Tel Aviv has stepped up indiscriminate attacks against displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza due to the army’s failure to ‘dismantle’ Hamas

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    8 months ago

    Slightly misleading title: Preliminary estimates range from 80-200 dead, uncounted hundreds wounded.

    Fuck israel.

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        8 months ago

        The latest count on Al-Jazeera was 109 with over 800 wounded, and reports of 40 bodies bulldozed away that no one can reach. They did shoot at a crowd of thousands.

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        No. The article says the number wounded is likely in the hundreds. The headline is exaggerating a tragic event.

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        They’re shooting to kill. If they hit someone, that person has been gunned down whether they die immediately or after bleeding out. They’re shooting at a crowd of thousands, and 800 are dead or dying as a result, according to Al Jazeera. So maybe we need to wait a few more hours before the 1000+ number can be confirmed, but it’s already obvious Israel was aiming for ‘thousands’.

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    Remember like a couple of weeks back, when the UN said that Israel had shot at their aid convoy from the sea.

    Or the Israelis sitting at the border crossing preventing humanitarian aid being delivered and Israel doing very little about it. All because the suffering of 100 is more important than the suffering of millions. What kind of twisted moral one should have to believe this.

    Or Israelian authorities (COGAT) withholding tent poles and delivering the so needed tents without poles, because you know tent poles are very deadly weapons.

    And Israel can alleviate the suffering of all Palestinians if they want, just that they don’t want, they want for Palestinians to suffer to learn their place. They are acting as a bully while screaming I am the victim in front of the rest of the world.

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      8 months ago

      “Are we the what??? I can’t hear you over the sound of me shooting into a crowd of innocent children with an assault rifle, you are going to have to hold on a sec until I finish then tell me”

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        If it were just an “Assault Rife,” like an M16 or Uzi or something, then the casualties wouldn’t be nearly as high. But according to the article it was a heavy machine gun, like one of these:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M240_machine_gun

        Which is something that is only depicted in Hollywood films when they want to really drive home the war-crime “bad guy” aspect by having the Nazi’s fire into a crowd.

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          Yes, but you know the cruelest thing isn’t the bullets, the bombs or the artillery. It is setting up a population of over a million purposefully in an impossible situation with nowhere to go, no access to hospitals (because you specifically destroyed them one by one), and no access to electricity, clean water or food.

          Imagine having a fish tank full of cool little fish and just deciding you didn’t want it anymore so you unplugged the lights and oxygenator and stuck the aquarium outside your window in the cold. Then you pulled up a comfy chair next to the window and just sat and watched as the fish slowly starved, suffocated and froze to death. This is what Israel is doing to Gaza, except Gaza is full of human beings not fish.

          Actually maybe I am being unfair, in this metaphor the IDF would probably put a post it note on the fish tank that said “EVACUATE AREA” which if you think about it really gives the fish the choice to stay or leave.

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            It is setting up a population of over a million purposefully in an impossible situation with nowhere to go, no access to hospitals (because you specifically destroyed them one by one), and no access to electricity, clean water or food.

            It’s basically Warsaw ghetto, but bigger and with 5 times more people inside.

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      8 months ago

      jerk off while this happens

      Not really. “Israel” is only able to do this because it has the full support of the US empire. They know they can get away with anything so long as the most war-mongering nation on the planet is with them.

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        If the US cut them off they would just turn to Russia. Putin and Netanyaho are like Putin and Trump. Russia would jump at the chance to broaden their foothold in the Middle East, and it would go perfectly with their narrative of fighting “Nazis” in Ukraine, and it would give the US a black eye.

        The US should be doing far more to distance itself from what Israel is doing, but the only way it can actually stop it would be a committed invasion.