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.
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.
@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.
Tell that to the Bastille.
@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.
Buildings are more than just the bricks they’re made of. They’re symbols which are associated with the regimes and social institutions that made them.
For instance, the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 was not random choice, it was because the buildings stood for capitalistic greed and the way in which the United States wields capitalism as a weapon to exert dominance against other nations.
I think it’s a waste, this whole war is an atrocity and Israel should have stopped at day 1, but it’s not like the destruction of this building is just a spite move against the common people. It’s a courthouse used to enforce laws from a regime that the invading force is trying to overthrow. It’s like the British burning down the White House in the War of 1812.
@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: