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That's a hell of an assumption to make based on absolutely nothing.
International Israel, Hezbollah agree to ceasefire brokered by US and France, to take effect Wednesday
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That's a hell of an assumption to make based on absolutely nothing.
So you think that sentiment doesn’t exist?
You always argue in bad faith for some reason. I remember you claiming to be from there too lol
Well you’re lying by saying I ever claimed to be from there so there’s that……lol at making an accusation of bad faith while blatantly lying.
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This has pretty much been the modus operandi of the pro terrorist crowd
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I agree. There is no comparison. Israel has killed tens of thousands more innocent civilians and is currently carrying out their "surrender or starve" campaign against the people of Gaza. Keep in mind this is only what has been verified in morgues. They're are likely tens to hundreds of thousands of thousands dead that are unaccounted for because the Palestinians don't have the energy or the fuel to dig out the bodies.
The IDF is letting Israeli civilians go to the border crossings (despite a standing "order" to arrest them) and then using those same civilians as an excuse as to why trucks are blocked for days on end. They are fillling bags labeled "sugar" with sand in order to pretend some aid is actually getting in.
Making a cease fire deal with Hezbollah and then carpet bombing civilian areas in Lebanon in the lead up to the start date is morally bankrupt.
Letting soldiers who are on film gang raping detainees out of jail because the civilian populace thinks it's ok to rape "human beasts" who are in custody is acceptable is just a new level of degeneracy.
Just another day in the operations of the least moral military on the face of the planet.
This has all been confirmed and published in Israeli publications..... With much of the public cheering it all on. Apartheid ethno-states make for absolutely toxic societies.....
Genocide and ethnic cleansing apologists and enablers will be looked poorly upon in the pages of history. Hopefully someday they will have the morals, ethics and empathy necessary to reflect and feel ashamed.
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You’re a mark that will believe any anti Israel propaganda that comes across your socials.
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Well they have an AI system that selects targets for them called 'Lavender', it selects targets and allows strikes to be authorised with as many as 15 to 20 civilians as collateral damage. In reality it can be much much higher. Several refugee camps have been targetted for just one high-ranking Hamas member resulting in 80 deaths in one incident.
Another AI system is disturbingly called 'Where's daddy?' The concept being that the best time to get these Hamas operatives is when they are at home, with their families. You can then see why so many innocent families are being wiped out, unless you think that they deserve to die because of their father's association?
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There is no point engaging in debate with deranged fantasists like yourself
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The stuff I believe is on video and verified by multiple credible sources.
The stuff genocide apologists believe is atrocity propaganda that has been accepted solely on the word of the government with no evidence and later debunked by Israeli publications and multiple human rights organizations. (beheaded babies, mass rape)
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The evidence is on my side.
This is the morally bankrupt society some of you defend. Straight up genocidal fanatics:
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Love all the parrots repeating the "history won't be kind" diatribes
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You mean Hamas/Palestine right?
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It won’t. Expect to be charged for war crimes based on your sherdog post history down the road
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This is the problem.....
The civilians are not Hamas. Hamas is a fighting force of about 35,000. There are 2.2 million people in Gaza, the world's largest concentration camp.
The Palestinians don't control their own land, sea, air, water, electricity or fuel. They are an occupied people. They have been barricaded into Gaza since 2006 with a nation that despises then controlling their resources.
Hamas makes up less than 2% of the Palestinian population. 2,000lb bunker buster bombs on refugee camps are entirely unnecessary.
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Ailing kids wait months for Israeli permission to leave Gaza for treatment. Some die in the meantime
BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND FATMA KHALED
Updated 11:36 AM BRT, December 6, 2024
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The 12-year-old Palestinian boy was lying in a hospital bed in central Gaza, wracked with leukemia, malnourished and whimpering in pain despite the morphine doctors were giving him, when Rosalia Bollen, a UNICEF official, said she saw him in late October.
Islam al-Rayahen’s family had asked Israeli authorities six times over the past months for permission to evacuate him from Gaza for a desperately needed stem cell transplant, Bollen said. Six times, the request was refused for unexplained security reasons, she said.
Islam died three days after she saw him, Bollen said.
Thousands of patients in Gaza are waiting for Israeli permission for urgently needed medical evacuation from Gaza for treatment of war wounds or chronic diseases they can’t get after the destruction of much of the territory’s health care system by Israel’s 15-month military campaign.
Among them are at least 2,500 children who UNICEF says must be transported immediately.
“They cannot afford to wait. These children will die. They’re dying in waiting and I find it striking that the world is letting that happen,” Bollen said.
The Israeli military often takes months to respond to medical evacuation requests, and the number of evacuations has plunged in recent months. In some cases, the military rejects either the patient or, in the case of children, the caregivers accompanying them on vague security grounds or with no explanation.
The Israeli decisions appear to be “arbitrary and are not made on a criteria nor logic,” said Moeen Mahmood, the Jordan country director for Doctors Without Borders.
COGAT, the Israeli military agency in charge of humanitarian affairs for Palestinians, said in a statement to The Associated Press that it “makes every effort to approve the departure of children and their families for medical treatments, subject to a security check.” It did not respond when asked for details about Islam’s case.
A military official said Israel’s internal intelligence service reviews whether the patient or their escort have what he called “a connection to terrorism,” and if one is found they are refused. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential procedures.
Osaid Shaheen, who is nearly 2, now faces having his eyes removed after Israel rejected his evacuation for treatment of cancer in his retinas.
The toddler was diagnosed with the cancer in April, after his mother, Sondos Abu Libda, noticed his left eyelid was droopy. The World Health Organization requested his evacuation through the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza, but the crossing was shut down in May when Israeli troops took it over in an offensive, Abu Libda said.
WHO applied again, this time for Osaid to leave through the Kerem Shalom crossing into Israel, now the only route for evacuees to travel. During the long wait, the cancer spread to the child’s other eye and reached stage 4.
In November, Abu Libda was told Osaid was rejected on security grounds with no further explanation.
She was stunned, she said. “I didn’t expect that a child could get a security rejection.”
Doctors have given the boy three doses of chemotherapy. But with supplies short in Gaza, they’re struggling to get more. If they can’t, they will have to remove Osaid’s eyes or the cancer will spread to other parts of his body, Abu Libda said.
“He’s just a child. How will he live his life without seeing? How will he play? How will he see his future and how will his life turn out?” Abu Libda asked, standing outside the house where her family is sheltering in the Beni Suheil district of southern Gaza.
Nearby, little Osaid — who so far still has his sight — toddled around in the rubble of a building destroyed by Israeli forces, smiling as he played with chunks of rubble. When asked about his case, COGAT did not reply.
Osaid Shaheen, who is nearly 2, walks in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 15, 2024. Osaid faces having his eyes removed after Israel rejected his evacuation for treatment of cancer in his retinas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
WHO says 14,000 patients of all ages need medical evacuation from Gaza. The territory’s Health Ministry puts the number higher, at 22,000, including 7,000 patients in extreme need who could die soon without treatment, according to Mohamed Abu Salmeya, a ministry official in charge of evacuation referrals.
Since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, 5,230 patients have been evacuated, said Margaret Harris, a WHO spokesperson.
Since May, when the Rafah crossing shut down, the rate has slowed down, with only 342 patients evacuated, she said, an average of less than two a day. Before the war, when Israeli permission was also necessary, around 100 patients a day were transferred out of Gaza, according to WHO.
More than 44,500 Palestinians have been killed and more than 105,000 wounded by Israel’s bombardment and ground offensives, launched in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. The casualty toll, by Gaza’s Health Ministry, does not distinguish combatants from civilians — but more than half are women and children.
Gaza’s health system has been decimated, with only 17 of the territory’s original 36 hospitals functioning — and those only partially. They struggle with the waves of war wounded on top of patients with other conditions.
Carrying out specialized surgeries or treatments in Gaza is difficult or impossible, with equipment destroyed, some specialist doctors killed or arrested and medical supplies limited. Gaza’s only dedicated cancer hospital was seized by Israeli troops early in the war, heavily damaged and has been shut down.
Doctors without Borders said in August, it sought to evacuate 32 children along with their caregivers, but only six were allowed to leave. In November, it applied for eight others, including a 2-year-old with leg amputations, but Israeli authorities blocked evacuation, it said
The military official said five of the eight requests in November were approved but the caregivers trying to travel with the children were rejected on security grounds. The official said Doctors Without Borders would have to resubmit the requests with alternate escorts. The official didn’t say why the other three children weren’t approved.
The rejected caregivers were the children’s mothers and grandmothers, said Mahmood, the Doctor’s Without Borders official, who said no explanation was given for the security concern.
Children long waiting for permission face dire consequences if they don’t get treatment.
Nima al-Askari said doctors told her that 4-year-old Qusay could become paralyzed if her son doesn’t get surgery in the next two or three months for a heart defect that constricts his aorta.
“Should I wait until my son becomes paralyzed?” al-Askari said. “Everyone is telling me to wait until he gets evacuated. ... This is my only son. I can’t see him in a wheelchair.”
Asma Saed said she has been waiting for three months to hear whether her 2-year-old son, Al-Hassan, can travel for treatment for kidney failure. In the meantime, they are living in a squalid tent camp in Khan Younis, with little clean water or food.
She said her son doesn’t sleep, screaming all night.
“I wish I could see him like any child in the world who can move, walk, and play,” she said. “He’s a child, he can’t express his pain.”
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-med...hildren-dead-7ad6294bd10970e57b35e6e26bc6fa7b
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Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel rejects the allegations
BY SAMY MAGDY
Updated 7:28 PM BRT, December 5, 2024
CAIRO (AP) — Amnesty International accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip during its war with Hamas, saying it has sought to deliberately destroy Palestinians by mounting deadly attacks, demolishing vital infrastructure, and preventing the delivery of food, medicine and other aid.
The human rights group released a report Thursday in the Middle East that said such actions could not be justified by Hamas’ October 2023 attack on Israel, which ignited the war, or the presence of militants in civilian areas. Amnesty said the United States and other allies of Israel could be complicit in genocide, and called on them to halt arms shipments.
“Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now,” Agnès Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International, said in the report.
“The deplorable and fanatical organization Amnesty International has once again produced a fabricated report that is entirely false and based on lies,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Israel accused Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate Israel, of carrying out a genocidal massacre in the attack that triggered the war, and said it is defending itself in accordance with international law.
The U.S. said it believes Amnesty’s allegations are “unfounded”. But it added that human rights groups play a “vital role” in addressing the consequences of the conflict and urged Israel to do more to improve humanitarian conditions there.
Amnesty International Israel, a local branch of the organization that was not involved in the report, also disputed the allegation of genocide, in a rare public airing of internal dissent at the rights group.
Amnesty says Palestinians face a ‘slow, calculated death’
Amnesty’s report adds an influential voice to a growing list of players that have accused Israel of committing genocide — which would put it in the company of some of the deadliest conflicts of the past 80 years, including Cambodia, Sudan and Rwanda.The accusations have largely come from human rights groups and allies of the Palestinians. But last month, Pope Francis called for an investigation to determine if Israeli actions amounted to genocide, and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who has signaled readiness to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, accused it of committing genocide.
Israel says it is at war with Hamas, not the people of Gaza. And key allies, including the U.S. and Germany, have also pushed back against the genocide allegations. But Amnesty accused Israel of violating the 1951 Genocide Convention through acts it says are intended to bring about the physical destruction of Gaza’s Palestinian population by exposing them to “a slow, calculated death.”
Amnesty said it analyzed the overall pattern of Israel’s conduct in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023, and early July. It noted that there is no casualty threshold in proving the international crime of genocide, which is defined by the United Nations as acts intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
To establish intent, Amnesty said it reviewed over 100 statements by Israeli government and military officials and others since the start of the war that “dehumanized Palestinians, called for or justified genocidal acts or other crimes against them.”
Israeli officials have previously said that such statements were taken out of context or referred to their stated goal of destroying Hamas, not Palestinian civilians.
Amnesty International Israel said the report had not proved genocidal intent beyond a reasonable doubt. The local branch said there were nevertheless suspicions that Israel had committed “widespread violations of international law” that “may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.”
The U.K.-based rights group responded by saying its Israeli branch is “undergoing deep internal divisions,” with a series of resignations amid accusations that Palestinians in the group had been silenced. Those accusations are “unacceptable and will be handled through Amnesty’s international democratic processes.” But the group defended its report overall, calling it “the product of scrupulous legal analysis and rigorous research.”
Israel says it goes to great lengths to protect civilians and comply with international law — including ordering civilians to evacuate areas ahead of airstrikes and ground offensives. It also says it has facilitated the deliveries of large quantities of food and humanitarian supplies — a claim that is disputed by the U.N. and aid organizations working inside Gaza.
On Sunday, a former top Israeli general and defense minister accused the government of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, where the army has sealed off the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and the Jabaliya refugee camp and allowed almost no humanitarian aid to enter.
Amnesty said it found that Israel “deliberately inflicted conditions of life on Palestinians in Gaza intended to lead, over time, to their destruction.” Those actions included the destruction of homes, farms, hospitals and water facilities; mass evacuation orders; and the restriction of humanitarian aid and other essential services.
It also analyzed 15 airstrikes from the start of the war until April that killed at least 334 civilians, including 141 children, and wounded hundreds of other people. It said it found no evidence that any of the strikes were directed at military objectives.
It said one of the strikes destroyed the Abdelal family home in the southern city of Rafah on April 20, killing three generations of Palestinians, including 16 children, while they were sleeping. An Associated Press investigation identified at least 60 families in which at least 25 members had been killed.
Amnesty has previously angered Israel by joining other major rights groups in accusing it of the international crime of apartheid, saying that for decades it has systematically denied Palestinians basic rights in the territories under its control. Israel has also denied those allegations.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-p...sty-genocide-19aa8fb76f7271942e73d5d7a42434e0
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