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Israel Under Attack! - War Declared
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#Israeli lawmakers swore in an “emergency government” in a 66-4 vote, parliament says, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu announced a war-time partnership with a rival...
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There is no intention and there are no plans for U.S. troops to take part in a ground war in Israel and Gaza and there is no desire from Israel to have American troops on the ground there, White House’s Kirby says...
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The Israeli Government alongside the IDF Homefront Command has Developed a Plan and now ordered the Total Evacuation of the City of Sderot to the Northeast of the Gaza Strip which has a Population of over 30,000...
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BREAKING: France has just announced a ban on protests supporting Palestinian terrorist Hamas...
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Humanitarian Crisis
Israel cut off electricity, food, water and fuel supplies to Gaza. Here's how it looks...
edition.cnn.com
Erodgan: Cutting off electricity, water, fuel and food to 2 million Gazans living in an area of 360 square kilometers is neither human nor in the law of war...
Israel cut off electricity, food, water and fuel supplies to Gaza. Here's how it looks...
Israel cut off electricity, food, water and fuel supplies to Gaza. Here's how it looks
Gaza's humanitarian crisis deepened Thursday with warnings people are at risk of starvation as Israel maintained a siege and bombarded targets in response to the Hamas terror attacks that killed more than 1,200 people.
Erodgan: Cutting off electricity, water, fuel and food to 2 million Gazans living in an area of 360 square kilometers is neither human nor in the law of war...
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U.S. reaches agreement with Qatar to halt the release of $6 billion in Iranian oil assets amid scrutiny over Iran’s relationship with Hamas, sources say...
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LAPD ramping up patrols for the "Day of Jihad" tomorrow...
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Israel has told the UN to evacuate more than 1 million people in Gaza to the south within 24 hours...
Thankfully one has to log into Twitter(X) and I don't have an account. Best perhaps to get one's news from more reliable sources - or at least verified ones, given that some reports or news isn't on such platforms?
Yokefellow
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Time will tell @Mock Turtle whether these reports are True or not. All I can do is the best I can do to document this historic moment.
Israel is now bombing bus convoys of Palestinians they told to flee to the south of Gaza. 70 killed so far. Thousands aimlessly walk while bombs drop around them. My friend said internet will be cut off in a few hours w/no more contact: “I hope these are not my last words to you”...
The Israeli occupation forces deceived the citizens of Gaza after warning them to leave their homes and then attacking them on the roads...
A testimony from a young journalist in Gaza named Bisan...
Israel is now bombing bus convoys of Palestinians they told to flee to the south of Gaza. 70 killed so far. Thousands aimlessly walk while bombs drop around them. My friend said internet will be cut off in a few hours w/no more contact: “I hope these are not my last words to you”...
The Israeli occupation forces deceived the citizens of Gaza after warning them to leave their homes and then attacking them on the roads...
A testimony from a young journalist in Gaza named Bisan...
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Israel will cut off all internet service in Gaza starting at midnight, in nearly three hours from now...
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"There may be an opportunity for individuals to leave through the Rafa Gate into Egypt tomorrow between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m.," says Foreign Affairs office Julie Sunday...
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France raises its security alert to the highest level, following the death of a teacher stabbed at a high school...
Ben Dhyan
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Fwiw, here is a good site to follow the ongoing events of the war for those interested.
Israel War | Week 3 | REPORTS
Israel War | Week 3 | REPORTS
Ben Dhyan
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What the media forgets to tell you about Israel and Gaza
The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state – when it was known as the Zionist movement.
Israel didn't just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a Western colonial project, and again under cover of a regional war in 1967. It also worked to ethnically cleanse Palestinians every day between those dates and afterwards. The aim was to move them off their historic lands, and either expel them beyond Israel’s new, expanded borders or concentrate them into small ghettoes inside those borders – as a holding measure until they could be expelled outside the borders.
The 'settler' project, as we call it, is a misnomer. It's really Israel's ethnic cleansing programme. Israel even has a special word for it in Hebrew: 'Judaisation', or making the land Jewish. It is official government policy.
Gaza was the largest of the Palestinian reservations created by Israel's ethnic cleansing programme, and the most overcrowded. To stop the inhabitants spilling out, Israel built a fence-barrier in the early 1990s to pen them in. Then when policing became too hard from within the prison, Israel pulled back in 2005 to the outer perimeter barrier.
New technology allowed Israel to besiege Gaza remotely by land, sea and air in 2007, limiting the entry of food and vital items like medicine and cement for construction. Automated gun towers shot anyone who came near the fence. The navy patrolled the sea, stopping boats straying more than a kilometre or two off shore. And drones watched 24 hours a day from the sky.
The people of Gaza were sealed in and largely forgotten, except when they lobbed a few rockets over the fence – to international indignation. If they fired too many rockets, Israel bombed them mercilessly and occasionally launched a ground invasion. The rocket threat was increasingly neutralised by a rocket interception system, paid for by the US, called Iron Dome.
Palestinians tried to be more inventive in finding ways to break out of their prison. They built tunnels. But Israel found ways to identify those that ran close to the fence and destroyed them.
Palestinians tried to get attention by protesting en masse at the fence. Israeli snipers were ordered to shoot them in the legs, leading to thousands of amputees.
The 'deterrence' seemed to work. Israel could once again sit back and let the Palestinians rot in Gaza. 'Quiet' had been restored.
Until, that is, last weekend when Hamas broke out briefly and ran amok, killing civilians and soldiers alike.
So Israel now needs a new policy. It looks like the ethnic cleansing programme is being applied to Gaza anew. The half of the population in the enclave's north is being herded south, where there are not the resources to cope with them. And even if there were, Israel has cut off food, water and power to everyone in Gaza.
The enclave is quickly becoming a pressure cooker. The pressure is meant to build on Egypt to allow the Palestinians entry into Sinai on 'humanitarian' grounds.
Whatever the media are telling you, the 'conflict' – that is, Israel's ethnic cleansing programme – started long before Hamas appeared on the scene. In fact, Hamas emerged very late, as the predictable response to Israel's violent colonisation project.
And no turning point was reached a week ago. This has all been playing out in slow motion for more than 100 years.
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
What the media forgets to tell you about Israel and Gaza
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians
The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state – when it was known as the Zionist movement.
Israel didn't just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a Western colonial project, and again under cover of a regional war in 1967. It also worked to ethnically cleanse Palestinians every day between those dates and afterwards. The aim was to move them off their historic lands, and either expel them beyond Israel’s new, expanded borders or concentrate them into small ghettoes inside those borders – as a holding measure until they could be expelled outside the borders.
The 'settler' project, as we call it, is a misnomer. It's really Israel's ethnic cleansing programme. Israel even has a special word for it in Hebrew: 'Judaisation', or making the land Jewish. It is official government policy.
Gaza was the largest of the Palestinian reservations created by Israel's ethnic cleansing programme, and the most overcrowded. To stop the inhabitants spilling out, Israel built a fence-barrier in the early 1990s to pen them in. Then when policing became too hard from within the prison, Israel pulled back in 2005 to the outer perimeter barrier.
New technology allowed Israel to besiege Gaza remotely by land, sea and air in 2007, limiting the entry of food and vital items like medicine and cement for construction. Automated gun towers shot anyone who came near the fence. The navy patrolled the sea, stopping boats straying more than a kilometre or two off shore. And drones watched 24 hours a day from the sky.
The people of Gaza were sealed in and largely forgotten, except when they lobbed a few rockets over the fence – to international indignation. If they fired too many rockets, Israel bombed them mercilessly and occasionally launched a ground invasion. The rocket threat was increasingly neutralised by a rocket interception system, paid for by the US, called Iron Dome.
Palestinians tried to be more inventive in finding ways to break out of their prison. They built tunnels. But Israel found ways to identify those that ran close to the fence and destroyed them.
Palestinians tried to get attention by protesting en masse at the fence. Israeli snipers were ordered to shoot them in the legs, leading to thousands of amputees.
The 'deterrence' seemed to work. Israel could once again sit back and let the Palestinians rot in Gaza. 'Quiet' had been restored.
Until, that is, last weekend when Hamas broke out briefly and ran amok, killing civilians and soldiers alike.
So Israel now needs a new policy. It looks like the ethnic cleansing programme is being applied to Gaza anew. The half of the population in the enclave's north is being herded south, where there are not the resources to cope with them. And even if there were, Israel has cut off food, water and power to everyone in Gaza.
The enclave is quickly becoming a pressure cooker. The pressure is meant to build on Egypt to allow the Palestinians entry into Sinai on 'humanitarian' grounds.
Whatever the media are telling you, the 'conflict' – that is, Israel's ethnic cleansing programme – started long before Hamas appeared on the scene. In fact, Hamas emerged very late, as the predictable response to Israel's violent colonisation project.
And no turning point was reached a week ago. This has all been playing out in slow motion for more than 100 years.
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
It's an excuse to kill innocent Palestinians.
And then blame the victims.
King Phenomenon
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Some headlines say Israeli troops are on the ground in Gaza some say they’re not yet. Must be more complex history huh?
Take it from someone who lives in Israel: The ground assault hasn't started yet. Only airstrikes and artillery strikes for now, though the Shin Bet (Israeli equivalent of the FBI) has announced the formation of a special ops unit designed to take down all of the terrorists who actively took part in the mass terror attack on Oct. 7. I suppose some of them may have entered the strip. But these aren't soldiers per se.
*Edit* As it turns out, small armored and foot assaults have taken place, mostly for gathering information on the whereabouts of the hostages.
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