Well, you know… sometimes you see a camera, and all you have is a JDAM, so…

They aren't really trying with the excuses anymore, are they?

They’re doing them with contempt now. Israel is putting the middle finger right in our faces, an inch from our eyeballs, saying “what are you gonna do about it?” @apnews.com’s answer: “Why print, whatever ridiculous nonsense you say, of course!“

What preexisting condition did the Hamas camera have

being hamas ofc

I think they meant to say, "an AP & Reuter freelance photojournalist's camera." AP's autocorrect setting changes everything to 'Hamas'.

Can’t have any war crimes on film

Bullshit. Arrest Bibi.

ah, a camas, or hamara. classic mixup, won't happen again

Just designating random objects "Hamas" and then blowing them up when journalists are nearby. "Don't stand near that trash can. That's a Hamas trashcan. Rocket in 5...4..."

the pretexts get lamer and lamer

don't kid yourself, if it had half a chance that camera would kill you and everyone you care about

The escalation in both absurdity & amount of thought given in respect to justification is directly proportional to the extent of which consequences exist. It’s a bright & shining example of why tyrannical gov’s should never be tolerated.

they have to know how awful they sound at this point.

They don't care.

they hate everyone who isn't them. It's in their culture to see you and me as "animals" anyways.

The IDF will use Hamas to commit atrocities! That’s their answer each snd every time but never proven to be correct!

Maybe… Camera History and Etymology Late Latin, room — more at CHAMBER

Is a 7 year old providing these answers? JFC

Uh, yeah.....

they're taking the piss at this stage, secure in the knowledge that no one with the ability to do anything about them will do anything about them.

Hamas was hiding in the camera, you see

Ridiculous. There were journalists in PRESS gear holding that camera.

So was a journalist carrying the camera?

Yes. That explains the first strike on the hospital (not really). The second one was targeted at the first responders. Blatant war crimes. May everyone involved face justice.

Double tapped a camera

Cameras around the necks of all the 246 journalists Netanyahu's IDF killed. Otherwise people might see even more of their atrocities.

ah, another news outlet that reports Israel's BS propaganda.

Remember: This is the type of thing that is Israeli military freely admits to because they think it makes them look like the good guys. You can only imagine that the things they’re not admitting to.

They said it wrong. They were going for Whoopsy-Daisy.

Always need a double tap to take out a camera...

It's actually far darker than people think. They capture data points. This data may include IP address, location (i.e. camera in a hospital), web links to the video, types of ppl in the vicinity... The program says, "likely target." Some guy reviews for less than 30 sec, then they send bombs.

So a cafe would be a data cluster. 3 ppl at the cafe are posting on blsky, 2 posts have negative sentiment; 1 phone active in the area is a medium risk person (could be Hamas relative or just an "enemy of Israel"); 1 face in the area has an 87% match to someone previously targeted. They send bombs.

This is the world that palantir and the technofascists want to bring here to the US and Europe. A world where you casually obliterate 10 babies in order to destroy a single camera that is witness to your genocide. A surveillance state with an itchy trigger finger.

They are not even bothering to make proper excuses anymore. They know noone will stop them anyway.

So they have no excuse is what they are saying. Wasn't expecting anything more because they had nothing to begin with.

That camera knows what it did

I am losing my fucking mind.

Oh. Well, in that case, they *totally* weren’t targeting civilians and everyone should stop assuming they were!

Jornalists were on the hospital staircase because it was one of the few places they could get online and upload their content; something Israel is clearly willing to kill to prevent. As for the camera excuse, Israel is trying to muddy the waters for anyone searching for the story about this camera.

everyone knows they are doing a genocide. They are mocking the victims. And the press continues to play along with them for the most part.

it killed 6 journalists and this is well documented so im not sure why the number got reduced to 5 when its 6 and over 20 other people bsky.app/profile/sens...

I just know a bunch of the worst people alive were in a group chat like "just make up some shit, it doesn't even matter at this point."

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not an ordinary camera ...a Hamas camera. This is bullshit.

They were using a Hamas computer and a Hamas cell phone, driving a Hamas car, and eating a Hamas sandwich. This sick nightmare of a regime knows that it can create whatever degenerate pretext they'd like with impunity.

First of all, Israel missile striked a hospital. There isn’t an excuse for such an atrocity. The Gaza Holocaust continues in full effect.

@pbsnews.org has joined in promoting the Israeli lie. Israel has murdered 15 Palestinian journalists this month and major Western press organs are still acting as extensions of the Israeli regime. bsky.app/profile/pbsn...

Rather begs the question of what it is they'd like no one to see

Or, to not see in that one spot. We already have a pretty good idea what they'd like everyone to not see *in general*.

This is the kind of proportionality we expect from the IOF

Cameras are Hamas

look at all of the shared letters

“You can’t spell CAMERAS without HAMAS… you’ll figure out what to do with the H, I can’t be around to tell you everything.”

Wut?

Must have been a Zeiss rather than a Leica.

What would a journalist be doing with one of those!?

The tyranny of military technology.

fuck them fuck them fuck them. goddamnit. happy fucken new year! grrrrrrr so not in my name!

At this point what Israel is doing to The Palestinians makes The Russians in Ukraine look humane.

Yes, but in large part because the Ukrainians can fight back. I remember Bucha and Irpin. And the hospital with "Children" written out front. And the maternity hospital. Israel can just get away with their depravation.

This is insulting at this point

Is Bibi senile too???

Nah just evil.

The term overkill is just too apt to describe this.

That apparently needed to be double-tapped. At a hospital.

it's just open mockery at this point

they are saying ‘whatTF are you gonna do about it’

see also their lies in Australia, which Albo cowardly bought into

A -Hamas- camera. A very scary.. Hamas camera.

Also:

Pro tip: you don't get to legally bomb a hospital just because of a camera. That's a war crime. But I guess when you have an ally that will keep you from facing the consequences of international law, war crimes don't mean much. :/

Well, an alleged camera. It could have just been a bit of Hamas glass or a Hamas TV.

They're just phoning in the bullshit excuses now.

MAN, WOMAN, PERSON, HAMAS CAMERA, TV

what the fuck is a hamas camera?

it's any camera that has recorded war crimes committed by the IDF

IDF was afraid of photo shoots?

is it a camera that puts "death to Israel" in the metadata description?

bsky.app/profile/arma...

Do they turn off all the cameras in Israel with artillery fire?

Well, it can point and shoot so it must be a weapon. And it’s a witness.

They are running out of excuses for murder.

Israel must be destroyed

any camera in the hands of someone the IDF just killed?

a lazy, contemptuous falsehood. gives the true believers *something* to argue with, effectively conveys to the rest of us how few fucks they give about what we think about their ethnic cleansing.

It's a manufactured excuse for murdering journalists and healthcare workers. In other words, it's bullshit.

a camera that is so well built that you have to send a second strike some minutes later to make sure it's really destroyed along with any people that are trying to collect it?

photojournalist?

Translates from Israeli govt newspeak to "diligent photojournalist" I think

idk, but it sounds like these genocidal assholes could have solved this with a can of spray paint.

nothing considering hamas is basically gone by now anyway

it is unconscionable that this is how @apnews.com reports a deadly IDF strike that KILLED ONE OF THEIR OWN FREELANCERS

The headline from NBC, I found equally impersonal. I figured it was just me... bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

They have changed their story a bit, but still don't call it outrageous nonsense to justify double tap war crime on a hospital killing reporters and medical staff and injured civilians

Israel isn't trying to hide that it's a terrorist state now.

And media broadcast it without calling them for their war crimes is the main problem

"the military believed" How dufuk does AP know they actually believe that?

That's directly followed by, "the Israeli military said." They're reporting what they were told. Not a defense of the coverage (and certainly not of the Israeli military lol) but they're not at all pretending to know what they actually believe

I give virtually no credit to post-hoc disclaimers after they repeat the lie in their own words. They do this all the time when they WANT to present something as real. "BIG BULLSHIT HEADLINE, (junk study says)."

I'm not asking you to give credit lmao I'm just telling you that you misinterpreted that sentence, that's all

They've been pulling this crap for so long, you don't even see how crappy it is. You just think it's normal news language to state a false thing in their own words, then be like "someone else said that."

A glance at my profile would probably show me complaining about news language just about every single day lol I fully understand what you're saying, this is just a miscommunication

Opinion respectfully noted. Peace and puppies until we argue again.

I share the same opinion as what you've been saying in the last few replies though haha it's just either I misunderstood your first comment or you misunderstood my first reply

"was ALLEGEDLY targeting" or "was CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN targeting." Put the doubt in front of the probably take fact. Simple as.

Sure. But I was responding to a comment that made it sound like they just straight up printed what they believed, not what they were explicitly told. I think they just actually didn't get it because it was kind of an awkward sentence, so I cleared it up.

just so we're clear--israel admits they killed TWENTY PEOPLE including FIVE JOURNALISTS to destroy a CAMERA. not a person holding a camera. just a camera.

Gee, why is Israel so worried about a camera??? Were there images of war crimes and genocide bring captured by thar camra?

Meanwhile the DNC is still trying to keep the door open to Israel being a redeemable ally. Good way to get people to quit identifying with the party in droves.

Does that mean they'd drop a nuke to take out a press scrum?

without hesitation, apparently

The double-tap strike is a classic terrorist tactic, usually carried out with car bombs. Israel is in the company of the IRA.

And russia. Mostly Russia at this point.

20 INNOCENTS... My ignorant MAGA uncle uses the Stalinesque, "Good of the many outweighs the good of a few." It's a new low when dictators reduce their already cruel rationalization by elevating the value of one fucking camera above 20 lives that God gave real people. Insecure little peckers....

Killing 20 people is not a "mishap". Killing even one journalist is not an "oopsie". Every day, all over the globe, journalists risk life and limb to protect human rights and human dignity. We owe all of you a tremendous debt of gratitude. AP should fight for its journos, not minimize their deaths

And the states invaded three countries to find Weapons of mass destruction. At least israel found a camera.

But good news. Apparently Netanyahoo regrets this "error" and will be mounting a "full investigation". His blatant and cynical mockery of these intentional murders are literally nauseating.

They killed 20 people to destroy an *object* capable of documenting how they kill people.

That's their cover story. They won't admit the real reason for the attack.

Yup. I think I'm hearing them loud and clear - the liars

What's crazy is the they didn't even destroy the camera. It was later found. They're deliberately lying in an attempt to cover themselves.

It's also a lie

Not just that, but a double strike to kill those rushing to help

The word overkill doesn’t come close to describing this horrible attack, although it does have the word kill embedded in it.

Using an egregiously illegal double-tap strike, no less, which US publication are inexplicably downplaying.

It's mind boggling that they seem to think this is a perfectly reasonable explanation

I assume you mean AP. Israel doesn’t believe it; they said it with contempt.

This is worse than silence. Israel is a Nazi country now and they have stopped hiding it. Fuck these zionist bastards. Free Palestine.

Criminal

Dont forget: also because militants are present at hospitals. OFC they are!

To be fair, they face few enemies more threatening than evidence.

They're laying the groundwork to kill anyone documenting their genocide regardless of who is holding the camera

Or, apparently, even if no one is holding the camera.

makes Captain Ahab look reasonable and well balanced

Not ok!

It’s on brand.

The khamera was khamas.

A lie to cover genocide.

Another pathetic excuse to murder innocents.

That’s why they hit it twice… To kill the other cameras that came to help. /sarcasm Seal off Israel’s borders. No goods or people in or out for 10 years. In Israel’s case, with over 90% public approval for war crimes, it’s time for collective punishment.

They are dehumanizing. They mean a journalist.

I guess they didn't get it with the first missile because they waited for reporters and first responders to gather and then blew them all up with a second one. You know. Just to make sure the very real and dangerous Hamas camera really got destroyed.

bsky.app/profile/lema...

Pretty sure they're just trolling at this point.

the world has been spending decades training Israel that all they need do is say the magic "Hamas" word and people will just shrug and say..ok. and some editorial person at the AP is just going to print it.

a *hamas* camera should we ask what the 2nd strike was targeting?

The 2nd strike targeted the medics who responded to the first strike. Israel deliberately murders doctors, nurses and EMT. One crime after another and still most of Congress steadfastly supports Israel's war of conquest and annihilation.

The second strike came when the rescue workers arrived to help the victims of the first strike.

Well perhaps the camera had a tripod. Had to bomb that, too.

Always double tap, I guess?

russia love to do that to ukraine too, btw.

The US did in Afghanistan

did what? doubletap hospitals?

Doubletap to hit those responding to the initial strike.

Any evidence to back that up?

scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcont... google is your friend

I'm not going to verify your claim for you, I'm just going to not believe you

The source does seem to bad up the claim, though, so thank you

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_...

Didn't know this, thanks

yeah and we call them barbaric war criminals for it. whereas,

The fuck is a "Hamas camera"???

A double tap attack to take out a camera. Okey-dokey. Seems reasonable 🙄

They're not even trying to be convincing anymore. Just giving madlibs justifications for genocide.

Because that is what they say. Not we are sorry. But we were justified. Yes, we shot and killed World Kitchen workers. We thought there was 1 Hamas in the car so we are justified to take out the innocents as well. This"Justified" chosen complex needs to END in a WAR CRIMES trial.

I thought I was having a stroke when I read this story. I had to ask someone near me to confirm that it was real.

Netanyahu and members of the IDF need to be held accountable for war crimes.

Totally implausible. Lies, lies, lies.

Many people say those Hamas cameras are better than the Hasselblads.

What would happen if literally any other country bombed a hospital in another country and justified it by saying that the hospital had a security camera. Even the US probably couldn’t get away with that.

lies, lies, lies lies, and more lies

Marisa im fucking losing it

same. fully.

I really hope Israelis understand how much the rest of the world sees the sadism in the name of Zionism is ruining their country

Journalists have cameras.

Beyond belief.

Oh, does that not clear it up? You must be anti-Semitic.