To those who want to justify the rape, gang-rape, torture, sexual mutilation and murder committed by Hamas.

That will satisfy the revenge for Hamas’ actions?

* and Hamas has the power to end it all.

It is a bloodlust.

Hamas is to blame for civilian deaths.

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

It's obvious there is no hope for a 2-state solution while IDF murders people standing in line for food or bulldozes cemeteries seemingly trying to erase Palestinian history. I don't defend Hamas, but Israel is committing war crimes as well.

Making excuses for Hamas is their mission. There is other reporting that contradicts the Democracy Now narrative. But many don’t care to find the nuance or the facts.

Demonizing Israel is the only thing that matters.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-of-gazans-said-killed-in-stampede-for-aid-idf-opens-fire-blamed-for-deaths/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016368851

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it's blown up in our faces
(Please note: The Times Of Israel is a valid and responsible media outlet. I was urged to post this piece by an Admin himself after a similar post from a less reliable source was flagged and removed -thank you)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

By Tal Schneider 8 October 2023, 3:58 pm

For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.
The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.

Hamas was also included in discussions about increasing the number of work permits Israel granted to Gazan laborers, which kept money flowing into Gaza, meaning food for families and the ability to purchase basic products.

Israeli officials said these permits, which allow Gazan laborers to earn higher salaries than they would in the enclave, were a powerful tool to help preserve calm.
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Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015.
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Much, much more at the link, really interesting.

raped, mutilated, tortured, dismembered, burned, captured Israeli citizens Hamas knew exactly how Israel would retaliate and they sent their "we are the true victims" narrative into the media-sphere to offset the horror they unleashed...consequently any "number count" coming out the Hamas PR "machine" is not to be trusted...

the Palestinians are not helpless victims...they allow Hamas to store their weapons in tunnels under schools, hospitals, mosques, and homes...they are willing human shields...they teach their children to hate Jews, hate Israel, die for the cause...they allow Hamas to divert billions of dollars of humanitarian aid into their own pockets, while they live in poverty...they are to blame for their third world circumstance, not Israel..

this is war...innocents die in war, and that is a fact...6 million Jews were shot, gassed, and incinerated...where was the outrage?...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016368851

Netanyahu and his supporters have shown us what they actually want, and in a sense, who they are.

IMO, Netanyahu should be given Slobodan's cell at the Hague.

So, you have no sympathy for those 104 unarmed people waiting for aid then I guess.

the world disagree with you, because they can see that Palestinians are just as human as Israelis, they don’t like wannabe fascist dictators, and they have no problem calling out genocide when they see it.

What HAMAS did was horrendous. WHAT iSRAEL is now doing is just as horrendous.

their own tails.

The BBC story on it says one eyewitness told the BBC that the bulk of the casualties were caused by the trucks running people over, not by the Israeli gunfire.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-68438112?src_origin=BBCS_BBC

Here's the statement of what occurred, as released by Israel:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/29/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-israel-hamas-war-latest-today-gaza-death-toll-hamas-health-ministry?page=with:block-65e07f758f08e4761434231d#block-65e07f758f08e4761434231d

Facts matter.

Israel’s military has published a video of what it claims is a mob looting aid trucks in Gaza in the buildup to the incident which health officials in Gaza says has killed at least 104 people.

Itay Blumental, who is a military correspondent at Israel public broadcasting corporation, has posted this interpretation of the IDF’s claim about what has happened. He wrote:

(snip)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/29/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-israel-hamas-war-latest-today-gaza-death-toll-hamas-health-ministry?page=with:block-65e07f758f08e4761434231d#block-65e07f758f08e4761434231d





Currently Israel is a defendant at the International Court of Justice for potential genocide, so what comes from their military, I would take with a large grain of salt particularly as so many journalists have been killed in Gaza.

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Israel’s continued failure to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza risks genocide
Today, the ICJ ordered that Israel must do everything within its power to prevent genocidal acts against Gazans. Such acts include, among others, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about Gazans’ physical destruction, carried out with the intent to destroy the Gazan people. To further mitigate the risk of genocide, the court also ordered Israel to immediately and effectively enable the provision of humanitarian aid and basic services to Gaza.

The ICJ’s order is legally binding on Israel, as are the Genocide Convention and Geneva Conventions. Accordingly, there is no doubt that Israel must take concrete actions to ease what the court found to be a “catastrophic humanitarian situation” and restore conditions that can support life in Gaza, not risk its destruction. Specifically, Israel must allow food, water, medical aid, fuel, and other humanitarian essentials into Gaza, without delay or arbitrary restrictions on quantities or types of aid. Israel must cease telecommunications blackouts to ensure aid can be delivered to and distributed across Gaza. Israel must stop denying humanitarian aid distribution within Gaza. Israel must limit its military operations in Gaza to ensure that humanitarian aid can be delivered to and distributed across all of Gaza. Israel must not attack civilians waiting for humanitarian aid.

Failure by Israel to take these steps places Gazans at further risk of genocide.