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HappyPanacea | 6 days ago

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ceejayoz|6 days ago

> Israeli forces dressed in doctors’ scrubs and women’s clothes have killed three Palestinian militants in an undercover operation in a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/30/israel-forces-...

Hmm.

LorenPechtel|6 days ago

Yeah, Israel has done some infiltration like that. Not proper, but you're pointing out a molehill while ignoring the mountain.

a-french-anon|6 days ago

Grossly asymmetric warfare promotes and "kinda" justifies guerilla tactics from one side. Necessity knows no law and all that.

Of course, that does mean the bigger side has to get dirty too, sometimes. Just not to the extent that Israel is, who clearly just want to cleanse the land in order to own it. I mean, this is Boer war territory, not (e.g.) Algerian war where torture was used but civilians were mostly left intact.

esseph|6 days ago

Why would an insurgent force against an occupier ever wear uniforms? Ever? Is there any case of this happening in history?

dijit|6 days ago

Pretty much all of them.

National Guard and HomeGuard in every allied country has a uniform.

The ones that don't are using what would be considered unlawful tactics these days.

You're an 'unlawful combatant' if you don't wear one: the Geneva Convention still technically applies to you, just not in any way you'd find comforting.