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An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say.
The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed a "Hamas compound".
Local journalists told the BBC that an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Hamas media office said at least 27 people were killed and accused Israel of committing a "horrific massacre".
Ambulances and rescue teams have been rushing the wounded and dead to a nearby hospital.
Footage on social media showed destroyed classrooms and dead bodies wrapped in shrouds at a morgue.
"Enough war! We have been displaced dozens of times. They killed our children while they were sleeping," a woman injured in the attack screamed in one video.
Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas media office, rejected Israel's claims that the UN school had hidden a Hamas command post.
"The occupation uses ... false fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people," he told Reuters.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said jets had conducted a "precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat".
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On 6/4/2024 at 3:44 PM, Rimmer said:
Why Aren’t U.S. Navy LCAC Hovercraft Being Used To Deliver Aid To Gaza?
It will take some time before the Biden administration's highly touted pier in Gaza is usable again after breaking apart in heavy seas. Humanitarian aid deliveries via the sea have subsequently ground to a halt and criticisms are growing about how the technically 'no-boots-on-the-ground' mission has proceeded to date. Yet the U.S. has a robust capability to conduct outsized deliveries from ship to shore without any of this infrastructure. So, if this is such a high-priority humanitarian mission, where are the U.S. Navy's Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) hovercraft?
https://www.twz.com/sea/why-are-navy-hovercraft-not-bringing-aid-to-gazas-shores
3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:Perhaps the pier was only a means to pretend to the world that the US was actually doing something to aid Gazans. As pointed out by multiple sources the number of trucks using the pier was far below the number required to make a difference.
IMO it wasn't meant to work.
If the US was serious it would send aid trucks on large landing ships that don't need a pier ( which took a long time to install ). They worked well during WW2 and I expect the USN will still have some available.
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Americans trapped in war-torn Sudan last year needed a way out of the country, but the U.S. Marine Corps, the go-to service for such rescues, couldn’t help.
Typically, this kind of mission would be standard for the Navy and Marine Corps’ amphibious ready group and Marine expeditionary unit, made up of 2,300 Marines aboard three ships who are trained to fight their way into and evacuate citizens from dangerous locations.
Instead, as violence surged, the Pentagon relied on drones to monitor a 500-mile escape route from the capital of Khartoum to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan. For the Americans who fled to the coast, the Pentagon sent an auxiliary transport ship to shuttle them to safety in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
It was a complicated and risky self-evacuation.
At the same time, off the coast of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the Bataan ARG and 26th MEU were conducting a noncombatant evacuation simulation — training for the very operation Americans in Sudan needed. But the group stayed put because it wasn’t yet certified for global missions.
The Navy didn’t have another set of ready amphibious ships to deploy from the East Coast on short notice.
All of this followed a similar situation a few months earlier, when service leaders were unable to send a team to Turkey and Syria to provide aid after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the region.
Maj. Gen. Roger Turner, the Marine Corps’ operations division director, told Defense News the naval forces “have this razor-thin capacity” with amphibious ships, and when emergencies arise, “there’s no capacity to react.”
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1 minute ago, sammieuk1 said:
Israel has unfinished business and no amount of whinging,whining, or protesting is going to deter the inevitable the gates of hell were opened 07/10 and ain't going to close until the scum are destroyed 🤔
Yes, I hope you're right, but what happens next, rinse and repeat in 2/5/10 years?
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Just now, Bkk Brian said:
Yep totally one sided when conspiracy theories enter the minds of nutters who deny the rapes and atrocities happened by Hamas. Why are you deflecting from that? That was what I responded to. Would you rather false vile claims were not addressed?
All the bad people on both sides are excuses for human beings, but the fact still remains 7/10 happened, answer me this Brian how many years has Israel managed to fool the world that they are totally innocent of any provocation?
As for the so called conspiracy theories, the propaganda machine of Israel is slowly but surely being exposed and the rest of the human race are seeing them for what they are.
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And lets not all forget the Gaza strip was all sweetness and light before Hamas attacked Israel before 7/10.
Can anybody tell me what you call a shoe mender?
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1 hour ago, coolcarer said:There is no genocide full stop unless it is proven. Baseless off topic accusations so far. Great way to distract from the horrible abuse of the hostages. Be proud man
Crying out loud, is there a case before the ICJ?
Are there pending charges for the leaders of both sides of this war at the ICC?
Yes, the hostages may/have been horrible abused and killed.
How many innocent Palestinians are dead, mutilated, buried under the wanton destruction of Gaza, will we ever know the full figure?
You may be proud, I'm sick to the teeth of the lot of it.
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Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.
Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza, according to officials involved in the effort and documents related to the operation.
The covert campaign was commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the State of Israel, four Israeli officials said. The ministry allocated about $2 million to the operation and hired Stoic, a political marketing firm in Tel Aviv, to carry it out, according to the officials and the documents.
The campaign began in October and remains active on the platform X. At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts that posed as real Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post pro-Israel comments. The accounts focused on U.S. lawmakers, particularly ones who are Black and Democrats, such as Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader from New York, and Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, with posts urging them to continue funding Israel’s military.
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Just now, transam said:
Then why do members keep using the word here...........🤔
Because that is the accusation/charge:
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)
Palestine files an application for permission to intervene and a declaration of intervention
in the proceedings, invoking Articles 62 and 63 of the Statute of the Courthttps://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240603-pre-02-00-en.pdf
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6 minutes ago, transam said:
Why do you tell lies regarding "Genocide"..........? 🤔
There is no Genocide till the ICJ ends their deliberations, then there is the ICC to punish the preparators, hope I live long enough to see it.
The wheels of justice are turning, slowly but surely.
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2.5 hours away, 5k baht rtn, be great if it gets to 25% of Macau, to get my poker fix.
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24 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:
The cult is strong. (And I am not talking about the "woke bedwetters")I thought he was a small guy, 5' 7" and 10 stone wet?
Opps, beg pardon, you said cult, my dyslexia playing up again 😉
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The United States of Israel/America?
The House voted Tuesday to pass a bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials – House Republicans’ response to the court seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ICC’s targeting of Netanyahu has sparked widespread backlash from Republicans and Democrats in Congress. President Joe Biden has also forcefully denounced the ICC move, saying “there is no equivalence” between Israel and Hamas, but the administration has said it does not support the GOP-led effort to sanction the court.
It is unlikely that the Senate will take up the sanctions bill. The House passed the bill in a 247 to 155 vote, with 42 Democrats joining Republicans in support. Two GOP members voted present.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview last month that the court is seeking arrest warrants for the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.
According to the legislative text, the bill would impose sanctions on individuals “engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.” The sanctions include prohibiting US property transactions and blocking and revoking visas.
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Biden: People have 'every reason' to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war
The US president said the Israeli prime minister seems to want the war in Gaza to continue for his political survival.US President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given people "every reason" to believe he is prolonging the war on Gaza to save his political career.
Biden's remarks, published on Tuesday in an interview with Time Magazine, echoed sentiments regularly voiced by analysts and western officials, suggesting that Netanyahu believes his political fortunes are best served by continuing the war.
"There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion," Biden said, although his administration had just a day earlier laid the blame for a delay in a ceasefire squarely on Hamas.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-biden-every-reason-believe-netanyahu-prolonging-conflict
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12 minutes ago, James105 said:
Why is it that lefties think it is acceptable to assault politicians who hold views that they disagree with? This girl should go to jail as whilst this time it is a milkshake the next time it could be acid as leftists can be very unhinged about people who do not hold the "correct" views.
Good arm, sign her up for the cricket team.
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43 minutes ago, BangkokHank said:
So it's a town full of moaning old right wingers (who hate to see their country swirling down the drain), and Farage will win them over with his poisonous views? And let me guess: YOU just happen to have the all the right views. Why even bother having an election when YOU already know what's best for the country.
Bit of bad news for the people of Clacton, the waters nearly reached France and being used to bring their next lot of carers in. Nige is just there for the beer.
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On 5/29/2024 at 7:00 AM, Bkk Brian said:
I was in the UK when bombs were going off, I was 100 meters away from the Harrods bomb. I can tell you the IRA had nothing on Hamas. The IRA nearly always gave warning before detonating bombs to give the opportunity for civilians to evacuate first. Does Hamas do that?
100 meters away, lol, seen bigger fireworks go off, was there in 71/72 and 73, nail bombed twice, had to pick up limbs and pieces of flesh and bone at Belfast bus station after "Bloody Friday", witnessed a comrade top himself with an SLR and numerous other incidents, you never forget.
Probably why I'm such a peacenik now
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I'll admit to being a shout it from the rooftops Remainer, but TBH it made me get off my behind and get out of the Parish, where incidentally Rishi was my MP.
Now happy as a pig in clover in darkest Thailand, so now I couldn't give a stuff what's happening in the old Country, which to me has gone so far downhill whoever gets elected is going to have trouble pushing it back up again.
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17 minutes ago, bob smith said:
that man is a complete and utter plonker!
bob.
On the money, Bob 😂
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There are some wonderful Israeli's, the good:
Interfaith ‘march for peace’ held in capital, in counter to Jerusalem Day Flag March
Decrying use of religious rhetoric to promote war, liberal Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze religious leaders say event sends message of ‘peace, justice and equality’Some two hundred people led by rabbis, sheikhs and priests marched through the center of Jerusalem on Monday evening in a display of cross-religious solidarity against the ongoing war in Gaza and the upcoming Jerusalem Day Flag March planned for Wednesday.
In the eyes of the organizers of the interfaith march, the Flag March — which annually sees thousands of religious nationalist Israelis parade through Jerusalem, including through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City — has become a “symbol of violence and occupation” over the years, often marred by hate speech and violence towards Palestinians.
“We decided to create a joint march that sends the opposite message, one of peace, justice and equality,” said Rabbis for Human Rights director Avi Dabush, an evacuee from Kibbutz Nirim who survived Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught.
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Exclusive: Israel reopens Gaza food sales as Rafah raid chokes aid
VETTED BY ISRAELI MILITARY
Israel launched its assault on Rafah on May 7, defying warnings from its closest ally the United States that the offensive would cause more civilian casualties and from aid agencies who said it could upend efforts to deliver food to Gazans.
A week later, said Abu Ramadan of the Chamber of Commerce, the Israeli military began contacting traders in Gaza saying they could resume taking deliveries of food from Israel and the West Bank.
Under the arrangement, all suppliers and goods have to be vetted by the Israeli military, according to Wassim Al-Jaabari, head of the West Bank food and industry union.
The Gaza distributors meet the trucks sent by suppliers at the Kerem Shalom crossing on Gaza's southern border where the military examines the goods before allowing the distributors to take them into the enclave, the two Palestinian officials said.
A copy of a COGAT list seen by Reuters showed that on May 22, 127 trucks carrying watermelons, lemons, eggs and milk as well as spices, rice, pasta, sugar and other items had been ordered by Gazan distributors. The list showed that most of the supplies came from the West Bank, though Reuters couldn't determine if that was representative of deliveries more broadly.
Jaabari and Abu Ramadan said no free goods or charitable donations were allowed in from the West Bank or Israel, only products for sale.
None of the five interviewed businessmen involved in the trade would disclose exactly what they charge for a full shipment, but said their prices were what it normally cost to sell in the West Bank. Transport prices, however, push the cost up as trucks often have to spend a long time on the road near Kerem Shalom waiting for inspection and are sometimes ransacked by Israelis protesting the entry of goods to Gaza, they said.
Two distributors inside Gaza declined to say how much they bought and sold goods for. They pay the West Bank suppliers by bank transfer and take cash from sellers in local markets. -
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Hope this makes everyone proud you're a human being.
A food survey by aid agencies in May found that 85 per cent of children did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted, with dietary diversity worsening.
Living conditions are so appalling that in Al-Mawasi, there are just 121 latrines for over 500,000 people – or 4,130 people having to share each toilet.
Just 19 per cent of the 400,000 litres of fuel a day needed to run the humanitarian operation in Gaza – including transportation, the provision of clean water and sewage removal – is being allowed in and is not delivered every day.
According to the UN, aid deliveries have dropped by two-thirds since Israel’s invasion of Rafah. Since 6 May, just 216 trucks of humanitarian aid entered via Kerem Shalom and were able to be collected – an average of eight a day
It’s estimated that hundreds of commercial food trucks are entering daily via the Kerem Shalom crossing. Although important for increasing food availability in Gaza, the consignments include items like non-nutritious energy drinks, chocolate and cookies, and food is often sold at inflated prices that people cannot afford. Lack of dietary diversity is one of the key drivers of acute malnutrition and has been assessed as ‘extremely critical’ in Gaza
People are paying nearly $700 for the most basic tents and there is so little space left, that some have been forced to set up tents in the cemetery at Deir al-Balah
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6pm Thai time = 12 noon UK time, ordered the popcorn, already have plenty of Chang in fridge, spliffs rolled looking forward to watching Richard Head walk off Clacton pier.
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Israeli's are not all the same, well worth a watch.
The Bottom Line
Gideon Levy: Israel has achieved nothing with war on Gaza
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy on the implications of Israel’s strategy for long-term war in Gaza.
Given a choice between war and getting all its captives back, Israel has opted for more war, argues Israeli journalist Gideon Levy.
Levy tells host Steve Clemons that Israeli politicians may abandon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but even if he was replaced, Israel would continue its war on Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian people as a whole. “Radical change” in Israeli attitude and US support is needed for any improvement in the situation, says Levy.
After October 7, even those on the Israeli left believe that Israel has the right to do whatever it wants, the Haaretz columnist argues.
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Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
in The War in Israel
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Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has threatened an “extremely powerful” response to attacks by Hezbollah from Lebanon, which have escalated in recent days.
A few hours after Netanyahu spoke, drones fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon struck the northern Israeli town of Hurfeish, in the Upper Galilee region, which has a largely Druze population, injuring 11 Israelis, one critically. There were several explosions and reports that air raid alarms had not been activated.
Earlier this week Hezbollah launched a wave of attacks that set off substantial fires, which were fanned by dry and powerful winds. Television footage from the area of Kiryat Shmona showed firestorms engulfing nearby forests. Emergency services struggled for two days to bring the fires under control.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/netanyahu-israel-hezbollah-attacks