im looking at a gorillion people packed into a muddy, bullet-ridden mangled scape of concrete and metal, no organization save for around the lines of armed gunmen. its an anarchic gathering of people with no real structures anymore.  i dont think they had to work very hard to project and image of victimhood, they just had to use their phones. dragging all their disabled people to a muddy clearing in the rubble and fight for more space in the crowd would be a lot of work.  they may be playing a risky game with the show of force, but id say it was necessary, to guarantee crowd control and the safety of the hostages, as well as deter threats to the gathered gazans
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