> Hamas fighters are not fighting in uniform. They do qualify as Prisoners of War. I'm assuming you meant "do not". Please see the U.S. State Department's rep

> Hamas fighters are not fighting in uniform. They do qualify as Prisoners of War. I'm assuming you meant "do not". Please see the U.S. State Department's report on the "exceptional measures" involved: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/israel-west-bank-and-gaza/ https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-.... This is in direct violation of the UN Declaration of Human rights. > I’ve seen absolutely no evidence for this. Can you share evidence that Israel is precisely destroying water, sewer and electrical infrastructure? Google is your friend here. I didn't (couldn't initially) believe it myself until details of this (initial) BBC report came out in May. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68969239 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68969239 What, indeed, could possibly be the anti-terrorism purpose of destroying solar panels? > Why in the world would Israel fire expensive precision guided missiles in unguided modes instead of using unguided missiles instead in the first place? Because, apparently, a preponderance of exigent circumstances dictated a rapid response--collateral damage be damned. Being more than passingly familiar with guidance systems technology and avionics in "smart" glide-bombs, and their exorbitant costs relative to "dumb iron", this is just stupid. Additionally, the IDF has the most highly trained urban assault force and undercover (Duvdevan) anti-terrorist commando (Egoz) units in the world and yet they somehow _must_ bomb an entire hospital to (potentially) take out a single cell?! > For the most part, the failure of aid reaching where it needs to go has been a result of Israel being unable to provide security. We’ve seen what happens when Israelis don’t provide security for aid workers. Notable that the "inability to provide security" seems highly selective wrt the source of the aid and not its contents. See details of the WCK attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_convoy_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_conv... and also this UN report https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148141 https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148141 . I completely concur on "genocide" being an attempted "Day 1 PR-flank", but far too many precise and planned actions have since been taken. In a perverse way, the Israel government played into Hamas' hands at the expense of the Palestinian people, trade, the quality of life of the Israeli people and further instability in the region. As I mentioned in a prior thread, see the actions of the British in east Africa against the Kikuyu for a close historic analog. I had hopes that Gallant's official ouster would be a political pole-star/umbrella under which the Knesset could rally, but that (sadly) appears not to be the case.