[stoorafa]

It’s also “unfashionable” because the criteria for who qualifies as Hamas varies depending on how you ask.

See jhallenworld’s comment elsewhere in this post: > “Hamas terrorist” criteria: a male or fighting age…

Of course there will be males of fighting age among civilians, many of them _are_ civilians

[romwell]

>See jhallenworld’s comment elsewhere in this post: > “Hamas terrorist” criteria: a male or fighting age…

Notably, this is not a criterion used by IDF, even though Hamas does everything to make it so.

Consider the usual criteria used to distinguish members of military organizations:

[ ] uniforms

[ ] operating from military bases separate from civilian buildings

[ ] name tags / military IDs

[ ] vehicles clearly identifiable as military (by markings, plates, etc)

All of those are required by international law.

I checked off all of the ones that Hamas uses.

[squigz]

Can you link to the criteria the IDF uses, and/or the international law(s) that requires those criteria be used?

[calgoo]

I mean, honestly I don’t really think anyone cares about international law when decide to murder a bunch of people (any conflict, not just this one). That’s the problem really, you can shout as much as you want that they don’t have uniforms etc, but this is not some battle field with the solders lining up on each side. The article also explicitly states that they have a program called: “where is daddy” that targets males when they are home with their families.