• bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Specific ambulances are only attacked if there’s intelligence like surveillance that says it’s being used to transport combatants or weapons. If all ambulances were systematically targeted, all ambulances would camouflage as civilian vehicles.

    You are correct that persons hors de combat are protected.

    Evidence in war zones is always difficult, especially when combatants don’t wear uniforms. You can easily make a combatant look like a civilian, by removing the weapons from the scene. Making civilians look like combatants just takes putting a weapon next to their body. Independent neutral investigators will rarely arrive at a scene before one of the belligerent forces.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      24 days ago

      Specific ambulances are only attacked if there’s intelligence like surveillance that says it’s being used to transport combatants or weapons

      Yeah? You actually believe this?

      As the person above you said, there is no way to confirm any of it because they blew it the fuck up. For all we know, it was transporting injured fighters out of the warzone. Blowing that up (and then later lying about it) is something the IDF 1000% would do without thinking twice. It’s their M.O.