• Canary9341@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    No, that is a hoax. International law revolves around civilian security and proportionality, explicitly protecting civilian medical facilities and their medical personnel. They are not invalidated in any case, regardless of the crimes on the other side.

    In fact, it is still not allowed even if there was a nuclear silo under the hospital. You might wish it was, but that’s not what the law says.

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      8 months ago

      Reference Geneva IV, Article 19.

      Civilian hospitals can lose their protection if the sites are used for “acts harmful to the enemy.”

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        8 months ago

        “Losing protection” refers to the total overprotection granted by the above article, do not pretend that this grants carte blanche. The rest of international humanitarian law and other laws still apply, including the rest of the geneva convention.

        That same article establishes clear limits of proportionality which they did not comply with, and even if they had complied they have violated so many others (have you read the news?). This attack is flagrantly illegal, and is one of the most moderate they have had against hospitals.