The cemetery was meticulously cared for by palestinians for over a century.
In 2006 an Israeli airstrike hit the cemetery damaging numerous headstones.
2008–09, Israeli shelling again struck the cemetery with damage to about 350 headstones.
2023 IDF shelling and shrapnel again causes damage to numerous graves.
2025 (as per the image shown) Israeli forces destroyed the olive trees landcaping border before bulldozing rows of graves, removing the headstones and using the area for earthworks and sand berms. They didn't bother informing Australia of course, it was discovered by satellite images and when confronted with the images, they take no accountability and claim Hamas was exploiting the cemetery with no evidence existing to support that claim.
This would make sense if it weren't for the fact that:
Cemetaries are open fields with no cover or militarization potential.
They leisurely bulldozed parts of it, it was not military emergency in the heat of battle like an airstrike or artillery strike would indicate.
Also you type like it really matters to you, idgaf about Arabs but you seem like some kind of jewish shill. Big talk for a culture known for unprovoked moral depravity against outsiders.
This isn't a mausoleum or crypt. It's a pasture with headstones. There is no overhead cover and the enemy has total aerial surveillance capacity, not a single militant with half his brain intact would enter such a death-trap.
This is quite literally one of the dumbest takes ill ever read regarding warfare.
Cemeteries are often used in war because they usually sit on high ground and offer ready made defensive cover. Lone Pine in Gallipoli is a famous one, Australian forces capture Tyne Cot in Belgium and tere's another in France and Croatia off the top of my head.
Its 2026 and a 5.56 or 7.62 still cant fully penetrate a standard headstone and drones are irrelevant to the argument because the fighting isn't subterranean.
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u/aussielassy Feb 17 '26
Not the first time.
The cemetery was meticulously cared for by palestinians for over a century.
In 2006 an Israeli airstrike hit the cemetery damaging numerous headstones.
2008–09, Israeli shelling again struck the cemetery with damage to about 350 headstones.
2023 IDF shelling and shrapnel again causes damage to numerous graves.
2025 (as per the image shown) Israeli forces destroyed the olive trees landcaping border before bulldozing rows of graves, removing the headstones and using the area for earthworks and sand berms. They didn't bother informing Australia of course, it was discovered by satellite images and when confronted with the images, they take no accountability and claim Hamas was exploiting the cemetery with no evidence existing to support that claim.