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Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? (apnews.com)

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Intentionally withholding food and water when you control all ingress is a way of extirpating a population without bombing and shooting them.

But so is dropping more explosive power than the two atomic bombs used in Japan into an area the size of Manhattan in a month.