- 31 Mar 2024 15:38
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I can quote the article if you want. Or if you want other media outlets showing the same, I can do that too.
What does matter, is that RPGs were found in the hospital. That has specific legal consequences since it means they lost their special protections because they were used to store more weapons than just small arms and instead had to be treated like other civilian infrastructure. As such, they could be attacked as long as the incidental damage to civilians was lower than the expected concrete and direct military advantage of doing so, based on the information available to the IDF at the time. It is also possible those attacks were disproportionate i.e. that the expected concrete and direct military advantage of attacking them based on available intelligence at the time was not greater than the incidental damage to Gaza's civilian population, which would mean they were war crimes.
If you want to do that analysis in good faith, we can try, but keeping in mind that standard is vague and very subjective in practice, and that we'd be doing it based on incomplete information.
What does matter, is that RPGs were found in the hospital. That has specific legal consequences since it means they lost their special protections because they were used to store more weapons than just small arms and instead had to be treated like other civilian infrastructure. As such, they could be attacked as long as the incidental damage to civilians was lower than the expected concrete and direct military advantage of doing so, based on the information available to the IDF at the time. It is also possible those attacks were disproportionate i.e. that the expected concrete and direct military advantage of attacking them based on available intelligence at the time was not greater than the incidental damage to Gaza's civilian population, which would mean they were war crimes.
If you want to do that analysis in good faith, we can try, but keeping in mind that standard is vague and very subjective in practice, and that we'd be doing it based on incomplete information.