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At least 11 people, including children, have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, it has been reported.

The Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that the strike hit a playground frequently visited by displaced children.

Most of those killed were children, the news agency reported with several people also wounded in the attack

One eyewitness described the situation as a “horrific scene of children torn apart”.

The latest data from Unicef said that one child in Gaza is killed or injured every 10 minutes and further said that at least 70 children are injured every day during the Israeli bombardment.

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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 116 points 8 months ago

IDF discovering a secret Hamas tunnel network

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 88 points 8 months ago

Why would Israel stop? They don't give a shit and no one is doing more than frowning at them in response.

 

Can't believe THIS is something I find topical and in need of posting over and over:

https://visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/six-wars-old

[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately we the people keep promoting the most narcissistic, sociopathic people to “leadership” positions. This is in all nations and the consequences of this are all over the place throughout all history yet few are talking about it.

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[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 87 points 8 months ago

Don't worry the US will "look into it" and express "concern" before repeating how ironclad their support for Israel is.

[-] arymandias@feddit.de 29 points 8 months ago

Biden is creating lots of blue-collar jobs at the crocodile-tear factory.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Joe Biden was overheard rehearsing into his mirror that he was upset with Bibi.

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[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 8 months ago

It blows my mind that there are people on here that are cool with doing an airstrike on a playground full of orphans. Many (most?) of which already had to witness the same happening to their parents.

I'm sorry but there is zero justification for that. None. Your argument is invalid.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 23 points 8 months ago

Yea, their argument boils down to "well Hamas so they deserve it, it's their own fault". Incredibly apathetic and cruel. Tbf people who think like that are also victims of something truly fucked up in their lives, but they are wrong and Israel is wrong to do this. Full stop.

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[-] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

I've never met a good guy that blows up children.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 59 points 8 months ago

It's incredible that leaders like Biden can still back Israel after actions like this.

[-] febra@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago

Money speaks louder than children can scream

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago

How long until we hear about Hamas tunnels under the playground, or a secret weapons cache hidden in the crawl tube?

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Those aren't swings those are kinematic ballistic launchers! Super high tech made to look like children swinging. Those tubes? Those aren't slides. They're nuclear missile silos! That sand.... Yeah that's just sand, but it's HAMAS sand and it's all Bidens fault for selling high grade military sand to Israel! GeNoCiDe JoE!

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

It was not a playground. It was training facilities for terrorists. Also it was cloudy so they maybe couldn't see so clearly or mistook the children for hamas fighters. I am sure they have some heartfelt apologises to share and that they will investigate themselves and publish the results for full transparency

The real question is, when will the world have had enough of these lame excuses?

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 47 points 8 months ago

Let me guess...

"Hamas" in the playground?

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Aljazeera Arabic released a video showing some of the victims of this brutal israeli massacre on little children. Some injured some dead.

Footage starts at about 1:10 NSFL (light Gore + Death): Video link

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago

*Hammas controlled playground.

Wouldn't want someone to think you're antisemitic would you?

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

Jewish Nazis doing what Jewish Nazis do best.

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[-] IbnLemmy@feddit.uk 37 points 8 months ago

So, here's a question, what would be the appropriate Palestinian response to this?

[-] capem@startrek.website 18 points 8 months ago

Fight back by any means necessary.

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[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

Palestine has a right to defend itself.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 34 points 8 months ago

This is so fucking disgusting. There is no way the IDF doesn't have precision munitions or know what they are targeting. Also, why the fuck even look to bomb a refugee camp? Why bomb a fucking playground inside a refugee camp? How can any civil person do that to children, regardless of their ethnicity? If the goal is to rid the area of Hamas, all they do is create more of them by doing this shit.

I'm sorry, I was willing to give the IDF the benefit of the doubt, but after other instances of a similar type, there is no doubt that this and other attacks on innocent children are deliberate. This was a playground. This was a refugee camp. These were children... Meanwhile, I'll watch as many of the world's governments shake their fists in the air at Israel, and do nothing more to stop any of this.

I'm gonna go hug my son while I mourn the world he is inheriting.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 24 points 8 months ago

But we gotta put more sanctions on Iran, right?

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Conservative Israeli's: "Gottem!"

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

They really saw those videos of terrorists using monkey bars and decided to bomb a playground.

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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

There must have been a tunnel there or some headquarters under the swings

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Anyone remember that one Palestinian tv character Farfour the mouse?

And people made fun of him for being a Mickey Mouse ripoff Hamas propaganda character designed to incite hatred.

In episode 105 (aired June 22, 2007), Farfour is beaten to death during an interrogation by an Israeli who is trying to acquire the key and title to "Tel al-Rabi", a fictional Palestinian settlement which was occupied by Israelis and renamed to Tel Aviv.

Seems pretty tame in comparison to getting orbitally nuked on a god damn playground.

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