The Israeli military said Sunday that its ground operations have expanded to every part of the Gaza Strip and vowed its assault on the south will be just as big as it was in the north.
“It will be no less powerful than [the operations in northern Gaza], it will have no less results,” said Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, according to The Times of Israel.
“We have the capabilities to do it in the most thorough way, and just as we did it with strength and thoroughly in the north of the Gaza Strip, we are also doing it now in the south of the Gaza Strip, and we also continue to deepen the achievements in the north of the Gaza Strip,” Halevi added.
Halevi’s comments came a few days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel and told Israeli officials to account for the civilians in south Gaza before expanding operations there. But Israel has continued to ignore US warnings about civilians, which ring hollow as the US is shipping 2,000-pound bombs to Israel while setting no red line for their use.
Israeli bombs have been pounding the Gaza Strip since the truce with Hamas ended on Friday. A UNICEF spokesman said Sunday that south Gaza was facing the “heaviest bombardment” since October 7 and that there were “massive child casualties.”
Gaza’s media office said over 700 Palestinians were killed in Gaza from Friday to Sunday. Gaza’s Health Ministry issued a casualty update on Sunday, saying more than 15,500 Palestinians have been killed and 40,000 have been wounded. The ministry said 70% of the dead were women and children. Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said the majority of the victims of Israel’s airstrikes since Friday were still under the rubble.
South Gaza is packed with displaced Palestinians as hundreds of thousands fled the north, and Israel is expanding its bombing across the Strip. According to the UN, 1.8 million out of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians have been displaced, including 958,000 who are sheltering at 99 UN facilities in the south.
While supporting the mass slaughter with unconditional military aid, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appeared to criticize the Israeli tactics in comments on Saturday. The Pentagon chief warned Israel could suffer a “strategic defeat” if it doesn’t do more to protect civilians. “In this kind of a fight, the center of gravity is the civilian population. And if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat,” he said.
Austin cited the US war against ISIS, claiming the US-led coalition in Iraq did a lot to protect civilians. The US campaign against ISIS incurred major civilian casualties but not as high of a rate as Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
I believe the time has come to wean Israel off of the US tit….
The time has come for Biden to send SEAL teams to grab Netanyahu and his “war cabinet” and haul them all off to the Hague.
Are you kidding? Biden and Netanyahu are joined at their lips, entwined in a love dance like two vipers having sex before consuming the remaining Palestinians.
You win.The best analogy of the week
vlp takes home the internet.
My considered opinion is that is we
are in all in deep shit and probably doomed.Nothing is being done it about Climate Change and Nukes are are still around.
If so, it’s good that vlp wins the internet while there’s still a bit of time left to enjoy it.
Donna, that train left the station a long time ago. The Zionists are running the show in DC. The butcher of Gaza Netanyahu gives Genocide Joe the orders.
any thought of political reforms in the US or Israel is a fantasy.Our only shot for survival are the Chinese.They are in the gun sights of the US along with Iran.
If there is a Deity, it’s time to remove Biden and Netanyahu from the planet.
It can’t happen fast enough.
If it hadn’t been for Genocide Joe
We’d have a two state solution long time ago
Where did you come from? Where did you go?
Where did you come from Genocide Joe?
“If it hadn’t been for Genocide Joe
We’d have a two state solution long time ago.”
Sorry, no. Israel has always been determined not to let that happen and the US has never pushed hard to try to make it happen.
There isn’t.
the political and military leaders should be hung.drawn and quartered like in ancient times
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The ministry said 70% of the dead were women and children!No country has the capacity in their hearts to stop this. Hamas is the excuse. This is what the Zionists want….genocide, ethnic cleansing and they know that nothing will stop them and that the U.S., the “indispensable nation” will keep the supply of baby killing weapons. I hate my country and I hate the rest of the world for doing nothing. The nations of the world reacted to NAZI Germany when it began the march across Europe. Today, those nations are cowards. Disgusting.
Every time I think about the assholes in DC and the cretins in Tel Aviv I get angry as hell all over again.
But the assholes in DC covered their asses or not? They told the Zionists in Tel Aviv not to kill so many children. What more do you expect? That is enough to clean their conscience, they did all they can do and then make sure to ship more bombs to Tel Aviv.
Business is business.
i DON’T understand why the Gazans aren’t permitted to “flee”.
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That’s because the US and allies are coconspirators.
You should also hate Hamas for their decision to attack on Oct7. You claim Israel is using Hamas as an excuse, if true why did Hamas give them the excuse?
Yeah, maybe Hamas should have stuck with the Zionist program and continued to ignore the plight of the besieged Palestinians.
And how did the Oct 7 attack help Palestinians?
The fact that you are making excuses for Israel’s 15:1 ratio for Oct 7 terrorism is just astonishing.
We might — I think we should — hate that Hamas engaged in attacks on civilians, some truly heinous, on October 7th. However, there is no reason at all to hate Hamas for attacking military and other Israeli government sites and personnel.
Armed resistance by occupied peoples is legal, normal and inevitable.
And in this case armed resistance was a very stupid idea.
Don’t leap too soon to conclusions. It’s too early to know. It’s not too early to know that the world is reacting with horror and disgust to Israel’s genocide campaign, though.
And you should hate Israeli leadership who enabled, and preferred, Hamas to come to power and stay in power. Hamas is just playing its part in Israel’s self-fulfilling prophesy.
“The nations of the world reacted to NAZI Germany when it began the march across Europe.”
Actually, the nations of Europe didn’t respond very assertively at all when the Nazis began their march across Europe. Almost nothing but talk and posturing happened during the first eight or nine months after Germany invaded Poland and the UK and France declared war on Germany. That was the case even though both nations had signed multiple military pacts with Poland in 1939, before the September invasion.
That first three-quarters of a year became known as the “Phoney War” (“phony” to Americans) and France and the UK were, and are, widely considered to have betrayed Poland.
IIRC, it was referred to as the “sitzkrieg.”
Correct, UK and France had no idea on how to proceed. The only construct thing they did of limited value was the naval blockade.
I wonder if Genocide Joe saw the pictures?
“Mr Empath”.
Just wait. The US govt will force Egypt to accept people in the desert for “humanitarian purpose”. You know, the “good guys” saving the day.
When slaughtering a mass of civilians intentionally, including children, is reduced to being described as strategy or tactical choices, you have lost your place in humanity. If you are not outraged by the carnage, you are a monster who should be caged for eternity. Lloyd Austin is a monster. So are Kirby, Blinken, Biden and all of the others providing cover for psychopathic Netanyahu.
Their gentle little facades of coaxing to be careful of civilians while supplying bombs that are designed for mass casualty and not precision, knowing full well that the goal was to kill everyone or drive them out because it was stated outright, is the most blatant conspiracy of demonic forces.
“Demonic Forces” Reminds me of the controversy about who should be the Repugninants’ Speaker? There’s been a picture haunting me. Since I love you, I feel compelled to share it with you, ED: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAW-axTboAAO5hD?format=jpg&name=small
Hard to upvote.
Any state that relies on infanticide to secure its supremacy has zero right to exist.
I remember long ago hearing an old bible story where people like Israelis turned into salt statues.
Blind Rage is not a winning military strategy. Hamas and Hezbollah claim 97 Merkavas knocked out to date
the US will never allow Israel to be disarmed.
Your point ?
So you saying the Likudniks will take America down too ?
That could happen.
“it will have no less results”
in other words, tens of thousands of dead Palestinians – and very few dead Hamas – and a lot of dead Israeli soldiers and destroyed Merkava tanks.
Israel is losing this – badly. Or perhaps I should say, “goodly”, since a severe Israeli defeat by Hamas is the only thing keeping Hezbollah from wiping Israeli infrastructure off the map. Which actually is something I would like to see.
Nice to see Austin finally recognizing that twenty four years of the “War on Terror” produced a “strategic defeat.”
“…more than 15,500 Palestinians have been killed and 40,000 have been wounded. The ministry said 70% of the dead were women and children.” What would it take for me to imagine thinking that’s a good accomplishment? …No. …Sorry. I can’t. When I compare myself with the rest of us, there must be something seriously wrong with my brain.
UCK THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT. WAR MONGERING USSA (UN) TAUGHT THE MOSSAD & CO EVERYTHING THEY KNOW.
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I tried to be nice about asking you stop spamming every article on the site with links to the same year-old blog post.
Apparently being nice didn’t work, so:
Further occurrences will be deleted. If they become too much of a chore to delete, you’ll be banned. Have a nice evening.
Qatar calls for international probe into ‘Israeli crimes’ in Gaza
Qatar’s prime minister has said his country is calling for an “immediate, comprehensive and impartial international investigation” into what he called Israeli crimes in Gaza. ~Aljazeera
The investigation should include himself and his owner if it were a true investigation.
Regardless, “war crimes” should remain a daily headline.
She is not a strategy. She is not a tactic. She’s a phucking little girl no threat to anyone:
Only Survivor in Her Family – Palestine Chronicle Visits Wounded Gaza Child
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The little girl’s house was probably a Hamas headquarters, as is apparently everything else in Gaza.
Yes the premature infants attached to medical machines and left to perish and decompose in the hospital had hamas in their diapers too.
Austin cited the US war against ISIS, claiming the US-led coalition in Iraq did a lot to protect civilians. The US campaign against ISIS incurred major civilian casualties but not as high of a rate as Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
As sick as it sounds, Austin is actually spot on with his assessment. Not that the US gave a flying fuck about civilians in Iraq but comparatively speaking to Israel’s blatant brutality in Gaza they looked amateurish. Even our “shock and awe” would pale in comparison to what Israel has done in Gaza.
Before Hamas Attacked Someone Shorted Israeli Stocks And Funds. Someone gambled against Israel on the markets in Tel Aviv and Wall Street just days before Hamas’ attack. Somebody seems to have known about the plan in advance and has invested a large amount of money on this death and destruction.
The US has provided Israel roughly 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells since 7 October while the US also urges Israel to protect civilians. Israel has killed some 20,000-30,000 Palestinians with US provided munitions.
Zionism is anti-Semitic and racist, but there are also huge economic and geopolitical implications behind “Israel” and the United States’ genocide in Gaza.
For the Palestinians, it is a matter of life and death. To be or not to be. That is the question.
Presumably a number of people knew about the plan in advance. On both sides. And it’s likely that several of those who knew about it and had investment capital to bet with did so.
Either the Resistance Axis and the Global South decolonize the Middle East, or the global elite will continue to occupy the region, choking off the Silk Road, plundering Syria’s oil, and keeping Russian, Iranian and Arab gas cut off from the world market.
This is a decisive moment – and not just for Palestine – if the global elite ethnically cleanse Gaza they will then draw up a new map of the world to come.
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
how American is it to make money and profit from other people’s death and destructio