• arymandias@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    General, it has come to my attention that there are hospitals in Gaza that haven’t been bombed yet, quick deploy the troops!

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    9 months ago

    As far as I’m concerned any soldier who operates with the IDF forces right now can fucking stay there. I don’t want to let ethnic cleansers back into the country and you shouldn’t either. Soldiers have not only a right but a duty to not to follow orders that would classify as a war crime, claiming orders came from a superior does not legally vacate you from responsibility for the action, and the full weight of the consequences will go to you.

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    9 months ago

    These who received the orders were already on 96-hour prepare-to-deploy status, which has now been shortened to 24 hours.

    So, how do I imagine this. Does this mean everything already packed up and ready to go, with everyone relieved from any regular duty, ready to put on boots and walk to the planes at any moment?

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      9 months ago

      Without additional details on where those troops are (US or already on board ships in the Mediterranean?), it could mean a few things, but speaking from my own experience it would involve having all required equipment packed up and staged on a military base, personnel would have a bag packed and easily accessible, and any scheduled training exercises would likely be cancelled, especially if they were multi-day exercises. Normal daily routine would be the same. Any leave would be cancelled. 24 hours was how long we had to report to an assembly area for deployment, not necessarily actually leave the country, much less arrive at the destination.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    About 2,000 U.S. troops have been put on prepare-to-deploy orders for possible support to Israel, according to a defense official.

    If they were deployed, they would go to a nearby country to be prepared to support Israel in the war against Hamas, the official said.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it will join the U.S.S.

    The Israel Defense Forces have massed military personnel and equipment at the Gaza border, preparing to expand a retaliatory aerial attack with what it said would be “an integrated and coordinated attack from the air, sea and land.”

    Hamas, which rules Gaza, carried out the worst terrorist attack in Israel in decades just over a week ago.

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday was in Tel Aviv, where he was meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war Cabinet in the Defense Ministry for more than six hours.


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  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    This should allow Russia to jump in and bolster Palestine, since this is similar to what happened in Syria (except the genocide part).