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Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.

The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war.

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[–] MrChristyCarranza@aussie.zone 43 points 6 months ago

More genocidal behaviour

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Not that this wouldn't be a grotesque crime against humanity either way, but I'd be very interested to know what they consider "military age".

US "anti-terrorism" forces in the middle east set it as low as 14 and I wouldn't expect the IDF to be LESS monstrous than the US military..

One former Mossad official even said that all Gazan children older than 4 are "involved" and "Hamas supporters" and therefore deserve to be starved to death 🤬

[–] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

That's so fucked up!

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

I fucking hate israel.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 15 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's still genocide if a country restricts itself to only killing the men. And Israel very much is not restricting itself.

[–] Larry@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It is a reference to the Srebrenica massacre. The perpetrators there precisely first picked out men and boys from a refugee population as the first step towards genocidal violence, which they carried out a few days later.

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I don't think the people working in the hospital attacked israel.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago

Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu bauen.