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The Palestinian resistance group Hamas marked 700 days of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza on Friday, calling it a “stain on humanity” and urging the international community to take decisive action against the ongoing atrocities.

In a statement, Hamas highlighted its efforts to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange agreement, stressing that it had “shown significant flexibility” in negotiations.

The movement blamed the repeated failure of mediators on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called him “a war criminal committed to undermining diplomatic initiatives, pursuing indefinite plans of extermination and displacement, and placing the lives of captives at risk to serve his government’s agenda.”

Hamas renewed its call to the international community, including Arab and Islamic countries, the UN, and its organs, particularly the UN Security Council, to “fulfill their responsibilities toward the Palestinian people and intervene to halt the crimes of the fascist occupation government.”

The movement emphasized the need for “punitive measures against Israel,” warning that “mere condemnations are insufficient” and that, without substantial consequences, Israel would “continue its crimes without regard for international protests or positions.”

Hamas also praised global grassroots solidarity with the Palestinian people and welcomed the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an initiative to break the blockade on Gaza.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      39·
      1 day ago

      Just because they haven’t ever been able to doesn’t mean they don’t WANT to. ;)

      The most prominent example I can think of prior to the October 7th attack would have been the 1972 terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre

      But the continual “you committed an atrocity so we’re going to do another” back and forth back and forth for 6,000 years is only going to ensure everyone there gets killed unless someone forces it to stop.

      • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        The group who did it was not an islamic militia and example of act of vengence which is still a crime is not a proof of genocide

      • CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Oh so they definetly want to exterminate jews, but you can’t confirm it because they don’t have the capability yet, but as soon as they have the capability, you will have proof?

        That’s witch trial logic.

        Is that “massacre” really the best argument you’ve got? They took hostages, trying to get a political decision made and the hostages were killed in a failed rescue attempt.

        But sure, sure, we don’t negotiate with terrorists that kill or endanger civillians. That would be a fine principle, if we didn’t exclude Israel, who objectively have killed more civillians than any Palestinian resistance group.

        For the sake of humanity, find empathy for brown people and educate yourself on what actually happened, instead of western/Israeli propaganda repeating the dehumanization of muslims.

        It takes a shit ton of lying to defend a genocide, so don’t get discouraged when it takes time and effort to unlearn the propagande, but if we let this “slide” the world will not forget, and neither will those of us who saw through the shit.

      • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        19 hours ago

        Palestine was occupied in 72. Yes , palestinians killing innocent israelis is wrong and should be condemned but we need to acknowledge the root of the problem otherwise you eon’t stop the violence

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        91·
        24 hours ago

        Name one single instance of ‘Islamic militias’ genociding Jews in Palesine.

        Names targeted killing of Israelis outside o Palestine

        I didn’t say back and forth. I said name one.

        The only party continually massacaring Jews were Europeans. There wasn’t a genocide of Palestinian Jews in the Caliphate. In fact the Jews living in Palestine before colonialism detested their violent colonialist counterparts.