Israeli strikes hit the southern Gaza city of Rafah Saturday night into Sunday morning, killing 22 people, including 18 children, The Associated Press reported.
The bombardment came just hours after the US House of Representatives passed a $26 billion bill that includes about $17 billion in military aid for Israel to support the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
According to AP, one of the overnight strikes killed a man, his wife, and their three-year-old child. The woman was 30 weeks pregnant, and medical staff at the nearby Kuwaiti hospital were able to save the baby. The second strike killed two women and 17 children.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Sunday that the number of Palestinians killed in the Strip has reached 34,097, and 76,980 more have been wounded. The death toll is considered a low estimate since it doesn’t take into account people who are dead under the rubble.
Rafah is packed with over 1 million Palestinian civilians and has been getting hit with near-daily Israeli strikes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been threatening to launch a full-scale invasion of the city.
The US has claimed that it’s concerned about Netanyahu’s plans to invade Rafah but is not putting any real pressure on Israel since it continues to provide military aid and political support. US and Israeli officials discussed the potential assault last week, and the White House said the two sides had a “shared objective to see Hamas defeated in Rafah.”
On Sunday, Netanyahu thanked the US for the new aid being passed through Congress and vowed to escalate in Gaza. “In the coming days, we will increase the military and diplomatic pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to free our hostages and achieve our victory,” he said.
Even the IDF war criminals understand: It’s all about the children.
It’s the only cheap victory they are allowed to have.
Not by me. FWIW. I.e. nothing.
Israel doesn’t care what you and I think about their victory laps.
The Israelis are doing what they can to rectify their demographic problems.
Return the hostages,stop firing missiles,and then Israel can get out of Gaza.
Famous quote: “America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
America being blatantly complicit in these appalling war crimes of mass murder and collective punishment against an oppressed people trapped and defenseless within the confines of the Gaza Ghetto can in no conceivable way be seen as “good”. Maybe we should change the slogan to: “Make America Good Again.”
Dude! Way too many of us think we’re good exactly because we support Israel’s “appalling war crimes of mass murder and collective punishment against an oppressed people trapped and defenseless within the confines of the Gaza Ghetto…”
What is appalling is that no blame placed upon Hamas and its supporters for this mess-don’t start a war.
Hamas isn’t conducting a genocide. The Hamas attack didn’t justify a genocidal response. Nothing does. The blame for the genocide is on Israel. And the US. Period. Exclamation point.
It’s like we’re watching a Pres. Rusty Calley, Jr. with the entire Congress his platoon all getting off on the wholesale murder of the hamlet’s entire utterly helpless population gathered in a bunch … and not one Hugh Thompson among the whole 525 …
Definitely Vietnam psychopathy redux:
The Children of Vietnam
by William Pepper
Ramparts
January 1967, pp. 45-68.
A MILLION CHILDREN have been killed or wounded or burned in the war America is carrying on in Vietnam, according to the estimate of William Pepper. Not many of them even get to hospitals, which are few and far between, but when they do, they may lie three in a bed or on newspapers on the floor. Flies are in the wounds. Even such simple equipment as cups and plates are in short supply. Materials for the adequate treatment of burns—gauze, ointments, antibiotics and plasma—are usually non-existent. This contrasts with the incredible speed and efficiency with which American troops napalmed by mistake are given elaborate first aid while being lifted out of the battlefield and then flown to a Texas hospital for treatment.
When Terre des Hommes, a Swiss humanitarian organization, asked for American government assistance in flying burned and wounded children to Europe for repair, our officials refused. With crocodile tears they explained children are unhappy when separated from their families. The fact is that a third of all Vietnamese children in institutions have already lost both parents or been abandoned.
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ChildrenOfVietnam.html
Yes, you bring it all back, … those interminably sickening times. Washington has too well earned a Biblical fate … but ….
That would apply if that famous quote had ever been accurate.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and his justice cannot sleep forever
Back to murdering children, after Israel was put in her place on the world stage.
Like on 7 October type of place?
A noun, a verb and Oct. 7.
ICC considering issuing war crimes arrest warrants for Netanyahu, others
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/icc-considering-issuing-war-crimes-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-others/ar-AA1nfWsl
‘Obvious Evidence of Genocide’: Mass Grave Discovered in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mass-grave-gaza-nasser-hospital
https://twitter.com/PalestineChron/status/1782040674881175656
Dude! You don’t need to find bodies in “Mass Graves!” You can find them in Gaza’s streets everyday.
Sounds like possible organ harvesting too.
Talk about dehumanization. They are a ready source of “goods”.
Would that be “good” material for an updated version of “Body Snatchers!?” But somehow we need to show the Israelis are the main victims–not the Palestinians. Let me work on that for Steven Spielberg.
Tears are welling up already. /s
They got their money so now they have free reign to murder as many as they please.
The latest trick by the IDF is to lure Palestinians out to their death by using a drone with audio.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/17/723881/Israel-military-new-killing-tactic-drones-crying-children-women-Gaza-war
blame Hamas
First the Israeli’s tricked the Palestinians into leaving to a safe zone but were lured into a trap as the convoys of evacuees were targeted by the soulless and sadistic manchild that make up the IDF, those that have made it to the Rafah safe zone are now being lured to their death by drones.
Blame Hamas?
Blame Franco-Saxon-Natanyakha however I doubt you’ll understand.
Once more:
Hamas isn’t conducting a genocide. The Hamas attack didn’t justify a genocidal response. Nothing does. The blame for the genocide is on Israel. And the US. Period. Exclamation point.
Fucking Bastards…!
There is no indications that the 18 children were “b”.
Did Timmy try to make a funny? And being the good human being you are, you couldn’t bring yourself to print the word bastards. I would have thought belittling children’s death would be even too vile for you to do. I was wrong.
“Good” man!
On Sunday, Netanyahu thanked the US for the new aid being passed through Congress and vowed to escalate in Gaza. “In the coming days, we will increase the military and diplomatic pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to free our hostages and achieve our victory,” he said.
Waiting for Biden/Blinken to tell the world the aid wasn’t meant for that, but the ironclad support will continue. And of course, an onslaught on Rajah will make the safe return of the hostages all that more probable. Hell won’t even accept these fucks.
can’t believe Netanyahu still talking about hostages. who believes him? what’s going on in Gaza is not a rescue mission! it’s not an investigation for culprits! the people are reduced to rubble and waiting for food aid. as if a police inspector is going to find out clues from these people. nobody believes IDF when they say this war is about finding hostages taken on 10/7 terrorist attacks.
So-if Hamas was were to return the innocent hostages, Israel would not have an excuse to pursue the war. Hamas shelters among civilians,exposing them to the consequences.
Israel doesn’t have an excuse for conducting a genocide and they’re still doing it. And Netanyahu, and the other nut jobs in that government, has promised to continue on even if the hostages are released. And with the population’s blessing.
Israel has lost any sense of decency. In fact, I am not sure why it should exist at all. I actually told that to God and I believe he is considering it.
While your talking to god,how about getting me some winning lottery numbers.
Don’t worry, the Fake News will eventually get around to reporting this atrocity, if they can squeeze it in between non-stop coverage of yet another sham Trump Show trial.
Once the mass murders and total destruction of Gaza is complete, the US has pledged $8 BILLION US tax dollars to rebuild the world’s largest open air prison and offer “humanitarian aid”. Happy Passover!
Happy Passover! 2024
Not just the oldest male son this time but everyone!
What do you happen to have against Passover? Do you think your holidays have more meaning?, are more noble.My Grandmother related that she had to hide in her house during Easter, as the peasants would get all riled up by their so called “Christian” clergy.
https://www.newarab.com/news/were-not-nazis-netanyahu-tells-german-minister https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d2d31dff5db2a1db60a0970c7859220ccd4fbfecd43e92da4c30f83da73e61e.jpg
Quack Quack Quack
Israel kills 22 including 18 children
even though this was a bombardment,
they do have the some of the best snipers in the world
and they do target children.
Nice Shot Man
different MF’s have been making songs about war pigs for a good 50 years now.
but none of that has ever had any kind of influence on the number of bombs & bullets that the US has continued to produce ever since WW1.
what, did yalls think that it was LUCK that uncle sam managed to come out on top ? every single “anti-war” song from the 50’s to the present has been paid for by the uncle sam inc.
edit) = i so appreciate my free government cheese that i would never speak out against my bettors.
“how dare you SPY”