• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    No, bunkers are actually for people to survive airstrikes and shelling. It even makes sense having one near a hospital, because sick people can’t go fast when the sirens go off. Usually responsible governments build bunkers for their citizens when there is a chance of war. Military sometimes has command bunkers, but they are not for and not near civillians.

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      1 year ago

      So Israel did not use bunkers to store weapons but Hamas did. Seems a little propagandistic to me.

      • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        idk I’m someone else. … but I think hamas is very stupid, so it appears plausible to me they used a perfectly good bunker to store wapons instead of sheltering people. Not sure if they really did tho.

      • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Well the crux here is that it’s not a bunker but a basement. Of course the Israeli government likes the translation into ‘bunker’ a little bit better