Israeli strikes flatten buildings, mosques in Gaza
Nothing new, Israel has been doing that for decades now.
So Israel responded to terrorism with terrorism.
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Are you a history professor? This seems very accurate.
Israel generally targets buildings that it's identified as having military operations within them.
If Israel wanted to just destroy every mosque in Palestine, it could do it in a day. Hamas routinely runs operations out of civilian building precisely so that, when Israel retaliates, the news will run stories about how Israel is destroying mosques and schools and hospitals, while ignoring the context that those buildings are firing rockets and stockpiling weapons.
I've read news for years about horrible things done to Palestinian civilians. Even their children. By Israeli police and military. I'm not defending Palestine. But Israel also deserves no defense.
Israel, especially under Netanyahu, absolutely hasn't acted in ways conducive to peace, and quite a lot of blame should be laid at his feet as well.
But if your response to this is to slaughter 200 citizens at a music festival, with many of the women having been raped before, I have absolutely zero sympathy for what happens to those responsible.
My heart is with those in the Palestine who do want peace and are going to pay the price for these actions.
300-400 people in Gaza were killed. Do you think those were just Hamas militants who had it coming? Including the 20 children? The kidnappings and wholesale murder of civilians were terrorism, but so is this. No one is proposing sympathy for Hamas, but whatever Israel claims about their "moral army", they're killing civilians.
Of course not, but it's also absolutely impossible to conduct military operations in a city as denselt populated as Gaza without some amount of collateral damage. Hamas also intentionally conducts attacks out of civilian infrastructure so that when Israel retaliates, Hamas can point to headlines about Israel attacking schools and mosque.
Genuine question for you: if you're Israel, and you know that attacks are coming from an apartment building or a mosque, and you know that if you do nothing, some of your people will die (by the way, one of my friends from Israel lost his house Saturday morning to a rocket attack), what would you do?
The IDF strategy of notifying civilians via messages and roofknocking missiles seems to me like the best that can really be done unless you think that they should simply do nothing and let Israelis be killed. But this is a genuine question: what would you actually propose they do given the situation?
I think you're far too trusting when Israel says "we destroyed that because it was a clear and present danger". It's like the torture justifiers that jump to scenarios about dirty bombs with a ticking clock, when in reality it's usually just used to see if they can learn something useful. The Israeli armed forces regularly destroy entire buildings for things that have nothing to do with the building itself being an immediate risk to life and limb, and assuming these 300+ people are just unfortunate and unforeseen casualties needed to save lives is giving a benefit of the doubt that isn't earned.
How many civilian casualties is the right number so your friend's house doesn't get destroyed? 2? 5? 20? And if the problem is rockets fired by people from the roofs of buildings why are they responding by destroying the buildings? They're no less able to evacuate from a building than the people living in it. Either the guys are gone and will just fire from another building or you know where they'll be and could use an anti-personnel response. The real reason is that they want to make a statement. And if that statement kills some civilians, that's ok and maybe even desirable. People would probably be pretty upset if more Israelis died than Palestinians.
And they've made those sorts of statements for decades. None of this is a sad but unavoidable step to create a safe and secure future. It's just the same old same old, feeding an interminable cycle of death. (And that goes double to the Hamas terrorists who triggered this.)
Just to note, there are reports (I am following the Guardian's blog) that IDF did not "roofknock" in at least one occasion yesterday, suggesting that maybe they stopped the practice. We have very little news from Gaza for obvious reasons though.
Instead they just bulldoze settlements so when Hamas attacks it looks like innocent ol Israel was just doing nothing, right?
Israel has been nothing but terror for decades
This plus Ukraine, plus India and Canada, plus China and several things, plus the US being in chaos and deeply divided. This is gonna turn out great for everyone I’m sure
Dont forget Taiwan and the south china sea!
I kinda lumped that into the China and several things
Don't worry China does it too.
At the end it is all politics and state media propaganda on both sides.
Both sides feel morally right and as a result more damage is done and more civilian population is killed. And it is the regular people who suffer the most.
I am just afraid that there would be a prolonged offensive from Israel deepening the humanitarian crisis and there would be a lot of pain inflicted on regular people. This won't really help de-escalation of the tension in the region, and perhaps would strengthen the resolve.
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