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The first time i saw this concept of the 'double-tap' - to target first-responders to the scene of an earlier strike - was in the movie,' The Hurt Locker' - where it was employed by some ISIS-tier insurgents using a VBIED disguised as an ambulance. Presumably this was intended to show the level of depravity of the terrorists. First time actually seeing this employed in the real world was last year when Israel did a double tap that killed multiple journalists working for reuters, AP, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye and Quds News Network plus paramedics and medical staff *at a hospital*. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nasser_Hospital_strikes
Now finding out this is essentially SOP for Israel and the United States (eg: the triple-tap strike at the Iranian girl's school where parents rushing to save their kids from the collapsed school were hit in the second and third strike), I wonder if the terrorists learnt this tactic from the US coalition or vice-versa.
Did you see the video that Wikileaks released, now 16 years ago, when the Apache helicopter fired on the first-responder on the the scene, a van which also included children.
At that point, another voice – presumably an officer not on scene – asks if the van is “picking up the wounded” and is told that they are. Two Iraqis from the van carry the wounded man around the side of the van to load him inside.
An American voice with the call sign “Bushmaster 7” says, “Roger, engage.” One of the helicopters blankets the van with machine-gun fire.
“Oh yeah, right through the windshield,” says one of the soldiers, while another voice on board briefly laughs. “There were approximately four to five individuals in that truck, so I’m counting about 12-15″ casualties.”
Later when news that two girls had been badly injured was greeted with: "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle."
Targeting first responders was already a common strategy in the bombing runs of WW2, used by both sides.
This was a reason why bombers attacked in multiple waves.
War is a racket.
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>why bombers attacked in multiple waves
While historians tend to disagree (rightly IMHO) with the severity of the Dresden Bombings, as reported by Kurt Vonnegut (WWII POW @Dresden)... it was definitely a disgraceful targeting-of-civilians, by Allied Forces, for the sake of demonstrating Power, alone.
Complete and utter devastation, no survivor left unravaged.
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War is a racket.
> I wonder if the terrorists learnt this technique from the US coalition or vice-versa.
Who are "the terrorists"?
I was referring to the terrorists in Iraq who were depicted in 'The Hurt locker'
For those unfamiliar with the "Dahiya Doctrine"[0] this is exactly that:
There is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive which was activated in Oct 7. It is simply killing own people and solidiers to avoid capture.
The Hannibal Directive - the IDF's infamous "murder-suicide" pact, where in Israel's polity can take a decision to sacrifice their own civilians and soldiers to prevent them from being taken hostage by their enemies. In fact, it is now slowly being revealed that many of the so-called Hamas "savagery" that were hyped up by Israel and the western media about the killed civilians and soldiers were actually the result of Netanyahu government ordering the IDF to shoot, bomb and kill their own people and due to orders to disregard Israeli lives when attacking the Hamas militia:
- Israel expanded the use of its murderous “Hannibal Directive” – designed to prevent soldiers from being taken alive as prisoners of war – by killing many of its own civilians.
- The use of such “Hannibal” strikes are confirmed in a UN report published in June. - Fire from Israeli helicopters, drones, tanks and even ground troops was deliberately undertaken in order to prevent Palestinian fighters from taking live Israeli captives who could be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.
- At the initiative of the local Gaza Division, “Hannibal” was carried out right away: less than an hour after the Palestinian offensive began. “Not a single vehicle can return to Gaza,” the division was ordered at 11:22 am.
- By midday, an unambiguous order was given from the high command of the Israeli military (the so-called “Pit” headquarters, deep under Israel’s Hakirya building in downtown Tel Aviv) to invoke the Hannibal Directive throughout the entire region, “even if this means the endangerment or harming of the lives of civilians in the region, including the captives themselves.”
- Israel has been engaged in an aggressive cover-up of its crimes against its own people.
- “Every day in captivity was very hard,” one former detainee said at the angry meeting. “I was in a house when there were bombardments all around. We were sitting in tunnels and we were very afraid that, not Hamas, but Israel would kill us, and then they’ll say: ‘Hamas killed you.’” Another released detainee said: “The fact is that I was in a hideaway that was bombed, and we had to be smuggled away, and we were injured. Not to mention that we were shot at by a helicopter when we were on our way to Gaza … You are bombing the tunnel routes exactly in the area where they [the other captives] are.”
Think about the irony in that - Hamas wanted to keep, and did more, to keep the Israeli hostages alive than their own government or the IDF! (This is what happens when wacko religious fundamentalists run a country).
Sources:
1. How Israel killed its own people on October 7 - https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hun...
2. IDF carried out Hannibal Directive, new 'Sword of Damocles' operation on October 7 - https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-84400...
3. Israel’s use of Hannibal Directive led to many deaths on October 7, including Israeli civilians - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/10/pqkz-j10.html
> The logic is to cause difficulties for the civilian population so much that they will then turn against the militants
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
https://theweek.com/world-news/israel-legitimisation-cell-ju...
> How Israel's 'Legitimisation Cell' is justifying journalist killings in Gaza
"One high-profile journalist targeted in this way was Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif, who was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike earlier this month. After his death, the Israeli army quickly circulated documents claiming he had been a Hamas operative since 2013. "Yet even if taken at face value, the files showed his last contact with Hamas was in 2017 – years before the current war," said France 24."
You think Israel shows every bit of intel they have???? The last thing they showed being 2017 doesn't say he was only Hamas for four years.
The basic problem here is that all the terrorist groups over there call their propaganda people "reporters". In a sense they are, they are reporting on events. That does not make them not considered combatants, though. Israel has found terrorist affiliation for about half of the dead "reporters", but that doesn't make the others civilians. Hit a combatant, the person next to him is probably also a combatant.
How long will the world continue to tolerate Israel's egregious war crimes?
The world? There is one country supplying the weapons and funding.
as long as people keep voting for politicians that are complicit with pro zionist policies
What is Israel's reason for all this? Can someone explain their side of the argument, as it is?
The world seems to tolerate Iran's proxy war against Israel.
Seriously, when ate the war criminals finally dragged before courts and sentenced like their forebears in Nuremberg?
Nuremberg was only possible because Germany was invaded succesfully by allied forces.
All this war crime talk is nonsense. Either talk about sending your own children to war against Israel, or criticize them in other real terms. There are no war crimes against countries who don't recognize the ICJ, and even then, unless the judiciary of the country is consenting, a war crime charge isn't pursued.
It isn't a competition, but I hope you're neither an American nor a Russian, because if you are, clean your own house first before talking about how dirty someone else's is.
That requires them to either travel to a country that recognizes war crimes and be arrested, or a country deciding to go in and get them. I can’t imagine anyone would have the political will and means to invade. It seems extremely unlikely there would ever be an arrest.
Israel's actions can only be described as inhumane and sadistic. In fact, it's similar to actual terrorism that they claim to be against.
A double tap attack is a deliberate tactic designed to kill first responders who rush to a scene after a bombing.
Assad in Syria used this tactic to target the White Helmet rescuers who would attend the scene after air attacks.
Now Israel is using the same tactic against innocent Lebanese medics.
Hacker News is so unserious.
'The middle east is unstable because colonizers created arbitrary boarders forcing ethnic groups together into unsustainable nation structures with unsustainable ethnic tensions inside the boarders'
'Israel MUST return to pre 1967 boarders and must live with ethnicities that as a common political platform call for the death of all jews. Israel cannot consider stability/unsustainable ethnic tension when forming its borders but must use arbitrary boarders and assume ethnic tension will magically disappear in their situation ignoring the reality of hwo that has worked for neighboring countries. Also Israel is racist/ethnosupremecist for recognizing the realities of borders/ethnicities that we ourselves recognize in our previous statements about the borders created in the middle east by European colonizers'
If Israel cannot coexist with its neighbours then why plant it in this particular area of the world in the first place? Why not take part of Germany, the country which actually slaughtered millions of jews. Why do the Arabs have to pay the price of something they're not responsible for?
Imagine the opposite: an Arab group was planted to occupy part of Europe, occasionally gets into wars with its neighbours, and builds one of the largest weapons arsenals in the world, including nukes. How would Europeans feel about that?
More war crimes as usual
If you want to understand the mentality of the zionists, watch this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzL5_JhA_QT
The whole movie is worth a watch. It was made by Teddy Katz, an Israeli student whose 1990s thesis on the massacre was discredited after legal action by veterans, largely baseless push-back against the thesis which was well researched and strongly supported by primary evidence. The movie is called "Tantura" and was released in 2022. IF you're not an AV person, the wiki on the tantura massacre is worth a read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura_massacre
There isn't an army quite like Israel's in recent history. Depraved and worse than any islamic "terror" organisation - sometimes created by Israel to justify it's crimes.
If you are as ignorant as me:
"A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike [...] with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack."
"Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, by the United States in Pakistan, Yemen, and the Gulf of Mexico, by Israel in the 2014 Gaza War, the Gaza war (2023-present), and the 2026 Lebanon war. by Russia and the Ba'athist Syria in the Syrian civil war, and by Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War, especially since the full-scale invasion in 2022."
The recent bombing of the bridge in Iran was apparently a double-tap strike by the US.
I thought the US was caught doing a similar thing to those boats it was destroying because they might be carrying drugs.
Truly horrific
The importance of the “double tap” was expounded by Columbus in Zombieland as Rule #2 to survive the apocalypse.