Israel killed 20 people, including journalists and health workers, in a Nasser hospital strike in the southern gang of Gaza.
In fact, two strikes hit the hospital in Khan Younis on Monday 10 minutes apart around 10 a.m. (07:00 GMT).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement published in English only that Israel deeply regretted what he described as “tragic mishap” without explaining how Israel had struck the same hospital not once in an apparent error.
So, what is a double-tour strike? Is it legal? Here is what we know:
What happened to Nasser Hospital?
The first strike struck the upper floor of the hospital where the cameraman Reuters Hussam Al-Masri operated the live flow from the news agency.
The second strike was filmed live when she killed rescuers and journalists who had ran to the scene to help after the initial strike.
Israel told foreign doctors who volunteered at Nasser hospital to leave the establishment before the attack for “arbitrary reason” and asked them not to return before the next day, Dr. Mimi Syed, who made two volunteer missions in Gaza, told CNN, calling Netanyahu’s declaration of “TRAGICAL MASSOUCHE”.
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What is a double swirl strike?
Essentially, these are two strikes on the same target.
The first strike aims to kill an individual or individuals, the second to kill all the rescuers who come to help.
The United States was said to have been among the first to use duplicates, making double-tape drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan during the administration of former President Barack Obama.
Tactics have been adopted by other armies, such as those of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Russian army in Ukraine.
How much is Israel?
Israel now uses tactics in its war against Gaza “regularly”, according to a joint investigation in July by Israeli magazines +972 and a local call.
A source present in military command supervising strikes said that planners know that the tactic is equivalent to a death sentence for the hundreds of people injured in the initial strike and their rescuers.
“If there is a strike on a main commander, another will be made later to ensure that rescue efforts will not take place,” said the source.
“The first stakeholders, the rescue teams – they kill them. They strike again, in addition. ”
Is it legal?
No way.
The double strikes are violations of the Geneva conventions of 1949, which prohibit the targeting of doctors, anyone helping to save efforts or injured during the first strike.
In fact, the strikes on Monday targeted a hospital full of medical staff, rescuers and journalists.
All of the above is protected by international law, but Israel has always been accused of having targeted them in his war against Gaza.
There is no specific number for the total number of health care and civil defense workers that Israel killed during his war against Gaza. However, Monday’s killings bear the number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza at least 273, according to a tally al Jazeera, which makes it the most deadly conflict for journalists in history.
Israel has also been accused of having deliberately targeted journalists in his attacks on Gaza.
Are they “warning taps”?
No, you think of “Knocking”.
The roof hairstyle refers to the abolition of light ammunition on the roof of a target shortly before a primary strike to “warn” the inhabitants that a greater strike is imminent and gives them time to evacuate.
When the roof is in a residential building, full -seated families would end up with minutes to flee their homes.
What Israel calls the roof dates of its previous wars on Gaza, such as 2008, 2012 and 2014, and is often confused with any type of warnings issued to people living in a place that Israel wants to attack – sometimes giving them as little as five minutes to go out.
Rights defense groups, which Amnesty International said that Israel manipulates what could be claimed as a humanitarian measure using heavier ammunition during the initial strike, in fact in a double tap.
Convicing the practice during the War of Israel in 2014 against Gaza, Amnesty said: “There is no way that the dismissal of a missile in a civil house could constitute an effective” warning “.
Two days after starting his current war against Gaza, Israel said that he would no longer extend this warning to the Palestinians. Instead, he said, text messaging and what was often obsolete cards would be used to guide civilians out of danger.
What does Israel say?
In addition to saying that hitting the same wing of the hospital twice was a “tragic accident”, Netanyahu said that Israel “values the work of journalists, medical staff and all civilians”, adding: “Military authorities are carrying out an in -depth investigation.”
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The Israeli army has published a statement claiming that it regretted “any damage to uninvited individuals and does not target journalists as such”.
Israel surely plans to investigate?
An analysis in August by Action On Armed Violence concluded that 88% of the investigations, the Israeli army, said that it was launched in its own conduct was either blocked or closed without action.
According to her own report, Israel knew throughout her war in Gaza throughout her war that 83% of the people she killed were civilians, around 52,000 people in 22 months of war.
He was also accused of systematically destroying the Gaza health system as well as to regularly hold and torture its health staff.
