This picture of Israeli soldiers smiling for a selfie in front of a destroyed Gaza...

Yes they’re . As posted above it was taken by the same photographer.

What buildings?

I can't see any buildings.

Just a load a grey shapes.

How far from Gaza is this?

I think it’s reasonably safe to say that is the same group as in the OP’s picture.

However, it’s less clear whether or not it was taken by one of them or a third party from a distance. I suspect the latter.

Yes I can tell you who took it. The same person that took the picture from the opening of this thread.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3iy8O3onsD/?igsh=YWsxaTQ4c3FpaTly

regarding the angle , if you care to look closely , the buildings in the back both match

Can you confirm who took this picture and at what angle it was taken?

No, I thought not.

I've heard some bizarre logic on these boards defending the actions of the IDF but this one takes the biscuit.

Just seen this one , Gaza isn’t neither behind the pic … as Gaza has been destroyed
I’d say it’s the same background as the other pic.

https://twitter.com/KetaSotire/status/1761139435633004878

How do you know there is no more Gaza Behind them ?

Oh for goodness sake everybody, this is just 'a storm in a teacup'.

Have a look at the picture and see what angle the 'selfie' was being taken from.

It was parallel to the view of Gaza. So Gaza would not figure in the selfie.

No, I meant the actual picture that the soldiers took.

I’m interested to see whether it was of a group of smiling women with grass or something similarly neutral in the background or a group of smiling women with destroyed buildings clearly visible in the background.

I would feel less strongly against the former than the latter.

Here we go @Oakbeam

Thanks. I searched twice before I asked but didn’t see it.

I’ve searched twice more since and still can’t see it.

A poster posted a link in this thread with the pic in it

Has the actual selfie photo the soldiers took been published anywhere? It would be interesting to see what was in the background of their photo.

Two days ago Israel's attorney general Gali Baharav Miara also made a statement similar to the IDFs CinC condemning these 'revenge videos' [plus a whole lot of other things] so the word from the most senior people in Israel is that this isn't acceptable

Expect it's prep for the governments interim report to the ICJ due tomorrow

But their defence still continues on MN

Curious

Well said. What these women are doing is horrific and it's disgraceful that people here are trying to excuse it.

You are sailing perilously close to “they were just following orders” and we have all heard that before haven’t we.

People trying to contextualise this image (which isn't fake as it turns out, despite them claiming it might be) seem to be forgetting that under that rubble are bodies.

God knows how many and many, many of them children. Little bodies that will never be respectfully buried.

Children who died terrified. That isn't 'just' posing in front of rubble. It's basically posing, smiling, in front of a mass burial site to which they have contributed.

Because one death is a tragedy and thousands are just Israeli “self defence”.

The process of getting aid into Gaza is extremely long and complicated, causing unnecessary delays. Israel can reject items deemed at risk of potential military use like generators, clutches, field hospital kits, inflatable water tanks, children's toys and oxygen tanks. Turns out the meticulous inspections also mean if inspectors reject one item on a truck, the entire cargo must restart the process.
Mind you, all this is happening while families, men, women, children starve to death. A picture of the queuing aid trucks can be seen in the article below.

https://www.ft.com/content/d7bbd8c3-6c44-4687-a93e-48969d37373d

I find it so difficult to understand their motivations. This is an interesting article with a leading Israeli settler in the West Bank that gives a bit of an insight into the mind of this type of person.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers

But they are all innocent people. What happened to Shani Louk was horrific. These photos are horrific- neither justifies the other. I’m not minimising what Hamas did or do. I don’t support them at all. But these dead women most likely had nothing to do with Shani.

If you think it’s ok to kill, maim and traumatise a majority because some of them were Hamas, I think you have reached a point were you have dehumanised people. Why are innocent Palestinian lives so expendable?

@stormy4319trevor well whilst they're blocking aid from entering, I saw a video that was shared by an Israeli soldier of a tank driving over food. The music to video was so joyful. Sickening.