Israel/Palestine Thread

Those sick IDF cowards bombing hospitals and killing journalists nearly 2 years into their murder spree. What possible military objectives can be achieved by that ???

Disgusting cowards.

Only muslims.

To annexe Gaza, settle it and to continue illegally occupying East Jerusalem and the West Bank with a view to eventually claiming full sovereignty over both.

In addition, they will take in Syria (Golan) and southern Lebanon (especially after they get rid of UNIFIL).

Jordan and Egypt remain nervous

The IDF is a terrorist group.

The IDF and their backers are the lowest form of life on the planet at the moment. War Crimes filmed live. The rest of the world needs to wake up.

What else would a final solution look like.

Plenty want a 2 state solution as it appears to be the only solution to continuing war.

Shame that Israel doesn't want it - but they will be forced to accept it.

A good article from +972 magazine -

Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza may be the most thoroughly documented atrocity in recent history, measured both by the sheer volume of evidence and the speed of its circulation. Smartphones and social media — which were still a world away during the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda — allow events to be captured instantly, from countless angles, and shared globally in real time, with traditional media still playing a not-insignificant supporting role. 

And yet, faced with an unending flood of photos and videos of dead civilians, starving children, and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble, much of the Israeli public — and a significant portion of Israel’s supporters abroad — responds in one of two ways: either it is all fake, or else the Gazans deserved it. Often, paradoxically, it is both at once: “There are no dead children in Gaza, and it’s good that we killed them.”

https://www.972mag.com/israelis-atrocity-denial-gaza/

The total rises once more -

"Israel kills sixth Palestinian journalist

Israeli forces have killed Hassan Douhan, a journalist and academic who worked as a correspondent for Al-Hayat al-Jadida publication."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/25/live-israel-intensifies-attacks-on-gaza-leaving-dozens-dead-in-a-day?update=3907557

6th murdered journalist in just one day.

They have no shame

There's a lot more detail in the Haaretz reporting of today's hospital strike.

Seems the IDF were taking out a "camera" with tank fire then made sure with a second volley. I'm not an expert but I'd imagine it took at least a few minutes for responders to attend the scene. So why would it take more than a few minutes to release that second volley? And with their binoculars or whatever they use, surely the IDF could see rescuers?

But sure, read the reports below for details. Depressingly familiar.

At least 20 Palestinians, including five journalists and four medical personnel, were killed and some 50 wounded after the IDF struck Khan Younis' Nasser Hospital, the last functioning hospital in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run Health Ministry reported. The ministry said the IDF's first strike targeted the fourth floor of the hospital, while the second one struck medical aid teams who came to treat the wounded.

• The IDF stated that ground forces fired a tank shell at the hospital because they thought a camera on site was being operated by Hamas to observe Israeli troops. The forces then fired another shell to ensure the camera was hit, which the IDF estimated hit the medical personnel who tried to treat those wounded from the first shelling. IDF Chief of Staff Zamir has ordered an initial inquiry "as soon as possible."
  
• The IDF said it "regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and does not target journalists as such," and added that it acts to "mitigate harm to uninvolved individuals as much as possible while maintaining the safety of IDF troops."
  
• Senior military officials who spoke to Haaretz dispute this version of events, adding that the area is full of cameras, and that it is unclear why the force decided to attack this specific camera. "It's unclear who gave the order to fire at a hospital over a camera," a military source told Haaretz, adding that the IDF considers Nasser Hospital a sensitive facility whose targeting requires approval from a senior officer. "This could have been done in a much more precise way," the source said.
  
• Reuters said it was "devastated" by the killing of its cameraman Hussam al-Masr in the strike, confirming also that Moaz Abu Taha, a freelance journalist occasionally published by Reuters, was also killed, as were Al-Quds News' Ahmed Abu Aziz, Al Jazeera's Mohamed Salameh and photographer Mariam Dagga, a freelancer for The Associated Press during the war. AP said it was "shocked and saddened" by her death.
  
• WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X that "while people in Gaza are being starved, their already limited access to health care is being further crippled by repeated attacks. We cannot say it loudly enough: STOP attacks on health care. Cease-fire now!" Doctors Without Borders' emergency coordinator in Gaza Jerome Grimaud wrote on X that "as Israel continues to shun international law, the only witnesses of their genocidal campaign are deliberately being targeted. It must stop now."
  
• The Foreign Press Association, Reporters Without Borders and other associations representing journalists worldwide issued statements "fiercely condemning" the Israeli strike. Reporters Without Borders Director General Thibaut Bruttin asked "how far will the Israeli armed forces go in their gradual effort to eliminate information coming from Gaza? How long will they continue to defy international humanitarian law?" U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he was "horrified" by the strike on the hospital.

Unhappy reservists…

"The "Soldiers for Hostages" group, which includes hundreds of reserve soldiers who served in Gaza, appealed in a letter to Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi to determine that the order to take over Gaza City is illegal, writing that "given the certain risk to the lives of the hostages, the lack of a legitimate military purpose and the serious harm inflicted upon innocent civilians – it is clear that the order exceeds all legal and moral standards, and carries a black flag over it."

French Government summons US Ambassador over remarks he made about France being inactive about antisemitism

At least it's something, the Dáil would never have the guts to do something like this

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250825-france-summons-us-ambassador-kushner-accuses-france-of-inaction-on-antisemitism