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The mother of slain hostage Ron Sherman accused the IDF of 'poisoning' her son to death inside a Jabaliya tunnel.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

“The results of the investigation: Ron was indeed murdered,” she wrote. “Not by Hamas. Think more in the direction of Auschwitz and the showers but without Nazis and without Hamas as the cause. No accidental shooting, no report, premeditated murder, bombings with poisonous gases.”

According to her, the IDF filled the tunnel in which he was held with gas, and his son was poisoned to death.

“Ron was kidnapped because of the criminal negligence of all the senior officials of the army and the damned government who gave the order to eliminate him in order to settle a score with some terrorist from Jabalya.” The mother claimed that “they found that he also had several crushed fingers, apparently due to his desperate attempts to get out of the poison grave that the IDF buried in him when he tried to breathe air, but he only breathed IDF poison. There is no future for this country if this is what they did to you after they abandoned you that Saturday. What was the decision if Bibi’s son was there in the terrorist’s tunnel or Gallant’s grandson? Or the son of Hertzi Halevi? Would they also have been poisoned with gas bombs?”

-FTA, the mother's statements.

civilian casualties will happen in war. there's pretty much nothing that will stop that. Civilian casualties will always skyrocket though, when you use indiscriminate weapons... like gas attacks...

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder how many Palestinian civilians have been killed with poison gas.

According to the US and it's Western allies:

Syrian army using gas is a war crime.

IDF using gas is perfectly fine.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Idunno.

I’m going to preface this with saying I believe it’s a war crime and we should be sanctioning Israel every bit as much as we’ve sanctioned Russia.

But a critical distinction might be getting made in how the poison gas is getting used. Like with white phosphorus- use as a smoke screen away from civilians is okay, use as shelling over civilians… not so much.

It’d be a bullshit technicality that the tunnels are enclosed and they believe no civilians are in there… but it’s an argument I could see working to satisfy my stupid, super-pac-addicted president.