Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | 2023- till present
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Crime upon crime, but those with the power to stop them are deaf, dumb and blind.
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Gaza is the only thing saving the dignity of the Arabs and Palestine from being completely stolen by the Zionists.
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In Hezbollah’s Sights, a Stretch of Northern Israel Becomes a No-Go Zone
Story by Isabel Kershner and Sergey Ponomarev• 3h • 7 min read
A building in Kiryat Shmona, a city near Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, was damaged in an attack by Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group.© Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
KFAR YUVAL, Israel — More than 60,000 Israelis who live far from Gaza but close to the front line of another spiraling conflict have in recent months been ordered from their homes along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon — the first mass evacuation of the area in Israeli history.
In one Israeli border town, antitank missiles fired from Lebanon have damaged scores of homes. In another village, holdouts who refuse to evacuate said they avoided turning lights on at night to keep from becoming visible targets. And in a sign of the proximity of the fighters across the border and how personal the simmering hostilities have become, a farmer said he had received a text message claiming to be from Hezbollah and threatening him with death.
Israeli soldiers, along with a dummy of a soldier, at the checkpoint outside Kibbutz She’ar Yashuv.© Provided by The New York Times
The evacuations and an effort in Lebanon to move thousands of civilians away from the border are the result of an intensifying conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia and political organization.
The skirmish along Israel’s northern border is being fought in parallel with the more intense war in Gaza, which Israel launched after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Now also in its sixth month, the battle with Hezbollah has implications both for the prospects of a wider regional conflict and for the thousands of civilians who live along the frontier.
In Hezbollah’s Sights, a Stretch of Northern Israel Becomes a No-Go Zone
Story by Isabel Kershner and Sergey Ponomarev• 3h • 7 min read
Israel releases footage said to show air raid on Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon
Israel has responded forcefully to Hezbollah’s attacks: Above the hills and valleys of Israel’s border with Lebanon, Israeli warplanes rumble overhead. In the recent fighting, at least eight civilians in Israel and 51 in Lebanon have been killed, according to the Israeli and Lebanese authorities, as have combatants on both sides.
A kindergarten in Kiryat Shmona damaged by Hezbollah shelling.© Provided by The New York Times
A recent two-day trip through the Galilee Panhandle — a finger of Israeli territory that juts into Lebanon — and west toward the Mediterranean coast revealed a mostly abandoned landscape stalked by fear and overtaken by nature. This stretch of Israel has become a virtual no-go zone, even to families who have lived in the area for generations. Military checkpoints block access to communities within a mile or so of the frontier, and daily life is frozen in a state of anxious suspension.
Toby Abutbul, left, outside his father’s restaurant, one of the few still open in Kiryat Shmona.© Provided by The New York Times
Residents of the region are split over whether the government was right to order an evacuation. Some say it showed weakness and effectively handed Hezbollah a victory. Others say it has saved countless lives.
Chaim Amedi, 82, a resident of Kfar Yuval, a now mostly deserted village barely a mile from Lebanon, has refused to abandon the town his parents founded in the 1950s and evacuate to a hotel. “You don’t leave a home,” he said, adding that “hotels are for vacations.”
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite group that is better armed and organized than its Hamas allies in Gaza, began firing across the border after Oct. 7. The attacks have been big enough to demonstrate the group’s solidarity with Hamas, but measured enough so far to prevent provoking an all-out conflict with Israel.
Some days, Hezbollah has fired up to 100 short-range rockets. Israel, in turn, has struck targets up to 60 miles inside Lebanon.
In Kiryat Shmona, normally an Israeli city of about 24,000, about 1,500 inhabitants remain. Many residents, now scattered among 220 hotels across Israel, did not even wait for the government’s order on Oct. 20 to evacuate.
The town’s banks and malls are closed. The start-up companies at the city’s burgeoning food-technology hub have left. Only one eatery is open — a modest shawarma and falafel joint catering mainly to soldiers.
A house that burned after being hit by a rocket in Kiryat Shmona.© Provided by The New York Times
Toby Abutbul, 22, the son of the owner, showed reporters video footage of what he said were two anti-tank missiles landing in front of him last month as he drove on the city’s main road. An air-raid siren sounded only after the missiles struck. A nearby woman and her teenage son were severely wounded, according to the local authorities.
A destroyed auditorium in Kibbutz Sasa.© Provided by The New York Times
Israel’s Iron Dome system can intercept many types of rockets, which fly in high arcs and are difficult to aim, but nowadays, Hezbollah also fires rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles. Israel has no immediate answer for such weapons, which allow for more precise line-of-sight targeting, fly low to the ground and hit targets in seconds and without warning.
Looped contrails from rockets near Kiryat Shmona. Hezbollah has conducted barrages of up to a hundred short-range rockets.© Provided by The New York Times
Hezbollah’s use of those weapons means there is no time to run to a shelter. If anything happens, the instructions are to hit the ground wherever you are.
Itay and Niv Tamir, a couple in their 30s, returned home in late January with their sons, ages 1 and 4, to the border community of Kibbutz HaGoshrim.
They risked returning, they said, in part because their house is not in the direct line of sight from Lebanon. Nevertheless, the boys sleep in a bombproof safe room.
“We try not to let the fear control us,” Ms. Tamir said. But, she added, the family rarely ventures far outdoors given that much of the kibbutz is within view of villages in Lebanon.
An anti-tank missile in December crashed through an auditorium in Kibbutz Sasa, according to the military and local officials. Hezbollah has also employed exploding drones, with which they have struck an army base, according to the group and the military.
Israeli government and military officials say they are considering military action to push Hezbollah back from the border unless a diplomatic effort can achieve the same result first. In the meantime, the death toll on both sides is rising.
This month, the Israeli military said that its air and ground forces had struck more than 4,500 Hezbollah targets in both Lebanon and neighboring Syria since Oct. 7, and that they had killed more than 300 Hezbollah operatives. Hezbollah’s official website and spokesman said that “more than 200” of its fighters had been killed to date.
An empty open-air market in Kiryat Shmona.© Provided by The New York Times
Fourteen Israeli soldiers have been killed in the north so far, according to the Israeli authorities.
For decades, Israel’s northern towns and villages were targets for militants based in Lebanon. Armed Palestinian groups infiltrated the border in the 1970s and 1980s, entering homes, hijacking buses and taking schoolchildren hostage. The city of Kiryat Shmona, in the Galilee Panhandle, was plagued by Katyusha rocket fire and was long a symbol of Israeli resilience.
Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and left in 2000. During Israel’s long occupation, Lebanese villagers crossed the border daily to work on Israeli farms and in the towns of the Galilee.
Even during the worst battles of the past, including a devastating, monthlong war with Hezbollah in 2006, Israel never formally evacuated the border towns.
Since that war ended, residents say they have seen fighters who appear to be from Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces monitoring them through the border fence, violating a United Nations-backed cease-fire that ended the war and was meant to establish a demilitarized zone.
“They studied each community, studied us personally, our routines, our places of employment, waiting for an opportunity,” said Eitan Davidi, 53, a farmer from Margaliot, a small village abutting the border. “They know when I come, when I go. They know my kids.”
In January, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military’s spokesman, said at a news conference that Radwan fighters were operating along the border.
Mr. Davidi, who produces chicken eggs and owns fruit orchards, said the war became particularly personal after he gave interviews to the Israeli news media in which he said Lebanese border villages harboring Hezbollah fighters should be razed — “Not on their heads,” he said, clarifying that he was referring only to the buildings.
First, he said, he received a threatening WhatsApp message reminding him in Hebrew that his chicken coops had already been hit twice. “We won’t miss the target a third time,” the message read. It was signed Hezbollah. The New York Times, which viewed the message, could not independently confirm its origin.
Next came a social media post from a correspondent for Al Manar, Hezbollah’s television channel, calling Mr. Davidi the “mule” of Margaliot. The post included images of gunmen on the Lebanese side of the border with Mr. Davidi’s village, his chicken coops and home visible in the background.
Eitan Davidi, a farmer from a small village near the border, said Hezbollah was not just firing randomly on the border but targeting individual Israeli citizens.© Provided by The New York Times
Missiles and rockets have since incinerated most of his coops. One exploded in his backyard. An anti-tank missile fired into Margaliot on March 4 killed a farm laborer from India and injured seven more foreign workers, according to the Israeli military.
Hezbollah and Lebanese officials have also blamed Israel for targeting civilians across the border. Last month, after a family was killed in an Israeli strike, Najib Mikati, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, accused Israel of “killing and targeting of innocent children, women, and older adults.” After the same attack, Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, vowed Israel would “pay the price of spilling their blood.”
A sixth-generation farmer from Metula, Tal Levit, 45, who now serves in the military reserves as a member of the town’s emergency response team, said his home had also been struck by Hezbollah.
An empty street in Kiryat Shmona.© Provided by The New York Times
Speaking at a rest stop south of Metula, he said he had seen people on the Lebanese side of the fence monitoring the town. “Some were half in uniform, or were dressed as shepherds,” he said. “They were photographing, preparing.”
In the summer months, he said, the leaves of a pecan tree obscure his house from prying eyes, but the winter left it exposed. Generally, Mr. Levit has been careful not to go home wearing his military uniform. But one day last month, he entered his house to do laundry and have a cup of coffee. An hour after he left, a missile penetrated the roof and exploded inside, he said.
Tal Levit, who serves in the military reserves as a member of his town’s emergency response team, said his home had been struck by Hezbollah.© Provided by The New York Times
On the approach to Kfar Yuval, a faded road sign reads, “Border Ahead.” A mother and her son, who was a member of the village’s armed response team, were killed in January when an anti-tank rocket struck their home on the edge of the village, according to the Israeli military.
A sheep gate on a hill separating Israel from Lebanon. The small city of Kiryat Shmona is at right.© Provided by The New York Times
Along the village pathways, orange trees are heavy with unpicked fruit. The top half of a children’s plastic slide emerges from the green sea of an overgrown lawn. Most of the houses are shuttered.
The silence one recent afternoon was broken by a long series of booms.
It was hard to tell who was firing on whom.
Khansaheeb
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They have heart of stones and are poisoned by free money and corruption.
The SC
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Pro-Israel pressure groups are pressuring Congress to investigate the parties organizing mass protests in support of Palestine, on charges of receiving foreign funds and having a relationship with Hamas. An NBC investigation reveals that these charges are baseless.
Khansaheeb
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Following Schumer and Biden comments on Jewish state, locals have a message: 'Stay out of Israeli politics'
Story by Ruth Marks EglashIsraelis react to Schumer, Biden criticisms
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JERUSALEM – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., should not interfere with Israel’s internal politics and President Biden is turning on the Jewish state out of his own political interests ahead of the U.S. national elections in November. These are just some of the views Israelis in Jerusalem’s bustling Machane Yehuda food market expressed to Fox News Digital earlier this week.
Shoppers expressed disappointment with recent comments made by Schumer criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and suggesting it was time for Israelis to hold new elections. Speaking at a virtual gathering of Republican senators on Wednesday, Netanyahu hit back at Schumer, a lifetime supporter of Israel and the highest-ranking Jewish elected official, calling his comments "wholly inappropriate and outrageous," according to reports.
Israelis interviewed by Fox News Digital shared a similar sentiment when asked what they thought about Schumer’s call for a new election.
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"I don't think it's Schumer's place to comment on the politics in Israel or tell us we need to do a re-election," one shopper told Fox News Digital.
Another said Schumer "should worry about his own re-election and try to stay out of Israeli politics."
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"We know how to handle ourselves," he said.
"We had elections," another of those interviewed stated. "We have a government that was elected. He understands democracy. He knows Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East."
Shoppers were also asked if they felt that the president, who spoke to Netanyahu by phone earlier in the week and demanded he send a delegation to Washington to discuss Israel’s strategy in its five-month-old war in Gaza, had turned on Israel.
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"He is turning a little bit on Israel as a strategy because he, Biden, wants to win the next U.S. election," one Israeli interviewed told Fox News Digital.
"Unfortunately, that’s the main issue with politicians," another person interviewed said. "They have their own concerns and not for the well-being of all the people."
Others said they did not trust Biden, called him a liar and noted that the U.S. leader "is not in the soundest of minds, so whatever he says it’s here today it could be gone tomorrow."
"President Trump was the only president who really understood the true alliance with Israel and bucked the anti-Israel foreign policy of the foreign policy of America," said another shopper.
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Fox News Digital also asked those in Jerusalem, a city known for its more conservative views as compared to Israel’s second-largest city of Tel Aviv, if elections were held in Israel today who they might vote for.
One man said he would vote for Netanyahu, while others hesitated, noting that while it would be difficult to cast a vote for Netanyahu after the horrific terror attack carried out by Hamas terrorists on southern Israel on Oct. 7, they also felt that there were no viable alternative options.
"It would be very difficult for me to vote for Bibi Netanyahu again… after what has happened," one man said, referring to the Israeli leader by his nickname. "I would have to look into alternative but similar options."
Another person responded that she wouldn't vote for Netanyahu "because I just think he was too long as prime minister in Israel, it's time for a change."
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) tent camp in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on Nov. 27, 2023. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images© Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images
Netanyahu is the longest-serving leader in Israel’s history. First elected prime minister in 1996, Netanyahu took the country through five rounds of snap elections after failing to secure a clear majority of votes needed in order to establish a government. In 2022, following the fifth election, Netanyahu, 74, joined forces with far-right and ultra-religious parties to finally form a government. In the months leading up to the Oct. 7 terror attack, Israelis had been holding mass weekly demonstrations against his government’s plans to overhaul the country’s judiciary.
Original article source: Following Schumer and Biden comments on Jewish state, locals have a message: 'Stay out of Israeli politics'
PakFactor
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Nai bhai, this conflict is not just for the Arabs but the rest of the Muslims; It mixed its dignity in the dirt.
Unknowntruth
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Ironic that AIPAC an actual foreign lobby group is working on behalf of a foreign government (Israel). They should all be tried for treason.
Indos
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Basically Christian is pro Israel, so you will see in any countries with Christian as the majority they will support Israel. Even an Indonesian pro Israel you see in either old PDF and here is Christian with no ethnicity relationship with Jew
He (Antonius) is a blatant supporter of Israel as you can see from his posts
The SC
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The generals of the Zionist army beg and grovel before Rabbi Zvi Friedman, the leader of the “Haredi movement.”
In an interview, we show you the reality of this entity that they are trying to hide through their fake accounts that have spread by the thousands on social media over the past few days.
Read this interview and listen carefully...
It sums up the situation perfectly.
We have put some words in parentheses for you: “..”.
You will not hear it said by Zionists anywhere else.
General:
We are here because the State of Israel is in a “very bad condition” and in a “great calamity” militarily and socially.
We are now focusing on the military and security aspect.
We cannot continue to carry this burden alone because it has become an existential threat.
Rabbi:
I have 40 grandchildren and children. If they asked me what I would have preferred:
That Arabs kill them or become secular?!
And I prefer that the Arabs kill them.
Because our secularism is worse than death... and because the army is the seat of secularism and the seat of secular Israeli culture
So 
we won't go.
For us, this is worse than death. We prefer to eat pork and not be in a secular place with a secular ideology.
The army does not have literature and culture.
He is retarded and a criminal.
General:
We are in a difficult situation...
We as a society do not see that what Israel was like can continue after October 7th.
We are in a “new world” absolutely “negatively”.
Rabbi:
Despite everything that is happening..
We prefer prison to the army and let whatever happens happen... And we are here and we will not move and we do not care about death..
General:
Is this to this degree?!!
Rabbi:
Yes...
I said that before too.
General:
But life is a sacred matter..isn't it?!
Rabbi:
No... There is something more sacred, which is faith.
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In an interview, we show you the reality of this entity that they are trying to hide through their fake accounts that have spread by the thousands on social media over the past few days.Read this interview and listen carefully...
It sums up the situation perfectly.
We have put some words in parentheses for you: “..”.You will not hear it said by Zionists anywhere else.
General: We are here because the State of Israel is in a “very bad condition” and in a “great calamity” militarily and socially.We are now focusing on the military and security aspect.
We cannot continue to carry this burden alone because it has become an existential threat.
Rabbi: I have 40 grandchildren and children. If they asked me what I would have preferred:That Arabs kill them or become secular?!
And I prefer that the Arabs kill them.Because our secularism is worse than death... and because the army is the seat of secularism and the seat of secular Israeli culture
So we won't go.For us, this is worse than death. We prefer to eat pork and not be in a secular place with a secular ideology.
The army does not have literature and culture.
He is retarded and a criminal.General:We are in a difficult situation...
We as a society do not see that what Israel was like can continue after October 7th.
We are in a “new world” absolutely “negatively”.Rabbi: Despite everything that is happening..We prefer prison to the army and let whatever happens happen... And we are here and we will not move and we do not care about death..
General: Is this to this degree?!!Rabbi: Yes...I said that before too.
General:But life is a sacred matter..isn't it?!Rabbi: No... There is something more sacred, which is faith.-------
UKBengali
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AIPAC is actually an illegal organisation as per US law, but since it is meddling in US politics to further the entity that occupies Palestine then all fine as the Zionists control the US as their bitch.
The SC
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You should know better.. these guys have married their sons and daughter to the wealthiest and most influential US white families..in other words.. they grab them by the balls..literally..
For a good example among hundreds of thousands..Trump's daughter married a Jew and became Jew herself.. do you think that Trump decided that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel..on his own..or AIPAC is eating breakfast, lunch and dinner with him in his own home!
Indos
INT'L MOD
As British citizen, now can you explain British gov pro Israel policy with no AIPAC inside its domestic politics ?
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