Salman and her surviving children headed south, making their way by foot and cart through the rubble and runs of central Gaza to al-Mawasi, a 16sq km strip of mainly coast and dunes that was five months ago barren and is now home to 380,000 people, aid agencies say.
That’s 23,750/skm, without any sewage, water, electricity, or healthcare infrastructures.
Gaza Strip was under Egyptian Control till 1967. Hindsight shows that Israel would have been better served to surrender the territory back to Egypt. But as i said , hindsight.
#Gaza: RSF alerts on the disappearance of 🇵🇸 journalist Bayan Abusultan, last seen on 19/03 among those sequestered in the raid on Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. RSF demands that the 🇮🇱 army immediately shed light on the disappearance of @BayanPalestine. pic.twitter.com/Q11b1XJHD7
— RSF (@RSF_inter) March 27, 2024
This was her last post on March 19
Israeli forces just murdered my only brother in front of my eyes.
— Bayan 𓂆 (@BayanPalestine) March 19, 2024
أخويا شهيد.
Look at the pic of this girl, her state of exhaustion, her extreme emaciation…
Al Shifa and Al Nasser hospitals are in northern Gaza, while Al Amal Hospital is in Khan Younis. Israel claimed to have neutralized the Hamas battalions there weeks ago, now there’s heavy fighting for days.
When the Press finally get in there the pictures of starving people will inevitably draw comparisons with the liberation of the concentration camps. They will never be forgotten nor forgiven.
It’s frustrating the dance. That there is still the language of ; it is plausible, or it could be, or it might be considered a war crime.
The there is still the reporting of “balance” of Israel with saying that it’s absurd to call it a war crime. That we allow the US to drop aid. Therefore we have done nothing wrong.
It’s like living in a black mirror episode with dissonance to reality. It’s akin to Genghis Kahn catapulting dead bodies infected with the plague into seized cities. Then denying it’s a war tactic. If it was reported today, to provide balance they would argue they are being respectful, returning their dead, but doing so in a way that protects their soldiers. It’s an insult to basic intelligence for the argument to be made.
Starving a population is barbaric, plain and simple. There is no question is it ethical in war, there is no question about it being unforeseen or indirect consequence. In short there is no excuse.
https://x.com/beafihn/status/1773064897271664839?s=46&t=wYI1UQq4Zm7qgLRSA8YMdw
https://x.com/beafihn/status/1773064903311376554?s=46&t=wYI1UQq4Zm7qgLRSA8YMdw
There is a visceral dislike of the ICC in Washington, not surprising that this sort of clause is in there - it is in a staggering number of US bills related to foreign matters
Aleppo is near the Turkish border. Doesn’t the Syrians have air defense system that can detect incursion so deep into their territory? Anyway, Israel is trying to everything to drag the region into a conflict.
It’s obvious now that this government is totally unhinged. The sooner Netanyahou and his gang get out of power, the better.
In a word, no. Syria operates largely Cold War era equipment, Israel has state of the art ECM. Syria can detect it, but generally don’t have effective air defence against these incursions.
Past practice has actually been to do a pass over the target so that the Syrian troops can get away from the target, but that appears to have become less common - quite possibly because Syrian air defences are improving.
Of all the things that Israel is doing right now, I have to say hitting Hezbollah depots containing the armaments in active use against their northern frontier is just about the least objectionable.
Changed the topic name.
No way. If Syria had these capabilities , Israel wouldn’t have been emboldened to carry out their strikes. And neither would Turkey for that matter as well.
Why? It was fine as it was.
In keeping with the norm of the Russian warcrimes thread.
Yeah , no more dancing around this. What Israel is doing definitely counts as warcrimes and crimes against humanity.
Hamas has done the same thing too (crimes against humanity) but the disproportionate response by Israel makes the crimes committed by Israel far worse.
Exactly.
It makes me laugh every time a representative of the Israeli government or IDF is interviewed and blames everything on Hamas. Yes, their initial attack was a barbarous act of terrorism and should not be condoned. But the Israeli government chose to retaliate in this way. They could have used their supposedly superior military intelligence to target the Hamas leadership but instead opted to perform genocide on the Palestinian population.
Heads should roll.