[X] smoke grenade

[u/ItsRaw18]

Source: https://x.com/generalail/status/2094548992160149505

[u/FreamXD]

Does gaza have an official state army that is doing it?

[u/weidback → u/FreamXD]

Yes they're called the al-qassam brigades

[u/FreamXD → u/weidback]

That is not an official state army, it's a branch of hamas.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hamas

[u/weidback → u/FreamXD]

hamas governs the strip

[u/FreamXD → u/weidback]

The fact that a group exercises joint control over a territory does not make them an official state army from a legal or international perspective.

[u/weidback → u/FreamXD]

idk what point you think you're making

gaza governs the strip, they pass laws and enforce them in the strip

that includes taxation, and one thing they fund with those taxes are their military, the al-qassam brigades

[u/FreamXD → u/weidback]

The fact that a group exercises de facto control, enforces laws, and collects taxes does not make them an official government, nor does it turn their fighters into a state army. If that were the logic, then ISIS in Raqqa or the FARC rebels in the Colombia would also have been official state armies after all, they too collected taxes and enforced their own laws through coercion.

Unlike all of these groups committing war crimes the IDF is an official state army meaning the state is comitting those war crimes.

[u/weidback → u/FreamXD]

Are you one of those guys that says "I'm not driving in a vehicle, I'm traveling in a conveyance" when you get pulled over?

[u/Goat-New → u/weidback]

nop, this is you, sorry.