[HN Gopher] Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with d...
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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly
'quadruple tap'
Author : tcp_handshaker
Score : 98 points
Date : 2026-04-17 14:53 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| sph wrote:
| 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."_
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| I thought the US was caught doing a similar thing to those
| boats it was destroying because they might be carrying drugs.
| wswope wrote:
| > They were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible
| communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea
| what had just hit them, or that the U.S. military was
| weighing whether to finish them off.
|
| > "The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to
| flip the boat back over. They couldn't do it," one source
| said.
|
| https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/video-shows-final-
| con...
| ButlerianJihad wrote:
| The importance of the "double tap" was expounded by Columbus in
| _Zombieland_ as Rule #2 to survive the apocalypse.
|
| https://zombieland.fandom.com/wiki/Zombieland_Rules
| milutinovici wrote:
| Truly horrific
| foruhar wrote:
| The recent bombing of the bridge in Iran was apparently a
| double-tap strike by the US.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Karaj_B1_bridge_attack
| throwawayqqq11 wrote:
| https://theweek.com/world-news/israel-legitimisation-cell-ju...
|
| > How Israel's 'Legitimisation Cell' is justifying journalist
| killings in Gaza
| LorenPechtel wrote:
| "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.
| se4u wrote:
| > ... the person next to him is probably also a combatant
|
| Absolutely, they could even be future combatants even if they
| are not now. That's why killing schoolgirls in Iran,
| reporters in Lebanon, etc. is justified, they are all
| potential terrorists. It definitely can not be proven
| otherwise that they are not. Why take a chance? /s
| khaledh wrote:
| You're using the term "terrorist" to describe people
| indigenous to the land that Israel stole. If you use logic,
| that makes Israel that terrorist group since they used
| violence to kick Palestinians out of their land and homes,
| not the other way around.
|
| Lookup the Jewish terrorist groups Irgu, Lehi, and Haganah.
| Lookup the assassination of Lord Moyne by Lehi and the 1946
| Irgun bombing of the King David Hotel. The leaders of these
| terrorist groups eventually became Prime Ministers of Israel.
|
| While you're at it, lookup the attack by the Israeli military
| on the USS Liberty that killed 34 Americans.
| well_ackshually wrote:
| I need you to know that you're defending and justifying war
| crimes while blindly swallowing the propaganda of a genocidal
| regime.
|
| Needless to say, it's not exactly making you look too good.
| khaledh wrote:
| Every time I post something like this I get downvoted, but I
| don't care: Israel is just pure evil. Shame on US politicians for
| giving them cover for the countless war crimes they've committed.
| dzhiurgis wrote:
| Ever wondered why lebanon or palestine has disproportionate
| amounts of hospitals per capita?
| jst1fthsdys wrote:
| They do? Compared to who? And no, I haven't, please enlighten
| me.
| perching_aix wrote:
| Why are you insinuating if your argument is supposedly so
| damning? Just state it plainly.
| LorenPechtel wrote:
| The point is the primary function isn't medical. It's about
| parading in front of the cameras when their command centers
| are hit.
| smusamashah wrote:
| Oh wow! So they make dummy hospitals and put dummy meat
| bags of all sizes for camera time and social media post
| just to make Israel look bad when they hit those meat
| bags. That is some strategy.
| perching_aix wrote:
| To clarify,
|
| - I'm under no confusion about what they're insinuating,
| that's not the point (see that below)
|
| - I'm looking for their reply specifically
|
| It's relatively easy to accuse, and to make up some
| story. It's a lot harder to provide substance and
| formulate a compelling argument.
|
| Is the number of medical facilities really outstanding?
| Why does that suggest they're combatant hideouts? Which
| of them are, all? Why does them hiding combatants render
| double, triple, quadruple tapping, or even just targeting
| these facilities morally justified or reasonable? What
| sense does it even make to double, triple, quadruple tap
| in this context?
|
| All pretty important questions I'd say, none of which are
| addressed by cowardly insinuations, I believe by design.
|
| Last time I checked, my internal moral compass rated
| actually killing healthcare workers and the
| sick/injured/etc a lot worse than combatants using them
| as potential collateral (not that that'd be the pinnacle
| of morality). One would assume most other people do too,
| hence why the above is news. How the paramedics that
| arrive after become deserving of getting shelled further
| remains a mystery.
| khaledh wrote:
| Ever wondered why Israel has disproportionate amount of
| settlers in the West Bank, a land that doesn't belong to
| them? I bet that makes them a legitimate target.
| LorenPechtel wrote:
| Because of the ongoing terrorism.
|
| The settlers are their religious nuts. Israel doesn't like
| them, but it's not worth the political capital to do
| anything about it because they aren't the actual cause of
| the terror.
|
| When Israel gets a better outcome from being kind rather
| than being harsh you will see them be kind. But every good
| deed gets harshly punished, don't expect good deeds until
| that changes.
| smusamashah wrote:
| They are evil now and they will be nice when some goal is
| achieved, this does not make any sense.
| khaledh wrote:
| > they aren't the actual cause of the terror
|
| Are you sure? Here are some stats of settler attacks from
| the United Nations Office for the Coordination of
| Humanitarian Affairs: Year Total
| Incidents Daily Average 2021 540
| 1 incident / day 2022 852 2
| incidents / day 2023 1,189-1,291 3
| incidents / day 2024 1,420-1,449 4
| incidents / day 2025 1,828 5
| incidents / day
| LorenPechtel wrote:
| And you think the UN is a credible source?
|
| And it's amazing how many of those "settler" attacks make
| more sense if they are self defense.
| Swenrekcah wrote:
| > But every good deed gets harshly punished
|
| Can you name some of the instances you're thinking of?
| 22122 wrote:
| not just the politicians, also the media outlets that cover for
| them, and the zionist political donors who fund them.
| taylodl wrote:
| How long will the world continue to tolerate Israel's egregious
| war crimes?
| 22122 wrote:
| as long as people keep voting for politicians that are
| complicit with pro zionist policies
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