Israel/Palestine Thread

No-one is talking about "you" - people are discussing your "views" with you. Abhorrent views and unbelievable given you have kids yourself.

The average Gazan is hoping their children are still alive in the morning. And you're whingeing about the the cost of "back to school".

Israel turned all Gazan schools into rubble.

I've seen some tone deaf posts on here but yours takes top spot.

You seem to have a very unhealthy obsession with "force" and "might" and "power".

The origin of the discussion on "intervention" said nothing about who would intervene and certainly nothing about "forced" intervention.

You are the one who is equating that with some kind of military force or intervention - no-one else did initially. Yet here you are in the depths of a rabbit hole bemoaning Ireland's lack of a substantial military force.

It comes across as you gagging to get into military fatigues, jump in your F35 and shred whatever is in your sights.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Haaretz straplines - lots on the Gaza Famine story of course but also the usual regular items of more civilians simply being butchered.

Of major concern is the second bullet - read it carefully. If the Gaza offensive continues, no food will get in, up to 1,000,000 civilians will be at risk of being executed or starved. That's half the Gazan population. The current death toll of 62k will be in the ha'penny place.

• According to the Integrated Food Security Classification agency report, which assessed that famine was occurring in the Gaza Governorate, comprising Gaza City and smaller towns and refugee camps, "over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions characterised by starvation, destitution and death." It is the first time that the agency has declared this level of mass starvation in the Middle East.
  
• "Any further delay – even by days – will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of famine-related mortality," the IPC said in a statement on Friday, adding that if there is not "an immediate and sustained cease-fire" allowing in a surge of aid, "avoidable deaths will increase exponentially."
  
  
• On X, Netanyahu said that the UN report on the hunger crisis in Gaza was a "modern blood libel," accusing Hamas of "stealing aid to finance its war machine" and staging a "starvation campaign." "The IPC report is an outright lie. Israel does not have a policy of starvation. Israel has a policy of preventing starvation," Netanyahu added.
  
• Israel's Foreign Ministry rejected the IPC report, saying the "fake" document is "based on Hamas lies laundered through organizations with vested interests." "There is no famine in Gaza," the ministry added.

• UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that famine is "not a mystery" and that "as an occupying power, Israel has an obligation under international law to ensure food and medical supplies to the population."
  
• In response to the UN report, British Foreign Minister David Lammy said that Israel was refusing "to allow sufficient aid into Gaza" and obstructing the UN and NGOs in administering aid.
  
• Netanyahu said in a video statement on Thursday night that he was at the IDF Gaza Division HQ to approve the military plans to "take over Gaza City to defeat Hamas."
  
• Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that IDF plans to defeat Hamas were approved on Thursday, involving "heavy fire, evacuation of residents, and military operations."
  
• The UN Humanitarian Affairs Office warned that Israel's strikes in eastern and southern Gaza City are causing high numbers of civilian casualties and large-scale destruction.
  
• Twelve Palestinians were killed in an IDF attack on a school serving as a shelter for displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza, according to Al Jazeera, citing local rescue sources

Another opinion piece:

"Netanyahu seeks to identify every protest against Israel with antisemitism.

In his letter to Macron, he noted that El Al's offices in Paris were spray-painted with the slogans "El Al genocide airline" and "Free Palestine." This was a political protest aimed directly at the national carrier of a country whose actions in the Gaza Strip are being called genocide around the world. 

Antisemitism?

Only for someone who has made identifying Israel with Judaism the cornerstone of his strategy – Netanyahu."
Carolina Landsmann

Interesting - 25 foreign ministers are apparently racists.

Israel is not…

The Israeli Foreign Ministry declared that the call to limit Jewish settlement in "certain areas of the State of Israel" is racist, in response to a joint statement by 25 foreign ministers condemning Israel's approval of the E1 settlement plan that would bisect the West Bank.

On Thursday, 26 countries, including the U.K., France and Japan, issued a joint declaration against Israel's decision, calling the plan a "flagrant breach of international law" that would undermine the idea of a two-state solution. "The Jewish people are the indigenous people of the Land of Israel. At no point in history has there ever been a Palestinian state, and any attempt to argue otherwise has no legal, factual, or historical basis," the foreign ministry said.