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Dem Sen. Merkley: Biden Official Told Me Israel Can’t Ever Hit Hospitals Hamas Has Tunnels Under
Breitbart ^ | 11/09/2023 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 11/09/2023 5:58:23 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues David Satterfield told him that Hamas does have tunnels under hospitals, but “when you have a hospital full of wounded people, it cannot be a target ever.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: biden; hamas; israel; merkley
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What a bunch of BS
1 posted on 11/09/2023 5:58:23 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It cannot be repeated too often that the obvious reading of Articles 28 and 29 of the Fourth Geneva Convention says Hamas is responsible for any civilian deaths in the areas they occupy. Those civilians qualify as Protected Persons within the terrorist’s physical control and cannot be used to render certain points and areas immune from military operations.


2 posted on 11/09/2023 6:02:01 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is a blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions and according to them that hospital is now a legitimate target and any civilian death are solely on Hamas.

It’s way past time to exterminate every last one of them and anyone who supports them.

L


3 posted on 11/09/2023 6:02:51 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Allied POWs were killed by both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.


4 posted on 11/09/2023 6:06:27 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” /"Every nation has the government it deserves.” )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Dem Sen. Merkley: Biden Official Told Me Israel Can’t Ever Hit Hospitals Hamas Has Tunnels Under”

Why does Merkley want more dead Jews?


5 posted on 11/09/2023 6:09:20 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Lurker
This is a blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions and according to them that hospital is now a legitimate target and any civilian death are solely on Hamas.

It’s way past time to exterminate every last one of them and anyone who supports them.

By not exterminating the vermin, they only encourage more of this behavior thereby putting even more innocents at risks. The idiocy of their arguement not only undermines the Convention, but has the opposiste of the intended effect on those agreements. War criminals can be given no quarter.

6 posted on 11/09/2023 6:10:49 PM PST by ALPAPilot
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No problem, just hit the tunnel RIGHT next to the hospital, if the hospital falls, so be it.


7 posted on 11/09/2023 6:13:49 PM PST by bantam
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Red Cross (or Red Crescent, or whatever) should send a convoy of ambulances to remove every patient from a particular hospital, then the IDF should obliterate the hospital and the tunnels underneath. Repeat for all hospitals being used to conceal Hamas assets.


8 posted on 11/09/2023 6:16:26 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It doesn’t mean Israel has to comply.
Also doesn’t mean Israel can’t send forces into the tunnels without bombing the hospitals.


9 posted on 11/09/2023 6:16:27 PM PST by Palio di Siena (P01135809)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
4th Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Part 3, Article 1, Section 28:

"The presence of a protected person (aka civilian noncombatant) may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations."

10 posted on 11/09/2023 6:17:46 PM PST by BlueLancer (Everyone thinks you were executed. Stay dead - you'll live longer. (A. Breakspear, "Carnival Row"))
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Pfft.

Fine. Surround it. As soon as that's accomplished, begin moving all living things out of the hospital to wherever else.

Once it's emptied, stand back and bomb the area until the tunnels underneath collapse.

11 posted on 11/09/2023 6:22:29 PM PST by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Israel is already hitting targets very near Shifa Hospital.


12 posted on 11/09/2023 6:24:25 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sane individuals vouch for the Emperor Palpatine approach with repect to Hamas: “Wipe them ALL out.”


13 posted on 11/09/2023 6:36:25 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Retain Mike
ART. 28. — The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.

ART. 29. — The Party to the conflict in whose hands protected persons may be, is responsible for the treatment accorded to them by its agents, irrespective of any individual responsibility which may be incurred.

Pages 179-180 (Page 17 along left side)

14 posted on 11/09/2023 7:05:24 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So the United States just announced to the rest of the world that hates our guts, that all they have to do is put vital military installations underneath hospitals, schools, and other sites where innocent civilians are, and those critical installations will be immune from US attack.

Aside from the fact that this is not in accordance with long-standing international law, it is the height of stupidity. You never take anything off the table. You always leave your enemy, wondering what you might do to him. The illusion of protecting innocent lives is only one in the short term. What it does, is, it tells very bad actors, like Hamas, and every terrorist organization in the world, what they need to do in order to endanger, innocent civilians on OUR side.

Frankly, what Israel needs to do is to capture Shifa hospital, film the extremely humane removal of every human being from that hospital, and then to detonate the entire structure and everything within 200 feet of the surface that is underneath the hospital. Just leave a big, smoldering, crater where the hospital used to be.

Oh, and before I forget: FJB!


15 posted on 11/09/2023 7:17:47 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am not sure how they will do it, but I would bet Israel will take out the tunnels and other stuff under the hospital.


16 posted on 11/09/2023 7:25:19 PM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: Pox

All ready in the process of surrounding it. Lots of fighting near the hospital. Dawn is breaking and the gunfire has been extensive since about 1 am. You can watch the war live on YouTube. Some pundit mentioned countries are sending hospital ships. The IDF has, as reported, destroyed the tunnels to the South of Gaza City and the North is cut off from resupply. If true Israel can pause to move wounded and ill to hospital ships. Some patients were already sent to Egypt. By pause I mean hours not days. It appears however the Israeli military has not been sitting around playing Mattel’s Swap your Gender game like we have. Since 2014, they have been preparing to fight in the Gaza tunnels.


17 posted on 11/09/2023 7:35:57 PM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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along with live coverage on YouTube,
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18 posted on 11/09/2023 7:44:58 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Israel will do what it needs to do.


19 posted on 11/09/2023 8:17:55 PM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: EastTexasTraveler

Bkmk


20 posted on 11/09/2023 8:27:31 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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