Gaza hospital deluged as Israel retaliation kills and wounds hundreds

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On Saturday morning, people in Gaza celebrated after Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel and launched deadly cross-border attacks.

A day later, the picture was very different.

After non-stop Israeli shelling, people were staying indoors. Explosions continued throughout Sunday.

The sound was terrifying. Clouds of black smoke engulfed buildings across the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army says it has hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza. These include military positions, the homes of the Hamas's leaders, as well as banks run by the militant group.

One of the more significant Israeli strikes on Sunday morning targeted the Watan Tower, which serves as a hub for internet providers in Gaza.

 

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Palestinian health officials say more than 400 people have been killed in retaliatory Israeli air strikes on Gaza.

Most areas are without electricity as Israel has stopped supplying Gaza with power. Gaza's own supplier can only provide 20% of the electricity needed.

Food and water supplies have also been cut.

Driving through the Gaza city centre on Sunday morning, I saw rubble blocking roads. Shops were closed, except for a few bakeries where long queues had formed.

The escalation has made Gaza's dreadful humanitarian situation even worse.

 

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[Tropposurfer]

Netanyahoooo gets exactly what he and his ultra right wanted.

 

Hezbollah no doubt is a violent terror group, akin to Al Quaeda, ISIS.

The Israeli Army is also an ultra-terror organisation.

 

If you don't think so then take a look at the not-to-long-ago Israeli army sniper murder of a clearly identified (ident vested and coloured helmeted) Palestinian/American female journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, by that Army and the complete indifference and cover-up of that murder by that government army.

 

Its impossible to have any chance of a peaceful settlement in Israel when since the 1940's systematically, unerringly Jewish immigrants have disenfranchised another culture (that has lived in the land just as long as any Jewish person has), being met by fierce resistance by proud Arabic tribes.

 

Imagine a people who believe that they are the chosen ones and have a God given right to take whatever they please and that the other peoples who live there have no rights, none at all.

Actually not so abstract a concept when you look at what has been happening in the USA since 2016!

 

The Arabic tribes, who lived there before Moses and all those other dudes written about in the Bible and the Tora, have turned to the only alternative (violent, cruel, and insane as it is) they saw as only left to them.

 

I've been in that land.
I've seen to systemic institutionalised genocide of the Arabic tribes in Israeli, and it is both shocking and deeply sad. The unending Israeli rhetoric and structural vice which in no way acknowledges any Arabic rights to anything, not water, not space to live, not freedom to work, not freedom to travel, not adequate basic medical care etc etc is never ending.

 

The narrative that Israel is simply defending itself is both truth and falsity.

You put any culture under unending brutal oppression and those people will either lay down and be crushed into non-existence or stand and fight for their freedom.

 

In psychotherapy we know about how when you brutalise and dehumanise people, eventually, they either succumb to or become the brutality itself. This brutality is throughout human history passed on to the following generations.

e.g. The recent Balkan wars where the predominantly Christian Catholic government and their army through the generations of cultural hatred passed down by father to son, mass murdered (genicide) the Serbian muslims of that land (thats been breaking out, going on for a thousand years).

 

As the Jewish people were brutalised by the Nazis and struggled to integrate/cope with such unspeakable brutality, they themselves become the brutaliser in the land now called Israel. The go-to way to do that is to 'otherate', to dehumanise the target group ... then killing them becomes rationalised and normalised. 

 

One thing I would say is irrefutable is that this treatment takes the sanity of both groups, the primal instincts of empathy and compassion for anyone not 'your people' is removed, dies, in its place a very real form of collective-madness takes root and infests the host.  

     

[hotchilli]

All as bad as each other.... 

[Sydebolle]

As in the Bible - eye for an eye: nothing learnt ever since. It was Israel which encroached Palestine and not the other way round. Wondering now, why the Palestinians retaliate? I fully agree with Palestine's position - likewise I condemn their latest action to the fullest. 

Only once the Israel-lobby is being cut off the yearly USD 24 billion from their zionist brethren across the Atlantic - only then there might be hope that they come to reason but, until then, it is how Kissinger always said. Not important who wins or loses, important is having a war. Latter feeds millions of Americans through their ammo and war gear industry. 

[Danderman123]

Hamas expected this, but still went ahead with their terror operation. Either crazy or evil.

[WDSmart]

The wheels on the bus go round and round,

Round and round,

Round and round... 

[Tug]

Wonder if those Hamas leaders thought about preparing for the obvious retaliation from Israel as they stockpiled weapons they had to know this would be the result.or do they even care?

[Morch]

1 hour ago, Tug said:

Wonder if those Hamas leaders thought about preparing for the obvious retaliation from Israel as they stockpiled weapons they had to know this would be the result.or do they even care?

Prepare how? They do not invest in bomb shelters for the populace. From a cynical propaganda point of view, each dead Palestinian is a boon.

[Hanaguma]

59 minutes ago, Morch said:

Prepare how? They do not invest in bomb shelters for the populace. From a cynical propaganda point of view, each dead Palestinian is a boon.

Exactly. Instead, Hamas prefers to shelter in hospitals and schools and mosques. Places where collateral civilian casualties are virtually guaranteed. Then they can cry and mewl about the evil IDF.

 

Ah yes, the evil IDF. WHen is the last time they entered Gaza to murder hundreds of peaceful young people attending a cultural event? Or kidnapped and raped countless women in Gaza?