The Israeli army controls over 77% of the Gaza Strip, local authorities said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.
“Field data and verified analysis indicate that the Israeli occupation forces now effectively control approximately 77% of Gaza’s total geographic area,” Gaza’s government media office said in a statement.
The Israeli army gained control through “direct ground offensives, the deployment of its forces in residential and civilian areas, or preventing Palestinians from accessing their areas, lands, and properties via intensified fire, or forced evacuation,” it added.
The office strongly condemned the Israeli plans of mass displacement, ethnic cleansing, systematic genocide, and settler colonialism by force, “under the cover of a siege and an open war targeting both people and infrastructure.”
It held Israel and its supporters, including the US, UK, Germany, and France, fully responsible for the crime of genocide in Gaza.
Oh so you are assigning blame for this genocide to Hamas. Insane. You’re saying Hamas’ actions justify or are responsible for Israel’s response of literal genocide. No, nothing justifies genocide. You can’t expect a civilian population subjected to the unfathomable daily violence of settler colonialist apartheid to not fight back. Fuck off with that shitty hasbara. This is as ridiculous as both-sides-ing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
If an ethnosupremacist Apartheid state that has continued to live-stream genocide for well over a year is evil, yeah, resistance against that apartheid and genocide is good. In fact, it’s just and moral.
You already have the position that Israel’s response is expected due to the actions of Hamas. If an apartheid state’s inevitable response to resistance against that apartheid is genocide, then yes, that state deserves to be dissolved and the occupied, and especially victims of a genocide, have a right to resist and armed struggle.
No, again that is the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is a case of Counter Insurgency (COIN).
Because he a fucking genocidal Zionist who knows western counties, in particular the US, will give them unlimited material support, international support, and propaganda support for Israel’s genocide. Became Zionism is not about the security of Jewish people or even of Israeli’s. It’s about the extermination of Palestinians, Palestine, and even beyond with Greater Israel.
Wtf? This take is fucking ridiculous. Islamphobia in the west is not the fault of Palestinians, nor Arabs or Muslims in general. Islamphobia is deliberate to justify the unfathomable amount of violence they have subjected the population of the Middle East to. It is state policy and used to dehumanize the victims of Western Chauvinism.
What makes Palestinians the ‘kind of people that other nations fear,’ exactly? Because by any metric of violence Israel has been far worse both before and after any violent act of resistance by Palestinians. Nor have Palestinians been the one preventing a peace resolution.
‘their own senseless violence to radicalize the survivors against them.’ You mean the survivors of terrorist attacks against Israel? The party responsible for this violent occupation in the first place? Without which these terrorist attacks wouldn’t have happened in the first place? The sense is resistance. Unlike for Zionism, who’s many magnitudes more terrorism they subject the Palestinian population to, the sense is to ethnically cleanse the inferior natives.
No. Western nations have supported Zionism, a fascist project, since it’s beginning. Zionism weaponizes antisemitism. These countries weren’t ‘paralyzed.’ They’ve supported the setter colonialism for many decades. They even continue to support the genocide by continuing the provide weapons, do business with, and refuse to sanction a state committing genocide, on top of the violent settlements and ethnic cleansing done for over 76 years. There are much more Christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists. They are not ‘paralyzed by the a (false) accusation of antisemitism.’ Their interests are ideological and financial.
Yes I assign blame to Hamas because they’re the puppet that gives a tiny bit of legitimacy to the horrors Israel is commiting in the eyes of the West.
This does not in any way reduce Israel’s responsibility in this at all quite the contrary. The fact that they use Hamas, and Hamas uses the Palestinian population in this way makes it much and much worse. If Hamas were a legitimate resistance they would go after leaders, real strategic targets and such not the attacks that are designed to cause outrage but have no value in advancing their supposed cause.
The only difference between us is that you fall wholeheartedly for the lie that is Hamas. You differentiate them from the PA, but they are one.
They are a legitimate resistance regardless of whether they meet your own imagined standard of what legitimate resistance is. Hamas is not being ‘used’ by Israel, for the same reasons the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising wasn’t ‘used’ by Nazi Germany. Read Franz Fanon if you want to understand the reality of anti-colonial resistance. All you’re doing is carrying water for Zionism, whether you recognize that or not.
That last sentence describes you perfectly. Damn it’s sad.