital staff takes orders from them and facilitates their presence in the hospital. Let's then suppose that a platoon of heavily armed Hamas militants miraculously springs out of the ground and secures the perimeter of the hospital so Israeli special forces are prevented from entering it.
Even if we suppose all this absurdity, the human shield argument would not apply. Hamas would still be committing a terrorist act rather than a military operation. A situation to which Article 19 of the Fourth Geneva Convention would not apply. In the event of terrorist takeover, the hospital continues to exclusively perform acts within their humanitarian duties, and therefore retains its protective status. Therefore, international law says that the hospital may not be attacked.
If, on the other hand, we drop all the contrived inanities, you will have to show me at least one instance in which Israel bombed the living fuck out of a Gazan hospital without first ordering its evacuation before I can take your heap of over the top presumptions halfass seriously .