At least 11 people, including children, have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, it has been reported.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that the strike hit a playground frequently visited by displaced children.
Most of those killed were children, the news agency reported with several people also wounded in the attack
One eyewitness described the situation as a “horrific scene of children torn apart”.
The latest data from Unicef said that one child in Gaza is killed or injured every 10 minutes and further said that at least 70 children are injured every day during the Israeli bombardment.
There must have been a tunnel there or some headquarters under the swings
So, here’s a question, what would be the appropriate Palestinian response to this?
Fight back by any means necessary.
Not whatever Hamas is doing.
Okay, Oct. 7 is what they did, but what are they currently doing that you think warrants the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian children?
What level of response to that do you think Palestinians are entitled to?
Or do you think they deserve this for existing, and oppose any resistance at all?
What they are currently doing is still sending unguided rockets towards Israel, rockets that have an accuracy measured in kilometers and can thus only be used as terror weapons. Is Israel just supposed to eat those? Their defenses aren’t perfect and every single alert means that people have to interrupt whatever they are doing and rush into shelter within seconds.
slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian children
Because every single death in Gaza is either that of a child or a woman. What a ridiculous claim. Here’s another reminder that the only numbers we have from Gaza are those reported by Hamas themselves. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t even trust them as far as I can throw them.
There are legitimate forms of resistance, both armed and unarmed. Neither Hamas nor any other militant Palestinian organization has ever focused on legitimate resistance. It’s always been terrorism. The difference between Israel and its enemies is that civilian casualties are an unintended side-effect to Israel, one which they are trying to minimize through all sorts of measures, whereas for Palestinian organizations, it’s the main goal. Had the October 7 attacks limited themselves to military targets like border fortifications and command centers only, that would have been legitimate armed resistance. But they did not, they only did this in order to enable the murder, rape and abduction of civilians.
Anti-semitic racist justifying a genocide while ignoring things like the March of Return and other non-violent protests ending in slaughter from Israeli snipers literally wearing t-shirts showing stick figure pregnant women in cross hairs with the caption “One shot, Two kills”
You do realize the internet and the ability to automatically translate the genocidal rheoteric coming from the Israeli government has changed things, right?
People who don’t speak Hebrew can now translate this shit in real time.
You are aware that Hamas has continued armed fighting, including firing rockets at civilians since October 7, right? Just because Oct. 7 was by far the worse, that doesn’t mean they laid down their arms and surrendered.
So you think they should just let the genocide continue?
I think Hamas should surrender and release the hostages. I don’t see another realistic way to end the war at this point.
Well if they surrender then they will just kill more with less resistance
Palestinians are opposing the wrong people. If Hamas operatives were unable to operate publicly this war would be a lot easier for Israel to conduct in a manner that minimizes civilian casualties.
Hamas ≠ Palestinians
Hamas may target Israeli civilians in their war against the IDF, and that is fucking evil, but Palestinian civilians are just trying to survive. The IDF kills orders of magnitude more Palestinian civilians in their war against Hamas, and that is orders of magnitude more evil.
Expecting Palestinian civilians, half of which are children, and all of which are currently experiencing a man-made famine, to lead the charge against Hamas or die in the crossfire is fucking deranged.
Hamas is the defacto government of Gaza. They have more support amongst the people than most governments in working democracy. So yes Hamas does equal Palestinians in Gaza.
Let me guess…
“Hamas” in the playground?
Anyone remember that one Palestinian tv character Farfour the mouse?
And people made fun of him for being a Mickey Mouse ripoff Hamas propaganda character designed to incite hatred.
In episode 105 (aired June 22, 2007), Farfour is beaten to death during an interrogation by an Israeli who is trying to acquire the key and title to “Tel al-Rabi”, a fictional Palestinian settlement which was occupied by Israelis and renamed to Tel Aviv.
Seems pretty tame in comparison to getting orbitally nuked on a god damn playground.
But we gotta put more sanctions on Iran, right?
They really saw those videos of terrorists using monkey bars and decided to bomb a playground.
*Hammas controlled playground.
Wouldn’t want someone to think you’re antisemitic would you?
Conservative Israeli’s: “Gottem!”
It’s incredible that leaders like Biden can still back Israel after actions like this.
The United States cannot turn its back on its allies so easily. It takes decades to build strong alliances.
Israel is only a detriment to the US.
Supporting Israel the main reason for the 9/11 attacks, which cost the US trillions of dollars.
What a horrific example of the sunk cost fallacy.
So it’s not a good example? What does it say to other allies when we drop one? Israel was attacked. We should stand by them. Certainly I am not supportive of what is happening in Gaza. I blame Bibi, not Biden.
What does it say to other allies when we drop one?
Probably something like “bombing children is bad” or “don’t commit genocide”
Aljazeera Arabic released a video showing some of the victims of this brutal israeli massacre on little children. Some injured some dead.
Footage starts at about 1:10 NSFL (light Gore + Death): Video link
Harrowing. Those poor children.
Fuck Israel. Fuck HAMAS.
Hamas had nothing to do with israel slaughtering these children.
Unless we take the IDF suggestion that all these kids were “Hamas operatives”.
I never said they did.
But they also slaughtered children.
I stand by my statements.
Hamas has a 3% child casualty rate on October 7 (including all israeli friendly fire)
Israel has a 40% child casualty rate since October 7
It would be great if the Hamas child casualty was even lower but one of these is clearly not like the other.
I in no way deny or defend the patently obvious genocide being committed by Israel.
But I refuse to ignore the slaughter committed by HAMAS.
Much like the IRA, a just cause does not justify any means. Omagh was wrong. The 7th of October was wrong. Murderes of innocents and children.
Acknowledgement of that didn’t lessen the murder and brutality of the UK or Israel. State sanctioned oppression, murder and genocide.
Both are wrong. Downvote away.
What are you talking about did Hamas shoot up children last week?
Only tankies defend crimes against innocent civilians based on them being citizens of a stronger country
All civilians deserve protection
IDF discovering a secret Hamas tunnel network