- Hamas-run government says Israeli strikes on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza killed at least 195 Palestinians, with concerns raised by the UN that these could constitute war crimes.
- Evacuation of foreign nationals from Gaza is underway, with 320 already crossed into Egypt; about 7,500 are expected to leave within two weeks.
- The strikes targeted Hamas military leaders and infrastructure, with Israel’s campaign responding to Hamas’ cross-border attacks from Oct. 7.
- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to visit Israel and Jordan to discuss the conflict and the need to minimize civilian casualties.
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I had somebody tell me yesterday that this refugee camp is in fact a city.
As if bombing a city is better.
There is both a city and a refigee camp inside the city with the same name.
War sucks. Belligerent cities are often bombed. Civilians always suffer. This is the inevitable consequence of that city’s government slaughtering hundreds of civilians of a state with superior military capabilities; I’m not sure what they thought would happen.
New euphemism dropped: “Belligerent cities” is the new refugee camp.
I’m not sure you know what some of those words mean.
New euphemism dropped: “Belligerent cities” is the new refugee camp.
Gaza’s government attacked Israel in an act of war. This means they are a belligerent against Israel in this conflict. The population centers they control, aka, cities, are being attacked in response. I’m not using a euphemism, I’m calling this exactly what it is.
Unless the people of the city are the same as the government, I don’t see how you can say the population is belligerent. I don’t think we should say the Israeli citizens are belligerent because their government funded Hamas and are doing a genocide.
Unless the people of the city are the same as the government, I don’t see how you can say the population is belligerent. I don’t think we should say the Israeli citizens are belligerent because their government funded Hamas and are doing a genocide.
Huh? Israel is indeed belligerent, because they are at war. It seems like you don’t know what this word means.
I think there are two issues:
- “Belligerent” has more than one meaning, and people are being tongue-in-cheek using it as an adjective rather than a noun.
- Generally, the noun refers to combatants, not civilians, because deliberately killing civilians isn’t just an inevitable part of war, it is a war crime (no matter whatever context you think justifies accepting civilians as collateral damage).
Generally, the noun refers to combatants
…or in this case, a nation and its territories
deliberately killing civilians isn’t just an inevitable part of war, it is a war crime (no matter whatever context you think justifies accepting civilians as collateral damage).
- killing civilians is deliberate
- killing civilians is collateral damage
Pick one.
You could literally take your statement reverse the attacker and defender, and use it for the October 7th attack.
Either your truly neutral, or you have an agenda. If your neutral, I applaud you and your commitment to pointing out each sides wrongs.
If you have an agenda, justifying an attack in such a way that it justifies reprisal attacks just invites infinite justified violence
Sure and you can use that as to why Hamas did what they did.
Sure, but it’s Gaza being bombed now. So should have tried a different approach probably.
What would a nation do if their lands keep getting seized, your people marginalised, your plight ignored by almost all countries?
Sue for peace, accept the least terrible terms you can.
At one time Palestinians had so much support all their neighbors went to war for them, this goodwill appears to have since evaporated due to their behaviors and unwillingness to compromise. Now they are just being used as convenient pawns against Israel, as their lands ebb away. If they are to to be free and autonomous once again I don’t see any other viable path.
It’s nice to be able to tag people who support oppression and ethnic cleansing.
Ah yeah, people being actively ethnically cleansed should just sit back and accept their fate.
SURELY there is NOT ONE SINGLE thing Israelis did to provoke Oct. 7 attacks.
Oh yeah, it wasn’t just ONE SINGLE THING. It was THOUSANDS OF THINGS. Those things being war crimes committed against Palestinians. And not just recently, it has happened for decades.
Ah yeah, people being actively ethnically cleansed should just sit back and accept their fate.
SURELY there is NOT ONE SINGLE thing Israelis did to provoke Oct. 7 attacks.
It was THOUSANDS OF THINGS. … for decadesRage and violence won’t change Gaza’s realpolitik situation, it will make things worse.
All the perceived historical grievances in the world won’t change Gaza’s realpolitik situation.
They cannot win through violence. They will lose everything if they insist on it. I’m saying Palestinians should instead try pacification and diplomacy, it is the only viable path to peace where they have hope of achieving some objectives that are important to them. Ignoring the fundamental realities of their situation brought them to here.
The sad thing to me is that I don’t think either government genuinely cares about the 195 deaths except as political leverage on Hamas’s side and 195 fewer problems in Netanyahu’s way.
I really struggle to see what leverage Hamas gains by fudging their numbers. It feels like a talking point to reduce the fatality count.
This number, half this number, quarter this number… the political reality is the same. Murmurs of condemnation while the US keeps the money pump going, Israel keeps commiting war crimes, and Palestine shrinks into nothing.
I don’t see the benefit to slow rolling the release of foreign nationals in Gaza. Why is it going to take 2 weeks?
Reasonable answer: Because they need to ensure that everyone has a place to go and won’t cause an international incident when the border (so Egypt) devices that they don’t have a valid passport or are going to become a homeless person or whatever. Also make sure there aren’t any known terrorists sneaking out.
Real answer: So that the IDF can murder more of them
Why would Egypt want the IDF to murder more civilians?
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Partially because Egypt and Israel have increasingly become something approximating allies. So same logic as the US
But also? The majority of “arab” nations dislike Palestine on the best of days. So the usual bigotry against any immigrants amped up a few notches. Think Mexicans in the US or the Polish in the EU (and a big driving factor for brexit in the UK).
But there is also the active fear of Hamas led Palestinians becoming terror cells or trying to stage a coup. Egypt in particular has been fighting for years against, allegedly Hamas led, Islamic terrorists for years in the Sinai.
Similar to the (allegedly?) Iranian backed terror groups in Yemen.
So yeah. There will obviously be some light condemnation. But nobody is going to do anything about the IDF killing Palestinians. Because Israel becoming even more of a pariah an the inevitable long term destabilization from pocket groups for decades to come is the real goal of this. Having fewer Palestinian refugees is just a “bonus”.
Because everything is the jews’ fault, apparently.
The IDF are the ones with the missiles, the rockets, the guns, the bombs, the tanks, the walls, the barbed wire and the funding taken from US tax payers. If the fascist terrorist state of Israel doesn’t like the world’s reaction, maybe it should change its behavior.
That is some fine brainless gibberish that still does not explain why Egypt would want the IDF to kill civilians.
Please refrain from calling israeli terrorists “Jews” that’s extremely anti-semitic and disrespectful to actual Jews.
I doubt the real answer is to murder foreigners, someone is benefiting from a slow releases of foreigners… not sure who gets the most negotiation leverage here.
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“Concerns raised by the UN that these could constitute war crimes.”
Just dissolve already, you powerless spineless cowards.
You are actively allowing innocent people to die as you do NOTHING
They unfortunately have very little ability to enforce much of anything.
They have also done plenty, from keeping peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon, running hospitals and schools in Gaza, keeping said hospitals and schools open despite verbal threats by the IDF and bombings, distributing food and water, to providing a platform for the US to prove its hypocrisy on a global stage as it consistently votes against a ceasefire.
UN officials have repeatedly raised alarms throughout this conflict about the attrocities they are witnessing in Gaza. The problem lies with America and Israel ignoring all of them.
“Reuters was unable to verify the casualty numbers”
Those figures are from Hamas, who has an incentive to inflate casualty numbers.
It seems like a bad idea to stay there given that Jabalia has been under bombardment for the last month, IDF forces have been very clear that civilians need to evacuate north Gaza, they will consider those who remain to be potential enemy combatants, (“terrorist sympathizers,” as they phrased it,) and there is a network of Hamas’ underground tunnels beneath the area that constitute a valid military target. Of course Hamas wants people to stay where they are despite all this so they can remain human shields and make Israel look bad in the media when the inevitable consequence of refusing to evacuate occurs.
Seems like Israel is sending a strong message that hiding among civilians isn’t an effective shield for Hamas anymore. Much of the Palestinian strategy has been to provoke attacks then portray Israel as war criminals when they inevitably counterattack, and it doesn’t seem like Israel cares about this concern trolling anymore.
Can you provide your estimate for the causalities? If Hamas is providing inflated numbers, what is the real figure?
Is it zero? Hard to imagine its zero civilians killed. But you say 195 is too high. So we are in the range of [0,195] ?
