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Deadly strike on Rafah a tragic mishap, Netanyahu says (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Famine has been "imminent" since November, the reports of widespread famine are not credible. Aid has been flowing thanks to Israel since like week two. Give it a rest.

At any rate it is the leadership of Hamas that has led to any want of food in Gaza, and only through western charity that every person in Gaza didn't starve to death fifty years ago.

99.3% of Palestinians haven't died despite your sensational claims. You don't think you've blown this out of proportion a tad? Maybe slightly overly emotional about it? Like what is this mass scale you're talking about? Mass scale means a small town worth of people? On what planet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You don’t think you’ve blown this out of proportion a tad? Maybe slightly overly emotional about it?

Unfortunately I haven’t and I feel my complicity growing everyday the machinery of the empire I am within directly enables dropping 2000 pound bombs on innocent, starving people with no access to electricity.

The most sophisticated fighter aircraft in the world built to out maneuver and defeat sophisticated near peer Russian or Chinese air defense networks are being used as glorified dolly carts to wheel out and dump block clearing 2000 US made bombs…

…onto a city and refugee camp. They are being used to bomb hospitals one by one.

A significant number of attacks on healthcare facilities occurred during the Israel-Hamas war. During the first week of the war, there were 94 attacks on health care facilities in Israel and Gaza, killing 29 health care workers and injuring 24.[1] The attacks on healthcare facilities contributed to a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza.[2] By 30 November, the World Health Organization documented 427 attacks on healthcare in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, resulting in 566 fatalities and 758 injuries.[3] By February 2024, it was reported that "every hospital in Gaza is either damaged, destroyed, or out of service due to lack of fuel."[4] By April, WHO had verified 906 attacks on healthcare in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, and Lebanon.[5]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_health_facilities_during_the_Israel–Hamas_war#

Go home you hateful clown.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay yes and there are tunnels under those health facilities. How would you destroy the tunnels? Remember, you cannot use gas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Why the fuck are you assuming destroying Gaza and committing genocide against the Palestines is a requirement for any plan of action?

Your viewpoint expresses perfectly how insufficient and dangerous blind centrism is.

I have brought up the very real and needless slaughter of probably 50,000+ (if not double that when including all the murder from unnecessary starvation) innocent women, children and men and all you want to talk about are some scaryyy tunnels. Israel has some of the most advanced tanks in the world, some of the most advanced jets in the world, and in general has a functioning modern combined arms military…. and you are a worried about…

…some tunnels?

You are a clown, I keep saying this but looking back history will have no other name for fools like you who have a comic degree of callousness for the lives of Palestinians and refuse to see the mass scale genocide of Palestinians right in front of their eyes because it doesn’t fit their narrative of how the world works.

You would have been better served remaining entirely ignorant on this topic and simply extending your empathy to Palestinians from purely a standpoint of the fact that they are human beings and deserve care and empathy.

Instead you learned a bunch of smart concepts and “facts” and loaded them up into your head not realizing they were clearly brain worms that would totally destroy even your basic capacity to feel empathy for other humans.

Shame on you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, I just do not have more empathy for 35,000 people than I do for 35 million. 35,000 of anything is not mass scale. You are the one that is ignorant in short-sighted, blind by emotional overreaction. It's cool, do you.