Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | 2023- till present

[Falcon29]

Great question. All possible answers need to be considered, that is all I can say. A lack of response may be due to how the claims being made or the narrative being put forward are not succeeding in their goals.

Lack of response is at the top level, across several powers. There's no narrative needed to be sold. The concern isn't about Hamas. Israel has conducted wars it claimed were against Hamas in the past. In this campaign on Gaza they're exclusively targeting the civilian population in a degree not seen before. All watchdogs and experts on the ground and around the world have documented famine, break out viruses, massive destruction to civilian infrastructure and massive displacement of the civilian population.

In Israeli war projections with Hezbollah, they predicted around 3,000 causalities on Lebanese side during an all out war with a extensive ground invasion. What they're doing Gaza is trying to to destroy any semblance of life in Gaza and forcibly expel the population in a rapid span of a few months. That has been explicitly announced dozens of times to be the stated objectives of the campaign by Israeli leadership.

I would argue most people believe it, but can't do anything about it.

 

[Solomon2]

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[VCheng]

I would argue most people believe it, but can't do anything about it.

Of course they can. Nothing can stop the people. Nothing. Where are the widespread protests? Commercial boycotts? Social ostracization? And yet, there is nothing of the sort that could be effective. Why is that? It will take a little bit more than mere social media hysterics to be effective, dare I say it.

 

[Aziqbal]

Of course they can. Nothing can stop the people. Nothing. Where are the widespread protests? Commercial boycotts? Social ostracization? And yet, there is nothing of the sort that could be effective. Why is that?

mostly or all of it is coming from the Western nations

but I agree

I seen a video of a flight from Cairo and you can see the bombing of Gaza from Cairo

and 20 million people live in the total Metropolitan area of Cairo and they can see and watch the Genocide

no one speaks

even the Egyptian military guards who are in the towers at Rafah can see the Genocide and yet not one of them jumps over to help

I thought they would just do anything to kill any IDF soldier and yet they sit and watch

I am horrified do these people have souls are they alive or the walking dead

 

[VCheng]

mostly or all of it is coming from the Western nations

but I agree

I seen a video of a flight from Cairo and you can see the bombing of Gaza from Cairo

and 20 million people live in the total Metropolitan area of Cairo and they can see and watch the Genocide

no one speaks

even the Egyptian military guards who are in the towers at Rafah can see the Genocide and yet not one of them jumps over to help

I thought they would just do anything to kill any IDF soldier and yet they sit and watch

I am horrified

And yet there is a disconnect here between the claims of widespread support from a majority of the people across the world, and the relative silence that you find horrific. That seems quite inexplicable to me.

 

[Solomon2]

Army pushes back on reported fears Sinwar fled to Sinai, as battles return to Gaza City​

Soldier dies of wounds, bringing death toll to 236, as fighting persists in Khan Younis and Hamas leader Haniyeh arrives in Cairo for moribund hostage talks​

By EMANUEL FABIAN
FOLLOW
and TOI STAFF Today, 1:50 pm

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released February 20, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli officials on Tuesday denied a report by a Saudi-owned news outlet that said security figures fear Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar had fled to Egypt via a spacious network of tunnels running under the border. Meanwhile, the IDF indicated it planned to renew battles in parts of Gaza City.

The report by the Arabic-language Elaph came as the Israel Defense Forces said it was continuing to focus fighting in the southern city of Khan Younis, while increasingly alarmed warnings were sounded against plans to expand the offensive south into Rafah, and as the tally of troops killed since the start of the ground invasion ticked upward to 236 with the death of a reservist injured in Kahn Younis last week.

The Elaph report claimed Tuesday that the Israeli security establishment has assessed that the leadership of Hamas, including Sinwar and his brother Muhammad, recently escaped to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula via tunnels from Rafah, and may have taken hostages along to use as human shields.

It was impossible to assess the veracity of the report, which relied on a single source. Previous reports from Elaph have proven to be false.

The IDF said it had no information that Sinwar has left Gaza.

Sinwar has not been seen in public since the October 7 attack led by Hamas in which some 1,200 people were killed in Israel, mostly civilians. Thousands of attackers who invaded southern Israel committed horrific acts of brutality including widespread sexual violence, while also taking 253 hostages back to Gaza.

Israel responded to the assault with an air, sea, and ground offensive to topple Hamas and free the hostages, over half of whom are still in captivity. While the military claims to have destroyed 75% of Hamas battalions, the terror group’s leaders, including Sinwar, remain at large.


Hamas’s Gaza Strip leader Yahya Sinwar in a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, October 10, 2023 (IDF Spokesman)

The terror group’s Qatar-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh, meanwhile, arrived in Cairo Tuesday for negotiations aimed at reaching a pause in the fighting and freeing the estimated 134 hostages and remains held in Gaza.

Negotiations mediated by American, Qatari and Egyptian officials have apparently stalled, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing the terror group’s demands so far as “delusional” and reportedly ruling out sending an Israeli delegation back to Cairo after its initial visit there last week.

The talks come as the UN Security Council is set to consider an Algerian proposal calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, despite a promised US veto. Washington has said the resolution could upset the sensitive talks and has advanced a rival proposal which calls for a temporary pause and seeks to halt a planned Israeli advance on Rafah, where some 1 million displaced Gazans are sheltering.


This picture taken from Rafah shows smoke over Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli strikes on February 20, 2024 (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
The IDF said Tuesday that troops had killed dozens of Hamas operatives over the past day, many of them in Khan Younis. Troops battled several gunmen, some armed with RPGs, from close range, killing them, and a weapons depot in the city was bombed from the air, the army said.

On Monday, the army said it had killed 12,000 Hamas operatives since fighting began October 7, double the number reported by Hamas.

According to the military, 236 Israeli troops have been killed in the fighting, including a soldier who succumbed to wounds sustained on February 15 during a battle with Hamas operatives in Khan Younis.

He was named as Staff Sgt. Maoz Morell, 22, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Talmon.

Another soldier, Staff Sgt. Rotem Sahar Hadar, was killed in the same incident.


Staff Sgt. Maoz Morell (Israel Defense Forces)
The army was continuing to operate on Tuesday at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where troops have detained more than 200 terror suspects so far, many of whom have ties to the Hamas-held hostages, according to the IDF. The World Health Organization, which said Tuesday it had evacuated 32 patients in recent days, claims the facility is no longer functioning, though the IDF said it was working to ensure that the hospital continued to operate, including fixing electricity problems there.

“Nasser Hospital has no electricity or running water, and medical waste and garbage are creating a breeding ground for disease,” the WHO said in a statement Tuesday.

Israel has provided evidence showing Hamas has used hospital facilities in Gaza for its own purposes, including drawing electricity from the sites or building underground bunkers beneath medical centers, which makes them legitimate military targets for Israel.

While the army has held off on invading the Rafah area in far southern Gaza, the last Hamas stronghold, it warned Tuesday that it could resume fighting in two Gaza City neighborhoods and called on residents to evacuate to the al-Mawasi “humanitarian zone” on the coast of southern Gaza.


Troops operate in Gaza, in a handout image cleared for publication by the IDF on February 19, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian media outlets reported casualties in Israeli strikes on Zeitoun on Tuesday, one of the two neighborhoods.

At the beginning of Israel’s ground offensive against Hamas, the IDF called on all Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza to evacuate south, although some have remained there regardless.

According to Hamas health authorities, over 29,000 people in Gaza have been killed, though the figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between fighters and civilians.

The war has caused a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, with most of the population displaced and at risk of starvation.


Volunteers distribute rations of red lentil soup to displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 18, 2024 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

The United Nations welfare organization for children reported Tuesday that one in six children in northern Gaza is acutely malnourished.

The scarcity of food and water in Gaza has left children and women across the Strip suffering a steep rise in malnutrition, UNICEF warned.

It said the situation is poised to “compound the already unbearable level of child deaths.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/army-pushes-back-on-reported-fears-sinwar-fled-to-sinai-as-battles-return-to-gaza-city/

 

[Meengla]

mostly or all of it is coming from the Western nations

but I agree

I seen a video of a flight from Cairo and you can see the bombing of Gaza from Cairo

and 20 million people live in the total Metropolitan area of Cairo and they can see and watch the Genocide

no one speaks

even the Egyptian military guards who are in the towers at Rafah can see the Genocide and yet not one of them jumps over to help

I thought they would just do anything to kill any IDF soldier and yet they sit and watch

I am horrified do these people have souls are they alive or the walking dead

There is a reason why Netanyahu was trying to stop the toppling of Hosni Mubarak by the Egyptian protestors. I remember him trying hard to convince the then US President (Obama, I think) but the protests were too great and so the Americans allowed the toppling of Mubarak and coming to power of Morsi. And we all know what happened to Morsi shortly into this rule.

 

[hussain0216]

Of course they can. Nothing can stop the people. Nothing. Where are the widespread protests? Commercial boycotts? Social ostracization? And yet, there is nothing of the sort that could be effective. Why is that? It will take a little bit more than mere social media hysterics to be effective, dare I say it.

Have you not been watching, their have been numerous marches across the world

The Jews are really beginning to feel the pressure, in the UK the Jews are now crying repeatedly claiming anti semitism against them

This is a awakening both about the danger of the western order to the world and the reality of how world power works

 

[Persian Gulf]

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[VCheng]

Have you not been watching, their have been numerous marches across the world

The Jews are really beginning to feel the pressure, in the UK the Jews are now crying repeatedly claiming anti semitism against them

This is a awakening both about the danger of the western order to the world and the reality of how world power works

Let me just say that such sporadic protests by a distinct minority will simply not be able to have the kind of effect that you seek.

 

[The SC]

An official statement from #Saudi Arabia regarding the veto of the immediate ceasefire project in the Gaza Strip

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s regret over the veto of the draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and its surroundings, which was submitted by the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to the Security Council on behalf of the Arab countries.

The Ministry stressed that there is a need more than ever to reform the Security Council, to carry out its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security with credibility and without double standards.

The Kingdom warns of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and its surroundings, and the escalation of military operations that threaten international peace and security, and do not serve any efforts calling for dialogue and a peaceful solution to the Palestinian issue in accordance with the relevant international resolutions.

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An American veto against the Algerian draft resolution to stop the aggression against Gaza

Algeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations #Ammar_Ben_Jame presents Algeria's draft resolution on the situation in Palestine...which calls for an immediate ceasefire...in order to be voted on...



#Ammar_Ben_Jamea.. Voting against the draft resolution means accepting humiliating practices that destroy the dignity of women and children.
The international community must move quickly to achieve a ceasefire
Delay in making a decision results in the loss of more lives
We must decide which page of history we will stand on.

 

[The SC]

Urgent | WHO Regional Emergency Director: Innocent people in Gaza are dying due to lack of access to health care

Urgent | Regional Emergency Director at the World Health Organization: The crisis in delivering aid to Gaza can be solved, but Israel does not want that

@AJABreaking

 

[VCheng]

An official statement from #Saudi Arabia regarding the veto of the immediate ceasefire project in the Gaza Strip

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s regret over the veto of the draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and its surroundings, which was submitted by the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to the Security Council on behalf of the Arab countries.

The Ministry stressed that there is a need more than ever to reform the Security Council, to carry out its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security with credibility and without double standards.

The Kingdom warns of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and its surroundings, and the escalation of military operations that threaten international peace and security, and do not serve any efforts calling for dialogue and a peaceful solution to the Palestinian issue in accordance with the relevant international resolutions.

So when are the Arab countries withdrawing their ambassadors from DC to register their warning and protest?

 

[The SC]

Urgent | Head of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories to Al Jazeera: The situation is hopeless in Gaza

Urgent | UNICEF spokeswoman to Al Jazeera: The situation in Gaza is very difficult and no child in the world has to face conditions like these

Urgent | UNICEF spokeswoman for Al Jazeera: The humanitarian crisis is worsening, especially in northern Gaza, and children are facing hunger

Urgent | WSJ, according to military officials: The road that Israel is building in Gaza forms a military belt that prevents the return of about a million Palestinians.

Urgent | WSJ, according to military officials: The road that the Israeli army is building south of Gaza City allows it freedom of movement and tight control.

@AJABreaking

 

[The SC]

Urgent | #Al Jazeera correspondent: The resistance factions continue to engage in armed clashes with the occupation and announce the targeting of its vehicles with explosive devices in Jenin and its camp.

Urgent | Al-Qassam Brigades: Our mujahideen confront the occupation forces in Jenin with appropriate weapons and high-explosive devices.

Urgent | Al-Qassam Brigades: We caught an Israeli force in a tight ambush during its storming of the Jenin camp

Urgent | #Al Jazeera correspondent: 34 martyrs in Israeli raids on homes in the Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah camps in the central Gaza Strip

Urgent | US State Department: Israel should not launch a military campaign in #Rafah unless it has an implementable humanitarian plan


@AJABreaking