#noncombatants — Public Fediverse posts

#Military, #government you can trust and support of the people. These are the three essential factors required of a president to Go to #War. #Congress acts as the mouthpiece of the voters. #President keeping #secrets from #Democrats, Gang of Eight....Individual decision making on the part of #Trump not based on what military intelligence supports. #sleepercells #harming #americans #US #troops in the #MiddleEast 7 counties 30-40,000 troops and #civilians at risk Who is protecting #noncombatants

#Military, #government you can trust and support of the people. These are the three essential factors required of a president to Go to #War. #Congress acts as the mouthpiece of the voters. #President keeping #secrets from #Democrats, Gang of Eight....Individual decision making on the part of #Trump not based on what military intelligence supports. #sleepercells #harming #americans #US #troops in the #MiddleEast 7 counties 30-40,000 troops and #civilians at risk Who is protecting #noncombatants

#Military, #government you can trust and support of the people. These are the three essential factors required of a president to Go to #War. #Congress acts as the mouthpiece of the voters. #President keeping #secrets from #Democrats, Gang of Eight....Individual decision making on the part of #Trump not based on what military intelligence supports. #sleepercells #harming #americans #US #troops in the #MiddleEast 7 counties 30-40,000 troops and #civilians at risk Who is protecting #noncombatants

#Military, #government you can trust and support of the people. These are the three essential factors required of a president to Go to #War. #Congress acts as the mouthpiece of the voters. #President keeping #secrets from #Democrats, Gang of Eight....Individual decision making on the part of #Trump not based on what military intelligence supports. #sleepercells #harming #americans #US #troops in the #MiddleEast 7 counties 30-40,000 troops and #civilians at risk Who is protecting #noncombatants

#Military, #government you can trust and support of the people. These are the three essential factors required of a president to Go to #War. #Congress acts as the mouthpiece of the voters. #President keeping #secrets from #Democrats, Gang of Eight....Individual decision making on the part of #Trump not based on what military intelligence supports. #sleepercells #harming #americans #US #troops in the #MiddleEast 7 counties 30-40,000 troops and #civilians at risk Who is protecting #noncombatants

#AI in military civilian killings 🤬

#Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, #Killing Many More #Civilians

"Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to #protect #noncombatants, allowing officers to #endanger up to 20 people in each #airstrike. One of the #deadliest #bombardments of the 21st century followed.

In each strike, the order said, officers had the authority to risk #killing up to 20 #civilians..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html

Washington Institute for Near East Policy #Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely #Unreliable Heated debates over Palestinian death toll in #Hamas-#Israel war tend 2 focus on fact that widely cited fatality numbers make no distinction between #combatants & #noncombatants. While this is true it misses more fundamental problem—numbers themselves have lost any claim to validity. Download a condensed version of the author’s database (Excel). Searchable database forthcoming https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable

Washington Institute for Near East Policy #Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely #Unreliable Heated debates over Palestinian death toll in #Hamas-#Israel war tend 2 focus on fact that widely cited fatality numbers make no distinction between #combatants & #noncombatants. While this is true it misses more fundamental problem—numbers themselves have lost any claim to validity. Download a condensed version of the author’s database (Excel). Searchable database forthcoming https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable

Washington Institute for Near East Policy #Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely #Unreliable Heated debates over Palestinian death toll in #Hamas-#Israel war tend 2 focus on fact that widely cited fatality numbers make no distinction between #combatants & #noncombatants. While this is true it misses more fundamental problem—numbers themselves have lost any claim to validity. Download a condensed version of the author’s database (Excel). Searchable database forthcoming https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable

Washington Institute for Near East Policy #Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely #Unreliable Heated debates over Palestinian death toll in #Hamas-#Israel war tend 2 focus on fact that widely cited fatality numbers make no distinction between #combatants & #noncombatants. While this is true it misses more fundamental problem—numbers themselves have lost any claim to validity. Download a condensed version of the author’s database (Excel). Searchable database forthcoming https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable

Washington Institute for Near East Policy #Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely #Unreliable Heated debates over Palestinian death toll in #Hamas-#Israel war tend 2 focus on fact that widely cited fatality numbers make no distinction between #combatants & #noncombatants. While this is true it misses more fundamental problem—numbers themselves have lost any claim to validity. Download a condensed version of the author’s database (Excel). Searchable database forthcoming https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable

#Israel continues slaughtering #Noncombatants in #Gaza.

Why?
#WeaponsOfMassDestruction, #NuclearBombs, effective missile systems, runways with bombers lined up, artillery?

What weapons are Israel slaughtering civilians to get to?
Grenades? Assault rifles? Pistols? Suicide bomber vests?

How many Israelis have been killed or injured by Hamas rockets in the last 5 years?
How many since the IDF focussed on Gaza after October 7?

And Hamas was a mystery and these werent a problem before 7th Oct?

“Some of this is happening out in the open, some behind the masks of #humanitarianism & #justice, & some in code, most famously ‘from the river to the sea,’ a chilling phrase that implicitly endorses the killing or deportation of the 9M #Israelis. It seems odd that one has to say: Killing #civilians, old people, even babies, is always wrong. But today say it one must.”

#Israel #Palestinians #Hamas #Gaza #Decolonization #FalseNarrative #Terrorism #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #HumanitarianCrisis

“The Hamas attack resembled a medieval Mongol raid for slaughter & human trophies—except it was recorded in real time & published to social media. Yet since #Oct7, Western academics, students, artists, & activists have denied, excused, or even celebrated the murders by a #terrorist sect that proclaims an #antiJewish genocidal program.

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #HumanitarianCrisis #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #MiddleEast #geopolitics

#Netanyahu, joined by #Defense Min #YoavGallant & Min #BennyGantz, said those who have accused #Israel of committing #WarCrimes in Gaza are hypocrites.

#IDF Gen Herzi Halevi confirmed that soldiers & troops were operating in #Gaza. “The objectives of this #war require a #ground operation,” Halevi said in a video stmnt. Halevi added the war would have “multiple stages.”

#terrorism #LawsOfWar #Security #HumanitarianCrisis #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NonCombatants #MiddleEast #geopolitics

Israeli attacks have killed ≥7,703 people in #Gaza & wounded >18,900, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Almost 3,200 children have been killed in Gaza, ofcls said. Israeli authorities said >1,400 people were killed in #Israel & >5,400 injured since #Hamas’s attack #Oct7. ≥32 #UnitedStates nationals are among those killed.

#war #LawsOfWar #terrorism #HumanitarianCrisis #CrimesAgainstHumanity #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NonCombatants #RulesBasedWorldOrder #MiddleEast #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics

There are 229 people being held #hostage by #Hamas, #Israel Defense Forces spox Daniel Hagari said Friday. #Israel is “committed to the national mission to return all of the #hostages,” he added.

#terrorism #HumanitarianCrisis #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NonCombatants #MiddleEast #ForeignPolicy #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/27/israel-war-hamas-gaza-news-palestine/

The #IDF told #NewsOrganizations @Reuters & Agence France-Presse it couldn’t guarantee the #safety of #reporters working in the #Gaza Strip.

“The IDF is targeting all #Hamas military activity throughout Gaza,” the IDF wrote in response to the news orgs’ requests that their #journalists not be targeted.

#Press #GenevaConventions #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity #LawsOfWar #NonCombatants #war #terrorism #HumanitarianCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/27/israel-war-hamas-gaza-news-palestine/

…#Israel's police & the #ShinBet #intelligence agency released footage from their interrogations of captured #Hamas gunmen who took part in the #Oct7 rampage of Israeli communities.

In the video clips, one handcuffed Hamas man sitting beside a desk is heard describing the orders they received regarding Israeli #civilians - to kill the men & bring the women, children & elderly as #hostages.

#war #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NonCombatants #terrorism

#Hamas said on Mon it released 2 female #civilian #hostages in response to #Egypt-Qatar #mediation efforts; source said they’re elderly Israelis.

Abu Ubaida, *Hamas spox, said on Telegram it secured the release of the hostages "despite the enemy's *refusal to accept them since last Fri & their neglect of the issue of our prisoners".

#Israel #war #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-strikes-gaza-lebanon-overnight-netanyahu-convenes-generals-2023-10-22/

President #Biden speaks to the released American #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, who were taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

President #Biden speaks to the released American #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, who were taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

President #Biden speaks to the released American #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, who were taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

President #Biden speaks to the released American #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, who were taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

President #Biden speaks to the released American #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, who were taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

The role of #Qatar in the release of the #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #Biden #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

The role of #Qatar in the release of the #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #Biden #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

The role of #Qatar in the release of the #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #Biden #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

The role of #Qatar in the release of the #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #Biden #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

The role of #Qatar in the release of the #hostages, #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan, taken by #Hamas from #Israel.

#POTUS #Biden #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #HostageNegotiations #ForeignDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy

Correction:

Sounds like the release of #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan was in the works for a while.

“This is something that the President has been laser focused on since the first time we heard there were American #hostages being held by Hamas…we said then & we are still saying we are going to do everything we can to get them back...” - John Kirby

#POTUS #Biden #Israel #Hamas #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity

Correction:

Sounds like the release of #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan was in the works for a while.

“This is something that the President has been laser focused on since the first time we heard there were American #hostages being held by Hamas…we said then & we are still saying we are going to do everything we can to get them back...” - John Kirby

#POTUS #Biden #Israel #Hamas #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity

Correction:

Sounds like the release of #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan was in the works for a while.

“This is something that the President has been laser focused on since the first time we heard there were American #hostages being held by Hamas…we said then & we are still saying we are going to do everything we can to get them back...” - John Kirby

#POTUS #Biden #Israel #Hamas #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity

Correction:

Sounds like the release of #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan was in the works for a while.

“This is something that the President has been laser focused on since the first time we heard there were American #hostages being held by Hamas…we said then & we are still saying we are going to do everything we can to get them back...” - John Kirby

#POTUS #Biden #Israel #Hamas #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity

Correction:

Sounds like the release of #JudithTaiRaanan & #NatalieShoshanaRaanan was in the works for a while.

“This is something that the President has been laser focused on since the first time we heard there were American #hostages being held by Hamas…we said then & we are still saying we are going to do everything we can to get them back...” - John Kirby

#POTUS #Biden #Israel #Hamas #war #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NationalSecurity

The WH has defended this #NationalSecurity push as essential at a time of mounting #geopolitical #instability, & necessary to demonstrate #UnitedStates resolve against the nation’s adversaries in #Russia, #Iran & #China.

3/
#POTUS #democracy #allies #MNNA #autocracy #Putin #terrorism #Hamas #HumanitarianCrisis #HumanitarianAid #Palestinians #Gaza #Ukranians #Ukraine #NonCombatants #civilians #geopolitics #GlobalSecurity #NationalSecurity

“On Thurs night, #Biden made his most explicit case yet for why #Americans, & the #world, should rally behind 4 major goals. The 1st is to keep the #aid flowing into #Ukraine, so that #Putin cannot wait out the West (&/or the admin) & strangle the country. The 2nd
… is eliminating #Hamas. The 3rd is to keep both #wars from spreading.

“And the final objective is to accomplish all this w/o bringing more death & misery to #noncombatants caught in a world once again on fire.”

#POTUS #democracy

Paul said he spent last wk on a preplanned leave, giving him more space to watch what was happening from the outside & to contemplate his decision.…he publicly announced his resignation in a 2-pg declaration posted on LinkedIn….

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #war #NonCombatants #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #geopolitics
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/josh-paul-655a25263_explaining-my-resignation-activity-7120512510645952512-APhR

#JoshPaul, was dir of congressional & public affairs at the #State Dept’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which handles #arms transfers. His departure marks a rare measure of internal discomfort over the admin’s robust support for #Israel, the #UnitedStates’ closest #ally in the #MiddleEast. More broadly, it was an unusual public show of #dissent w/in President Biden’s #ForeignPolicy apparatus….

#Hamas #Gaza #war #NonCombatants #HumanitarianCrisis #geopolitics

#JoshPaul, a State Dept ofcl who worked on #arms transfers to #ForeignPowers, resigned Wed over the #Biden admin’s handling of the conflict in #Israel & #Gaza, declaring he could not support further US military assistance to Israel & calling the administration’s response “an impulsive reaction.”…

#Hamas #war #Terrorism #NonCombatants #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/18/state-department-josh-paul-resignation-israel/

#JoshPaul, a State Dept ofcl who worked on #arms transfers to #ForeignPowers, resigned Wed over the #Biden admin’s handling of the conflict in #Israel & #Gaza, declaring he could not support further US military assistance to Israel & calling the administration’s response “an impulsive reaction.”…

#Hamas #war #Terrorism #NonCombatants #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/18/state-department-josh-paul-resignation-israel/

#JoshPaul, a State Dept ofcl who worked on #arms transfers to #ForeignPowers, resigned Wed over the #Biden admin’s handling of the conflict in #Israel & #Gaza, declaring he could not support further US military assistance to Israel & calling the administration’s response “an impulsive reaction.”…

#Hamas #war #Terrorism #NonCombatants #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/18/state-department-josh-paul-resignation-israel/

#JoshPaul, a State Dept ofcl who worked on #arms transfers to #ForeignPowers, resigned Wed over the #Biden admin’s handling of the conflict in #Israel & #Gaza, declaring he could not support further US military assistance to Israel & calling the administration’s response “an impulsive reaction.”…

#Hamas #war #Terrorism #NonCombatants #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/18/state-department-josh-paul-resignation-israel/

#JoshPaul, a State Dept ofcl who worked on #arms transfers to #ForeignPowers, resigned Wed over the #Biden admin’s handling of the conflict in #Israel & #Gaza, declaring he could not support further US military assistance to Israel & calling the administration’s response “an impulsive reaction.”…

#Hamas #war #Terrorism #NonCombatants #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/18/state-department-josh-paul-resignation-israel/

#POTUS announced a deal Wednesday w/ #Israel to allow #humanitarian assistance to move into #Gaza from #Egypt. U.S. ofcls have spent the past few days pressing Israel to allow #HumanitarianAssistance to reach Gaza.

Biden also announced $100M in new U.S. #funding for humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza & the #WestBank.

#Hamas #war #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #HumanitarianCrisis #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #MiddleEast #geopolitics

President #Biden was asked how he could be sure that #Israel was not responsible for the deadly blast at #alAhli #Hospital in #Gaza City. “The data I was shown by my #Defense Department,” he said in response.

#POTUS did not respond to shouted questions from reporters about the #intelligence he cited as he supported the Israeli government’s position that it was not responsible for Tue’s devastating blast at the hospital.

#Hamas #war #FogOfWar #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #HumanitarianCrisis

President #Biden also said he “directed my #NationalSecurity team to continue gathering information about what exactly happened.”

“The #UnitedStates stands unequivocally for the #protection of #civilian life during #conflict & we mourn the patients, medical staff & other innocents killed or wounded in this tragedy,” Biden said.

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #war #FogOfWar #Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #HumanitarianCrisis #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #MiddleEast #geopolitics

#POTUS #Biden wants to know 'what exactly happened' at #hospital

Pres Biden in stmnt said he was “outraged & deeply saddened by the explosion at the #AlAhli Arab hospital in #Gaza, & the terrible loss of life that resulted.”

Biden said he immediately contacted & spoke w/ King #Abdullah II of #Jordan & #Israel PM #Netanyahu.

#Hamas #war #FogOfWar #HumanitarianCrisis #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-rcna120747/rcrd21885?canonicalCard=true

#Hezbollah, the #Lebanon based militant group backed by #Iran, declared tomorrow a “day of unprecedented anger” against #Israel, which it described as “the enemy” & “the Zionist entity.”

(There’s a lot of #HateSpeech flying around. For now, until there is forensic evidence, all focus should be on the lives that might still be saved, caring for & comforting the loved one of the lives lost.)

#Hamas #Gaza #war #FogOfWar #HumanitarianCrisis #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

Fighting continues into the #war’s 9th day. Rockets were fired into #Israel hitting cities near the north border of #Gaza. #Hamas said Sunday that it #bombed the #Israeli town of #Sderot, one its earlier targets. Local news said the bombing happened as #civilians were #evacuating.

600k people #evacuate northern Gaza before expected #invasion, #IDF said.

#Terrorism #WarCrimes #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/15/israel-gaza-war-updates-hamas-palestine/