Humanitarian agencies say women and menstruating people are also facing alarming rates of severe infections due to Israel's blockade of supplies and water.

Humanitarian agencies say women and menstruating people are also facing alarming rates of severe infections due to Israel’s blockade of supplies and water.

  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
    111·
    10 months ago

    By having literally any awareness of reality? Ordering an evacuation of a whole area because you’re going to bomb it (even if you know for sure there are terrorists there) is by definition collective punishment. The only counter argument to this is to prove that every single person in that area is a legitimate target.

      • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
        62·
        10 months ago

        It literally is. If I order your whole block to evacuate their homes because I want to blow up a meth lab 3 doors down from you, I am engaging in collective punishment. It’s literally what words mean.

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          10 months ago

          Forget the fact that countless international organizations warned the time frame was unrealistic for evacuating civilians. Impossible, even.

          • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
            31·
            10 months ago

            TIL being forced from your homes and having them bombed isn’t punishment. Twist those words more brah. I guess I can tell you to leave, then blow up your house and I’d be doing you a favor? And if you don’t like it and stay then your death is your fault.