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

Are there any other regimes in the world outside of Israel and Russia trying to violently annex land?

Well Israel has murdered more children in 15 months than were killed in all other wars combined in the last 4 years. That's quite a lot of bad stuff.

More are about to die at the hands of Israel reneging on the ceasefire deal.

Israel has refused to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza because Hamas will not agree to an extension of the ceasefire that Israel already agreed to.

Who is the "Western left"?

And anyone who believes the world must turn a blind eye to Genocide and War Crimes simply because Israel is "one of the world's smallest States" is deluded.

The world watches and justice will be served on all tyrants and criminals.

Blatant child murder by the IDF

More than the rest of the world combined, twice over?

Perhaps the rest of the world has learned how to behave and how to comply with International Law.

Plus all those resolutions are passed by a majority of countries in the UN. So at a minimum close to 100 countries voted in favor on each of those resolutions

The double standards at play in that post....

Well Russia is currently waging an unprovoked, genocidal, all out war on one of its neighbours...

Though I know there was provocation and a military response expected against Hamas, it has been so ridiculously unbalanced against civilians - are Israel not similarly engaging in genocidal "all out war" on one of their neighbors? But you seem fine with this one?

I would argue this is even more clear cut that the Russia situation given Palestine doesn't even have an army, and that Israel's politicians are even more overt than the Russians in declaring their wish to remove Palestinians from their land.

Also, what do you mean by Western Left?? The "Western Right" i.e. the United States, are supporting both Russia and Israel in their violent conquests of their neighbors territories. If one disagrees with this, are they left? If so, where does that leave you in your binary world, are you a commie now?

North Korea and Cuba are glorified prisons, modern slavery is a huge problem …

How can you argue this, and consistently argue against posters who labelled Palestine being an open air prison? I can't speak for North Korea (who can), but I've been to Cuba a couple of times and they have more rights and suffer far less than the Palestinians.

More on the deliberate sinking of the peace process-

"The government of Benjamin Netanyahu was reported to have made preparations to go beyond the suspension of food and fuel announced on Sunday, to implement a programme of steadily increased isolation of the coastal strip and its population of about 2.2 million, according to the national public radio station, Kan, which said the government was referring to the programme of measures as the “hell plan”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/03/israel-prepares-gaza-hell-plan-to-pile-pressure-on-hamas-reports

Just to understand correctly - are Hamas sticking to their side of the deal? If so, what justification is there for Israel to completely upend something that was agreed and heap more misery on innocent people?

I know I got a response saying internal pressure within Israel made Netenyahu sign up to the ceasefire in the first place, but would that same pressure not prevent him from pulling a fast one, like he appears to be doing? Just don't know why they bothered with the ceasefire if the intention was to break it without cause, it would nearly look worse surely.

It's crazy to think that a violent extremist terrorist group is coming out of these negotiations looking like the more honorable and reasonable party, Vs an elected western democracy.

If Netanyahu does not go back to war, the right wing will collapse the coalition and that's the end of his career. That is what is driving this.

The only reason Israelis can't currently dump him is elections aren't due for another 20 months.

But Netanyahu was forced by external influencers and hostage families to carry out stage one. But now he's done a 180 and reneged. He'll probably do a few more in the future.

But make no mistake, Netanyahu is utterly focused on the number 1 priority - himself.

unfortunately a lot of ‘driven folk’ who will believe anything coming from Hamas Minni.

Seem to have swallowed the Hamas rhetoric lock stock and barrel.

Israel are no angels but the naivety of some here is quite alarming ?

specific details on the status of the current ceasefire (which technically lapsed last Saturday):

• Israel is willing to extend the cease-fire in Gaza for a few days due to pressure from the Trump administration and the mediator countries to make the most of the negotiations with Hamas, senior Israeli officials told Haaretz.
• The officials added that Israel will only conduct these negotiations on the basis of the framework proposed by U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, which includes the release of half the hostages held by Hamas on the first day of the new agreement, with the rest to be released after a more comprehensive agreement to end the war is reached.
• Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a recorded statement that "Netanyahu and his government bear the responsibility for disrupting the agreement, and the humanitarian consequences for the hostages because of it," referencing Hamas' threat to worsen the conditions under which Israeli hostages are kept due to the break-down in the negotiations. Hamdan added that "Israel is attempting to withdraw from a signed agreement …The only way to return hostages is an immediate start of negotiations to begin the second stage."
  
• Hamas is unlikely to release more than a small number of hostages, or their remains, without assurances that the war will end, two Israeli officials told the New York Times, adding that this could force Israel to decide between resuming military operations to oust Hamas or securing the release of hostages still believed to be alive.

Very harsh (deserved) words against Netanyahu in a hostage funeral:

Hundreds of Israelis took part in the funeral of Itzhak Elgarat, taken hostage by Hamas and whose body was returned to Israel last week. Elgarat's brother, Danny, a prominent figure in the hostage protests, said during the eulogy that the family did everything in its power to return him home alive.

"We failed. We did not do enough. Netanyahu defeated us and you did not return from captivity. 

The enemy who caused your death is not who kidnapped you, but rather who abandoned you…

You are laid to rest in a grave dug by the prime minister."