• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Because it’s crucial to have eyes on the ground objectively reporting the reality of the conflict and getting first-hand accounts from people they otherwise wouldn’t reach from afar.

    It’s only thanks to these journalists that we know of the devastation as it is. If we relied solely on Hamas or IDF, we’d get muddied information.

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      2 years ago

      I’m not degrading them (didn’t intend for it to come across that way), I’m referring to the loss of life required by this approach. I just wonder why we don’t have the technology or alternative means of obtaining intelligence+information without needing to sacrifice the journalists as a pawn and whose deaths will be entirely ignored and rewarded on the part of Israel and Hamas respectively

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        Because journalists must be identifiable to get journalistic protections. Any technological solution would seem hard to distinguish from espionage.

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          2 years ago

          So just send more when they’re destroyed, nobody should have to die for this bullshit. Kill that fucking asshole Bibi+his entourage/enablers, make the “Settlers” get a fucking job and pave their own goddamn way thats not theft and whoever’s investing in Hamas remotely from the “safety” of Quatar and fucking have a total redo