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At least 313 Palestinians have been killed as Israel struck 426 targets in Gaza, its military said, flattening residential buildings in giant explosions.
Among those killed in Gaza were 20 children. About 2,000 others are wounded, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said more than 20,000 Palestinians left Gaza’s border region to head further inside the territory and take refuge in UN schools.
Nebal Farsakh, the spokesperson of the NGO Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC), told Al Jazeera that their medical teams were facing “great challenges” in Gaza, adding that they had called on the international humanitarian community to open humanitarian corridors so that NGOs like them could safely carry out their work of helping people in the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday night, Energy Minister Israel Katz said Israel would halt the electricity supply to the besieged territory. The Palestinian enclave – home to some two million people – has been under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade.
Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed said humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip were in “constant deterioration”.
What used to be 120 megawatts of electricity has now decreased to only 20MW, provided by power plants that are paid for by the Palestinian Authority, ElSayed said.
Meanwhile, healthcare institutions had to rely on spare generators to continue operating through the night due to Israel’s decision to halt the electricity supply while residents were left to endure the darkness with the unsettling backdrop of explosions not far away.
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Israeli strikes flatten buildings, mosques in Gaza
Nothing new, Israel has been doing that for decades now.
Flattening places that are used to bomb them? I’d say just about any country is guilty of that. If Russia starts launching missiles from hospitals will we then be angry at Ukraine for taking out that hospital? Or is this a lifehack that all generals should take note of?
Only one of the two is an occupying force that illegally took land and build their own settlements there.
Other party is a terrorist group,
however in past we called them by another term that seems to be unimaginable now: freedom fighters.Hamas attacked civilians and took women and children as hostages. This isn’t permitted by any law including Islamic rules of war. I must condone their actions which is nothing but terrorism.
Hamas is far more anti Israel than pro Gaza. Yes, Israel is anti Gaza, but Hamas does not represent what we want, or the waymost of us in Gaza want Israel or Jews to be treated. They are not freedom fighters, they are terrorists who have the same enemy as us.
In polls, they do seem to have the support of Gaza dwellers though. First link I found: https://apnews.com/article/hamas-middle-east-science-32095d8e1323fc1cad819c34da08fd87 Quote:
The poll found that 53% of Palestinians believe Hamas is “most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people,” while only 14% prefer Abbas’ secular Fatah party.
Yes, of course. If the two most powerful groups in your area are both acting like terrorist organizations, and one wants to kill you, and the other want to kill them, few people are going to dare to question Hamas. Hamas does nothing to help us, and nothing to better owr lives.
Illegally took land given to them by the countries in control of that land after said countries lost a war against them? Do you even know the history of how Israel was given control over the territories?
So Israel responded to terrorism with terrorism.
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War crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes in response to war crimes ×10^10000
Are you a history professor? This seems very accurate.
An eye for an eye and the world goes blind.
But a life for an eye…
Israel has been nothing but terror for decades
This plus Ukraine, plus India and Canada, plus China and several things, plus the US being in chaos and deeply divided. This is gonna turn out great for everyone I’m sure
Dont forget Taiwan and the south china sea!
I kinda lumped that into the China and several things
Don’t worry China does it too.
At the end it is all politics and state media propaganda on both sides.
Both sides feel morally right and as a result more damage is done and more civilian population is killed. And it is the regular people who suffer the most.
I am just afraid that there would be a prolonged offensive from Israel deepening the humanitarian crisis and there would be a lot of pain inflicted on regular people. This won’t really help de-escalation of the tension in the region, and perhaps would strengthen the resolve.
Well well if this is not the consequence of their own actions.
I don’t know if you can call it a consequence considering Israel would have done something like this on your average monday anyway.
There isn’t a good guy here to cheer for. Both sides act out atrocities like unthinking pre-schoolers in a fistfight hitting harder and harder, except there isn’t an adult in sight with the ability to safely break it up.
Both sides consider the other so evil, neither is able to consider any part of the other as undeserving of death.
Have you ever actually read a bit of history on that region beyond the comments on reddit? Like the 3 days war, the Yom kippur war, the peace talks? Seriously? Palestine has had so many opportunities to form their own country. But won’t even start if it requires accepting Israel as an independent state as well.
Israelis have certainly become more cruel and jaded as the years have gone on. But this isn’t two kids on a playground. This is a stable adult trying to barter with a belligerent drunk cousin who says if he can’t inherit everything then he’ll just burn it all to the ground and take the ashes.
