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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
- sph 6mo agoIf you are as ignorant as me: "A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike [...] with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack." "Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, by the United States in Pakistan, Yemen, and the Gulf of Mexico, by Israel in the 2014 Gaza War, the Gaza war (2023-present), and the 2026 Lebanon war. by Russia and the Ba'athist Syria in the Syrian civil war, and by Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War, especially since the full-scale invasion in 2022." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike
- 0cf8612b2e1e 6mo agoI thought the US was caught doing a similar thing to those boats it was destroying because they might be carrying drugs.
- wswope 6mo ago> They were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the U.S. military was weighing whether to finish them off. > "The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn't do it," one source said. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/video-shows-final-confused-moments-survivors-us-boat-strike-caribbean-say-2025-12-05/ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/video-shows-final-con...
- crooked-v 6mo agoYes, and the entire chain of command that did so should be prosecuted for murder.
- ButlerianJihad 6mo agoThe importance of the “double tap” was expounded by Columbus in Zombieland as Rule #2 to survive the apocalypse. https://zombieland.fandom.com/wiki/Zombieland_Rules https://zombieland.fandom.com/wiki/Zombieland_Rules
- milutinovici 6mo agoTruly horrific
- foruhar 6mo agoThe recent bombing of the bridge in Iran was apparently a double-tap strike by the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Karaj_B1_bridge_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Karaj_B1_bridge_attack
- throwawayqqq11 6mo agohttps://theweek.com/world-news/israel-legitimisation-cell-justifying-journalist-killings-in-gaza https://theweek.com/world-news/israel-legitimisation-cell-ju... > How Israel's 'Legitimisation Cell' is justifying journalist killings in Gaza
- LorenPechtel 6mo ago"One high-profile journalist targeted in this way was Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif, who was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike earlier this month. After his death, the Israeli army quickly circulated documents claiming he had been a Hamas operative since 2013. "Yet even if taken at face value, the files showed his last contact with Hamas was in 2017 – years before the current war," said France 24." You think Israel shows every bit of intel they have???? The last thing they showed being 2017 doesn't say he was only Hamas for four years. The basic problem here is that all the terrorist groups over there call their propaganda people "reporters". In a sense they are, they are reporting on events. That does not make them not considered combatants, though. Israel has found terrorist affiliation for about half of the dead "reporters", but that doesn't make the others civilians. Hit a combatant, the person next to him is probably also a combatant.
- se4u 6mo ago> ... the person next to him is probably also a combatant Absolutely, they could even be future combatants even if they are not now. That's why killing schoolgirls in Iran, reporters in Lebanon, etc. is justified, they are all potential terrorists. It definitely can not be proven otherwise that they are not. Why take a chance? /s
- khaledh 6mo agoYou're using the term "terrorist" to describe people indigenous to the land that Israel stole. If you use logic, that makes Israel that terrorist group since they used violence to kick Palestinians out of their land and homes, not the other way around. Lookup the Jewish terrorist groups Irgu, Lehi, and Haganah. Lookup the assassination of Lord Moyne by Lehi and the 1946 Irgun bombing of the King David Hotel. The leaders of these terrorist groups eventually became Prime Ministers of Israel. While you're at it, lookup the attack by the Israeli military on the USS Liberty that killed 34 Americans.
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- jst1fthsdys 6mo agoThey do? Compared to who? And no, I haven't, please enlighten me.
- perching_aix 6mo agoWhy are you insinuating if your argument is supposedly so damning? Just state it plainly.
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- smusamashah 6mo agoOh wow! So they make dummy hospitals and put dummy meat bags of all sizes for camera time and social media post just to make Israel look bad when they hit those meat bags. That is some strategy.
- LorenPechtel 6mo agoNobody said they are dummy hospitals. They are dual use, some medical, some military HQ. And nobody said they were dummy meat bags. The most powerful weapon the terrorists have is dead civilians. And you get what you reward: punish Israel for dead civilians, you'll get more dead civilians.
- perching_aix 6mo agoTo clarify, - I'm under no confusion about what they're insinuating, that's not the point (see that below) - I'm looking for their reply specifically It's relatively easy to accuse, and to make up some story. It's a lot harder to provide substance and formulate a compelling argument. Is the number of medical facilities really outstanding? Why does that suggest they're combatant hideouts? Which of them are, all? Why does them hiding combatants render double, triple, quadruple tapping, or even just targeting these facilities morally justified or reasonable? What sense does it even make to double, triple, quadruple tap in this context? All pretty important questions I'd say, none of which are addressed by cowardly insinuations, I believe by design. Last time I checked, my internal moral compass rated actually killing healthcare workers and the sick/injured/etc a lot worse than combatants using them as potential collateral (not that that'd be the pinnacle of morality). One would assume most other people's compass does too, hence why the above is news. How the paramedics that arrive afterwards become deserving of getting shelled, further remains an unelaborated-on mystery.
- LorenPechtel 6mo ago[flagged]
- RichEO 6mo agoWhat does it mean for a medic to “be Hezbollah” in this context? Are you saying they are employed medics of the organisation? Party members? Combatants?
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- aibrahem 6mo agoIn all your comments, you keep referring to the resistance groups fighting the Israeli occupation as terrorists, which I’m guessing makes you either an Israeli or pro-Israel. The IOF has been notoriously lying about killing and torturing civilians. Not only that, but even soldiers caught red-handed on video raping prisoners have not only gotten away scot-free but also been allowed to rejoin the army. Is there a reason why we should trust anything such a genocidal, morally corrupt organization has to say?
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- LorenPechtel 6mo agoHow about actually rebutting things rather than attacking me?
- chabes 6mo agoHow is posting your comments attacking you?
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- taylodl 6mo agoHow long will the world continue to tolerate Israel's egregious war crimes?
- 22122 6mo agoas long as people keep voting for politicians that are complicit with pro zionist policies
- voxl 6mo agoPart of the problem is the conflation of Zionism with genocidal government. There is no room for nuiance. A Zionist can want Israelites to live in peace where they currently are and not harm others, and certainly not commit horrible atrocities against other people. Yet, even this kind of Zionist is under their own genocidal threat, "from the river to the sea", and instead of their being a sensible perspective of "maybe let's not kill a bunch of any people's" we are left with the never ending debate or whose worse.
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- voxl 6mo agoRevionist history at work.
- Supermancho 6mo agoWhat part? eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Ottoman_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Ott... ?
- DaveFr 6mo agoThis part https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi Edit: Sorry, I can't reply to your comment below, for some reason. This part, > Did you know that Jews lived among Muslims for over a thousand years in peace? is revisionist because it paints second-class status for Jews as "peace". This is ridiculous, a fiction akin to "separate but equal" without even the pretense of equality. Additionally, > The violence started happening when the Zionists wanted the land for themselves, exclusive of the indigenous population (1948 nakba). Is ahistorical. There have been small but continuous Jewish settlements in the region since antiquity, Jews are indigenous. Further, Zionist immigration started earlier than 1948, as early as the late 1800s, and finally, Arabs fled Israel to avoid the incoming invasion from Arab Muslim nations who, for bigoted reasons, could not tolerate a Jewish state.
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- aussieguy1234 6mo agoA double tap attack is a deliberate tactic designed to kill first responders who rush to a scene after a bombing. Assad in Syria used this tactic to target the White Helmet rescuers who would attend the scene after air attacks. Now Israel is using the same tactic against innocent Lebanese medics.
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- triage8004 6mo agoMore war crimes as usual
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- sagarm 6mo agoNobody cares about the legalistic rambling about the ICJ. We know an atrocity when we see it.
- notepad0x90 6mo agoYeah, who disagreed with that? "war crime" is not a random term you can throw at things you don't like. you can dislike an atrocity, but you have no right to do anything about it. It's so hypocritical. Not a single post on HN I've seen even brought up the genocide in sudan or other african countries. I'd like to see where you commented on how everyone who supported and provided refuge to Hamas and its leaders were committing an atrocity. making noise about 'war crime' or atrocity does nothing except inflame the very propaganda being used to commit those atrocities, and legitimize all other atrocities being committed, from Iran to sudan, to ukraine and elsewhere. You pick and choose which genocidal country deserves attention based on your bias. Iran's nuclear program was justified because they were eventually attacked, and Israel's atrocities are retroactively justified by people who insist they have no right to exist. guess what, if I was an israeli and you're saying I have no right to exist, and should be genoicded or ethnic-cleansed, I wouldn't care about any atrocities against you either. You don't care about legalisms and ICJ, so what do you care about? emotions? certainly you don't seem to care about actually doing something. organizations like ICJ exist for the purpose of doing something, and in this case it is ineffective. I think my rambling about ICJ is more productive than other ramblings about "atrocity" or "from the river to the sea".
- karim79 6mo agoFor those unfamiliar with the "Dahiya Doctrine"[0] this is exactly that: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine
- potamic 6mo ago> The logic is to cause difficulties for the civilian population so much that they will then turn against the militants The beatings will continue until morale improves!
- karim79 6mo agoPrecisely. Couldn't have said it better myself. +1
- yoaviram 6mo ago"If we bomb them some more, those poor citizens will surely realize that we're on their side"
- expedition32 6mo agoHonestly I think we are already passed that. Religious crazies have taken over Israel and they simply don't value the lives of non Jews. They want those poor citizens gone for more Semitic Lebensraum.
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- lemontheme 6mo agoHm, that rather sounds like terrorism
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- khaledh 6mo agoIf you want to understand the mentality of the zionists, watch this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzL5_JhA_QT https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzL5_JhA_QT
- Grimblewald 6mo agoThe whole movie is worth a watch. It was made by Teddy Katz, an Israeli student whose 1990s thesis on the massacre was discredited after legal action by veterans, largely baseless push-back against the thesis which was well researched and strongly supported by primary evidence. The movie is called "Tantura" and was released in 2022. IF you're not an AV person, the wiki on the tantura massacre is worth a read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura_massacre
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- subscribed 6mo agoSeriously, when ate the war criminals finally dragged before courts and sentenced like their forebears in Nuremberg?
- abracadaniel 6mo agoThat requires them to either travel to a country that recognizes war crimes and be arrested, or a country deciding to go in and get them. I can’t imagine anyone would have the political will and means to invade. It seems extremely unlikely there would ever be an arrest.
- notepad0x90 6mo agoNuremberg was only possible because Germany was invaded succesfully by allied forces. All this war crime talk is nonsense. Either talk about sending your own children to war against Israel, or criticize them in other real terms. There are no war crimes against countries who don't recognize the ICJ, and even then, unless the judiciary of the country is consenting, a war crime charge isn't pursued. It isn't a competition, but I hope you're neither an American nor a Russian, because if you are, clean your own house first before talking about how dirty someone else's is.
- 4MOAisgoodenuf 6mo agoThe house is full of furniture from America and Russia, but it is still bloody filthy
- 22122 6mo agoif you are american, cleaning your house involves going head to head with the zionist lobby which works for israel's interests. so i'm afraid the matter of israel can't be avoided here.
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- 22122 6mo agoHacker News is an American website. Hacker News allows political discussion. Israel is very relevant to American politics, many would argue too much so, but in any case, why shouldn't it be discussed here?
- hakrgrl 6mo agoBecause it's not intellectually interesting and because it falls in the off-topic category based on the guidelines of this site. > If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic People don't come to Hacker News to talk about wars. They come to get away from wars.
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- phantompeace 6mo agoYou posted real discussions and opinions, the fact that you flagged them doesn't change the fact that you took some sort of value to the tune of spending effort posting replies beforehand. What I'm struggling to understand is why the call to shut down discussion on this topic when Israel is quite blatantly committing war crimes. Don't pretend you don't see it.
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- dang 6mo agoObviously you can't post like this and we've banned the account.
- throway23423 6mo agoThe first time i saw this concept of the 'double-tap' - to target first-responders to the scene of an earlier strike - was in the movie,' The Hurt Locker' - where it was employed by some ISIS-tier insurgents using a VBIED disguised as an ambulance. Presumably this was intended to show the level of depravity of the terrorists. First time actually seeing this employed in the real world was last year when Israel did a double tap that killed multiple journalists working for reuters, AP, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye and Quds News Network plus paramedics and medical staff *at a hospital*. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nasser_Hospital_strikes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nasser_Hospital_strikes Now finding out this is essentially SOP for Israel and the United States (eg: the triple-tap strike at the Iranian girl's school where parents rushing to save their kids from the collapsed school were hit in the second and third strike), I wonder if the terrorists learnt this tactic from the US coalition or vice-versa.
- karim79 6mo ago> I wonder if the terrorists learnt this technique from the US coalition or vice-versa. Who are "the terrorists"?
- throway23423 6mo agoI was referring to the terrorists in Iraq who were depicted in 'The Hurt locker'
- fastasucan 6mo agoAre you a terrorist if you attack an invading force during a war?
- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 6mo agoYes, for the sole reason that it's just a label assigned by an invading enemy government. The problem is that the label is used in media to assign moral judgement, when it's just a political proscription that is typically assigned for entirely geopolitical reasons. Almost every country occupying a foreign territory, or is engaged in war with a group, or even another country, calls military action of the other side terrorism. It doesn't mean anything. If it is to carry a moral judgement, it needs to be based on universally applied principles. It takes 5 seconds of thinking to see that it's absolutely not based on universally applied principles.
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- omnee 6mo agoIsrael's actions can only be described as inhumane and sadistic. In fact, it's similar to actual terrorism that they claim to be against.
- CommanderData 6mo agoThere isn't an army quite like Israel's in recent history. Depraved and worse than any islamic "terror" organisation - sometimes created by Israel to justify it's crimes.
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- _DeadFred_ 6mo agoHacker News is so unserious. 'The middle east is unstable because colonizers created arbitrary boarders forcing ethnic groups together into unsustainable nation structures with unsustainable ethnic tensions inside the boarders' 'Israel MUST return to pre 1967 boarders and must live with ethnicities that as a common political platform call for the death of all jews. Israel cannot consider stability/unsustainable ethnic tension when forming its borders but must use arbitrary boarders and assume ethnic tension will magically disappear in their situation ignoring the reality of hwo that has worked for neighboring countries. Also Israel is racist/ethnosupremecist for recognizing the realities of borders/ethnicities that we ourselves recognize in our previous statements about the borders created in the middle east by European colonizers'
- khaledh 6mo agoIf Israel cannot coexist with its neighbours then why plant it in this particular area of the world in the first place? Why not take part of Germany, the country which actually slaughtered millions of jews. Why do the Arabs have to pay the price of something they're not responsible for? Imagine the opposite: an Arab group was planted to occupy part of Europe, occasionally gets into wars with its neighbours, and builds one of the largest weapons arsenals in the world, including nukes. How would Europeans feel about that?
- _DeadFred_ 6mo agoThat is a completely different argument. I am responding to the people arguing Israel is an outlier/evil because it is an ethno state, should return to arbitrary borders, etc. I am pointing out all the people that say colonial European borders have cause an unstable middle east because they were drawn without consideration of ethnic/cultural tensions. Those people should then support that it is logical for Israel to want intentional borders/internal ethnic/cultural cohesion and that desire/structure is not immoral.
- khaledh 6mo agoWhat a wonderful idea: "This part of the world is unstable with unsustainable ethnic tension due to the arbitrary borders created by colonizers. Let's ethnically cleanse part of this area and give to jews and put arbitrary borders around it. That will definitely not have consequences."