TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s decision to take over Gaza City was met with resignation and defiance by Palestinians who have survived two years of war and repeated raids. Many Israelis responded with fear and anger, worried it could be a death sentence for hostages held in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that Israel would intensify its 22-month war with Hamas by taking over Gaza City, large parts of which have been destroyed by past bombardment and ground incursions.
A major ground operation is almost sure to cause more mass displacement and worsen an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
“What does (Israel) want from us? … There is nothing here to occupy,” said a woman in Gaza City who identified herself as Umm Youssef. “There is no life here. I have to walk every day for more than 15 minutes to get drinking water.”
Ruby Chen, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen whose son, Itay, is a hostage held in Gaza, told The Associated Press that the decision puts the remaining hostages in danger.
“What is the plan now that is different from the last 22 months?” he said.
isn’t it clear by now that zionists are the actual terrorists plus genocidal land thieves?
Even if they manage to take full Gaza, what world will they live in after that?
The new holocaust documentaries and books started popping up already. More sophisticated resistance groups are forming.
Ports are empty, airport partially there. US younger generation already disapprove of zionists, they have an economy on life support (free US money).
It will be too expensive to keep this little colonialist project alive forever. When it comes to PR they are done too.
Europe and America are bankrolling Israel and buying all their genocide weapons and spyware. Next to that a major Israeli export is diamonds (there’s no diamonds in Israel don’t ask where they get them)
As long as all the Arab nations are on a Western leash and don’t fight back, Israel can keep going. Though Yemen has proven fearlessly righteous.
worried it could be a death sentence for hostages held in Gaza.
I hate to sound insensitive, but even if they get the hostages, this feels like:
Except somehow even more of a caricature.
Like they even care about hostages. They let the October 7th attack happen, not taking any measures while being warned even by foreign countries. The lives of the hundreds killed that day didn’t really matter. Having a reason for war was the important thing for them.
Israel also murdered some of their own civilians as they were dragged back to Gaza, employing the “Hannibal doctrine” that previously was only used to murder their own soldiers to prevent them being taken POW.
Pretty telling that even Netanyahu’s own military experts have said that this is a bad idea and a strategic mistake.
What does (Israel) want from us?
the hostages and hamas to disarm? i thought this was well known
They armed Hamas in the first place
And they allowed the Oct 7 attack to happen.
Hamas has made an offer of surrendering completely, returning the prisoners of war (as well as any hostages) and leaving forever in exchange for a Palestinian state. Israel has repeatedly rejected that deal. I wonder why?
Hell, they accepted it once and then reneged on it. That was the Trump deal.
Hamas has made an offer of surrendering completely, returning the prisoners of war (as well as any hostages) and leaving forever in exchange for a Palestinian state
Source
Hamas Member of Parliament Khalil al-Hayya, also deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, told the Associated Press in April 2024 that Hamas is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#7_Oct_2023–present
Hamas’s goal has been a Palestinian state for years now. Also, Hamas had already agreed to give back the hostages and not rebuild its military capabilities in Trump’s January ceasefire; it was Israel who reneged on that like it has reneged on every other ceasefire agreement it has ever signed.
Pre-1967 borders include most of Jerusalem and the 4 holiest Jewish sites. Imagine if Israel said they would offer peace in exchange for Mecca and Medina.
Your attempt to derail the conversation because the facts aren’t on your side has been noticed, but I’ll bite.
There are about a hundred and one different ways one could solve this problem. For example, Israel could have custodianship over the relevant holy sites like Jordan does over the Temple Mount. For another, any kind of agreement could be worked out to let Israeli citizens visit these sites (as long as Palestinians are allowed to visit the Temple Mount). Alternatively, we could decide that this all makes no sense for a hundred different reasons and go for a one-state solution with no borders in historical Palestine. Point being: This is not and has never been a serious hurdle towards peace, only an excuse. In serious peace negotiations in the near future, Israel’s position would be so strong as to make getting such concessions from the Palestinian side trivial. I should point out, though, that it’s far from guaranteed that this will be the case in fifteen or twenty years; at that point Israel would be forced to make concessions that actually hurt.
I guess you have no problems with Russia annexing Donbas and Crimea then.
Mecca and Medina aren’t in Palestine. It might include “most of Jerusalem” but it’s the border recognized by international laws. Fact don’t care about your feelings
Internstional law say that all lands stolen by israel in 67 is palestinians. They csn visit thosr sites as forrigner or accept a one state solution
Imagine a bunch of foreigners coming in, and deciding that the majority of your farmable land should belong to them.
Oh wait, I don’t have to. That’s how Israel was created.
I’d prefer pre-1947 borders but pre-1967 is better than nothing.
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It’s the same fucking cult anyway, only different sects. They can share. Oh wait, religious people are immature children so they literally can’t.
If only it were about religion (hint: it’s never been about religion)
Religion is crucial to making people not question authority, to make them ignore what they hear and what they see, to make them feel not responsible for their actions. Submission is incredibly dangerous, and it’s what the whole cult of Yahweh is founded on.
Al-Hayya said Hamas does not regret the Oct. 7 attacks, despite the destruction it has brought down on Gaza and its people. He denied that Hamas militants had targeted civilians during the attacks — despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary — and said the operation succeeded in its goal of bringing the Palestinian issue back to the world’s attention.
Damn they really don’t give a shit about their own civilians, just fodder for western leftists
The worst thing for Israel is dead Palestinian children
The best thing for Hamas is dead Palestinian children
If this was really the worst, then they did a very sloppy job.
The worst thing for Israel is dead Palestinian children
They want all palestinians gone
no they don’t lol
there’s 2.2 million of them in a space the size of Manhattan, if they wanted to genocide them they could have done it 1000x over by now
Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were systematically killed by Hutu militias. While the Rwandan Constitution states that over 1 million people were killed, most scholarly estimates suggest between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsi died, mostly men.[5][6][7] The genocide was marked by extreme violence, with victims often murdered by neighbours, and widespread sexual violence, with between 250,000 and 500,000 women raped
and they did it mainly with machettes
that is a genocide
Genocide isn’t about the number of deaths. It’s about the intent.
If you listen to what Israelis and Israeli leaders are saying, and the pattern of actions, it fits the definition of genocide.
In previous cases of genocide, explicit statements of intent wasn’t required to call it as such (and we have them this time), as the actions and patterns of behaviour were enough to ascribe intent.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
1 Killing members of the group;
2 Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3 Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4 Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5 Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Only one of the list needs to be fulfilled in order to be considered genocide. 1, 2, and 3 have been demonstrated. With intent.
Even if we put genocide aside, you cannot deny the ethnic cleansing aspect.
Learn the definition of genocide first instead of embarassing your self. Why netenyahu call the west bank as judea when judea was destroyed thousands of year ago? Why they build settlements in palestinians lands, why they stsrve gazans, why did he compare all gazans to amalek? Why israel destroy all palestinians historical sites? Why does honest israelis ask palestinians to live in egypt?
Some people are on the eipstein list.
You’re on the denialist
That has literally nothing to do with what you said.
They don’t care about the hostages or Hamas, Bibi just wants to get rich selling the land.
Bibi just wants to stay in power and out of jail.
That too yeah
His travel options are severely limited lol
So not only are you racist towards Aboriginal peoples, but you’re also a Zionist?
It’s like you’re speed running being a terrible person.
Yes, Netanyahu is a far-right extremist and saying he only wants Hamas to surrender at this point is wild.
But Zionism itself is not the problem here. The problem is fascism. Zionism is only the idea that Israel as a Jewish state should exist. That could very well co-exist with a Palestinian state. That the Israeli government doesn’t want to allow that is because the government is fascist.
Zionism is 100% the problem. Zionism is a branch of fascism.
No decent person should ever promote ethnostates.
There should be no “Jewish” state, just as there should be no state for any other single culture or religion. That is racism.
That’s not true. Zionism is the idea that Jews should build a state for them and only them. It’s inherently predicated on ethnically cleansing indigenous people (and oppressing whoever are allowed to remain) to make way for a Jewish and only Jewish society. Here’s the so-called father of Zionism on the topic:
As to al-Khalidi concerns about the non-Jewish majority population of Palestine, Herzl replied rhetorically: “who would think of sending them away?” and concluded ambiguously that “If he (the Ottoman Sultan) will not accept it, we will search and, believe me, we will find elsewhere what we need.”[c] Rashid Khalidi notes that this sentiment was penned 4 years after Herzl had confided to his diary the idea of spiriting away the population of whatever country was chosen for a future Jewish state to make way for Jews:[49][page needed]
We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.’
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl
The Nakba was not a coincidence. You said that fascism, not Zionism, is the problem, but Zionism is a fascist ideology. Otherwise what do the words “Jewish state” even mean?
The problem is definitely zionism an ethenic supermasist ideology that can only be compared to the aryan race supermacy. Thst’s why every single israeli prime was a war criminal
We want the settler colony to disarm and stop existing, thank you for your attention to this matter.
