Update: There are reports that say the Jabalia refugee camp was struck for a second time on Tuesday. Check Middle East Eye for live updates.
Israeli warplanes on Tuesday hammered the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza with airstrikes, killing at least 50 people.
The Israeli military has acknowledged it launched the airstrikes, claiming a senior Hamas commander was in the civilian populated camp. For their part, Hamas denied that one of its commanders was in the camp.
Gaza’s Interior Ministry said the strikes were launched with US-made bombs. “These buildings house hundreds of citizens. The occupation’s air force destroyed this district with six US-made bombs. It is the latest massacre caused by Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip,” said Interior Ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Bazum, according to Middle East Eye.
Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital confirmed that more than 50 people were killed in the strike. According to Middle East Eye, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said at least 100 were killed, and the Interior Ministry said the total casualties was around 400, including both dead and wounded. Photos of the aftermath show craters and rubble from destroyed and damaged buildings.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer asked Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht if Israel was aware that the refugee camp was full of innocent civilians, men, women, and children. “This is the tragedy of war, Wolf. We’ve been saying for days, move south,” Hecht replied.
Many of the Palestinians who fled north Gaza after Israel’s evacuation order did not find safety as Israeli airstrikes continued to pummel the south. Some returned to the north, saying it would be better to die in their homes.
We can all be a bit overly emotional in these times…
I have been experiencing the same.
My greatest hope, for ALL of US is PEACE.
American tax dollars at work:
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Hospitals, refugee camps, what’s next for the millions in Gaza now weeks without water, power, and food? But no ceasefire right? Better murder more Palestinians and never sit down to negotiate for peace.
At this point, I don’t see any reasons for Israel to agree to a ceasefire. What would they gain? Israel is not going to negotiate for the hostages release because that would just encourage more hostages taking in the future. So unless Hamas is willing to have an unconditional surrender, I don’t see the war stopping. Of course all the above could change at any minute as events in Gaza occur.
Well there’s a countries reputation and acceptance in the world. Isreal is on track to be the most despised nations. Their ploy of hiding behind an historical holocaust, while committing one at the same time is simply making them enemies all over the world. But hey, isreal doesn’t care aboit anyone but their zionist selves. Netanyahu should spend the rest of his miserable life in a prison, he wil alwaysl be remembered with all the mass murderers from history…his kin.
American tax dollars at work:
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Disqus won’t embed the image at the proper size, but the horror is obvious. Click for a sharper view.
Those brave, godsped IDF fighter pilots.
The IDF has bombed Jabalia again today (Wednesday). Aljazeera has video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/1/israel-hamas-war-live-anger-grows-over-israeli-attack-on-gaza-refugee-camp
Scroll down to:
“UN chief ‘appalled’ by Israeli attacks on Jabalia refugee camp: Spokesman”
I had thought the experience of the (disputed) hospital strike would at least teach the lesson not to do that (again?).
Instead, it seems to have taught that they can lie their way and brazen past anything. They can do anything, and nobody will stop them.
So the Hutus kill Tutsis, and Pol Pot rampages again.
And B-52’s destroy the Plains of Jars. Again.
The narrative of this being a war is all Israeli propaganda. What you have is a state committed to mass murder, and making it official policy regardless of international law, or humanitarian law. Israel has dug its grave here, and will not survive in its present form should this genocide continue.
Remember, it’s only a war crime when Putin does it and the DC Neoperialists need it as a talking point to “weaken Russia.”
I heard the ack, ack was fierce. The pilots had to take amazing moves to hit their target. /s
This is a holocaust. The Jews who died in the last one are being disgraced by a nation that behaves like Nazis in their name and every American politician who robs its citizens to pay for this savagery is complicit. Shame is not a strong enough word to explain how I feel about this country.
Same here.
Slow Joe is taking us into h*ll.
Blinken, after being heckled for US support for Earth’s latest episode of genocide:
“I also hear very much the passion expressed in this room and outside
this room. All of us are committed to the protection of civilian life,”
Blinken said after many of the activists were forcibly escorted out of
the room.
You just can’t make this crap up. I’m really beginning to think that these people aren’t overtly evil – just stupid.