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“This is a continuation of a Palestinian strategy of terrorist groups over the past decades of what’s been called lawfare. On the one hand you create impossible dilemmas on the ground for any democracy trying to defend itself and on the other within the international institutions you try to criminalize Israel’s defense.” Watch:

“The term genocide arose from the Holocaust and is now being weaponized to describe Israel's justifiable defence following a genocidal attack from Hamas.” An important piece by former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom and international lawyer Daniel Taub. A cynical attempt to pervert the meaning of genocide The term genocide is in fact relevant to the current conflict. The unspeakable atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on Oct. 7, including the murder, torture, rape and mutilation of 1,200 Israelis, and the taking hostage of 240 more, were indeed acts in pursuit of a genocidal agenda. Hamas, whose charter calls for the murder of Jews everywhere, not only celebrated the murder of every victim, and its leaders have proudly insisted that their intention and hope is to commit such atrocities "again and again and again." No state would stay passive in the face of such barbaric attacks. No state would remain idle as 130 hostages, including infants, the sick and the elderly, are still held captive by terrorists. Yet in the current proceedings it is not Hamas that is charged with genocide for its massacres but Israel for defending itself. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/a-cynical-attempt-to-pervert-the-meaning-of-genocide/article_6dae7312-ae4c-11ee-ad9f-8bee3cdc78b7.html

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There is plenty of evidence that Hamas has been up to its old trick of stealing aid, hijackings the trucks, even shooting at the civilians who shout at them, then making use of it for its own needs or selling it on at high prices. However the UN has been quiet on this, why? They weren't always like that. In Gaza back in 2009 the UN was robust and not scared to call Hamas out for stealing food and aid that was destined for the Gaza population. So robust that they even suspended that aid until Hamas handed it all back. UN suspends aid operation after second Hamas-linked theft of supplies – UN news item 6 February 2009 – The main United Nations relief agency responsible for feeding 900,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza today suspended all imports of desperately needed aid after Hamas confiscated hundreds of tons of food, the second such seizure in three days. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanded that Hamas immediately return the food to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which said its suspension would remain in force until such a return and “the Agency is given credible assurances from the Hamas government in Gaza that there will be no repeat of these thefts.” https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-209885/ I guess after all these years, considering that the majority of civilians supported Hamas, the local UN orgs and red cross etc ended up employing a good proportion, I suspect this has had a huge influence on how things have changed at the UN locally in Gaza. Again plenty of evidence and links to support all that already provided in the various topics. That said the amount being stolen by Hamas is not the cause of the food shortages overall, that's more to do with the logistics of actually getting it delivered in a war zone. Not the amount coming in as there is enough but the actual distribution. This is well highlighted by the UN, places nearer to the borders have more food, the further North you go the more scarce it becomes. The IDF carries out humanitarian pauses each day in most districts but obviously while a full scale war is going on a convoy of trucks travelling up North is still a huge risk. Unfortunately with Hamas turning down another weeks ceasefire recently for a further hostage/prisoner swap, this would have been an ideal opportunity for much needed distribution.

Yep, surprise surprise, but then Gaza is like that, even a UN staff was holding one of the hostages

Interesting. You mention journalists being killed that form part of this fact less S.A. submission to the ICJ. I notice Al Jazeera made a big thing about this one but of course failed to mention why the car was hit by IDF. IDF: Al Jazeera journalists were killed in car with drone-operating terror operative The Israel Defense Forces responded late Sunday to reports of the deaths of two Palestinian journalists working for Al Jazeera in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip earlier in the day, saying the pair were traveling in a vehicle with a terror operative who was operating a drone. In Sunday’s strike in Rafah, Hamza Wael Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh, and Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP who was also working for the Qatar-based TV outlet, were both killed. A third journalist, Hazem Rajab, was seriously wounded, Al Jazeera said. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-al-jazeera-journalists-were-killed-in-car-with-drone-operating-terror-operative

You insisted. I will leave you to it.

Yes I do read what I write thanks. Would you like me to repeat it again for you?

Why? and why do you think I need to to explain to you what deteriorating means?

For those who don't quite get it yet, or deliberately chose to look the other way. Hamas’s Strategy of Human Sacrifice While some of Hamas’s most brutal tactics, like systematic rape and beheading captives, are long-practiced atrocities for which the armies of Stalin, Hitler, and Genghis Khan are infamous, it is unprecedented for a party to adopt a war strategy to maximize civilian deaths on its own side. This is so strange and evil that it should appall any decent person. Contrary to conventional commentary, this is not a human shield strategy. It’s a human sacrifice strategy. This is not simply a human-shield strategy, where the aim is to deter an attack by using innocent lives as a barrier. Hamas is doing something far more insidious: it’s ensuring the mass death of Palestinians. Here is Hamas official Ali Baraka summing up the difference between the two worldviews: “The Israelis are known to love life. We, on the other hand, sacrifice ourselves. We consider our dead to be martyrs.” https://www.hudson.org/terrorism/hamas-strategy-human-sacrifice-douglas-feith

More deflection. Not surprising

South Africa's legal presentation at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is highly persuasive Really? Did Hamas tell you that? Hamas thanks South Africa for invoking Genocide Convention against Israel https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/17201

You claimed a lot of people here said all Palestinians were Hamas, can you reference those claims? I'll ignore the deflection.

Of course you did and yet again you are wrong, not doing so well here are you.

No, can you tell me where in that article any Hamas members have shown dissent? The article is about ordinary Palestinian civilians being silenced, any dissenters were subject to imprisonment, torture, and even murder by Hamas. More evidence of Hamas using the civilians for its own purposes only and we all know what that is.

You'll have to point out any dissidents that have spoken belonging to Hamas? Have any said they are will to comply with the Security Council resolution that states the hostages have to be released with no pre conditions?

Also known as democracy. Unlike the terrorists that Israel has waged war on: "Hamas has a no tolerance policy for criticism or objections to any of its policies. Freedom of speech in Gaza is a fantasy." Hamza Howidy, a #Palestinian peace advocate from Gaza City, shares the truth about living under #Hamas rule: Hamas Tortured Me for Dissent. Here's What They Really Think of Palestinians | Opinion https://www.newsweek.com/hamas-tortured-me-dissent-heres-what-they-really-think-palestinians-opinion-1857169

Couldn't have a worse comparison. No other war has been been fought against 1000's of terrorists who spent 16 years embedding themselves underneath the civilian population. Deliberately to use them as sacrifice and human shields.

I'm afraid the girls/women that are still being held by Hamas and its puppets have all been violently sexually abused, that's why the week long ceasefire in November broke down, Hamas refused to release any more women. For those still alive it is a living hell.

All you are trying to do is shut down debate, the same as others are trying to do over all social media Not at all, why would anyone want to shut down a thread? The Ukraine war thread has been running for 2 years, never shut down and had far more opposing views debated on it than this one or any of the other Israel/Hamas topics. That said, you refer to social media all over and yes you are right. The increase in hateful anti-Semitic content including Nazi rhetoric is not wanted anywhere. But it is increasing everywhere throughout the world and becoming a real problem but you know that already: Young Britons exposed to online radicalisation following Hamas attack It is a spike in hate that leaves young Britons increasingly exposed to radicalisation by algorithm. The BBC was given exclusive access to the team's work. Officers told me they are being referred mainly antisemitic content being posted and shared by young Britons who have not been on their radar before. They described a real "intensification" in hate, especially from "youngsters" behaving in what they describe as a reckless way online. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67884785

Whoever claimed Hamas was going to be a push over? With estimates of 40,000 - 60,000 fighters in Gaza it was never going to be done overnight. Did Middle East Monitor mention that for the last 16 years they've been burying themselves underneath the Gaza civilian population for the very reason to use them as human shields and sacrifice? Oh and with money that was intended to be for the people and not them? Thought not. Those figures quoted of 509 Israeli soldiers deaths. You Hamas supporting Middle East Monitor did not tell you that its under 200 deaths in the fight on Hamas in Gaza, the rest were deaths due to the terrorist attack on 7th Oct. "Middle East Monitor promotes a strongly pro-Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Hamas viewpoint. Anshel Pfeffer described MEMO as a “conspiracy theory-peddling anti-Israel organisation”. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/middle-east-monitor/ Latest figures for Hamas fighters killed is between 8,000 - 9,000. Northern Gaza has been dismantled of the terrorist command infrastructure, just central and southern Gaza left, yes it wil take another year or so. I do actually follow Middle East Monitor on X, good to keep an eye on the enemy along with the official Hamas affiliated accounts.

Like I said, sick post, one of many from you.

"Concentration Guards" was your term Google search first page, lets not try and back track now Jeff. Lets face it, you have been known for it before:

Since the October 7 Massacre, Hamas has been threatening to do the same all over again. Captivity survivor Chen Goldstein-Almog recounts her Hamas captor warned her: "Don’t go back to your kibbutz, he said. Don’t return to a place so close to Gaza. Go to Tel Aviv or somewhere farther north, she remembers him saying. Because we are coming back." https://archive.ph/iVZUL https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/world/middleeast/hamas-israel-hostage.html

Troll baiting gets you nowhere