You keep repeating Hamas’s talking points as if they’re verified facts. The so-called report of “135 mutilated bodies” comes from Hamas officials — the same organization that staged, filmed, and glorified the slaughter of Israeli civilians on 7 October and is now executing their own civillians in the street. Quoting Hamas as a credible source on human rights is like quoting ISIS on humanitarian law. I mean, come on.
You’re condemning young Israelis on the basis of unverified claims made by a terrorist group still holding hostage bodies, still firing rockets, and still openly vowing to repeat 7 October “again and again.” Nice.
You’re right about one thing — Hamas are absolutely not “the goodies.” But everything else you just said shows how skewed and morally confused this conversation has become. You talk about Israeli soldiers “pressing buttons” or “pointing guns” as if they woke up one morning and decided to go on a killing spree, ignoring the simple fact that this war began with a massacre and many Israeli soldiers have themselves been killed SINCE 7/10. Sadly, this is what war looks like and war is brutal and, indeed, those participating in war, whether British in Iraq and Afghanistan or Israelis in Gaza, certainly need mental health supprort to deal with their experiences. Even more traumatic for these young Israelis and is taht over 1,200 Israelis (and others of course like Thais, Nepalis and fellow Palestinians) were slaughtered in a single day — raped, burned, mutilated, and kidnapped — while the world filmed it, debated it, and then somehow decided to moralize at Israel for responding.
The IDF didn’t invade Gaza for sport; it went in because Hamas built an entire war machine on the backs of its own civilians.