https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-12-26-2023-698c895797ccb057d13fe4f68690c98b RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces on Tuesday expanded their ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central Gaza after bombarding the crowded Palestinian communities and ordering residents to evacuate. Gaza’s main telecom provider announced another “complete interruption” of services in the besieged territory.
The military’s announcement of the new battle zone threatens further destruction in a war that Israel says will last for “many months” as it vows to crush the ruling Hamas militant group after its Oct. 7 attack. Israeli forces have been engaged in heavy urban fighting in northern Gaza and the southern city of Khan Younis, driving Palestinians into ever-smaller areas in search of refuge.
The U.S. said Israel’s minister for strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, was meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan to discuss topics including transitioning to a different phase of the war to maximize focus on high-value Hamas targets, improving the humanitarian situation, and planning for governance and security in Gaza after the war.
Despite U.S. calls for Israel to curb civilian casualties and international pressure for a cease-fire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military was deepening the fighting.
“We say to the Hamas terrorists: We see you and we will get to you,” Netanyahu said.
Israel’s offensive is one of the most devastating military campaigns in recent history. More than 20,900 Palestinians, two-thirds women and children, have been killed, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza, whose count doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants. The agency said 240 people were killed over the past 24 hours.
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The U.N. human rights office said the continued bombardment of middle Gaza had claimed more than 100 Palestinian lives since Christmas Eve. The office noted that Israel had ordered some residents to move there.
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>REGIONAL SPILLOVER
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>A MASS GRAVE
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Medical workers called the odors unbearable. “We cannot open this container in a neighborhood where people live,” Dr. Marwan al-Hams, health emergency committee director in Rafah, told the AP. He said the health and justice ministries would investigate the bodies for possible “war crimes.”
they know not what they do(NOT)
>>1250382 All the Zionists need now is some ovens to dispose of the bodies, and the irony is complete
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>>1250394 Cool it with the antisemitism there, Goebbels
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> UN: Hey Israel could you cool it with the calculated massacre of innocent civilians? > Israel: You're all complicit with Hamas' terrorist plot, no more automatic visas!
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>>1250629 They are. They voted for them afterall, and their support is skyrocketing amongst themselves.
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Israel won't be happy until every Palestinian is dead. The World is lapping it up. Israel are in the right.
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>>1250382 I'm glad Israel Finally found a Solution to the Palestinian ghettos
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Israel are wiping Palestine off the map, simply because they want to build a canal from the mediterranean sea to the red sea. It'll go right through Palestine
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>>1250636 >their support is skyrocketing amongst themselves. Oh man, I wonder why with all the Israeli murder of innocent civilians and all? I mean, with israelis great track record of totally not genocide, and support for all things Palestinian, why would any Palestinian feel anything else besides total love for Israel??? Right??? I just don't get it!
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>>1250677 Personally I'm not sure what to do with the palestinians. Say you give them their own state. That would give Hamas more legitimacy internationally, as they'd obviously be running the government. And Israel gets another hostile country filled with backwards religious nuts on their doorstep.
You obviously can't (or at least shouldn't) genocide the palestinians either. That would just create more trouble for Israel internationally, in addition to being unjustifiably evil.
Whatever happens, Hamas needs to be crippled. And the palestinians need to have their imports severely restricted so that Iranians can't supply terrorists anymore.
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>>1251542 >That would give Hamas more legitimacy internationally it really wouldn't. Isreal has been supporting hamas's growth to delegitimize the palestinian authority. If you funded the palestinian authority with the money, intelligence and weapons the us was handing to Isreal, they'd be able to keep Hamas in check. That was true 70 years ago and it's true now. The US is partial to Isreal because they're jews and jews control congress. If you seriously think about it, you legtimately are just making up problems to ignore a very easily solvable solution. There's been an international land treaty for 2 states for decades. And Isreal thinks it deserves to take it all and the US wants to give it to Isreal. There's no operational need for any of it. Stop trying to sound practical, you're a retard making up problems to avoid the obvious. Lots of people do that. Just keep screaming about antisemitism and threaten anyone who disagrees with you. It works for fags in congress much better than trying to argue the point.
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>>1253485 > The jews are behind Hamas > Hamas is a false flag Sure buddy.
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>>1250629 Exactly this. And the sad part is it has always been like this.
