Hamas strike on Israel - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

No major outlet has been able to report from Gaza for nearly a year. They're banned. Or murdered by the IDF.

Israel banned the journalists from Gaza, not Hamas.

Israel has murdered journalists - Hamas has not. Nor has Hezbollah as far as I'm aware.

Amazing how much time is spent not addressing the fact Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by their supporters here. They shoukd just come out straight and say they support war crimes as long as the Israelis commit them. None of the feeble excuses , that this just happens in all out war.

I see you are back to bringing up the same points that have been debunked previously

Here is the thing, international law exists for a reason, It arose from incidences that occurred in previous wars.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that international law doesn't apply to Israel, it does. Maybe you should go to the Hague and argue the point of law that the ICC judges missed- that total war allows Israel to violate international law by withholding aid, deliberately killing civilians, targetting civilians infrastructure and generally engaging in collective punishment- on the last point an Israeli general in a previous war admitted it was IDF policy to do so. Putin and other despots can now invoke the Sean W total war defense to render any charges brought by the ICC as null and void

It's true Hamas don't have the means to kill as many as civilians as the IDF - as the IDF have demonstrated over the last 13 months.

No. Israel banned journalists from Gaza so the world would not hear of or see the war crimes being committed.

If Al Jazeera is hostile to Israel, care to comment on why Haaretz is being sanctioned now? Are they also hostile? Anti semitic?

Israel are well versed in controlling the narrative. They simply don't want the world to see 45,000 dead bodies, 100,000 injured civilians or emaciated orphans begging for a mouldy piece of bread.

And given Hamas are defeated, why aren't journalists allowed back in?

But sure, it matters not. Israel is up for genocide. Gallant and Netanyahu are alleged war criminals who will be arrested.

The world sees enough of what happened and what continues to happen even without the world's press present.

Israel is a terrorist genocidal state led by war criminals. Israel is a Pariah. The stains will never wash off.

So, alleged war criminal Netanyahu says the quiet part out loud.

If "power" means being able to murder 45,000 civilians without any response, then sure, Israel is "powerful" in the same way the Nazis were "powerful" for carrying out the holocaust.

The world is not in awe, it is in shock that genocide and war crimes have a part to play in the 21st century.

BBC:
"Netanyahu starts off by addressing residents in northern Israel, saying he is proud of their perseverance and resilience. 

He says thanks the valour of the Israel Defense Forces, they have achieved great achievements. The entire world is in awe, he adds, saying its action reflects Israel’s power across the Middle East."

in fairness you're doing a good justification of the events of OCT 7th right there. The usual poor Hamas simply had no choice, and were entitled to defend their people spiel. Stating that the current events in Gaza didn't orginate because of the events of OCT 7th is just childish. You're also implicity defending their right to commit genocide by taking this position.

These are the charges against the terror regime you continue to defend, by the ICC.

"responsible for the crimes against humanity of murder; extermination; torture; and rape and other form of sexual violence; as well as the war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture; taking hostages; outrages upon personal dignity; and rape and other form of sexual violence".

No democratic country can allow such horrors and crimes be committed against its citizens, without taking action to protect those citizens.

The ICC has only issued warrents against Beni and Gallant. Those charges have yet to be proven. That's the way it works.

The WAR continues, and it is a war, because the Hamas death cult resuses to surrender and bring the suffering of its people to an end.

If you want peace, perhaps you could advocate for a Hamas surrender for a change. It's far more pactical than yelling 'Genocide' 40 times a day.

I was responding to another post. So the context is important. You appear to have missed it.

Well, I've lived in Israel and I fully concur with that post. It is a racist country. It certainly is multicultural alright - but anyone who isn't a Jew is treated as second class citizen.

Did you live in Israel?

There are none so blind as those who will not see ….

Ultimately we're all 'Zionists' in our own way. We all want a country of our own.

You saying Israel doesn't have a right to exist?

You should read up on International law and specifically what the ICC is and does. You will find it enlightening.

Regardless of Gallant and Netanyahu being arrested or not, they will forever be known as alleged war criminals. As will Deif - if he's still alive.

Here's a cursory search on civilians killed in the UK in WWII:

In WWII there were 70,000 civilians killed in the UK, largely due to German bombing raids during the Blitz: 40,000 civilians died in the seven-month period between September 1940 and May 1941, almost half of them in London.

Israel have so far killed 45,000 known civilians in Gaza in 13 months. That's probably closer to 60,000 if the number of estimated unrecovered dead are included. Other sources suggest up to 190,000 have died/will die in Gaza at the hands of Israel.

But for now, another 10,000 killed in Gaza and Israel will be on a par with what Germany did to the UK. The Germans also committed Genocide. The irony…

I'm as au fait with the ICC as you are i'd say.

It's all relative. The Palestinians will be forever remembered as the people who elected an Islamic Jihadist terrorist organisation to run their country, openly celebrated OCT 7th, and lamented the death of Yahya Sinwar.

Hasbara doesn’t work in the digital age. They were offered all of the hostages back, israel turned it down

https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-doubt-netanyahu-preventing-hostage-deal-charges-ex-spokesman-of-families-forum/amp/