Mohammed Balousha described being shot near his home and struggling for help. He was hit a day after Al Jazeera’s Samer Abu Daqqa was killed in a drone strike.
The IDF is not a regular professional military. There’s a volunteer force, and a massive reservist element who were working in IT, finance, a bakery, etc before being called up. Someone whose life focus is not the military, is not going to be as capable as a professional
Gaza is also a free fire zone atm (reportedly). Hamas & Al-Quds have been doing some WILD* ambushes throughout the fighting, so semi-trained and jumpy troops are going to shoot at movement and shapes instead of discriminating between enemy combatants, civilians, or the hostages they (ostensibly) want to return.
Like, ‘what is minimum safe blast distance’ ambushes. RPGs fired from a closet or at a vehicle 5 meters away
To be clear, the deaths of civilians and reporters is reprehensible - especially as the IDF severely limits credentials for independent foreign reporters whilst pumping out propaganda via IDF press officers.
I vehemently disagree on how they’re conducting this war and the opacity around plans for land, administration, reconstruction of the decimated infrastructure or the fucking civilians for that matter. Gazans need a meaningful future that isn’t apartheid or genocide, and the only talk from the war cabinet is a long war
Then why does it keep happening?
https://cpj.org/2023/12/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
"As of December 17:
64 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead: 57 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 3 Lebanese.
13 journalists were reported injured.
3 journalists were reported missing.
19 journalists were reported arrested.
Multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members."
More on the CPJ:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/committee-to-protect-journalists/
The IDF is not a regular professional military. There’s a volunteer force, and a massive reservist element who were working in IT, finance, a bakery, etc before being called up. Someone whose life focus is not the military, is not going to be as capable as a professional
Gaza is also a free fire zone atm (reportedly). Hamas & Al-Quds have been doing some WILD* ambushes throughout the fighting, so semi-trained and jumpy troops are going to shoot at movement and shapes instead of discriminating between enemy combatants, civilians, or the hostages they (ostensibly) want to return.
It’s a good excuse, bullshit but believable bullshit.
To be clear, the deaths of civilians and reporters is reprehensible - especially as the IDF severely limits credentials for independent foreign reporters whilst pumping out propaganda via IDF press officers.
I vehemently disagree on how they’re conducting this war and the opacity around plans for land, administration, reconstruction of the decimated infrastructure or the fucking civilians for that matter. Gazans need a meaningful future that isn’t apartheid or genocide, and the only talk from the war cabinet is a long war
I blame the IDF for dragging young people into this shitty war. They don’t need to be there killing other young people.