Hamas strike on Israel

you are not dealing with the sharpest tools in the box here.

No, it doesn't work like that 🙂

Monsters and Cowards

Israeli strike kills dozens sheltering in Gaza school, officials say

An Israeli strike on the home of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza killed nine of her 10 children on Friday. Dr Alaa al-Najjar's 11-year-old son was injured, along with her husband, Hamdi al-Najjar, who is in critical condition.

The nine children - Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gebran, Eve, Rival, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra - were aged between just a few months old and 12. The Israeli military has said the incident is under review.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said two of its staff were killed in a strike on their home in Khan Younis the following day.

Gaza aid plan makes faltering start, strikes kill dozens

Israeli strikes killed at least 45 people, local health authorities said.

In Gaza City, medics said, 30 Palestinians, including displaced women and children who were seeking shelter in a school, were killed in an airstrike.

Images shared widely on social media showed what appeared to be badly burned bodies being pulled from the rubble.

Israel's military confirmed that it had targeted the school.

It said that the building was being used as a centre by Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants to plan and organise attacks.

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Organise what attacks???

I heard that on the news earlier - IDF shooting people at the new food stations.

Remember all those people injured have no medical facilities to go to (all bombed) and there is very little medical aid or drugs available so they are starving and in agony. It's sick and twisted .

Only Palestinians. Only muslims.

Worth a read. Amos Goldberg is an historian at the Hebrew University of Jurusalem. He has published widely on the Holocaust. He wrote this in April 2024.

Yes, it is genocide. In most cases of genocide, from Bosnia… | by The Palestine Project | Medium

Yes, it is genocide. It is so difficult and painful to admit it, but despite all that, and despite all our efforts to think otherwise, after six months of brutal war we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained with the mark of Cain for the “most horrible of crimes,” which cannot be erased from its forehead. As such, this is the way it will be viewed in history’s judgment for generations to come.

The fact that the military allowed, for example, the killing of 300 innocent people and the destruction of an entire residential quarter in order to take out one Hamas brigade commander shows that military targets are almost incidental targets for killing civilians and that every Palestinian in Gaza is a target for killing. This is the logic of genocide.

Yes. I know, they are all antisemites or self-hating Jews. Only we, Israelis, whose minds are fed by the IDF Spokesperson’s announcements and exposed only to the images sifted for us by the Israeli media, see reality as it is.

It will be several years before the court in The Hague will hand down its verdict, but we must not look at the catastrophic situation purely through legal lenses. What is happening in Gaza is genocide because the level and pace of indiscriminate killing, destruction, mass expulsions, displacement, famine, executions, the wiping out of cultural and religious institutions, the crushing of elites (including the killing of journalists), and the sweeping dehumanisation of the Palestinians — create an overall picture of genocide, of a deliberate conscious crushing of Palestinian existence in Gaza.

Genocide is the deliberate annihilation of a collective or part of it — not all of its individuals. And that’s what’s happening in Gaza. The result is undoubtedly genocide.

In the case of Gaza, the “safe haven zones” have often become death traps and deliberate extermination zones, and in these refuges Israel deliberately starves out the population. For this reason, there are quite a few commentators who believe that ethnic cleansing is the goal of the fighting in Gaza.

He also wrote this in La Monde newspaper in

What is happening in Gaza is a genocide because Gaza does not exist anymore. It was completely destroyed. The level and pace of indiscriminate killing of a huge amount of innocent people, including in what Israel designated as a safe zone, destruction of houses, infrastructures, almost all the hospitals and universities, mass displacement, deliberate famine, the crushing of elites (including the killing of journalists, doctors, professors, civil servants...) and the sweeping dehumanization of Palestinians, create an overall picture of genocide.

Netanyahu said recently that only 20 of the remaining 58 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are believed to be alive. Israel breaking the ceasefire has probably killed a lot of the remaining hostages. They are starving and bombing them too.

Well, apart from evidence they claim as fact which then turns out be be utter lies (15 medics).

It always strikes me that a simple "IDF targeted a Hamas command and control centre" seems to be enough for them whenever there is a report of mass civilian casualties. So yes, there is never any evidence.

Then, after the murder of 9 out of 10 siblings, we get the "IDF is reviewing the situation" statement.

It really does strike home why precisely Israel does not allow the International Press into Gaza. Plausible deniability and the ability to lie through their teeth.

Another interesting piece on a recent Knesset debate (Haaretz - sorry, paywalled). I post this only illustrate that at the political level beneath Govt. Ministers, there are those that have some empathy and others who are hell bent on Genocide. Those who have empathy also have a lot of courage.

Israel's Knesset held a first-of-its-kind discussion on the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. During a meeting last Thursday, Dr. Sharon Shaul from NATAN, an Israeli-based organization that provides humanitarian aid around the world, made a seemingly trivial remark:

"I think that even everyone sitting around this table doesn't want a suffering child to be unable to receive painkillers or minimal medical treatment."

Israeli lawmaker Amit Halevi (Likud) angrily interrupted her:

"I'm not sure you're speaking for us when you say we want to treat every child and every woman. I hope you don't stand behind that statement either. When fighting a group like this, the distinctions that exist in a normal world don't exist."

Shaul didn't back down:

"I hope that you too don't want a 4-year-old whose arm has been amputated to go without painkillers. I hope you have that empathy too."

Lawmaker Limor Son Har-Melech (Religious Zionism) couldn't hold back:

"The only treatment needed here is for you," she said, pointing at Shaul. Another participant remarked: "You are the sickest doctor I've ever seen."

The discussion was convened by MK Moshe Tur-Paz (Yesh Atid) as part of a subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee dealing with public diplomacy and foreign relations. The issue at hand was not hunger in and of itself, but the diplomatic and public relations damage it might cause.

"To my understanding, the State of Israel does not intend to use hunger as a tool. I believe that even if there are no uninvolved civilians, in the Jewish morality I know, there is no permission to starve non-combatants, and I am under the impression that the Israeli government is not heading toward starving Gaza," Tur-Paz said after the meeting.

But those who set the tone in the discussion were Halevi and Son Har-Melech. Contrary to Dr. Shaul's hope, many around the table indeed thought that the starvation and torment of Gazan children is not only legitimate but even desirable.

It's hard to fathom the evil of those people with no empathy. One of the stages of genocide is dehumanisation and they seem experts at it. Gazans are just rats in their eyes.