1y ago

Israeli tank fire kills five IDF soldiers in north Gaza

www.bbc.co.uk

Gaza war: Israeli tank fire kills five soldiers in north Gaza, military says

The reported friendly-fire incident in Jabalia is one of the deadliest since the war began.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/HLsNX

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These Israeli soldiers must have been terrorists. I guess it's true what people say about IDF. They shoot anything that moves.
- Hamas tunnels in their aorta
- And with all the bombing IDF soldier are probably the last thing moving there
  
  Last thing or not, bombings and shootings will continue until ~~the morale improves~~ the beach houses are built.
they must have looked like kids
- They were really far away, so they looked tiny.
How could Hamas do this?
According to the IDF's website, 44 of the soldiers killed in Gaza as of Wednesday - 15% of the total - died as a result of what it describes as "operational accidents".
This seems really high.
- Probably a lot higher as well. Historically friendly fire numbers make up anywhere from 2-20% of casualties. The actual amount reported tends to go up the longer people have to investigate the engagements. And most governments are motivated to cover up friendly fires until at least until the war is over.
  Typically the more lopsided the war is, the more likely friendly fire will make up a large part of your combat casualties. That is why around a quarter of the combat losses in the first Gulf war was friendly fire.
  It wouldn't surprise me if the actual friendly fire rate is closer to 25-40% of their combat casualties considering they're mostly made of poorly drilled conscripts.
- 15% of deaths being helicopter crashes from trying to medivac semen sounds about right for the IDF tbh
uncritical support for the IDF going after war criminals
It's a good start!
Finally living up that nickname of most moral army in the world.
did the soldiers condemn Hamas?
Congrats to the IDF for receiving this week's IDF Destroyer award
The tanks identified a weapon in the building and fired two shells towards it, the probe found.
Seven other soldiers were injured by the tank fire, three of them severely.
Sounds like a tank gunner panic'ed when he/she saw a possible weapon that could take out the tank, with no communication for ground troops.
Another tragic loss of life. So Netanyahu can escape corruption charges.
- with no communication for ground troops.
  I mean, friendly fire due to miscommunication seems like a problem any army would have anticipated and planned for.
ooof... friendly fire.
Why is lemmy.zip still federated with Hexbear??
- I also am not sure. My instance is also federated with them. I mostly just see CCP propaganda from them.
  
  Exactly. The responses I'm getting here are ignoring what I'm saying and acting like they're just people with opinions I don't like.
- See https://legal.lemmy.zip/docs/defederation_policy/#defederation
  
  Some concrete examples of instances which we would defederate: An instance which is focused on creating spam in the network
  Why doesn't spamming authoritarian propaganda count? Better to have corporate ads than dictators' lies.

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