While the footage began to circulate on Israel media outlets on 4 December, the video's date has not been verified.

A main courthouse in Gaza has been destroyed by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), according to several Israel media outlets.

Footage, showing the demolition of the Palace of Justice, was published on 4 December by Israel media.

  • livus@kbin.social
    92·
    2 years ago

    @Stovetop it doesn’t make any sense.

    Buildings are inanimate parts of civil infrastructure. They don’t have allegience to whichever administration is currently using them.

      • livus@kbin.social
        21·
        2 years ago

        @BraveSirZaphod unlike the person above I don’t think that’s a very good comparison.

        When citizens affect a regime change of their society themselves, they are in a position to decide which amenities to keep for their future use and which they can do without.

        When a hostile outside force is affecting a regime change, destroying civil infrastructure so that whoever is left can’t use it after the war, is a form of salting the earth.

      • livus@kbin.social
        31·
        2 years ago

        @Stovetop which the British should not have done. But this is not an isolated incident; it’s in a wider context of civil architecture destruction:

        Among the buildings destroyed or partially destroyed are the main Palestinian court in Gaza, known as the Justice Palace, the Palestinian Legislative Council complex, 339 education facilities and 167 places of worship, while 26 of the territory’s 35 hospitals are not functioning.

        Hugh Lovatt, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, suggested Israel was “deliberately and methodically destroying the civil institutions and infrastructure that will be needed to govern and stabilise post-conflict Gaza”.