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2024-01-24 01:14:36 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C0C62778C39AA1C735804FDCB0038BACB351FE20B9671A92E87B17DB5E3C2740
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Mining and demolishing buildings is legally justified when “such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war” https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule50 IDF claimed the buildings were used by Hamas and constituted potential threat to Israeli civilian Kissufim community 600 meters away https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-deadliest-incident-of-gaza-combat-21-soldiers-killed-as-buildings-collapse-in-blast/
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