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By WAFAA SHURAFA and FATMA KHALED DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Aly Rustom
It has said women and children make up more than half the fatalities,
This is important to highlight.
elephant200
The ratio is close to 1:40 of israelis and Palestinians death toll. Similar not enough ,Bibi ?
NB
The savage massacre of October 7th 2023 was aimed to thwart the Saudi effort to solve the Middle East conflict.
Savio
The only savages here are the Israeli IDF: over 46.000 innocent children and women massacred in Gaza and Lebanon. It is very hypocritical to affirm the conflict started on the 7h of October.
GuruMick
I dont think there was a "Saudi effort to solve " anything.
There was a proposal for Saudi to recognise Israel and be a part of an ambitious trade link originating in India and finishing in Europe, with Israel included in the middle.
This would not have pressured the Israeli side to give sovereignty to Palestinians.
Even if this idea was given consideration, Israel routinely reverses promises it made .
Absent a big change in attitude from the US I see status quo being continued...Israel oppression, Palestinian subjugation .
wallace
Very tragic with 60% killed were women and children.
Aly Rustom
There was no effort to solve the conflict- only to sweep it under the table.
Aly Rustom
NBJan. 9 03:18 pm JST
This is false. The conflict was caused by Europeans and Slavs coming to the Middle East and thinking they could repeat what they did in North America, Australia, and New Zealand- Commit a genocide against the natives and take their land.
You've got that the other way around.
Aly Rustom
Exactly.
changamangaliay
Palestinian genocide continued by Isreal.
WoodyLee
""The ministry said a total of 46,006 Palestinians have been killed and 109,378 wounded. It has said women and children make up more than half the fatalities, but does not say how many of the dead were fighters or civilians.""
Bro, But Israel """ Has the right to defend itself """
If this is what " Self Defense " looks like then I don't know what a Genocide is !???
NB
The blame for the tragic new chapter in the Middle East conflict rests on the Palestinian extremists (mainly Hamas) and on the Ayatollahs regime of Iran.
NB
This is indeed the bogus narrative fabricated and spread by the Palestinian propaganda machine. It is utterly distorted and false. The Jewish refugees who fled back to their ancient land of origin, after being persecuted and murdered in millions in other places, are not "Europeans and Slavs". THEY ARE THE ORIGINAL NATIVES OF THE LAND". A Jewish presence remained in the land all along. Those immigrants who have returned came in order to LIVE TOGETHER AND SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE ARABS.
You justify the slaughter of all 8,000,000 Jews in the land. What about the whites in north and south America? What about the Dutch in Freseland? What about the Japanese in Ainu land? What about the Muslim immigrants in Europe? What about any people who moved from place to place throughout history under various circumstances? Do you propose to slaughter all of them with their children?
Savio
The only blame rests on Israel IDF responsible of the mass killing of over 46.000 innocent children and women. The war did not start on the 7th of October 2022, ,but with Israel illegal occupations, decades earlier
Fos
NB
Sure, and what about UN Resolution 242 requires Israel to withdraw from the borders of territories occupied before 1967?
What is going on in Gaza is the most documented genocide in history, a demise of rule of law. Palestinians are being intentionally massacred by Israel IDF, starved, and stripped of everything needed to sustain human life.
This terrible conflict would end the first 24 hours the US administration stops shipping lethal weapons to Israel. Over $28 billions (officially) in the last year. But, as we know, there is too much at stake for the US lobbies in Wall Street
NB
The barbaric massacre of October 7th 2023 ignited a new bloody chapter in a prolonged conflict that could have been solved long ago. Various efforts have been made throughout the time axis to solve the conflict, and these efforts all met a Palestinian refusal. The most recent effort to solve the conflict was done by Saudi Arabia. It was not merely a "proposal for Saudi to recognise Israel and be a part of an ambitious trade link originating in India and finishing in Europe, with Israel included in the middle" as said above. The Saudis have insisted on a comprehensive solution, that addresses all the aspects of the Middle East situation, including the rights of the two peoples between the river and the sea.
NB
The Palestinian attitude, ever since the late 1940s, as shaped by the extremists among the Palestinians, dismisses every possibility of coexistence between Palestinians and Jews, and rejects the two-state solution. Their aspiration is to butcher all the Jews in the land. This attitude is reflected and resounded by the pro-Palestinian commenters in these pages.
The price for this attitude is a rolling disaster.
Fos
NB
You keep repeating the same propaganda every day with your derogatory language, copying the Israeli military dispatches. It is the Netanyahu’s cabinet who refuses any idea of two state solutions, authorizing the genocide in Palestine and occupation in West Bank with his extreme right wing ministers
NB
This resolution calls for withdrawal in return for peace. The extremist Palestinians reject every proposition, whatever it may be, for a peace deal.
NB
It is you who are repeating the same propaganda every day with your derogatory language