Support for Palestine at Glastonbury

Well said.

Any other conflicts have had neutral observers and/or war journalists present.
Their roles have been well documented and, in my opinion, incredibly important to bear witness to what is happening at the time (from both sides).
The complete media blackout in Gaza by the Israeli government raises questions. I think it goes without saying.

Did you not get enough traffic on your other thread?

https://www.jns.org/glastonbury-faces-backlash-for-celebrating-terrorism/

I'm pretty sure we all know that Hamas are saving their own skins. I don't believe anyone is praising Hamas or saying what a great government they are. The kids being killed, mutilated and starved, didn't vote for Hamas.

I agree with you but I find it incredible difficult to understand how people can be selective in their empathy.

Am I understanding you correctly.

Nobody knows what Hamas is doing to protect civilians because Israel won’t let them find out?

I guess it is difficult to defend civilians against 2,000 pounds bombs being dropped in their hundreds since this began.
Israeli military campaign in Gaza among deadliest in history, experts say | AP News
Or against white phosphorus bombs
Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon | Reuters
Or against the other means of deliberately killing the population, such as starvation.
Unless Israel changes course, it could be legally culpable for mass starvation | Alex de Waal | The Guardian
Gaza is 365km 2. All the above are happening in a very small area and where 2.1 millions live.
I hope this has answered your questions. Of course, no one, unless in Gaza, can definitively say what Hamas are doing to minimise casualties. It's a shame that the Israeli government has banned any neutral observers or the international press to witness what is happening.

Seeing the Palestinian flags flying and hearing the support for innocent people being murdered in their thousands, it gives me hope that the world does contain people who care.

The people whose hearts are hard enough that they cannot care about innocent people being killed, because those people belong to the 'wrong' nationality or ethnicity, or worse, the people who find amusement or satisfaction in the deaths of those people... Well, there's not much point in trying to get them to care.

They certainly look supportive of Palestine.

You made up the rest.

Yes for anti -Semitism and the Hamas terrorist attack.Shame on them for deliberately targetting a music festival.

@Sussurations

Like what?

When the place looks like Hiroshima, when the IDF bomb refugee camps, when there are no safe zones.

No need to use "". I'm unequivocal about my support for Palestinians.

It didn't start on Oct 7.

I suppose when your target is "everything", it's pretty hard to miss.

How about answering the question? What is Hamas doing and what have they done to minimise civilian casualties?

They know the terrain they are in and the military capabilities of their opponent, so how have they worked to protect civilians?

Certainly looks supportive to me.

This sums up the "support" for Palestine nicely .

"Targeted"

One side is trapped like ducks in a barrel.

The other has dropped 70,000 bombs, more than was dropped on London, Dresden and Hamburg combined during WWII.

There is nowhere to run.

Are the IDF making efforts to reduce civilian casualties?

Unequivocally, yes.

Are they reaching the ‘gold standard’? No.

It is a strange war in which one side must bear responsibility for all casualties on both sides. What is Hamas doing to reduce civilian casualties? Among its own population? This is a serious question. What are they doing and what have they done?

Absolute clap-trap.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari, said forces would turn Gaza into a "city of tents" and that Israel's "emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy" in the bombardment of Gaza.

Ariel Kallner, a Knesset member for Likud, said, "Right now, one goal: Nakba. A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 1948"

Amichay Eliyahu, a cabinet minister, and Tally Gotliv, a Likud parliament member, have both called for Israel to use nuclear weapons on Gaza, with Gotliv stating: "It's time for a doomsday weapon. Not flattening a neighborhood. Crushing and flattening Gaza."

Galit Distel-Atbaryan, Knesset member for Likud posted on X that Israelis should focus on "Erasing all of Gaza from the face of the earth" and forcing the Gazans either into Egypt or to the death. It was such statements that led to Raz Segal's (Israeli historian and professor) characterization of Israel's conduct in the 2023 war in Gaza as a "textbook case of genocide", stating to Vox - “If this is not special intent to destroy, I don't know what is."

Yes the article is saying IDF is not doing enough. It makes a good argument that IDF are not doing all they could and should do to minimise civilian deaths.

So the statement IDF is trying to minimise civilian casualties is partially true in that they could do worse, but it doesn’t address the real question which is have they and are they doing enough?

Many world wide experts have said it appears that the IDF are not doing nearly enough and are doing so little, it may be criminally low.

Gestures aren't enough.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22g81djdyo.amp

Did you read the article yourself? It proves the opposite of the point you're trying to make.

It basically says that the IDF ticked a few boxes to make it look like they are trying to mitigate harm to civilians but their "efforts" are clearly not protecting civilians and even by using a ridiculously conservative estimate of the civilian casualties (because the IDF don't provide credible data) they're unacceptably high.