Comment on BBC tours hospital Israel says sits above Hezbollah gold
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe BBC had full access to the hospital. They were able to wherever they wanted.
Israel gains the ability to terroize people in hospitals under the guise of a military target by lying.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It just seems like an odd thing to claim. If it were true it gives Hezbollah notice to move it all somewhere else (which, let’s be neutral, may have happened). If it’s a complete lie, it doesn’t justify bombing a hospital and you just end with journalists like the BBC walking around saying “no there isn’t”.
So either way it just seems like an odd announcement to make.
zbyte64@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
It’s not odd if you want to cause a mass migration of people to brake the front lines.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Personally, I would have claimed Hezbollah were using it as a HQ / meeting place. Because there is no physical evidence of that, and it’s far more likely to be taken by people to be a warning of bombing. Which would have the panic effect you mention.
Claiming there’s a pile of gold there is just strange. A) it’s quite easy to show there isn’t (assuming Hezbollah haven’t just moved it already) and b) it’s not really a warning of bombing. One would expect Israel to drop special forces in and confiscate the gold, not blow it up…
zbyte64@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
I don’t think the content of the threat matters for the IDF’s objective. If we’re to be cynical, the half-ass excuse is a geopolitical posturing to show how brazen they can be with their genocide and possibly a way to demoralize the Democrat’s base before an election.