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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The US led Coalition procedures for a siege are more or less what Israel is doing. (if you want to read about Fallujah the US military procedure includes firing white phosphorus at tunnel entrances to smoke out the people in the tunnel by consuming all the oxygen. Even Israel thinks that's fucked up to do and restricts White Phosphorus to its legal usage as range finding for artilery during the current Gazan war.)

There are US military advisors OKing the plans and have been for a while.

Fact of the matter is urban sieges fucking suck and the govs of the world all undertake them in what the UN labels as fucked up. Ukraine blew up a major energy pipeline for the rest of Europe causing a lot of people to struggle to pay their bills to keep their homes warm in winter.

Even critical leaders like Macron flipped their tune and are now pushing for an international coalition. The context that Israel was always on the hook for Gaza's Water and Power situation before thousands of bombs started falling on the area is important. The Israeli water and power workers can and have striked when asked to go into Gaza to fix their power lines after Gazan rockets blew them up (high failure rate remember). There is a very real "hostages thing" amongst the tribes and people native to the region, such that even the Unions will continue to strike while there are hostages even after the IDF has agreed to a ceasefire. The water situation was exacerbated by Hamas and associated groups digging up pipes to turn into rockets.

Hamas posted hype videos of them turning humanitarian aid pipes into rockets. https://youtu.be/MvvqBcA-9yA?si=EUH85MQeaR8IQkbt

Concerns about fuel were confirmed when Hamas stole an estimated 6 days worth of running the Gazan water system from the UN.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think it's a pretty verifiable thing and that both sides have motive to push prop.

One just caught lying about this already. I don't mean historically I mean this actual incident.

Instead of waiting as long as we have the ordinance should have been shown through spokesmen immediately and at the press conference the ministry held surrounded by bodies.

It takes time to do a convincing fake. So I expect this debate will reignite later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The European and US intelligence services estimated the death toll at ~50 and 100-300 respectively.

I assume satellite imagery and counting...there's probably also UAVs from all the great powers recording footage.

Seperately im fairly certain the Israeli security services have spies all over gaza. Somewhat grimly I think the air strikes have had a large component of people on the ground marking areas for strikes after confirming the presence of some Hamas member. It was a strategy exploited during the Russia/Ukraine war and it's something Israelis can do because they are largely the same ethnicity.

As for the size of the explosion it's not a great source but you can review pyrotechnic demonstrations of actual military munitions versus like a small special effects explosion and a lot of fuel. The former tends to not actually have a huge fire ploom like the hospital bombing had. There is one it's just relatively small. If the rocket misfired and had a lot of ignited fuel spraying over the area... It causes that sort of imagery and casualties.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

The hospital isn't destroyed and no staff were killed.

A bunch of refugees in the parking lot, a lot less than reported by the health ministry, got killed by being coated in propellant and ignited. Fuel explosions make a big visual effect, but don't really destroy buildings.

The same health ministry that over reported casualties is also hiding the ordinance remnants that did it instead of showing the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

People are ignoring the afghans are about to be openly genocided to the tune of 1.4 million by the Pakistani government.

Too busy focusing on Israel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There's also a literal loophole in the regional morality system where once hostages are taken almost everyone is down to start war criming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Germany, France, and the UK too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's to test weapons systems in a real world context.

Like people legit don't make this connection. The data from the Iron Dome is incredibly valuable. Likely the US is getting data on Bunker busting and tunnel clearing tech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Literally for the people native to the region for centuries: yes. Like it's fundamental to how we raise our kids. Everyone.

The hostages thing is some desert tribe gang war shit.

Both sides do it to each other.

We are also the same ethnicity, it's sectarian. Foreigners not getting this makes us think you are ignorant of the situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They can actually issue stock at the market rate to finance shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They get used all over especially in differential equations.

Log10 basically only comes up in statistics for doing a log plot in base 10.

Basically high school math won't use the natural log much, but once you hit university higher level math it becomes apparent it's the one everyone actually uses regularly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile Germany has a massive labor shortage in the services and skilled craftsman industries....

Been trying to find a contractor and electrician to do a heat pump install for over 6 months. All the stores near me are in need of additional labor to stay open, the restaurants struggle a bit to keep people...

Edit: I know this is hard for Germans to grasp, but electrician and plumbers is one three month school away from trained. Apprenticeships artificially limit the supply here. Any migrant can be brought up to speed in those skills.

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