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Israeli forces have been accused of executing handcuffed Palestinian medics before burying them in a mass grave underneath their crushed ambulances in southern Gaza's Rafah.

Fifteen humanitarian workers went missing last week after responding to a distress call from civilians being attacked by Israeli forces.

The workers include eight paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), six members of the Palestinian Civil Defence search-and-rescue teams, and one UN staff member.

They were found over the weekend in a mass grave with at least around 20 multiple gunshots in each one of them, according to Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.

At least one of them had their legs bound, another was decapitated and a third topless, he added.

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[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 99 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's almost as if the lesson should be that Jews aren't unique and are just like any other people. And if you put any group of people into an explicit ethnostate, that group of people is going to turn into Nazis.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Most countries around the world are based on ethnicity/national identity. Yet they all don't manage to turn into Nazis. It's not the state type its the choice made by its people.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is a difference between having a dominant ethnic identity and being an ethnostate.

[–] alcibiades@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Israel is only 75% Jewish 🤷

Obviously they’re trying to be an ethnostate and like to commit genocide. But it’s not like they’re doing that purely bc it’s only one group of people within their borders.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ethnostate refers to them explicitly having written in their constitution that they are a state for ethnic Jews. Any civilized country has a constitution that grants human rights to ebery human and certain civil rights based on citizenship. Israel explicitly is designed as an ethnic supremacy apartheid state.

[–] alcibiades@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Ahh that makes the comment I was replying to make way more sense. Didn’t fully realize the extent to which Israel is founded on ethnic superiority

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago

All Israeli citizens have the same rights under Israeli law.

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Feels like most places have had their genocide era

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Well we exist in the present, not the past. There's not much to be gained today by sanctioning the Italians for the genocide their ancestors committed against the Gauls.