The statistics demonstrate, beyond all reasonable doubt, that journalists are more likely to be killed compared to the already high base rate for Palestinian civilians: https://lemmy.amxl.com/comment/752651 - targeted weapons on journalist vehicles just makes it more blatant. This is not going to look good for those involved if they ever face justice for targeting civilians.
Insane how many journalists they’ve killed. I still remember how fucked up it was when they bombed the Aljazeera building (and of course said that Hamas’ people were there)
What’s the excuse this time? Hamas terrorists hidden in the trunk?
“Sir, they’re asking for an excuse, are we still doing those?”
“Tell them they were terrorists”
“It says here the car was full of journalists”
“Journalists, terrorists… whatever. Tell them that”
[…probably]
I had to search for this since the Al Jazeera article doesn’t mention it: A drone was being controlled from within the car and, according to the IDF, endangering their soldiers:
They know how to triangulate drone pilots and have been targeting them for a while now, given how dangerous even a small hobby drone is, so this makes sense.