CNN has reported that Israel’s Mossad headquarters are located in a “densely populated area” in Tel Aviv, posing risks to civilians during Iran’s attack.

“The concern is if your firing, even though Iran might consider that a military target, it is in a densely populated city with civilians around it," CNN reported.

The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as “human shields”, as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
    482·
    3 months ago

    I mean this itself isn’t a problem, because who the fuck builds their headquarters in the middle of nowhere? But it’s ironic given they keep crying about Hamas headquarters being in residential areas (again, who builds their headquarters in the middle of nowhere).

  • danekrae@lemmy.world
    311·
    3 months ago

    If you ask Israel, they have no problems with bombing many civilians to get a target.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
    24·
    3 months ago

    So by Israel’s own standard of discourse, they’re “using human shields” and hence any amount of killing of Israeli civilians is perfectly justified not matter how great the disproportion of civilians to non-civilians killed, their age or gender.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    14·
    3 months ago

    The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as “human shields”, as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.

    Because that would be devastating to their case.

    The US supports Israel for reasons unrelated to them being truthful or good actors (possibly just mysticism). They try not to openly say that.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      I mean it’s more because the pentagon, cia, NSA, and most of our secure weapons design facilities are based well within cities because employees in places like area 51 (groom lake) are fairly easy to track given the relatively remote location.

      We do it, they do it, everyone does it both out of immorality and necessity often at the same time.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        3 months ago

        It’s not even just security. People live in cities, so things tend to be built near cities.

        The argument Hamas being anywhere in Gaza counts as using human shields was fully bullshit. In their case, they operate(d) mostly as guerillas, so they didn’t have conventional military bases to build in any place in particular, anyway.

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Like blowing up a daycare because someone you tortured said Hamas was there? At least the Mossad is actually in the building.

  • Madison420@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 months ago

    Duh, they’ve been doing this since at least 1913 (operation manta ray iirc if you look up 1946 king George bombing, you’ll find it). It’s why everyone in the region uses civilians as shields.

  • randon31415@lemmy.world
    329·
    3 months ago

    Because they never thought people would attack it. When it was built, attacks were bombs on busses, not hypersonic missles shot from Iran.

      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
        10·
        3 months ago

        Totally unheard of! Bombing cities?! Don’t they know innocent people live there? Like putting “strategic targets” in densely population centers? It’s like Isreal is using its people as human shields. Israeli people should leave those areas if they don’t want to be caught up in the fighting.

        • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Most certainly. I mean why can’t Israel just put all their military assets in one very clearly cordoned off area in the desert with a big neon sign that says ‘all our tanks, artillery, airplanes, small arms, and ammunition for everything is right here’ and make abso-fucking-lutely sure that no civilian is within 10KM of the area and anyone working there is 100% military and also armed.

          Oh and they can’t live on-base. Because that is still using them for human shields, too. Oh and nothing ‘civilian’ to transport them either. Regular cars and buses? Nope. Only armored vehicles. Anything else would be perfidity!

          I mean if they have a single area that is put in secret it is like them being worse than Hamas. Actually it means they ARE Hamas all along! Bomb them! Bomb them to the stone age!

    • doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 months ago

      That can’t be it. Of course the foreign intelligence headquarters were built with all sorts of security in mind.