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Russia Warns Israel Over Flooding Tunnels in Gaza: 'War Crime'
Newsweek ^ | Dec. 9, 2023 | Brendan Cole

Posted on 12/09/2023 3:43:49 AM PST by canuck_conservative

Russia said that reports of proposals to flood the tunnels were shocking and warned that "if done, this will be a war crime."

"Such flooding could be considered analogous to 'do not spare them' order, but it is not only about that and not only about civilians who may be in those tunnels," the statement read. "Of course, there most likely will be civilians, for where else would they go from the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza."

Over the last two months, Russia has repeatedly condemned Israel's actions in Gaza, with Vladimir Putin initially blaming the Hamas attacks in Israel as a "clear example of the failed policy in the Middle East of the United States."

Analysts consider Moscow to be exploiting the turmoil, since it has taken scrutiny off Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine...

While Russia has criticized the UN's vote [to reject a ceasfire], as a permanent member, Moscow has also vetoed resolutions condemning aspects of its invasion of Ukraine, one being its declaration that it had annexed four Ukrainian territories...

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: flooding; gaza; gazatunnels; geopolitics; hamas; israel; militarytargets; nonsense; putinistas; putinsupportshamas; putinwouldknow; russiancrimes; russiasbuddies; tunnels; warcrimeexperts; waronterror
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To: canuck_conservative

“Make them live up to their own standards.”


41 posted on 12/09/2023 6:22:04 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: jpsb

“ Where are the hostages?”

They are all dead.

L


42 posted on 12/09/2023 6:30:39 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: JonPreston
How is it you personally managed to check off every item on your list?

You forgot the "LOL"

43 posted on 12/09/2023 6:32:23 AM PST by Pilsner
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To: canuck_conservative

Flooding of tunnels is not a war crime as long as the water used is not toxic and the people in the tunnels have the option to surrender.

Flooding the tunnels with a poison gas or other toxic substance would be a war crime. Water certainly is not.

If I’m not mistaken, the Japaneses used caves in the Pacific islands to hide in. The cave entrances were blown up thus sealing off escape and leaving the Japanese soldiers to die due to lack of air or starvation. This was never considered a war crime.


44 posted on 12/09/2023 6:36:23 AM PST by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: JonPreston
The conflict in Ukraine and the War in Israel are two entirly different wars....no comparison.
45 posted on 12/09/2023 6:45:39 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: redfreedom
If I’m not mistaken, the Japaneses used caves in the Pacific islands to hide in. The cave entrances were blown up thus sealing off escape and leaving the Japanese soldiers to die due to lack of air or starvation. This was never considered a war crime.

Those were used by soldiers on an island they invaded, and the Japanese refused to surrender. The tunnels in Gaza have civilians seeking refuge in them.

For a WW2 reference, flooding tunnels in Gaza would be comparable to flooding the London Underground during the Blitz, killing civilians fleeing the bombing of the city above them.

46 posted on 12/09/2023 6:51:54 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: EvilCapitalist

“...And what the islamic savages did to Israeli women, and babies wasn’t a war crime?...”

Nope. At least not according to all the “woke” Campus Activists, and a good chunk of so-called “Mainstream Media”.

It’s either dismissed as “Zionist Lies and Propaganda”, or justified as a Heroic David & Goliath battle, where the “Palestinian Freedom-Fighters” are “Punching-Up” at the “Genocidal Apartheid Zionist Occupiers” with whatever means they have at their disposal.


47 posted on 12/09/2023 6:53:16 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: canuck_conservative

One of the clearest examples of the pot calling the kettle black, i.e. rank hypocrisy, that I have seen in a while.

“The Israelis are being inhumane (sotto voce: YES, Nikita, level that city to teach the bastard Ukrainians a lesson!) to the Palestinians, and we demand that they stop now.”


48 posted on 12/09/2023 7:00:30 AM 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: T.B. Yoits

“For a WW2 reference, flooding tunnels in Gaza would be comparable to flooding the London Underground during the Blitz, killing civilians fleeing the bombing of the city above them.”

Not really. The tubes during WWII were used by civilians to escape the Blitz: They were not stocked with weapons that were used to fight Germany; they were not filled with British Tommies gearing up to invade Germany, etc.


49 posted on 12/09/2023 7:02:29 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: T.B. Yoits
”The tunnels in Gaza have civilians seeking refuge in them.”

What is your source for that? That is a new spin.

50 posted on 12/09/2023 8:07:29 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

How do you know civilians are in the tunnels and are not given a chance to leave?


51 posted on 12/09/2023 8:41:43 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: canuck_conservative

Pootie is stirring up trouble in Israel to take the heat off of Urkraine.


52 posted on 12/09/2023 9:12:45 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: canuck_conservative; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...

53 posted on 12/09/2023 9:38:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Russia, thy name is “father of war crimes”.


54 posted on 12/09/2023 10:00:49 AM PST by wjr123 (Gaza)
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To: canuck_conservative

Throwing stones when Russia lives in a glass house


55 posted on 12/09/2023 10:07:00 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: JonPreston
"When I read about war crimes, I think about Canada and how the Canadian Parliament honored a WWII Nazi. What the hell was that about?"

He was a Ukrainian that served in a German Nazi SS unit against Russia.. Russia says Ukraine is still full of Nazis. We did see many such signs and symbolism at the beginning of the war that indicated that such was true....

56 posted on 12/09/2023 10:47:32 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: canuck_conservative

He is afraid it will work.


57 posted on 12/09/2023 11:20:42 AM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Just mention one word ‘Grozny’ shuts the squinty eyed mongoloid in Moscow up real quick


58 posted on 12/09/2023 12:00:34 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: canuck_conservative

Doesn’t take like for aussie hater Jon Putin to show up and try to polish the Russian turd.


59 posted on 12/09/2023 12:04:35 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Take long I should say


60 posted on 12/09/2023 12:05:07 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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