@nicholas @aral

When the US /; UK targeted ISIS and others, we carried out precision intel led strikes, minimizing civilian casualties.

@zleap @aral perhaps...

Hamas *intentionally* built infrastructure to maximize civilian death, tho.

@nicholas @aral

The west has undertaken lots of sorties, missions etc where the target is within civilian areas, we have the tech and the ability to take out individual people or buildings and minimise casualties of non combatents.

When the Seal Team, found bin laden, they did so with a team on the ground, going in taking HIM out. I am sure the report said there were others in the building.

So good intel and the right approach CAN minimise casualties other than the person you either want to capture or kill.

@zleap @aral which is a reply to what was written in what way, exactly?

@nicholas @aral

Trying to respond to

"Hamas *intentionally* built infrastructure to maximize civilian death, tho."

What I am trying to say here is the west has managed to take out enemy combatants without managing to kill thousands of innocent civilians in the process, the US and UK understand we cannot do that under international law.

It shows it CAN be done, so why can't Israel do that, too, esp as they also have western technology.

@zleap @aral but, no, those are different scenarios.

@zleap @aral

None of those examples employed tunnel warfare, at least certainly not on this scale.

@zleap @aral @nicholas

This begs the question that genocide is a response to the 7 October attack, but it’s not. The Israeli state’s retaliatory attack on Hamas and its ongoing genocide in Gaza are occurring in parallel, but they are two separate phenomena.

@HeavenlyPossum @zleap @aral

https://mastodon.social/@nicholas_saunders/112293169067844195

@nicholas @aral @zleap

That’s a weird non sequitur that doesn’t address at all anything I said.