Israel/Palestine Thread

Suppose Israel can destroy all the Hamas militants in Gaza, and the hostages are either recovered or ,sadly found dead ,what would be the next step?

Israel seems to want to "seal Gaza off" somehow so that this thing never happens again.

Can that be done?

I don't suppose Egypt wants the territory does it.?If I was a Gazan I might well like that idea but would they continue to want a Palestinian state including Gaza(and probably all of Israel too) even after Hamas has gone?

I get the feeling that the Palestinians as a whole will support a group like Hamas so long as they are free to Express themselves.

It reminds me of here.The SDLP lost out to SinnFein and I think Fatah will lose out to Hamas now (if it hasn't done so already)

@Tigerbaby - "I'd rather help the poor people of Palestine, who have suffered genuine genocide, than any other body of people on Earth"

You do realise that out of their free will, they chose Hamas to be their government? Their own government refuses to give their own people water, food, medicine, electricity. It's not up to Israel to provide any of that. They have built 500km of tunnels, bunkers and fortifications (with our tax money), but only for Hamas use. And they haven't built a single bomb shelter for civilians. What's that saying again, a people deserve the leadership they get? In this case it goes a step further as they elected Hamas.

Rantisi Pediatric Hospital has just been bombed. Many accounts saying the third floor was badly hit. That's where the only paediatric cancer department in Gaza is located.

I was only reading something there recently about how they were running out of drugs to keep kids on that floor alive..........

A Hamas fighter was killed in the hospital etc. etc.

Oh dear Gatling, just when you were you were becoming rational re; Ukraine.

may I post this?

If people want to talk about wasted Aid, they shouldn't leave out the cynical deliberate destruction of aid we do send from this country

Explain the Hamas millionaires and billionaires funded by who ????

Some how I don't think property in Gaza is worth very much

Again. West Bank. No Hamas. Just some Bedouins who had the audacity to try to live on the land where their ancestors have lived for generation upon generation.

Just tell me how Gaza can make electricity? Can't run a desalination plant without electricity.

Ah the Bedouins (arab, Islam) who got slaughtered by Hamas on October 7th? Pleading for their lives, talking in the same language as their lunatic attackers.

Hamas needs to be exterminated. Almost at all cost.

You think it was the same people who had their tents and humanitarian Aid trashed by Israeli forces in the West Bank?

Might want to lay off whatever you are ingesting there

The strong man starts bombing the weak man’s entire extended family and shouting anti-Semite at anyone who suggests that punishing the collective for actions of the few is also wrong?

Almost at all costs? Are you for real? This is surely just trolling at this stage.

The IDF just targeted a paediatric cancer department on the third floor of a paediatric hospital. I think they heard the kids were helping Hamas build a tunnel up there. I suppose that was within the "almost all costs"

Such flippant comments sound like pure evil to me.

Yes, absolute evil. I cannot for the life of me understand how these people sleep at night.

Because that’s what’s been happening. Anyone who even suggests that indiscriminate bombing causing the deaths of 10s of thousands of civilians and injury to many more are actually praising Hamas.

You know, two things can both be true at the same time. Hamas can be a vile organisation guilty of vile atrocities and at the same time Israel can also by guilty of collective punishment of an entire people who lie simultaneously giving Hamas the propaganda that the wanted in the first place