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You kidnap a civilian at gunpoint and force them to trigger the trap. It's called the "Mosquito Protocol", an IDF classic: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-30/ty-article-opinio...

Or, if you are not a genocidal terror group, you actually go house-to-house and check. Difficult, dangerous, but not a war crime. That's why Mosul isn't a pile of rubble, even though ISIS was more than willing to use booby traps!

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"We are demolishing more and more homes, they have nowhere to return. The only obvious result will be the desire of the Gazans to emigrate outside the Strip. Our main problem is in the receiving countries."

—Benjamin Netanyahu, 2025

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Mosul doesn't have a massive network of underground tunnels that use civilian homes as entrances and exits.

If Hamas cared about Palestinians, they could just use military buildings for that.


Hamas doesn't care much about civilians, nobody says otherwise. But that's no legitimation for also murdering civilians.

Eh, that is exactly what ISIS did in Mosul

Did exactly what?

Dig tunnels and taking civilians hostage and used them as human shields. Nobody gave a fuck.

True. Hopefully one day brown people will be considered people too.



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