• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Hard to see what’s what in there. I’d be interested in confirming or disproving Israel’s account:

      The Israeli military told AFP that its fighter jets had hit a command and control centre involved in launching rockets and mortars towards Israel.

      “As a result of the IDF [Israeli army] strike, a wall of a church in the area was damaged,” it said, adding “we are aware of reports on casualties. The incident is under review.”

      Witnesses said the attack damaged the facade of the church and caused an adjacent building to collapse, adding that many injured people were evacuated to hospital.

      If this is true, then you would think most of the church is still standing.

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          8 months ago

          The church is still standing. However, a wall was knocked down, and that was what caused the casualties.

          It’s still fucked up and Israel is to blame, but it doesn’t appear to be a targeted attack on a church, like many are claiming. The target was the building next door.

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            From the Washington Post:

            The Order of St. George, an associated order of the church, issued a statement confirming the strike. “Archbishop Alexios appears to have been located and is alive, but we don’t know if he is injured,” the Order of St. George stated. The blast hit “two church halls where the refugees, including children and babies, were sleeping.”

            Given what we saw with the last IDF statement (doctored audio, inconsistent claims), and the last IDF statement (“totally dead babies!”), the IDF statement isn’t worth the air the sound travels through.

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              8 months ago

              Absolutely, I won’t take the IDF’s account, I want confirmation. However before you commented with your video /u/stankmut@lemmy.world claimed that there were photos showing that the building in your video is the adjacent building. Presumably there are two halls that use the church wall that was collapsed. I’ve not disputed that the air strike damaged the church and caused unnecessary civillian casualties. I’m disputing that the church was targeted.

              Furthermore, your video appears to show a part of the church, still standing.

              The IDF lie through their asses, but that doesn’t mean everything they say is a lie. I’m after the objective truth, which requires considering all accounts and not dismissing them out of hand just because of the source. The best lies have elements of truth, after all.

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                8 months ago

                Completely reasonable and still getting downvoted.

                Far as Lemmy is concerned you need to take a very specific stance on this conflict, and any other reasonable and honest thread of thought is instantly rejected.

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                  8 months ago

                  Fortunately upvotes and downvotes on Lemmy don’t mean much.

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                    8 months ago

                    Of course they don’t matter. But it gives you an idea of where people’s heads are at.

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            To be fair to the IDF, The people who built the church really should have built it in a better place 1600 years ago if they knew that there were going to be legitimate targets in an adjacent building. Also, it’s not like Israeli intelligence could have known the church was filled with Palestinians who had nowhere left to run

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        8 months ago

        Daytime photos show that this is the building next to the church. The church itself is still standing, though one wall was destroyed.