Israel/Palestine Thread

The truth may be inconvenient for some, but it is the truth nonetheless. If it makes it more palatable, they can keep their heads in the sand and remain in denial. Findings of genocide are on their way. It will take a few years but they will come.

It doesn't like like the 'precision strike' that the IDF are claiming

Those blindly defending Israel will follow the usual path:

It wasn't the IDF, it was HAMAS, possibly a failed rocket.

Ok, so It was the IDF but it was HAMAS fighters, not civilians.

Ok, It was civilians, but there was a single suspected HAMAS fighter in the crowd.

Ok, it was all women and children were killed, but there was HAMAS under the camp in a tunnel, perhaps a command centre.

And so on and on.

It has to be a hard task to constantly defend war crimes and genocide.

I am utterly horrified at what's happening in Rafah tonight. There are no words for this monstrosity. Israel are beyond evil.

So now racism has meaning again?

That like anti semitism was a phrase that had "lost all meaning" when it suited.

Aid groups react to strike of Rafah

Aid groups say they are “horrified” by an Israeli strike on tents housing displaced people in the southern city of Rafah that has left at least 35 people dead.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said dozens of dead and injured people were brought to a trauma stabilisation supported by the group.

The aid group said in a post on X:

We are horrified by this deadly event which shows once again that nowhere is safe.

Israel orders Spain to stop consular services for Palestinians from 1 June

Israel’s foreign ministry said it had told the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem to stop offering consular services to Palestinians from 1 June over Madrid’s recognition of a Palestinian state.

The ministry said that Spain’s consulate in Jerusalem is “authorised to provide consular services to residents of the consular district of Jerusalem only, and is not authorised to provide services or perform consular activity vis-a-vis residents of the Palestinian Authority”.

Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said in a separate statement that “today, I implemented preliminary punitive measures against the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem following the Spanish government’s recognition of a Palestinian state”.

“We will not put up with harming Israel’s sovereignty and security.”

“The prosecutor of the court has been strongly intimidated and accused of antisemitism, as always, that everyone does something that the Netanyahu government doesn’t like,” Borrell said.

“I think that the accusation of antisemitism against the prosecutor of the international criminal court is completely not acceptable.”

We are outraged and heartbroken by the recent attacks in West Rafah, where Israeli fighter jets launched eight missiles at makeshift shelters housing internally displaced persons (IDPs) next to Unrwa warehouses stocking vital aid.

These shelters were supposed to be safe havens for innocent civilians, yet they became targets of brutal violence. Children, women, and men are being burned alive under their tents and shelters.

Israeli airstrikes that killed 44 Palestinian civilians evidence of war crime - Amnesty International

The international criminal court should investigate as war crimes three Israeli airstrikes that killed 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children, in the Gaza Strip last month, Amnesty International has said.

“The cases documented here illustrate a clear pattern of attacks over the past seven months in which the Israeli military has flouted international law, killing Palestinian civilians with total impunity and displaying a callous disregard for human lives.”

That's just a glance at what's happening today.

I'd imagine so (seems like it anyway, with the timing), I don't think Hamas had managed to launch any rockets for a while. It is embarrassing for Netanyahu.

So the mighty IDF has to be sent into action to hit back against the Hamas, and burn a few refugees in their tents (oh well, they were probably all "Hamas" anyway).

It is all so very like that other war that seems a bit off the headlines, where you have another fragile warlord "leader" who lashes out murderously when things don't go to plan and he feels personally slighted.

I think they would more be sent in to protect civilians in Gaza to teach Israel a lesson

Remarks like this just give easy ammunition to bad faith posters who wish to scream "Antisemitism!" in order to deflect from the IDF's genocidal war crimes.