IDF finds Hezbollah weapons cache stored in Bint Jbail hospital, kills dozens of terrorists

I'm not sure I'd use the word 'thankfully', but it benefits the non-IR MENA world that they were not turned into another IR proxy army.

Hard to do that when you end up killing all the journalists 

> Let independent observers in to confirm or deny this In a war zone? That's a good way to get them killed. Either because they run around and are mistaken for the enemy or because they don't report what one side would like to see reported. Just because someone wears a 'PRESS' vest doesn't make them a journalist or immune to being killed. And should the other side use 'PRESS' to disguise their people, it gets even worse. The only way would be to embed with the IDF.

I’ve genuinely considered this the most difficult question of modern military history.  If a group or country attacks you and then intentionally hides behind their children and sick, what is your recourse?  Taking the high road and abstaining only encourages more attacks on the citizens you are sworn to protect, and encourages more of the enemy hiding behind the vulnerable.  Bombing anyways regardless of collateral makes you a monster.  Truly the biggest lose/lose I can possibly imagine.

Just like the using of ambulances as a VIP and or Troop transport removes the protected status, so does using Hospitals as command and control, barracks, and weapons caches. Otherwise, Israel should just build a wall of Hospitals along every border and declare every military vehicle as an ambulance. How do you feel about an ambulances F35? Hamas is responsible for removing the protective status of Hospitals in Gaza. It is evil and caused a lot of unnessary suffering for Gazans. That was Hamas's goal. To create negative PR for Israel and sympathy for them. You are showing it worked. You fell for it! Or, prove me wrong and call Hamas out!!

> I think destroying all the hospitals in Gaza was an evil act. The problem is, if you let a hospital be abused for military purposes and do nothing about it, it becomes a cheat code for the enemy and will be abused, either as a safe haven or to even open fire on you from it. So you cannot let that slide. Also, were they all completely destroyed or only damaged? Hamas is still in power, yes. If you want to get rid of a terrorist organization that is deeply rooted in a population you WILL hurt a lot of innocent people in the process. And there will be a lot of people that were, in fact, not innocent being sold as innocent casualties. The only difference between a dead civilian and a dead fighter in civilian clothing (remember, Hamas only wore uniforms during a ceasefire) is the latter had a weapon. If that gets lost somewhere you suddenly have a dead civilian instead of a dead fighter. Finally, children. I have a problem with that word in this context. In many people this evokes images of kids 10 and younger and whoever kills them intentionally is evil. But in Gaza everyone below the age of 18 is classified as a child while there were Hamas fighters that were between 15 and 18. Kill one of those in a firefight and they end up in the statistic of children killed. So all numbers from that war, no matter from which side, need to be taken with a lot of salt.

The IDF didn’t destroy all the hospitals in Gaza though.

So terrorists are allowed to do whatever they want, like maximizing their own people's suffering? Why isn't HAMAS evil for knowingly and intentionally setting up military encampments and bases inside and underneath civilian infrastructure?

No city was taken out, it's all claims and like you said you don't believe anything.

Considering they let hezb run their country? Yea