The military initially said it opened fire because the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” on nearby troops without headlights or emergency signals. An Israeli military official, speaking late Saturday on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said that account was “mistaken.”

The footage shows the Red Crescent and Civil Defense teams driving slowly with their emergency vehicles’ lights flashing, logos visible, as they pulled up to help an ambulance that had come under fire earlier. The teams do not appear to be acting unusually or in a threatening manner as three medics emerge and head toward the stricken ambulance.

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    These morons should have learned this lesson from Russia - cell phone cameras are really good at exposing your bullshit.

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    They targeted these medics. They targeted the world kitchen people. How much longer are those with the ability to do something gonna tolerate this?

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      Reminds me of a quote from Hogfather (1996):

      Maybe someone said, hey, how’d you like to hunt this evil bastard of an eagle with his big sharp beak and great ripping talons, sort of thing, or how about instead you hunt this wren, which is basically about the size of a pea and goes “twit”? Go on, you choose.

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      How much longer are those with the ability to do something gonna tolerate this?

      Until the costs to themselves outweigh the benefits. Otherwise why not tolerate it? Even the word tolerate implies that it bothers them beyond a minor PR issue. Normal people need to gain the ability to think like sociopaths if they want to understand them.

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    “seems to contradict it”

    come on. Why cant we all just admit they flat out lied to get away with a war crime, same as always.

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    Every fucking time evidence comes out of some incident, it completely contradicts what they said before.

    I’m starting to think they might have a problem telling the truth.

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      Understanding that Zionists are fascists is probably the thing that let me understand why they do the things they do. The extent of their depravity, sometimes comical scheming, projection and of course all the damn lying make perfect sense when you realize that they’re just Nazis with a Jewish makeover.

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        Zionazis, if you will

        Edit: I hadn’t heard this word before, but figured if I thought of it someone else beat me to it, and sure enough it’s been around for a while. Turns out it’s considered antisemitic, but I think if the jack boot fits…

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    Thing is even if they admitted it no-one would do anything about it. Why the wasted effort?

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      It’s not wasted at all, this is textbook Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein, 2007). This is Steve Bannons’s “flood the zone” strategy that Trump is currently following.

      The lies will be believed by dedicated Zionists. Paid Hasbara trolls will be repeating these lies forever.

      For most news consumers, the story will come across muddled, confused, and open to personal interpretation. From their low-information perspective, a conclusion of “both sides” seems reasonable.

      And for those who are paying attention and have a strong sense of morality, this will be one more battle we will have to repeatedly fight. We will have to expend time and energy to fight this lie, and it is just one of many.

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      Howdy y’all, just a reminder this particular user has in the past banned pro palastinian users from communities he moderates. Good to see he has presumably changed his mind on the ongoing genocide.

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        No, I have banned people advocating for genocide against ANY people.

        It doesn’t matter to me if you want to wipe out all the Palestinians, Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, Uighur, or Rohingya.

        Advocating genocide is a removable offense, repeatedly doing so is bannable.

        Most recent example:

        https://lemmy.world/comment/16101271

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    The reason they give for shooting ambulances is that Hamas has used ambulances to move soldiers.

    “On December 19, 2024, soldiers from the ‘Duvdevan’ unit (Israeli military) took part in an operational mission to detain terrorists in Nablus. During the operation, an ambulance-like vehicle was used for operational purposes, without authorisation and without the relevant commanders’ approval.”

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      I think your trying to show that Israeli military committed a war crime but you look like your accusing Hamas of doing the war crime. You got a edit that comment bruv, it’s a mess.

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        Reading comprehension.

        Reading fucking comprehension.

        I bring up the time IDF used an ambulance during a raid, that time they killed a grandma, in response to the IDF saying they shot these people because terrorists use ambulances… and people think I’m defending Israel.

        Reading comprehension. Come on guys, say it with me. Reading comprehension!

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          The reason they give for shooting ambulances is that Hamas has used ambulances to move soldiers.

          If you were calling Israel hypocrites you should have added something to the end of this sentence because it reads like you’re saying Hamas did it and then attempted to provide an example. Text based sarcasm requires a bit more effort if you don’t want to be misunderstood.

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            Lol what happened to people championing reading things carefully before commenting? At worst my wording was vague. Could’ve searched what I was talking about and easily realized was I thought. I assume people can search my comments and see I’m not defending Israel.

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      Half your thought is still in your head. When you read this to yourself, it sounds like what you intended to say. When everyone else reads it, we are still missing context.

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        The missing context is in the article. If people read it and remembered current events they too would find it utter bullshit that their excuse was “Enemy soldiers use ambulances.” And then my comment would naturally follow.

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          If your post said what you wanted it to say, without missing a sentance explaining the part you kept in your head, people wouldn’t have to “figure out” that you are saying the opposite of what it sounds like you are saying, because “you know” you would never say what it looks like you are saying.

          You just need a second sentence about how it’s hypocracy that they said that or something. The part that you know in your head, but didn’t put “on paper”.

          It’s like, in speaking, you could just emphasise the right syllables the right way and that string of text would read exactly how you intend it to. But in text, that doesn’t work.

          It’s like putting down the lyrics to a song without the melody and expecting everyone to sing it the same way you hear it in your head. Only works if they already know the melody. There is no way for us to know your melody, so you instead can’t write ambiguously. If you want other people to follow along.

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      I don’t know if I should report this for obvious misinformation or leave it because it’s hilarious.

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        Are you fucking stupid? I’m saying Israel kills people for using ambulances, and then bringing up the time Israel used an ambulance and killed a grandma.

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          Oh I get you now. I (and most of the rest of the thread) thought your comment was a weird hasbara thing with the quoted part as an example of evil khamas using ambulances.