RE: Someone explain this to me?
May 16, 2021 at 8:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2021 at 10:14 am by Angrboda.)
(May 16, 2021 at 4:24 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 15, 2021 at 8:56 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I personally thought the 'Hamas assets' in the building was bullshit. The Israelis have way too much incentive to interfere with journalists in the area.
Disagree. Hamas have a long history of locating both munitions and personnel in densely populated civilian areas - either openly or in secret - and are perversely proud of this human shield policy. And the Israelis have plenty of other ways to interfere with the reportage on the conflict. It doesn't really make a lot of political or military sense to destroy a building with rockets just to scare journalists.
Boru
They've destroyed three media buildings that supposedly held Hamas assets in the past week. That's a little more than coincidental. The point is not to scare journalists but to disrupt operations so that reporting of events and humanitarian concerns is less likely to occur. News operations are just like any other business. You destroy their headquarters and operations are affected.