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Hamas is massively outgunned, so they hide behind whatever makes Israel look worst when Israel attacks. (Hospitals, adolescent combatants, medic uniforms, jour
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Hamas is massively outgunned, so they hide behind whatever makes Israel look worst when Israel attacks. (Hospitals, adolescent combatants, medic uniforms, journalistic ID) So whenever Israel wins a tactical victory, they lose in the media. Hamas' play is to build public sentiments against Israel into international sanctions.
But the pattern I'm seeing in the events you list is par for the course in a war: Israel is targeting Hamas' infrastructure, supply chains, transportation, facilities, and combatants (even Hamas-coerced adolescent combatants.) The optics are terrible, but the pattern is tactical, not genocidal.
Also, the accusations of genocidal political speech have been refuted in detail [0]. TL;DR: BBC/NPR misquoted/elided two politicians (their initial report really was genocidal sounding, it just wasn't what the politicians said) and Netanyahu quoted a different verse in hebrew than people initially accused him of quoting.
[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/israel-south-africa-genocide-case-fake-quotes/677198/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/is...