As the World Watches the Growing Death Toll in Gaza and Israel
HAVANA TIMES – The death toll across Israel and Gaza has topped 1,300 as the bloody conflict stretches into its third day. Israel today announced a “total” blockade on Gaza, including food, water, electricity and fuel. On Sunday, Israel declared war on Hamas after Hamas fighters launched a surprise coordinated attack in Israel Saturday. Among the targets was a music festival, where Hamas gunmen killed some 260 mainly young people. Israel responded by pounding the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, which hit housing blocks, tunnels and a mosque. Over 800 people have been killed in Israel, over 500 in Gaza. Thousands more have been injured on both sides of the separation barrier. Hamas says it has taken over 100 hostages, including civilians and Israeli army officers. The Israeli prime minister has told Gazans to leave — though it’s unclear where they would be able to go — vowing to all but decimate the besieged territory.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “All of the places where Hamas are deployed, hiding and operating in, that wicked city, we will turn it into an island of ruins. I am telling Gaza’s people to leave those places now, because we will take action everywhere.”
Over 120,000 people in Gaza have already been displaced from the Israeli attacks. Sixty-five-year-old Saber Abu Hilal, who lost his home in an airstrike, says he refused to be uprooted.
Saber Abu Hilal: “I am not the only one left out on the street. There are 17 other families in this area made homeless following this barbaric strike, which killed around 17 or 18 people. Several families are on the street and left without refuge. This is not the first displacement, and it’s as if they are displacing the Palestinian people every now and then on purpose. There was the 1948 migration, and it was followed by similar waves of people leaving the country. Our children are also migrating. And now they are destroying homes over the heads of residents while they sleep, without any warning or reason, with the aim to displace and destroy and to uproot them from this land. However, we refuse to be uprooted. We have firm roots in this land.”
In essence, hamas and hezb are the 1st two pawns of the offensive defense of persia !
Then there is the shia crescent and the shia population in all arab nations – especially those where the masses are shia and rulers are sunni !
Is that y the arabs are supporting hamas ? The arabs kings have no choice ! The shias in sunni nations are the trojans of iran !
Question is – will idf attack iranian bases and nuke bases !
That is the test for the existence of israel ! Next hamas wave will be much worse for israel
By that time every square inch of israel will be covered by hamas rockets – besides hezb rockets !
So the key is what will israel do to iran ! That is all !
Irg uses hamas and hezb to test idf tactics,strat,technology and resolve ! As things stand today – irg (iran revol guards) are on top !
Is hezb opening up the second front !? They launched rpg into sheba !
Has lebanon forgotten the ammonium nitrate volcano in the port ?
Was it by chance ? Nein ? It was mossad ! It was mossad way to kill the port,which is a logistics and trading hub for hezb !
Is hezb planning a payback ?
Adani took over haifa in february 2023 and in 8 months – this happened ! Whoever partners with the hindoos is doomed ! Dindooohindoo
Nick entirely misses the point. Time! It was Yasser Arafat who rejected the proposal made at Camp David in 2000. Sharon was not there!
Netanyahu got to power this last time with endorsement of Trump and by shaking hands with the devil, ie extremists. This happened on his watch, he has blood on his hands, both Jewish and now Palestinians. Many if not most Jewish called on their cells for help from far away friends or family. When at the end of your rope, there is one hope left, His name is Yahweh. Adonai . God.
Netanyahu is a conservative who has jumped in to bed with extreme right wing fanatics.
He is not the first conservative in history to share bedspace with extreme right wing fanatics.
Palestinians are oppressed by a far more powerful force which regards itself as superior due to race and religion. If you beat people with a stick on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly basis over a period of decades, those beaten with the stick will fight back.
What was unleashed by Hamas was dark, abysmal and brutal. A grotesque abomination.
Unfortunately the fanatics on each side think that God is with them. It’s difficult to reason with this kind of justification.
As Mr MacD rightly states, Yasser Arafat was offered a peace deal (by those who had previously tried to murder him). He deliberated on the deal. He stalled. Maybe further negotiations would have taken place. But then along came Ariel Sharon. Anyone objective who describes Arafat as a former terrorist must surely also describe Sharon as a former terrorist otherwise they are cannot be objective.
Once Sharon waddled his fat ass up to Temple Mount it was game over for any chance of peace.
Mr MacD states that ‘only misery lies in the future of the Palestinians’.
Despite their differences, the futures for Israelis and Palestinians are bound up together. The majority of those on both sides down there in Israel and Palestine wish for peace and fairness. Hopefully there will be peace one day.
Otherwise the misery and the abomination will always be entirely mutual.
It was Yasser Arafat who rejected the proposals made in 2000, at Camp David. As one who made his name internationally as a terrorist, he was unable become a diplomat and to recognize that compromise is necessary in political negotiations, choosing to extinguish the chink of light that was offered. His was the chance to make history and he spurned that.
Since that time, the position of the Palestinians has been one of steady deterioration. More and more Jewish settlements have been built upon the West Bank – predominantly by immigrants from Russia. and Israel under Netanyahu has moved ever further to the extreme political right.
Now, 23 years after opportunity knocked, only misery lies in the future of the Palestinians, and determination to win irrespective of cost, in the hearts and minds of the Jewish people.