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I've noticed something about some of the people the IDF kills indirectly:

  1. (pre-October 7th) There was a kid a while back on whom an IDF jeep flipped and crushed; the kid was still alive but the IDF refused to allow the ambulance to save his life.

  2. (pre-October 7th) There was a girl they shot and let bleed to death, again, refusing to allow the paramedics to save her life.

  3. There was a disabled child who was attacked by their dog that tore the kid's hand (chest?) badly; they left the disabled kid in a room and took his mother and brother away, only allowing them to come back about a week or ten days later. The disabled kid wasn't able to care for himself and died in that room.

  4. They forced the staff at a hospital to leave, and there were babies in incubators they couldn't do anything about. The staff were only allowed to return two weeks later, I'm not saying anything else about this because it's horrific.

  5. The case of Hind (I think that was her name); they fired on her car with a tank, and then left her there to die, shooting the ambulance that showed up and killing the paramedics inside. On this one I don't know if they knew a child was in the car, but I absolutely don't put it past them.

  6. (pre-October 7th) Just lots of cases of them not allowing paramedics to care for the people they've just shot, but none I remember as specifically as the first two points.

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[–] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

IMO- as they are a settler-colonial state in the genocidal subjugation phase of colonization - the cruelty is the point.

"White supremacy" and "settler supremacy" means nothing, until it is put into action. This is how it is done- through inflicting pain, humiliation, and suffering on the "ubtermensch."

This is how it was done in all western colonies; it is how it was done in the Anglo settler-states to the natives, and it was done to the enslaved blacks and their descendants, and even as society progressed such that the optics became worse (even among whites), these countless little cruelties and humiliations still remained, swept under the rug or downplayed, in order to assert their "place in the world" over that of their lessers.

This is still how it is, across the west and wherever westoid-mentality westerners plague.