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2023-12-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF troops mistakenly open fire and kill 3 hostages in northern Gaza battlefield
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Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-16 02:31|| || Front Page|| [39 views ]  Top
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#1 Shit happens. IDF is already taking huge casualties - considering the circumstances - out of consideration for "World Opinion".
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-16 03:19||   2023-12-16 03:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Wasn't the first 'friendly fire incident.' Won't be the last. It's a different business. Not everybody gets to go back to the clubhouse for a beer after 18.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-16 03:25||   2023-12-16 03:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Crossing active combat lines is extremely deadly. Ask Stonewall Jackson.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-16 07:06||   2023-12-16 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Not everybody gets to go back to the clubhouse for a beer after 18.

That's why we have bikini beer carts.
Never know when you're gonna come up short.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-16 08:02||   2023-12-16 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Ulimble Forkbeard2690 2023-12-16 13:30||   2023-12-16 13:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't worry about IDF coming for Hamas, Ulimble.
Worry about Trump coming for you!
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-16 13:46||   2023-12-16 13:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Years ago (decades, actually) I was told, if taken prisoner and a raid is run on the location, the best thing to do is lay flat and motionless on the ground and wait for the 'mop up' phase before identifing yourself.
Evidently good advice.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-12-16 17:55||   2023-12-16 17:55|| Front Page Top

#8 To quote the Condottieri Carmagola at the battle of Arbedo to the Swiss, 'Men who did not give quarter did not deserve to receive it'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-16 19:24||   2023-12-16 19:24|| Front Page Top

#9 They wouldn't be dead if Hamas hadn't taken them hostage.

I believe it was the movie The Dark Knight where hostages were dressed up as the hostage takers in order to bait them being killed by their rescuers.

Historically, IIRC and IIUC, one of the things the Mongals did (and I'm sure that isn't unique, see Vercengetorix and releasing civilians to be a buffer between themselves and Caesar's troops) was push non-combatants into the no-man's land as meat catchers.

Hard to believe they would just be gunned down, just because.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-12-16 21:26||   2023-12-16 21:26|| Front Page Top

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