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© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Israeli airstrikes hit camps in central Gaza
By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and ABBY SEWELL DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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elephant200
This castastrope ongoing is brought you to view by US government under Biden's rule. The bombs or tank cannon shells were made and sent by U.S. History should mark this event was an American warcrime!
Simon Foston
If the war's going so well for Israel I wonder why it's such an "emergency."
elephant200Today 06:19 am JST
Do you think there's any other US adminstration that wouldn't let the Israelis do whatever they want?
Tamarama
What a mad disgrace this is.
This is unconscionable by the US. They are complicit in genocide and the indiscriminate killing of civilians in refugee camps.
Israel has become the devil. They are an unhinged overlord who are proving themselves absolutely unfit to show any humanity to others. How long does the world just sit around and watch them kill though? The world seems paralysed by this because it's the US backed Jews doing the mass killing. Nobody knows what to do.
Mad disgrace.
Yrral
Lots of people do not know what kind of government,that is in charge of Israel,it a Genocidal apocalypse government run by religious Zealots,only naive or ignorant people would not know this
bass4funk
Yes, after 10/7 Israel has now become Hamas’s worst nightmare.
That’s how millions of us feel about Hamas
You think after we were attacked on 9/11 we as a sovereign nation would allow any nation to tell us whether we are allowed to take retribution or not?
Ahh, it’s the evil Jews fault now is it?
That kind of thinking really is.
Simon Foston
YrralToday 07:21 am JST
Right-wing pro-Israel blowhards tend to look the other way. They've got it into their heads that the Israelis are the "good guys," or "the winners," and they're too egotistical and conceited to concede anything that suggests otherwise. I don't think they like the idea of backing "losers" who get implicated in war crimes, because it doesn't say a whole lot about them, their judgement or their morals.
Chabbawanga
Israel has always been the nightmare of the Palestinian people.
I recommend watching the movie documentary Tantura (2022), it gives a very clear view of Israels approach in the Middle East from day 1. It features interviews with Israelis who formed the original IDF. Nothing has changed since those early days.
stormcrow
They really need to set up refugee camps outside and next to Gaza for the women and children.
This is like squeezing a half empty tube of toothpaste from one end to the other repeatedly.
Wick's pencil
How about they just STOP!
dbsaiya
Israel and the U.S. are sowing the seeds of the creation of Hamas 2.0. Their constant suppression of the PLO and the Palestinians sowed the seeds of Hamas, which was legitimately voted into power. There was an inkling of hope in the Oslo accords, but an assassin influenced by Likud, which incidentally Netanyahu is the leader of, murdered, Rabin. 10/7 and the ensuing genocidal response is a product of all the years of the festering Palestinian problem and was not born in a vacuum. If this madness doesn't stop now, the next action will also be the natural extension of current and past events. And by the way, remember when everyone was concerned about Trump trying to start a war if he was ever cornered? Well, Netanyahu was indicted and is currently on trial for corruption and some even believe that this war is a great distraction from his own political troubles. The security lapses at the wall should never have happened, and now, no one is talking about his accountability in the breach and the resulting murder of Israelis and the taking of hostages. So, to now attack refugee camps, to continue to provide arms money and to try to legitimize this genocide is only creating the prequel to the next tragic nightmare. Wake up!
stormcrow
That would be nice, but what if they don’t?
Moonraker
On NHK news last night they even showed how Israeli forces had destroyed Palestinian graveyards with heavy machinery, presumably tanks. How low can you go?
Simon Foston
dbsaiyaToday 08:34 am JST
None of the pro-IDF cheerleaders are talking about it, that's for sure. The only kinds of responses you'll get from them are parroted slogans - "only democracy in the middle east... Israel's inalienable right to defend itself... minimising casualties... compliance with international law..." etc etc, because they can't and won't face up to the fact that they are backing a criminal regime.
Kuya 808
Why aren’t the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Lebanese, the Saudis, the Emirates or any of the other sympathetic Arab countries in the region taking in Palestinian refugees?
The King of Jordan was pretty clear about the issue when he declared that his nation as well as Egypt would not accept any Palestinian refugees.
It wasn’t that long ago that Lebanon actually killed thousands of Palestinians.
Is there something they know the rest of us are unaware of?
GuruMick
Many Israeli's do not know why their country has changed into a vengeance seeking monster from the Middle Ages.
Jewish money has bought the American congress and Jewish lobby groups harass anyone who dares criticise Israel.
The result is a compliant US supplying arms used to kill innocent people....with Israelis' cheering the genocide.
And is there something about Palestinians we dont know about, someone asks.
Well, on the face of it, they would be the bravest and most resilient people on earth.
Tamarama
Silly comment. Are you deliberately being myopic for effect, or is your grasp of the situation in the Middle East only within a 3 month lens?
Again, a myopic view of history. For many, the attack on the US at 9/11 was no surprise at all, given the decades of hegemony and meddling in the politics of the Middle East by the US that preceded it.
Not just them, the US as well.
GBR48
Israel want a Republican in the White House who will support them unequivocally, without human rights caveats. Biden has no choice but to support them, and make weak pleas for them to avoid indiscriminate carnage. Every dead Palestinian civilian undermines his position within his party. This could become his Vietnam.
The Palestinians aren't getting much help from the polarised and factionalised Arab world as Hamas are backed by Iran. Iran also back the rebels in Yemen who have been firing missiles at Saudi Arabia.
So expect the Israelis to keep at it for some time to come, at the expense of Palestinian lives and the Democrats' chances in the next US election. For Netanyahu, this is a win/win scenario.
Simon Foston
GBR48Today 09:33 am JST
Palestinian civilians aren't as good for re-election prospects as heaps of cash from AIPAC.
WiseOneIn Kansai
@Moonraker
You failed to mention that on the same program, NHK provided Hamas footage of Hamas fighters attacking Israeli positions inside a cemetery.
owzer
It's unfortunate that civilians are getting caught up in the necessary removal of Hamas.
Simon Foston
WiseOneIn KansaiToday 10:21 am JST
@Moonraker
Shows you just how much respect for the dead the IDF have that they would turn a cemetery into a potential combat zone.
Simon Foston
owzerToday 10:21 am JST
Get real. The IDF will never be able to remove Hamas. This kind of blundering, hamfisted response to terrorist activities always fails.
bass4funk
Nothing crass about it. Not trying to be funny, just stating the truth, they do in large part receive aid from various groups in his organization, is that a bad thing or a crime? Why is it that liberals drone on about AIPAC, will condemn it all day long, but when you mention Soros, it’s somehow agitating the left to the point where they just forbid conservatives to utter his name, why is that?
Mark
Pres. Biden, Sec. Blinken, and PM Netanyahu, and Hamas leaders should all be held responsible of all these dead souls on both sides and the ICC should waste no time at all investigating then prosecuting these men.
War is war , but this has gone way beyond a war, it is a clear violation of all the rules of war and international laws guarding us as humans.
We have seen enough Blood and Corpses of babies, women, children , and humans left to rot in the streets of Gaza,
NOTHING justifies this genocide.
RichardPearce
That the people in these camps are legally part of the population of the place the Israeli regime claims to represent the population of is carefully not mentioned.
Because, if the majority of the legal population of the place called Israel instead call it Palestine, the support for the Israeli regime by the Japanese government becomes a little embarrassing, and so, not something to talk about.
Antiquesaving
The simple answer!
They are not going to help Israel in completing their ethnic cleansing.
"Refugees" are supposed to be temporary and eventually return.
These governments know full well based on how Israel acts and has acted that once these people leave Gaza they will never be permitted to return just like millions of Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon Syria Egypt etc..from previous ethnic cleansing by Israel.
zibala
This is the obvious response when Hamas, which has the genocide of Israel as one of the goals of its charter, murders and kidnaps over 1400 Israelis, and burns and beheads babies and rapes the elderly and disabled.
The Gaza settlers have to stop supporting a terrorist regime and learn to live in peace with the only democracy in the Middle East.
Israel has been executing precision bombing missions in compliance with international law and minimizing civilian casualties.
Hamas and other Arab terrorist factions and their supporters bear the responsibility for any deaths to Gaza settlers.
Raw Beer
israel wants to wipe out all traces of Palestinian existence because they want to occupy that land.
israel has always been like this. What is different now is that US influence has dropped considerably.
Most (all?) of that money is likely from the US tax payer money donated to israel, which finds its way back to US to influence their elections. Amazing how the US freaked out when some Russians allegedly purchased some Facebook adds, but remains completely silent with israel's decades of meddling in US elections.
Mark
This war has really shown the TRUE Colors of Israel and what it stands for.
What kind of faith would allow it's people to do so much harm to so many civilians who have been locked and BLOCKADE in an open air prison for the past 18 years by the very same people who are slaughtering them now?
Gazan's had no ways to escape to prior to Oct. 7th. all sides blocked by Israel not to mention Food, Water, Medicine, Electricity and anything Gazan's need all controlled by Israel till this day.
Antiquesaving
No their not!
They are the target!
Israel/IDF/settlers/Netanyahu etc... have been stealing Palestinian land since the beginning and on the west bank where they can't claim hamas is in charge the settlers have been doing the killing for Israel and the idea pre October 7th. The settlers had already killed 600 Palestinians. That's more than all. The Israelis killed between 2009 and October 7th by Palestinians. The number being under 400 the real murderers the real genocidal maniacs are the Israeli.
owzer
You obviously feel strongly about it, seeing how you said the same thing twice. ;)
The IDF will simply have to keeping cleansing the land and purging Palestine of Hamas until they are gone. It's the only way to truly free and save the good people of Palestine.
zibala
The land Egypt occupied?
Why amazing? Israel is a US ally. Russia hasn't been and isn't.
It stands as the only beacon of democracy in the Middle East, and it stands for bravery, having been attacked by 11 different Arab nations over the last 80 years yet defeating them all.
Israel will crush Hamas and the other Arab terrorists. These murderous factions deserve the misery they are enduring, and Israel will see the elimination of them to the end.
Don't mess with Israel.
Antiquesaving
Hilarious, democracy? More like apartheid!
Even Israeli Arab citizens are not treated equal.
21% of the population citizens are Arabs (non Jews) but less than 8% representation in the Knesset, zero cabinet ministers (ever) not even the "Arab" affaires committee had even one Arab until 2023 when one was permitted to join but has no power.
Might as well call the third Reich a democracy!
Antiquesaving
Fake news , we know this because when Biden claimed to have seen pictures of the above, the Whitehouse had to "Walk it back" as he hasn't seen any such thing and still hasn't not has anyone else, unless we are looking at Palestinian babies killed by IDF bombs and in hospitals .
Now that we have all seen the images.
Simon Foston
AntiquesavingToday 11:48 am JST
You'll never get any acknowledgement of that. These people won't concede anything that doesn't fit their blinkered Israel + Republican Party + Donald Trump = the "winning side" = the "good guys" = my whole sense of ego and self-worth outlook. It would just be too much embarassment for their egos to handle.
TokyoLiving
How long will there be so much slaughter of innocents????...
While good old US keep making its usual business selling weapons for more innocents deaths..
u_s__reamer
This castastrope ongoing is brought you to view by US government under Biden's rule. The bombs or tank cannon shells were made and sent by U.S. History should mark this event was an American warcrime!
Nah, Americans never commit war crimes - they only makes "mistakes" (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.) and call all the dead "collateral" damage. Ditto the Israelis, who just use their paymaster's playbook that gives them full cover, except perhaps this time with 30,000 dead Arabs and numbers rising there may be a surprise game-changing bill to pay.
zibala
I guess if you rely on Hamas for news.....
Again--if you want to get your news from Hamas, all the power to you.
Let's take a look at reality:
Biden described, "Children slaughtered. Babies slaughtered. Entire families massacred. Rape, beheadings, bodies burned alive."
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/nov/21/israel-hamas-war-what-we-know-about-beheaded-babie/
I know--Hamas and other terrorist groups continue with their genocide of Israeli civilians.
Antiquesaving
Which "good" Palestinians would that be?
The non Hamas West Bank, where Israel regularly raids and kidnappes people holding them without charges, without trial without lawyer for years? Where the IDF supplies settlers with weapons to kill Palestinians and take their land with settlers killing over 600 in 2023 before October 7th with Israel expanding settlements from the Oslo agreement 114 to now 279 and growing?
Hamas is now more popular in the west bank because the PA has no power because Israel and the IDF override anything they do, the IDF engages in firefights with the Palestinian authority police when they try to investigate the killings of Palestinians by settlers.
The IDF blow up legally built water storage facilities that have been sanctioned by the UN and the Palestinian authorities because they say they pose a threat to water sources to settlers.
If this is how Israel treats the so-called "good" Palestinians no wonder so many are turning to Hamas.
Alfie Noakes
Ronald Reagan stopped the saturation bombing of Beirut in 1982 with a single phone call to Menachim Begin. Reagan was apparently furious with the Israeli mass bombing that was killing hundreds of Lebanese civilians, told Begin it was a "holocaust" and demanded it cease. It was stopped immediately. By all accounts Reagan was shocked at the authority he had as US President.
By contrast Biden has been funded by AIPAC since the 1980s and has been the Zionists boy for near to 50 years now.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/how-joe-biden-became-americas-top-israel-hawk/
Simon Foston
zibalaToday 12:06 pm JST
One part does stand out from that article.
Looks like your reality is whatever those Israeli officials say it is.
Antiquesaving
No on NBC, CBS, the independent UK..etc...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-children-kfar-aza-hamas-b2428274.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119865
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-pictures-terrorists-beheading-children-white-house-2023-10?amp
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/10/12/politics/joe-biden-photos-children-hamas-israel/index.html
And since then not a single word on the subject!
zibala
Wrong, since 10/12 we have Biden saying the below on November 15:
“Hamas has already said publicly that they plan on attacking Israel again, like they did before, to where they were cutting babies’ heads off to burning women and children alive.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/22/biden-yet-again-says-hamas-beheaded-babies-has-new-evidence-emerged/
The reality is you mixed up your dates.