Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

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64. Throughout the destruction of Gaza

since 10/07/23 we have plenty of instances of the IDF receiving requests for ambulances to be allowed to go to retrieve injured or dead and the IDF giving it's approval only to have those personnel attacked and killed when they do go to do the retrieval. The bait being the approval. If it only happened once or twice I would simply chalk it up to tragic error in the fog of conflict. But it is more than the once or twice.

Or telling people to evacuate to an area designated as safe and then bombing it later. The bait being the promise of a safe haven.
Do we completely discount the IDF soldiers who have spoken about terrible conduct? If we are to believe that there is none then this would be the first large sustained conflict in the history of the world not to have incidents of bad conduct. Especially among long-standing adversaries.

I have made the point before and I will do so again that I do not say Israel should not have gone after Hamas. I do say that I thoroughly disagree in the manner it has been done. There were other ways to pursue this and nobody doubts for one moment the superiority of the IDF compared to Hamas. But wise people and leaders know that just because you can do a thing a certain way doesn't mean you should do it that way as opposed to a different way. But Netanyahu and the radical right have had a longstanding agenda and have stated it over and over regarding expansion etc. and they are going to do that no matter the cost to Israel.

By insisting all along since 1967 that only Israel can have a military presence in Gaza or the West Bank it precluded a solution like the Sinai and has resulted not in peace for Israel but in thousands of lives lost with no end in sight. Just because a line is drawn in the sand it doesn't erase the seeds of violence sown. That crop becomes an eternal scourge.