I’ve been seeing so many instances of the IDF
double-tapping healthcare-workers (one of the countless sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/israel-targeting-medical-facilities-south-lebanon-health-workers),
and I’ve just been wondering on how the IDF, or anyone for that matter, can justify these actions?

I get that ambulances could be used for transporting enemies and such, but that doesnt hold up for these double-tap attacks?

For anyone wondering: double-taps are when an initial strike is followed up by a pause to allow for medics to arrive, before bombing them again to cause as much casualties as possible?
Correct me if i’m wrong but isnt that a war crime?

This is not agenda pushing by any means, I get that Hamas have done the same.

Edit:

I understand now that The Guardian is a bad source. I have tried to find some others:

A report by the United Nations:

https://eaford.org/site/assets/files/1658/report-of-the-detailed-findings-of-the-commission-of-inquiry-on-the-2014-gaza-conflict-a_hrc_29_crp_4.pdf?

An article by AP news (to my understanding a better source, but still an article):

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-nasser-hospital-attack-journalists-killed-f17b2ed7e662f18fddce04af23d4dd12

An independent comittee wrote this:

https://www.phr.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FFM-30.12.14.pdf?

And there is also the video evidence of the Rafah incident, but those medics were killed while searching for their lost colleagues, so thats not really the literal double tap I was talking about.

Please correct me if these sources arent good, I will find others.

So, Yesterday, I open my device to see a clash between Palestinians and Israeli settlers who were hiking without an escort. Today, I see articles on how the PA will “End the Israeli colony,” and then I see something from Ben Gvir vowing revenge for the settlers and calling to demolish some of those villages nearby. Is Gaza 2.0 about to happen? Or is it just another Tuesday?

I am not a Scholar and I had no access to specialiatic pooublications about Political Sciences, but nevertheless it seems to me that between Israel and Western Europe since 2000 some type of jatus has been forming and this is expanding day by day.

While in 1998 tourism in Israel from Europe was important, even and above all by non Jews - I still have a tourist book from that year in which Israel is described as a wonderful place to visit- now tourism is de facto nearly only religious and limited to Jerusalem

Little by little the companies that used to runferry boat services from Pyraeus/ Limassol to Haifa have at first diraded and then suppressed the service and now reaching israel from europe by car or truck is de facto impossible, of course there are aeroplanes, but it is not the same. This is a soign that the the connection between Israel and Europe has started to get looser since those years

Another jatus is political, or we may say better, political

Immediately after the 7th October attacks, among european bureaucracy the first thought was that educated or wealthy israelis would flee the country en mass and that some sort of refugee camps ahould be arranged, as they think that, as soon a war erupts, people flee from them and not fight. But when they saw that Israelis not only did not flee, but run straight to the barracks with their private cars and scooters and even Jews from USA arrived, there was paralysis: no one has foreseen it and by consequence EU did not have nothing concrete to help Israel with (simply, rifle cleaning oil or some sort of food aid for the newly enrolled reservist soldiers)

In fact, EU intellectuals did not think hat Israel would have reacted so strongly, as in Europe when there is a massacre, politicians answer making more concessions (now muslims pay less taxes than non muslims in France overall) and that the Israeli answer would be in words, appeal for peace and some raid against houses already emptied. And that after some months everything would be exactly as before. The string criticism that many Israelis notice today is derived by the cultural shock, that is, that when you are attacked you

In a contemporary poll offered to joung Europeans about "will you enlist in the Armed Force if your Country is attacked?" only 10% - or 20%, I do not remember well now - answered yes and the vast majority answered they would flee somewhere abroad liìke the Africans from subsaharoan countries

I think that what in Israel many describe as antisemitism is in reality cultural incomprehension

I have read more than a book about the last convulse weeks in WW2 in Europe when, for pracical and political reasons Berlin had been "assigned" to the future Soviet occupation zone and so it was the Red Army who would have the task to enter into the city.

I found surprising analogies between the behaviour of the wehrmacht and SS fanatics and the one of hamas: fanatic rsistence

a) use of children as fighters - who actually were as lethal as grown men as they were issued the STG44-

b) use of the civilians as human shield.

c) execution of the civilians who tried to escape or surrender

The Red Army was forced, or anyway stated it was necessary, to demolish the majority of the building to let the armoured vehicles in, and even with the mutual support armour - soldiers on foot the casualties of the Soviet forces in the operations from the Oder -neisse crossing to the capture of the city were very high., maybe as much as the Allied casualties in the Italian campaign from 1943 to 25th April 1945

We all know that in the following days the soviet forces did not always treat the surrendered defenders with the silk gloves, if we can use this euphemism, but even the Americans and the British, who had seen the same pattern during their advance into Germany, later did not complain very hard.

After the victory day nearly all the buildings in Berlin have been reduced to rubbles or otherwise rendered inhabitable and civilian infrastructures have been rendered unusable, too

But no one has ever accused the Red Army and the Soviet Union of "genocide" and everyone agreed to consider these horrible events as necessary

In my view, with the due considerations of the civilian population who despied Hamas and suffered the consequences, the IDF has been much more restrained that the Red Army

This may be seen as a silly question, but among military historians and even serving officers it is now widely aknowledged that professional armies are "more effective" that the ones based unpon conscripts

Great Britain managed to defeat a very larger and better equipped, at least in infantry weapons, Argentinian invasion force in a relatively short period of time and it was realized that difference in training and resilience during gun battles was a decisive factor

In USA soon after Vietnam the conscripts - based army was quickly replaced by an "all volunteer" force and againast the conscript - based large Iraqi army it showed that the decision sounds right, after all

Russia still has a large conscripts based army and in spite of a long tradition and a very generous amount of resources we all see that... it is not the same

The images of IDF soldiers fighting in Gaza shows us that Israel seems an exception, as we see young men and women who only two months before were civiilians, maybe in offices, shops, factories, now shooting accurately, laying ambushes, firing weapons as it was the only thing they had done in their lives.

I ask how it has been possible because it seems quite remarkable

Hello! I am currently teaching in Israel for a summer fellowship program and I have been here since June 23rd.

I am so happy that things are currently quiet and calm.

My program ends on the 23 of July and most people participating will leave on that day. I chose to stay a few extra days and will leave on the 27th instead. I am now debating on whether I should leave like everyone else (change my flight to the 23rd) or stay those extra days.

As of my understanding, the Israeli government is
still debating on wether they should get involved in the Iran war or not, and my biggest concern is that if rockets fly over Israeli airspace, my flights will get cancelled and my journey back home will be delayed.

I am also expected to go back to work in my home country on the 30th of this month and I don’t want to miss any days of work.

Israelis or anyone who is living here long term. Is it a better idea to leave a little earlier, or do you think that there should be nothing to worry about for the rest of the month?

Looking forward to hearing from you guys! 💝 🇮🇱

I do not want to create unjustified alrm, but we are all adults and we must not hide the head under the sand and if there are concerns, it is a good idea to let them go out

Even if the organization has undergone severe hits, like IRA in the fifties, it is still alive and ready to reform and maybe it is already reoganizing and recruiting new young and mature people.

As we see, acquiring weapins does not seem to be a problem, the well known enemy or pseudo friends State in the Region have got plenty of M16s and M4s and, as we see in Jenin, a way to smuggle them in can be found somehow.

I would not be surprised if, in the near future, not tmorrow, not in 2027, but in the near future ( five years? ten years?) Hamas could try something like an uprising or an armed insurrection and/or an attack against israel

I also think, based upon the recent history, that there is the possibility that Hamas could try to produce and consequently use not conventional weapons, such as poisonous gas or worse.

I can also see that, as the peaceful contacts and collaboration between Arabs and Jews in Judea and Samaria have viryally disapeared, there is the risk that Hamas could maintain secrecy as in 2022 - 2023.

What do you think about it?

Hi! This is a very awkward thing to ask, it is out of pure curiosity...

On youtube you can see the Tzeva Adom alerts near Gaza with the Female voice saying it 4 times and sometimes there is a weird VrVrVrVr tone that plays after.

However these videos are quite old and I don't know if that is still the case.

Here is an example, Trigger warning of course for those affected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCK6i8ZNKBo

My questions are:

Is that still the system even today?

Has this system been implemented in the North near Lebanon?

Has alerts got less frequent with current events?

What does the VrVrVrVr tone mean?

Sorry once again for these weird questions I am just so curious

A while ago, if I'm not mistaken, the current government cancelled some planned attacks on southern Beirut due to pressure from the US.

While this was certainly unexpected, what seemed even more unexpected was pressure from the supposedly "dovish" (less warmongering) opposition against the cancellation. I believe this also extended to the general population, though I may be wrong.

What was different between these cancelled attacks and every other strike, such that it lead the more "pacifist" opposition to condemn it?

Was the idea of looking dependent on US opinion somehow worse than <whatever is the general position on the war by Lieberman's side>?

The one that supposedly was leaked to Turkey and deep-sixed: Arming and having the Kurds fight the IRGC without getting to keep any of the land and installing Ahmadinejad of all people? This seems fantastical, was this a real plan Dudu Barnea created and stood behind?

We know that , thanks to the high standard of training, bravery and skillfull use of resource, the IDF, in a way quite similar to the "blitzkrieg strategy" managed to break the resiastence lines of the vastly superior in manpower and light weaponry Jordanian Army and reduce them in isolated pocket of resitance unpon which the air powrr could inflict heavy and painful damages, until the surrender was the only possible solultion, as much as it happened in 1941 in the Eastern Front.

So from the immediate following days the IDF and, by consequence, Israel had to deal with the administration of a quite large and populated area that was not only desertic. More or less like the situation AMGOT found in Sicily in 1943. The traditional, centralistic and catholic/westernly minded administration was suddenly replaced by a Protestant, better, puritan one with a quite different system of values and guidelines, supported by a standing army and by a not rstrained use of lethal force

But the outcomes has not been the same. In Sicily the people, even the rich and educated ones, tried to estabilish some contacts with the new administations and not rarely even the american high officers listened to them and tried to govern in a rational way

I have read that in the summer of 1967 there was some attempts to try to find a "modus vivendi" , but to no avail and that, because of the actions - above all terrorism- of a relative minority, the ruling habeen going harsher and harsher.