Israeli airstrikes destroyed a tower block in Gaza City after Hamas militants launched a rocket and air attack on Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The Israeli army launched Operation Iron Swords against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with Israel’s president, Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the country, is ‘at war’.
Al Jazeera journalist Youmna El Sayed was reporting live from Gaza the moment the missile struck Palestine Tower behind her.
Sources in Gaza said at least 198 Palestinians were killed in the strikes
I don’t appreciate the way you’re intentionally dodging my point and then intentionally mischaracterizing it.
My point is that Hamas is trying to increase the count of civilian casualties on both sides, and the IDF is trying to decrease civilian casualties on both sides.
You’re just counting the victims. Look at the perpetrators for just a second.
does it? How so?
There are a few Israeli extremists who say shit like this. They’re monsters. The vast majority do not speak like this. As opposed to the majority members of the Palestinian Authority. A majority of the PA is literally members of Hamas, truly committed to the deaths all Israelis and all Jews they can get their hands on, as evidenced not only by their charter but by their actions.
Unfortunately, the current majority in Israel is not interested in enforcing rules against expanding settlements. That does suck. But the bulk of the minority—which is likely to take control in the next election, unless this crisis changed things—is very willing to reign in settlements.
You are missing the point, I have defended my thesis with a couple of facts and even provided a link, your point is only based on assumptions and you failed to deliver any verifiable fact.
I have asked you to provide any verifiable link of convicted IDF soldiers, but you did not.
Anything to say about the Jenin refugee camp, do you think using excessive violence there was justifiable? https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1138487
Have you ever wondered why Israel is not a member of the ICC, or which other countries are not part and why? Because they don’t want to be held accountable for their army’s war crimes.
And maybe some more food for thoughts:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/02/un-experts-say-israel-should-be-held-accountable-acts-domicide
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/04/israel-50-years-occupation-abuses
https://www.globalr2p.org/countries/israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/
If the link you presented had anything to do with the paragraph you presented in, I absolutely missed it, can you please draw the connection for me?
I missed that.
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/IDF-soldier-convicted-of-killing-Gaza-rioter-606298
That’s the first one I could find, I’m busy, what with it being Simchat Torah in the diaspora.
Well, you begged the question there, and I’m not intimately familiar with the situation, but from what I understand, not particularly, no.
No. I never cared. I don’t know why Israel would subject itself to any kind of international jurisdiction, with the way the international community treats it. Have you seen how obsessed the UN securuity council is with Israel, while it ignores human rights violations everywhere else in the world? Why the fuck would we want to invite more of that?
I just looked it up, Israel stated its reasons, it objects to the language about population transfer: https://press.un.org/en/1998/19980720.l2889.html. I’m sure you have a much more conspiratorial reason in mind?
And I’m familiar with fucking Amnesty International and HRW, I’m not living under a rock.