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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
    26·
    23 hours ago

    “Just because they haven’r been ABLE to doesn’t mean they don’t WANT to.”

    The genocidal language thrown by both sides has been going on for thousands of years.

    The thing is, you can’t engage in a genocide unless you’re in a position of power first and if you’re continually disenfranchised, you literally cannot engage in genocide.

    The will is there, the ability is not.

    • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      19 hours ago

      Let’s ignore the periods where arab/muslims and jews live peacefully and only focus on the periods where they was at war

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      72·
      22 hours ago

      The genocidal language thrown by both sides has been going on for thousands of years.

      No it hasn’t. Name a single instance of Jews being genocided in those “thousands of years” which wasn’t when the area was under European control.

      • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Jordan is all over the place. He doesn’t know that not every muslim is an arsb and not rvery arsb is a palestine so his 6000 years of violence is so ridiculous

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          3·
          8 hours ago

          They call for armed struggle against the occupying entity committing Genocide.

          What is genocidal about this?

          I am talking about historical actions. Actual persecution of Jews in Palestine under Islamic rule because they could. Not random statements taken out of context.

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            12·
            8 hours ago

            Again, repeated calls for the elimination of Israel. It’s just as genocidal as the repeated calls for the elimination of Palestine.

              • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                12·
                4 hours ago

                By claiming to want to “wipe Israel off the map”, that’s a desire to eliminate Israelis which is the definition of genocide.

                https://iccforum.com/genocide-convention

                ✅ (a)Killing members of the group;

                ✅ (b)Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

                ✅ ©Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

                (d)Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

                (e)Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

                • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
                  3·
                  4 hours ago

                  Damn that’s crazy. I didn’t know Nelson Mandela committed Genocide on Apartheid South Africa. Thanks explaining how genocide works.

                  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                    11·
                    3 hours ago

                    That’s not me, that’s the Article 2 of the Genocide Convention. You’d think someone named “Geneva Convenience” would already know that.

        • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 hours ago

          Memri was created by Yigal Carmon a former Israeli intelligence officer who opposed oslo accords. Please do better. Thr both side want to destroy each other BS only help isrsel and it’s backers

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            12·
            8 hours ago

            Then maybe, just maybe, both sides need to stop calling for the destruction of the other.

            https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/10/world/meast/iran-annihilate-israel

            https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/27/israel.iran

            And before you go down the road of “they were misquoted” or “they didn’t really MEAN that”…

            https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/2/20/iran-clarifies-remarks-on-israel

            Yeah, that’s the stance people who want a genocide always say:

            https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2024-09-05/ty-article/.highlight/netanyahus-map-shows-israel-from-the-river-to-the-sea-its-no-accident/00000191-c2a8-d09f-ab91-debc90e60000

            “No, no, it was just an ‘incorrect translation’.” Horse shit.

            https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-21/ty-article/israel-based-news-outlet-incorrectly-translates-pms-words-leading-to-media-firestorm/0000018d-2bfa-daf5-a1bf-affa764b0000

            • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              8 hours ago

              Maybe israel should end occupation to end the cycle of violence and you should support a one state eith equal rights and a truth snd reconciliation process. Or are you one of those guys who think jews and muslims has a natural urge to kill each others

              Also stop conflating palestinians with all arabs and muslims that’s a racist logic.

              Palestinians want to live freely that’s all. Only naive people would think after they are free from occupation palestinians will still attack. If you believe otherwise you are doing settler colonialism apologia without realizing it

              • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                12·
                7 hours ago

                You will never have equal rights in one state because the two sides will never allow that. Each believes the other should not exist.

                Both sides are saying “From the river to the sea.” They want the full elimination of the other.

                • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  5 hours ago

                  That’s anttisemetic. Both side are semite but you think it is in their nature to fight each other. Yes Any group of people can live in peace again like many periods before that you chose ignore. If germany who almost exterminate jews is not israel strongest ally, if countries that was enemy in the deadliest conflict ever can be become allies palestinians and israel can to.

                  You clearly don’t believe in any solution neither a one or two state but you are in denial and don’t realize it

                  Palestinians said you end occupation, we drop arms. Certain arabs offered a one state since the beginning, before the nekba. The plo also offered it

                  There was people like you who was tslking about how aparteith can’t end in south africa because black South african would have took vengence for all the year of oppression

                  Did you ever ask any rrgular palestinian what they mean by from river to the sea palestine is free?

                  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                    12·
                    4 hours ago

                    It has nothing to do with their nature, nobody is born hating anyone, that’s learned behavior.

                    Both sides have stated, repeatedly, that they believe they are owed exclusive rights to the territory of Israel to the exclusion of all others.

                    That belief is inherently the source of the conflict. It’s taught and learned and re-inforced by repeated violent acts.

                    It can’t be stopped by anyone other than an external 3rd party stepping in and treating them like the misbehaving children they are. “I don’t care who started it, both of you go to your rooms.”

                    But nobody has the will to step up and tell them to knock this shit off.

        • CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          Yep, the will to end Israel is there. It’s also here.

          Remember when the German state was dismantled because it comitted a genocide?

          It seems like you believe anti-zionism and anti-semitism is the same thing. One is an ethnic group (technically several, including palestinians, but we all know it usually means jewish people) and the other is a nationality.

          Not all jews are zionists, and not all zionists are jews.

          Let’s dismantle the genocidal state, give displaced palestinians the right to return to their country, try every war criminal and genocidal maniac in an international court and let the Palestinian people decide how the want to run their own fucking country, for once.