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minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·11 months agoIf captured terrorist = PoW then it can be argued that this photo is against the Geneva convention "prisoners or war must be treated with dignity, and not exposed to public curiosity – like circulating images on social media”.
minus-squarefosforus@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down13·11 months agoI don’t claim to be anything close to an expert in international law, but I think there’s some controversy around the question of whether captured Hamas soldiers are prisoners of war.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu constantly refers to the “the war”. Therefore Hamas soldiers are PoWs. He can’t have it both ways.
minus-squareI_Has_A_Hat@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoExcept this photo was from 2010, so how people are defining the current “war” doesn’t matter.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoThis war has been ongoing since 1948.
If captured terrorist = PoW then it can be argued that this photo is against the Geneva convention
"prisoners or war must be treated with dignity, and not exposed to public curiosity – like circulating images on social media”.
I don’t claim to be anything close to an expert in international law, but I think there’s some controversy around the question of whether captured Hamas soldiers are prisoners of war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu constantly refers to the “the war”. Therefore Hamas soldiers are PoWs. He can’t have it both ways.
Except this photo was from 2010, so how people are defining the current “war” doesn’t matter.
This war has been ongoing since 1948.