Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.

“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.

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    Absolutely disgusting in every way. War is the product of infantile minds and sick abusive hearts. These kids did not deserve to die for the stupidity and perverse beliefs of the adults surrounding them. Shame on Israel for this murderous atrocity and shame on Hamas for engaging in warlike acts of child murder as well. NO ONE is above blame for this horrendous show of inhumane and despicable sickness.

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    Where are all those people wailing about Hamas being monsters for killing babies? This should make them even angrier and louder.

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      Now don’t be silly, you’re implying there is logic and reason to their arguments instead of just emotion.

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      I condemn both and I have written my representative that I wish my country had a more nuanced reaction to the current escalation. I wish we could sympathize with all civilians caught between two groups of murderous assholes.

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        This sounds like apologia and the logic that will breed even more Hamas clones. Israel is the one committing this atrocity. They have the power to stop it. Don’t remove that responsibility from them by saying it’s just civilian casualties.

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          This is whataboutism but the same crowd has the opposite opinion when it come to Russia and Ukraine. And Ukraine didn’t even shoot missiles at Russia first.

          So it just appears to be alignment with certain groups and countries rather than honest worry about anyone’s wellbeing.

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          SasquatchBanana

          This sounds like apologia and the logic that will breed even more Hamas clones. Israel is the one committing this atrocity. They have the power to stop it. Don’t remove that responsibility from them by saying it’s just civilian casualties.

          Did anything that you read register or did you just blindly imagine something defending Israel lol?

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            To militaries and the vast majority of western ethics… There’s a huge mental difference between terrorist attacks that discriminately shoot innocent children and families, from bombing those who are unlucky and happen to be near the bad guy.

            You’re literally rationalizing Israel (and other countries like Russia and US) going in and killing children deliberately as unlucky. Israel knows they are killing children. The moment the fucking number of “casualties” is half children then they should fucking stop.

            For places like this though, their hatred runs deep. Civilian casualties are part of the business when you’re packed that deep and using innocent people as shields.

            But, no, you aren’t doing apologia. It’s just part of the business! So let’s turn around and ignore what’s happening 🙌

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    Yeah killing innocent children isn’t the solution to anything. Shameful shit that the Whitehouse supports this horror

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      The EU just confirmed that they are fine with this as well. Apparently they see no problem as long as Israel says they are trying to hit terrorists. Un-f*cking-believable!

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      The previous mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, ended their status as sister city with Tel Aviv over the systematic crimes from the state of Israel against Palestinians. The immediate reaction of the Israeli embassy was denouncing her as antisemitic, both in the media and in courts, which recently found her innocent.

      The position that denouncing Israeli crimes is antisemitic has been the official position of Israel for decades, and that’s a very dangerous game for the well-being of Jews in a world where actual nazis are slowly gaining power, because once you’re run the term down through the ground, calling actual hate crimes against Jews “antisemitic” will no longer have any meaning.

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        So you are basically saying that Israel uses Jews as human shields against antisemitism.

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        If people want to tie their religious identity to a nation state and call me antisemetic when I criticize that nation state – the same as I criticize any other nation state – they are in fact trivializing the experience of those who experience actual antisemitism.

        I’m sure they don’t see it that way, but it’s hard for me to see such an attitude as anything other than disrespectful of one’s own history.

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        The position that denouncing Israeli crimes is antisemitic has been the official position of Israel for decades,

        At this point, that’s just a template answer, not different than the template answers China delivers everytime someone says something about the Uygur genocide, the Hong Kong occupation, or claims over Taiwan.

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        I’m German, it’s so depressing that our nation’s stance on this will always be: We stand 100% behind Israel.

        Discussions exist and it’s being debated a lot on TV. People are pretty much appalled, with what Israel is doing.

        Anyone, that feels the least amount of compassion towards other people, is not ok with this. Disregarding religion, nationality, race or whatever community they belong to. There’s no way to justify this, no way at all.

        Edit: 5000 dead and they haven’t even sent in any troops yet.

        Let this shit sink in.

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        Israel humiliated Biden during Obama’s term when Biden went to visit Israel and suggested in soft words that they don’t expand illegal settlements. Israel basically said screw you in the press conference, and Biden took it like an obedient slave. Really showed the world who holds his leash.

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    Does the UN or some other more neutral org have numbers? I mean, the Gaza Ministry of Health kinda has incentive to exaggerate civilian casualties, just like the IDF has incentive to say “everyone in that playground we hit with that airstrike was an Islamic Jihad Terrorist”.

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      While I definitely kind of agree with the sentiment. Just statistically. It would be hard for this to not be true. The numbers overall might be a little different. But considering the average person in Palestine is 18 to 19 years old. Age groups over that rapidly dwindling. It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that at least half, if not more, would be children.

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        Oh, I don’t doubt the Israelis are killing a crapload of children. I just would rather see the exact numbers from a more neutral party.

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          You’ll never see exact numbers. Some people don’t have anyone to report them missing, some bodies are never identified, and some are never found or completely destroyed.

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          Yes 5000 is horrifically high. And if there’s anything we’ve learned from watching the atrocities unfold over the last 70 years. Is that you don’t believe either side without evidence.

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              Thats not even unrealistic to me when I remember the fact Gazas been bombed more in two weeks that Afghanistan ever got in a full years time. Afghanistan has a land area of a quarter of a million square miles and Gaza has an area of under 150 square miles.

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      it is such a weird angle to take, since the Gaza concentration camp is shut off from the rest of the world, without power. Journalists are not allowed in, neither are any and all humanitarian organizations.

      Until the apartheid state open up the Gaza concentration camp, we will just have to take their word for it.

      When Israel makes any claims, the outside world can in one way or another visit, inspect and verify.

      If Israel wants more certainty on statistics of innocent dead people, they should end their siege.

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      The WHO released some concerning numbers.

      I know Lemmists here don’t trust anything from WHO but that’s all I got.

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      You’re absolutely right that there will be variance, and that each side has incentive to inflate death counts, etc. Other orgs will likely not produce their own numbers until after this mess is over. Check the Wiki pages or B’Tselem pages on previous assaults on Gaza to see how the numbers can vary, that’ll give you an idea at least.

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    Humans once again going batshit crazy with mass murder riding on a wave of vengeance. It’s a disease with no cure.

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      Shit like this is no small part of why I’d sooner serve crack that serve in the military. And there’s not a single drop of sarcasm in that statement.

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      Think of what Palestinians are going through if you feel this way. I had to stop looking at the corpses and small children being torn apart. But I don’t regret it, it only made my resolve stronger to counter the lies.

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      Me too.

      I’m both sad and very angry about the situation, nothing news worthy so far makes me feel so powerless.

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    Killing 2000 childens… What a fucking terrorist state has those Israelians… hamas has the right to self-defense!

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      Get the fuck outta here you terrorist apologist fucking scumbag. PALESTINIANS have the right to self defense, but Hamas is a terrorist group that murders civilians. They can all burn in hell with Isreal’s leaders.

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        Let’s remember how Nelson Mandela was on a terrorism watch list.

        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/12/07/why-nelson-mandela-was-on-a-terrorism-watch-list-in-2008/
        https://time.com/5338569/nelson-mandela-terror-list/

        The first bomb attack in Palestine, the first time the word “terrorist” appeared on the news, was by Zionist a “Jewish right-wing underground movement” organization reference https://www.britannica.com/topic/Irgun-Zvai-Leumi:
        https://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/lina-gress/1946-explosion-king-david-hotel-jerusalem-personal-story

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          “By a jew organization”. Racist loaded fucking language there, buddy. You clearly hsve some biases yourself. And remind me of when Nelson Mandela murdered people fleeing for their lives?

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            Why saying “By a jew organization” is being racist? English isn’t my first language, so I probably didn’t write it properly.

            EDIT: Didn’t want to offend anyone, sorry for that. Also, Nelson Mandela fought against racism, didn’t he? I don’t know why I still talk with you.

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              Calling it Zionist would be the correct take. There are a lot of anti Zionist Jewish people and just regular folks who have nothing to do with Israel.

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              You probably want to say Israeli or zionist not Jewish. There are a large minority of Jewish folks who want Israel to stop existing or at least stop existing as an apartheid state

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                I just wanted to point this. As they seem to call terrorist only because of some misinformation on news, Israel and Hamas are both bad but Israel people aren’t terrified like Palestine is with the attacks of the other side.

                Irgun committed acts of terrorism and assassination against the British, whom it regarded as illegal occupiers, and it was also violently anti-Arab. Irgun participated in the organization of illegal immigration into Palestine after the publication of the British White Paper on Palestine (1939), which severely limited immigration. Irgun’s violent activities led to execution of many of its members by the British; in retaliation, Irgun executed British army hostages. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Irgun-Zvai-Leumi

                I’m not racist, being racist is pretty stupid at my point of view. Thanks to clarify.

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        Palestinians are just civilians, they aren’t armed, they are not an army, they are just citizens getting murdered by a terrorist state that has been invading them from more than 70 years. HAMAS was voted by Palestine citizens, and it’s the only defense they have. The attack that HAMAS did was mainly because Israel was already invading and killing a ratio or 200/400 citizens each year, while stealing their farms, and land, that’s why HAMAS attacked the territory that in the past was just Palestine.

        I said “HAMAS has the right to self-defense” as everyone is just saying “Israel has the right to self-defense” which is super unfair as Israel is the one invading and attacking from years passively and injuring Palestinians.

        Again, Palestinians are mostly citizens, they aren’t armed to be able to defend themselves, they almost can’t have a voice.

        You say “terrorist” too easily.

        https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=l8qay1Al7Dc