Israel intensified airstrikes in southern Gaza on Monday and bombed areas where it told Palestinians to seek shelter, Reuters reported.
Israel ordered the evacuation of parts of the main southern city of Khan Younis, but residents said areas where they were told to flee were still coming under attack. The Israeli military posted a map on X with arrows pointing from Khan Younis, telling people to head toward the Mediterranean Sea and the town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border.
But Rafah has continued to come under Israeli attack. The Reuters report reads: “Bombing at one site in Rafah overnight had torn a crater the size of a basketball court out of the earth. A dead toddler’s bare feet and black trousers poked out from under a pile of rubble. Men struggled with their bare hands to move a chunk of the concrete that had crushed the child.”
Many of the Palestinians who had to flee Khan Younis were in the city after evacuating from northern Gaza. It’s estimated that one million Palestinians have been displaced from the north. Dozens of Israeli tanks, armored personnel carriers, and bulldozers entered Khan Younis on Monday.
The US had warned Israel not to expand its operations in southern Gaza before accounting for the millions of civilians that are there. But it’s clear Israel has ignored the US warnings as Israeli military officials are vowing the onslaught in the south will be just as bad as in the north.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant signaled on Monday that the destruction in the south could be even worse. “The IDF has begun to work in the south of the Gaza Strip. The fate of the terrorists in the Hamas battalions there will be the same as those in the north and worse,” Gallant said.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that at least 15,899 Palestinians have been killed in the besieged enclave since October 7. The ministry said 70% of the dead were women and children.
Israel is really racking up the war crimes.
Now, now. Lloyd Austin tells us it is prosperity!
Dead civilians are a feature, not a bug, of the IDF war on the untermenschen of Gaza
1400 dead Israelis on October 7? Most of these were killed by Israel itself! Those people who were gunned down with their captors on October 7 have only the Israeli warmongers to blame. They knew that Hamas was going after hostages to bargain with, and they made it a bloodbath to “justify” pay back on Gaza. Destruction of and possession of Gaza was the plan all along. How the world can just sit and watch while the USA and Israel commit genocide is beyond me!
Israel revised the number to about 1,200 after they accidentally counted some Hamas militants among the dead, probably because they distinguish between Hamas and Israeli civilians about as well as they distinguish between Hamas and Palestinian civilians. Also over 300 of those killed were IDF soldiers; turns out they don’t fight so well without overwhelming air support. https://www.timesofisrael.com/authorities-name-44-soldiers-30-police-officers-killed-in-hamas-attack/
The October 7 pogrom is being avenged. Hamas refused an offer to negotiate with Israel,benefited by playing the stock markets in advance-knowing Israeli markets would go down, and they broke up any reconciliation between Israel and other Arab countries.
Delusional
Israel lies debunked :
https://youtu.be/MpCFzUOzmfg?si=nfi5PHhKSjImobj5
Jake, Jake, tell us again the “40 beheaded babies” story, also the babies cooked in an oven. And also the rape & mutilated genitals one. We know you especially enjoy telling that one.
That’s why what I see is Content unavailable.
Take your hands off of your eyes and see for yourself.
Snider, Carpenter, Porter, and other amazing contributors to antiwar.com are quickly drawing a noose around the lies bandied about regarding Putin, Russians, and the RF itself.
Only a matter of time before they do point-by-point debunks of the Israeli gov’t’s cavalcade of propaganda and outright lies. THEN the likes of jake, Timothy, et. al. will find themselves in ANOTHER corner.
Yes, but few will be exposed to these reports; and even as they are, the Zionists will invent new ones like the latest featuring genital mutilation that will sell even better on MSM .
I think you mean Israel played the stock market as they were warned it would happen and also probably infiltrated Hamas to make sure it would happen. Before the 911 false flag, lots of insider trading was going on. And we know they blew up the buildings with controlled demolition. The same dirty people are involved here.
It wouldn’t be at all surprising if some in-the-know Israelis shorted stocks to make a buck because they knew something big was about to happen.
And it’s exactly as likely that Hamas’s wealthy “leaders” living in Qatar did exactly the same thing, either for personal profit or to boost the organization’s bottom line.
Et tu! eh? This is pretty low, unless you have names and specifics. Jake, we know is on the payroll, and clearly relishes the lying and the bloody obscenity on helpless fellow beings. but??
HAHAHA
“…something big was about to happen.”
Kept calling it a crime when Martha Stewart did it…
So says Israel and its western media lapdogs.
The “submissive void” (Leni Riefenstahl) or mass hypnosis(Pinter).
https://johnpilger.com/articles/silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works-
Try finding any msm outlet that doesn’t rationalize the carnage the US and Israel are inflicting. “War on terror” bullshit has made a big comeback.
And yet people are still reacting with protest, which powers would like to criminalize.
Let us spea kof the Hamas war crime on oct 7
Sure, let’s do that. It still won’t make Israel’s own war crimes disappear.
Tell us the one about all the charred bodies that required forensic archaeologist to identify them.
How come it took so long for the IDF to respond, seven hours I understand?
About what I expect from the most moral army since the Waffen SS
Who wrote the history of WW2? The winners of wars write the history and judging from the blatant lies afloat nowadays . . .
So are you saying that the axis powers did not start WW II?
In Europe, Italy didn’t enter World War 2 until it had been going for nearly a year (June 1940). Usually the war there is regarded as having started when one Axis power (Germany) and one non-Axis power (the Soviet Union) allied to invade Poland and split it between them.
In Europe, Italy and other cheerfully rotting colonial powers of doom didn’t enter World War 2 until it became apparent that an h-r had very limited ability to subjugate Soviet Russia and was unlikely to fulfil their murderous bidding towards the Soviets on their behalf.
Meanwhile,Russia bombs civilians and castrates Ukrainian POWs before executing them,and Antiwar folk are silent.
I guess I would have to see the article here at antiwar.com telling us about those castrations and executions and then read the comment section to see the nonreaction you speak of. But I’m thinking you’re just defending Israel like you usually do by pointing out the barbaric action of others since you can’t deny Israel’s own barbaric actions.
Just go to you tube.
For what? You said the “antiwar folk are silent”. How would me going to “you tube” prove that?
Good one, Jake, … again the mutilated genitals motif … now on the Russians. Enjoy!
Jake really is an amusing little troll. Comes across as rather sad and pathetic human being. It must be odd living his fantasy universe.
He’s not a troll. He is sad tho – lots of bad experiences from ~50 years ago still souring him against liberals, progressives, and other tangential stand-ins for the people who actually DID him harm.
His anger obscures probably what is a genuine and thoughtful person. Maybe that’s the saddest part.
That was very humane of you.
Thanks ! I think everyone here has something to contribute to the conversation – just that, for some, their message is lost under an inability, or poorly developed ability, to communicate in anything but snide or angry (often off-topic) one-line ‘zingers’ meant to derail discussions more than challenge or expand them.
I try to dig deeper and ask “what do you mean?” or meet them where they are. Unfortunately, some of the more fascinating, fringeward Commenters just dodge and deflect or up & run when engaged.
“ The US had warned Israel not to expand its operations in southern Gaza before accounting for the millions of civilians that are there. But it’s clear Israel has ignored the US warnings as Israeli military officials are vowing the onslaught in the south will be just as bad as in the north.”
Fish in a barrel.
The Western MSM are suddenly full of hyperventilating headlines and stories about alleged sexual violence by Hamas on October 7. They’ve rolled Biden out to “urge global condemnation.”
They have to be really desperate to be trying the “Look! Over there!” distraction to divert attention from full-on genocide.