Because it was a running gun fight. The Army also released it's After Action report showing there was in fact RPGs there. Now I'm not saying the reporters were bad guys, but they clearly embedded with an anti coalition militia. That carries the same risk of getting killed as embedding with coalition forces.
Of course we try to avoid killing them. But there's no way that Apache crew can discern them from the militia they embedded in. They're not super human.
Again. There was no way to discern them from the militia. The Army is not going to just let themselves get shot at because there "might be" a reporter on the other side.
You should really read that definition of avoid. Because you keep using it as an absolute term when it very much is not.
And I don't care if you were some white coat back in the States. I was on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. If we weren't worried about avoiding civilian casualties we wouldn't have gotten out with so few.
Following orders is not a defense... To a warcrime. Are you expecting everyone to be psychic now? They're all supposed to magically know the intelligence was faked at the highest levels?
And you guys are back to just repeating bullshit. I don't even know why I'm still engaging in this whataboutism with you. Nobody is claiming civilian casualties in the US strikes while the Houthis have exclusively attacked civilian ships with civilian crews. Nobody is reading down this far anymore. So yeah I'm done here. You can shout into the void about things you clearly have no idea about.