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and 1967 and 1973....
International Hamas launches surprise attack on Israel; Israel has declared a state of war. Vol. VII
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and 1967 and 1973....
avoid, avoid, avoid.
Now it can be told
Yehuda Tager, an Israeli agent who operated in Baghdad, sheds new light on a 55-year-old mystery: Who carried out the bombing of the Masuda Shemtov synagogue.
www.haaretz.com
Israel has admitted it themselves. They blew up a synagogue in Iraq to make the Jewish people if Iraq afraid.
Hundreds of Yemenite children were abducted in state's early years, says Israeli cabinet minister
Disappearances after 1948 were 'not a hallucination,' cabinet minister tasked with reviewing archives on 65-year-old affair tells Channel 2.
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They forced the Yemeni Jews to leave then stole their children and items. Their children were given to Ashkenazi Jews and their sacred religious items magically went into Museums.
It's kind of comical that we keep reinventing historical facts so we can justify the slaughter of Palestinians.
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Yes it's completely a conspiracy that the expulsion of Jews from the Arab world after the 1948 was entirely some Israeli plot. Obviously the Israelis were more willing to accept them than the Arabs were willing to accept the Palestinians and even made efforts to attract them, but that doesn't mean there weren't forced expulsions or worse persecutions conducted by the Arab nations.
You're literally suggesting the Arabs are so stupid the Israelis were able to trick them into doing ethnic cleansing across the entire world.
Even in your cherry picked Iraqi conspiracy, by the time of the alleged Zionist bombings and whose alleged perpetrators only confessed under torture, more than 95% of Jews in Iraq had already started the denaturalization process in fear of pogroms and asset seizure.
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Those people are so uninformed, that it was PAINFUL to watch.
Yeah, I'm gonna need some whisky after watching that.
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That’s not what’s being done. I go by words and actions. Example: I may tell you I want to lose weight and I want a six pack; but if you see me stuffing cheeseburgers in my mouth you know I am not serious.
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Well in Palestine they're not allowed to collect rainwater because Israeli government said so.
North Korea has independency, its own army, controls its power sources as it wants and is in charge of its own food.
The fact that they can't travel is due to their own government, not to an encircling occupying force who condemns them to never go anywhere else the moment they're born.
The comparison is indecent.
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Israel’s military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts say
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history.
In just over two months, researchers say the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the U.S.-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Islamic State group.
The Israeli military has said little about what kinds of bombs and artillery it is using in Gaza. But from blast fragments found on-site and analyses of strike footage, experts are confident that the vast majority of bombs dropped on the besieged enclave are U.S.-made. They say the weapons include 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) “bunker-busters” that have killed hundreds in densely populated areas.
With the Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpassing 20,000, the international community is calling for a cease-fire. Israel vows to press ahead, saying it wants to destroy Hamas’ military capabilities following the militant group’s Oct. 7 cross-border rampage that triggered the war, in which it killed 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage.
The Biden administration has quietly continued to supply arms to Israel. Last week, however, President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged that Israel was losing international legitimacy for what he called its “indiscriminate bombing.”
Here’s a look at what is known so far about Israel’s campaign on Gaza.
HOW MUCH DESTRUCTION IS THERE IN GAZA?
Israel’s offensive has likely either damaged or destroyed over two-thirds of all structures in northern Gaza and a quarter of buildings in the southern area of Khan Younis, according to an analysis of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data by Corey Scher of the CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University, experts in mapping damage during wartime.
The percentage of damaged buildings in the Khan Younis area nearly doubled in just the first two weeks of Israel’s southern offensive, they said.
That includes tens of thousands of homes as well as schools, hospitals, mosques and stores. U.N. monitors have said that about 70% of school buildings across Gaza have been damaged. At least 56 damaged schools served as shelters for displaced civilians. Israeli strikes damaged 110 mosques and three churches, the monitors said.
Israel holds Hamas responsible for civilian deaths by embedding militants in civilian infrastructure. Those sites also shelter multitudes of Palestinians who have fled under Israeli evacuation orders.
“Gaza is now a different color from space. It’s a different texture,” said Scher, who has worked with Van Den Hoek to map destruction across several war zones, from Aleppo to Mariupol. They say the visible damage in Gaza is worse that what they found in both places.
HOW DOES THE DESTRUCTION STACK UP HISTORICALLY?
By some measures, destruction in Gaza has outpaced Allied bombings of Germany during World War II.
Between 1942 and 1945, the allies attacked 51 major German cities and towns, destroying about 40-50% of their urban areas, said Robert Pape, a U.S. military historian. Pape said this amounted to 10% of buildings across Germany, compared to over 33% across Gaza, a densely populated territory of just 140 square miles (360 square kilometers).
“Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history,” said Pape. “It now sits comfortably in the top quartile of the most devastating bombing campaigns ever.”
The U.S.-led coalition’s 2017 assault to expel the Islamic State group from the Iraqi city of Mosul was considered one of the most intense attacks on a city in generations. That nine-month battle killed around 10,000 civilians, a third of them from coalition bombardment, according an Associated Press investigation at the time.
During the 2014-2017 campaign to defeat IS in Iraq, the coalition carried out nearly 15,000 strikes across the country, according to Airwars, a London-based independent group that tracks recent conflicts. By comparison, the Israeli military said last week it has conducted 22,000 strikes in Gaza.
WHAT TYPES OF BOMBS ARE BEING USED?
The Israeli military has not specified what it is using. It says every strike is cleared by legal advisers to make sure it complies with international law.
“We choose the right munition for each target — so it doesn’t cause unnecessary damage,” said the army’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.
Weapons experts have been able to draw conclusions by analyzing blast fragments found on-site, satellite images and videos circulated on social media. They say the findings offer only a peek into the full scope of the air war.
So far, fragments of American-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) bombs and smaller diameter bombs have been found in Gaza, according to Brian Castner, a weapons investigator with Amnesty International.
The JDAM bombs include precision-guided 1,000- and 2,000-pound (450-kilogram and 900-kilogram) “bunker-busters.”
“It turns earth to liquid,” said Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon defense official and a war crimes investigator for the U.N. “It pancakes entire buildings.”
He said the explosion of a 2,000-pound bomb in the open means “instant death” for anyone within about 30 meters (100 feet). Lethal fragmentation can extend for up to 365 meters (1,200 feet).
In an Oct. 31 strike on the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya, experts say a 2,000-pound bomb killed over 100 civilians.
Experts have also identified fragments of SPICE (Smart, Precise Impact, Cost-Effective) 2000-pound bombs, which are fitted with a GPS guidance system to make targeting more precise. Castner said the bombs are produced by the Israeli defense giant Rafael, but a recent State Department release first obtained by The New York Times showed some of the technology had been produced in the United States.
The Israeli military is also dropping unguided “dumb” bombs. Several experts pointed to two photos posted to social media by the Israeli Air Force at the start of the war showing fighter jets stocked with unguided bombs.
IS THE STRATEGY WORKING?
Israel says it has two goals: destroy Hamas and rescue the 129 hostages still held by militants.
Eleven weeks into the war, Israel says it has destroyed many Hamas sites and hundreds of tunnel shafts and has killed 7,000 Hamas fighters out of an estimated 30,000-40,000. Israeli leaders say intense military pressure is the only way to free more hostages.
But some families of hostages worry that the bombing endangers their loved ones. Hostages released during a weeklong cease-fire last month recounted that their captors moved them from place to place to avoid Israeli bombardment. Hamas has claimed that several hostages died from Israeli bombs, though the claims could not be verified.
The level of destruction is so high because “Hamas is very entrenched within the civilian population,” said Efraim Inbar, head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, a think tank. He also said intense bombardment of Hamas’ tunnels is needed to protect advancing Israeli ground forces from attacks.
Israel's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts say
After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history, experts say.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history.
In just over two months, researchers say the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the U.S.-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Islamic State group.
The Israeli military has said little about what kinds of bombs and artillery it is using in Gaza. But from blast fragments found on-site and analyses of strike footage, experts are confident that the vast majority of bombs dropped on the besieged enclave are U.S.-made. They say the weapons include 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) “bunker-busters” that have killed hundreds in densely populated areas.
With the Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpassing 20,000, the international community is calling for a cease-fire. Israel vows to press ahead, saying it wants to destroy Hamas’ military capabilities following the militant group’s Oct. 7 cross-border rampage that triggered the war, in which it killed 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage.
The Biden administration has quietly continued to supply arms to Israel. Last week, however, President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged that Israel was losing international legitimacy for what he called its “indiscriminate bombing.”
Here’s a look at what is known so far about Israel’s campaign on Gaza.
HOW MUCH DESTRUCTION IS THERE IN GAZA?
Israel’s offensive has likely either damaged or destroyed over two-thirds of all structures in northern Gaza and a quarter of buildings in the southern area of Khan Younis, according to an analysis of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data by Corey Scher of the CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University, experts in mapping damage during wartime.
The percentage of damaged buildings in the Khan Younis area nearly doubled in just the first two weeks of Israel’s southern offensive, they said.
That includes tens of thousands of homes as well as schools, hospitals, mosques and stores. U.N. monitors have said that about 70% of school buildings across Gaza have been damaged. At least 56 damaged schools served as shelters for displaced civilians. Israeli strikes damaged 110 mosques and three churches, the monitors said.
Israel holds Hamas responsible for civilian deaths by embedding militants in civilian infrastructure. Those sites also shelter multitudes of Palestinians who have fled under Israeli evacuation orders.
“Gaza is now a different color from space. It’s a different texture,” said Scher, who has worked with Van Den Hoek to map destruction across several war zones, from Aleppo to Mariupol. They say the visible damage in Gaza is worse that what they found in both places.
HOW DOES THE DESTRUCTION STACK UP HISTORICALLY?
By some measures, destruction in Gaza has outpaced Allied bombings of Germany during World War II.
Between 1942 and 1945, the allies attacked 51 major German cities and towns, destroying about 40-50% of their urban areas, said Robert Pape, a U.S. military historian. Pape said this amounted to 10% of buildings across Germany, compared to over 33% across Gaza, a densely populated territory of just 140 square miles (360 square kilometers).
“Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history,” said Pape. “It now sits comfortably in the top quartile of the most devastating bombing campaigns ever.”
The U.S.-led coalition’s 2017 assault to expel the Islamic State group from the Iraqi city of Mosul was considered one of the most intense attacks on a city in generations. That nine-month battle killed around 10,000 civilians, a third of them from coalition bombardment, according an Associated Press investigation at the time.
During the 2014-2017 campaign to defeat IS in Iraq, the coalition carried out nearly 15,000 strikes across the country, according to Airwars, a London-based independent group that tracks recent conflicts. By comparison, the Israeli military said last week it has conducted 22,000 strikes in Gaza.
WHAT TYPES OF BOMBS ARE BEING USED?
The Israeli military has not specified what it is using. It says every strike is cleared by legal advisers to make sure it complies with international law.
“We choose the right munition for each target — so it doesn’t cause unnecessary damage,” said the army’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.
Weapons experts have been able to draw conclusions by analyzing blast fragments found on-site, satellite images and videos circulated on social media. They say the findings offer only a peek into the full scope of the air war.
So far, fragments of American-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) bombs and smaller diameter bombs have been found in Gaza, according to Brian Castner, a weapons investigator with Amnesty International.
The JDAM bombs include precision-guided 1,000- and 2,000-pound (450-kilogram and 900-kilogram) “bunker-busters.”
“It turns earth to liquid,” said Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon defense official and a war crimes investigator for the U.N. “It pancakes entire buildings.”
He said the explosion of a 2,000-pound bomb in the open means “instant death” for anyone within about 30 meters (100 feet). Lethal fragmentation can extend for up to 365 meters (1,200 feet).
In an Oct. 31 strike on the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya, experts say a 2,000-pound bomb killed over 100 civilians.
Experts have also identified fragments of SPICE (Smart, Precise Impact, Cost-Effective) 2000-pound bombs, which are fitted with a GPS guidance system to make targeting more precise. Castner said the bombs are produced by the Israeli defense giant Rafael, but a recent State Department release first obtained by The New York Times showed some of the technology had been produced in the United States.
The Israeli military is also dropping unguided “dumb” bombs. Several experts pointed to two photos posted to social media by the Israeli Air Force at the start of the war showing fighter jets stocked with unguided bombs.
IS THE STRATEGY WORKING?
Israel says it has two goals: destroy Hamas and rescue the 129 hostages still held by militants.
Eleven weeks into the war, Israel says it has destroyed many Hamas sites and hundreds of tunnel shafts and has killed 7,000 Hamas fighters out of an estimated 30,000-40,000. Israeli leaders say intense military pressure is the only way to free more hostages.
But some families of hostages worry that the bombing endangers their loved ones. Hostages released during a weeklong cease-fire last month recounted that their captors moved them from place to place to avoid Israeli bombardment. Hamas has claimed that several hostages died from Israeli bombs, though the claims could not be verified.
The level of destruction is so high because “Hamas is very entrenched within the civilian population,” said Efraim Inbar, head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, a think tank. He also said intense bombardment of Hamas’ tunnels is needed to protect advancing Israeli ground forces from attacks.
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lmfao @ the idiots in this thread thinking life in Palestine is worse than that in North Korea.
North Korea, a country that had one of the worst famines in modern times and where the odds of one winning the lottery is higher than escaping it is being compared to Palestine.
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North Korea, a country that had one of the worst famines in modern times and where the odds of one winning the lottery is higher than escaping it is being compared to Palestine.
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So this is referening the destruction of a single piece of land, that is currently situated in the (new) to be created bufferzone between Israel and Gaza?
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Couple of dudes from my gym go on vacations multiple times a year to Gaza.
I'm sure it’s horrible though, perhaps they just happen to have some kind of prisoner-fetish, but i kind of doubt it.
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There was a restaurant in Gaza that offered discounts to North Koreans.
The only problem is, there were no North Koreans in Gaza.
Gaza eatery offers discounts to North Koreans but no takers
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Gaza eatery is offering massive discounts to North Korean diners but there is just one problem — there are no North Koreans in Gaza. Ibrahim Raba, manager…
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Interesting turn of events here. Are they being sincere or is this staged?
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Gazans call for release of Israeli hostages in rare protest against Hamas
In footage shared by IDF Arabic spokesperson, group of largely women and children in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah seen chanting slogans in call for end to war
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More than 500,000 people in Gaza face 'catastrophic hunger': UNRWA
A Hamas official called on the WHO to declare the Gaza Strip a "famine zone."ByMary Kekatos
More than half a million people in Gaza are currently facing "catastrophic hunger" amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to multiple United Nations organizations.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said 570,000 Gazans are classified as having food insecurity equivalent to famine levels of starvation, as defined by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
"Intense fighting, access denials & restrictions [plus] communications blackouts are hampering @UNRWA's ability to safely & effectively deliver aid," the organization wrote Tuesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "As risk of famine grows, @UN calls for a critical increase in humanitarian access."
UNRWA said it and its partners have been distributing flour, protein-based food, high-energy biscuits, dairy items and other food items to Gazans, reaching 320,000 families so far.
Meanwhile, the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) said it has been difficult to get food into northern Gaza, which has been cut off from external aid.
In a video recording distributed by the Associated Press, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told reporters in Beirut that people in northern Gaza facing severe food shortages have been forced to grind and eat animal feed "in order to stay alive."
Hamdan called on the World Health Organization to declare the Gaza Strip a "famine zone."
Last month, nonprofit CARE International shared an IPC report that said 100% of the Gazan population is facing a hunger crisis, and though Gazans are facing varying levels of hunger, "virtually all households are skipping meals every day."
The news comes amid intense fighting in Gaza as aid workers there also struggle to care for medical patients. Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), said there has been heavy bombing near Nasser Hospital, located in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, which is one of the few hospitals in Gaza still partially operating.
"MSF staff in Nasser hospital report they can feel the ground shaking and that there is a sense of panic among staff, patients and displaced people sheltering inside the building," the organization wrote on X on Monday. "All the hospital wards at Nasser are full and there is no way to evacuate medical staff and patients safely due to exit routes from the facility being blocked."
The military operation carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Khan Younis is expected "to last several days," the IDF said in a release Monday.
Since Hamas' surprise terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, more than 25,400 people in Gaza have been killed and more than 63,000 have been injured, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. More than 1,200 have been killed in Israel and 6,900 injured, according to the Israeli Prime Minister's Office.
The IDF said 556 soldiers have been killed since the war began and 221 have been killed since the ground invasion began. Monday was the single-deadliest day for the IDF since Oct. 7, with 21 killed in a building blast in the Gaza Strip.
Additionally, there are about 136 hostages – more than 120 of them Israelis – still believed to be in captivity in Gaza and at least 33 are believed to be dead, according to the IDF and the Israeli Prime Minister's Office.
ABC News' Jordana Miller, Joseph Simonetti and Dana Savir contributed to this report.
https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...-catastrophic-hunger-unrwa/story?id=106593939
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Gazans call for release of Israeli hostages in rare protest against Hamas
In footage shared by IDF Arabic spokesperson, group of largely women and children in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah seen chanting slogans in call for end to war
Requires a lot of courage on their part... good for them. Hope it catches on more.
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The average person is literally starving in North Korea. In fact I would bet that food supply in North Korea is much worse than it was in Palestine prior to this war. People boil sea weed and other inedible plants to try and survive there.
I get it that things are bad for Palestinians. I would just wager that things are worse for the average North Korean
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Stop being antisemitic!!! Didn't you hear about Oct 7?
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