Israel has ordered Palestinians to evacuate from the eastern portion of Khan Younis, signaling its forces are preparing to re-invade the southern Gaza city, which has mostly been destroyed by the previous Israeli assault.
Many of the over one million Palestinian civilians who fled the Israeli assault on Rafah have been sheltering in Khan Younis and are being forcibly displaced again. According to The Associated Press, Palestinians have been told to go to the nearby al-Mawasi camp on the coast, which Israel has declared a “safe zone.” But like other so-called safe zones in Gaza, the camp has come under repeated Israeli attacks.
Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Younis in April and left the city in complete ruins. Municipal officials estimated the Israeli assault destroyed more than 80% of the buildings in Khan Younis and left the rest mostly uninhabitable.
Israel said it destroyed Hamas’ battalions’ military in the city and claimed victory, but another planned invasion signals the Palestinian group could be re-establishing itself, as it has in other parts of Gaza decimated by the Israeli military.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists his goal is still to eliminate Hamas in Gaza even as his own military has said the goal is impossible. “This business of destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear – it’s simply throwing sand in the eyes of the public,” Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said last month.
“Hamas is an idea, Hamas is a party. It’s rooted in the hearts of the people – whoever thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong,” Hagari added.
On Sunday, Netanyahu again vowed to continue his genocidal war until Hamas is “eliminated” and rejected the idea of a permanent ceasefire.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Monday that at least 37,900 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, a total that includes around 15,000 children. The actual number is likely much higher as the Health Ministry’s numbers don’t account for the thousands dead under the rubble, and the breakdown in communication and Israel’s destruction of health facilities has impeded the counting of the dead.
One wonders when the orders for Resettlement to the East
(Umsiedlung nach (dem) Osten) will be issued.
Ufortunately,bothnations are locked in a death struggle.
The US, indeed everyone needs to reevaluate their current positions with regard to our policies, having to do with Israel. we are fast becoming complicit, in what I might term potential war crimes….
If by war crimes you mean the indiscriminate mass murder of tens of thousands of civilians using bombs that the US supplied then I'd say we arrived at complicity months ago.
Absolutely war crimes, the worst crimes.
Really?? Potential War Crimes? Like writing about he Nazis in 1945 that their action might constitute war crimes.
Oct 7 was a war crime-hunting down the perpetrators-Justice.
Killing anything that moves, leveling city blocks making the place uninhabitable and creating a famine – Terrorism.
Israel has been committing war crimes against the Palestinians long before Oct 7 , 2023.
The cruelty is endless, as is the guilt of the supporters of the genocide state.
Change of heart! Just click the undo button.
I assume they won’t allow the Gazans to rebuild. Maybe they’ll just slowly take it after the West Bank is eaten.
Is it appropriate to call these PUNATIVE EXPEDITIONS ?
They serve no military purpose. The IDF clearly hasn’t eliminated or even reduced the fighting ability of the various Resistance Brigades.
The Likudniks on these forums have time and time again stated the IDF will commit collective punishment atrocities against the women and children of Gaza as long as the Resistance Brigades fight back. Hence – Punative Exoedition.
Men women children anything which moves is a target for the Zionists. They truly are psychotic in their actions and outlook an view Palestinians as disposable animals as their spokesman have continuously said. But the world will NOT forget or forgive.
I dunno. The world doesn’t mind what happens in many places.
THIS time it'll be "Never Again, again."
As are any and all Israelis targets.
Imagine Gen. Patrick S. Ryder directly contradicting Joe Biden on his rhetoric in regards the Ukraine or the South China Sea…
It's good to see the Zionists at each other's throats in this manner.
… excruciating, like watching helpless little ones being slowly tortured to death.
Yes,Oct 7 was painful to watch.
You live in the past, don't you.
Once again, history just suddenly began on Oct 7, 2023. Oct 7 Pales in compression to what Israel has been inflicting on the Palestinians for the past 75 years or more.
As is now generally known BB “allowed” … therefore “wanted” … therefore “assisted” “it to happen”… causing one to wonder, reasonably, how many of those atrocities were actually the work of embedded IDF Special Ops ??
Missing arms, missing legs, the horror of seeing their siblings killed, the horror of being orphaned, the horror of the memory of the massacres.
There is also the horror of retribution. Journalist Chris Hedges wrote of his experiences in Gaza years ago. In 2000, he was in Gaze, witnessed an IDF soldier shoot a child who was throwing rocks at a tank. Three weeks later, Mr. Hedges look up the family of the boy. They told him that when their 10 year old son was told about the death of his brother, he disappeared. His father went looking for him, found him with a knife in his hand. His father asked him what he was doing. The boy responded that he was going to kill Jews.
“This business of destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear – it’s simply throwing sand in the eyes of the public,” and bombs in the eyes of Palestinian children.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/89c4017365a05550fcf57f83298b7b2942b8e0c8737c54e9ef9a60e6d57397bc.jpg Che???? Che??? We need ya buddy!
Che Guevara?… I am down with that!
It's going to be hard for the state department to designate any group as a terrorist organization if the state of Israel isn't on the list. Proving once more that they have no peers.
On the contrary it will be easy for them to do it. What'll be hard is getting anyone with critical thinking to believe their proclamations have any basis in truth.
No doubt. I should have done the/s at the end of my comment.
The US has taken many organisations of the terrorist list when it suited the agenda of the US and worked with terrorist organisations that were on its terrorist list.
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History will record this Zionist administration in Israel as being right up there with the monsters described in history. This article in Consortium News is of interest as to what the Zionist purpose is. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/24/the-treachery-of-the-nazi-zionist-alliance/
Yes. I have posted this before:
Zionism as a Fascist Ideology and Movement: Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany
https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/zionism-as-a-fascist-ideology-zionist-relations-with-nazi-germany-by-faris-glubb/
And Carlton posted this:
The Zionist Plan For The Middle East By Oded Yinon Israël Shahak [ Yinon, Oded Shahak, Israël]
The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state.
Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation.
https://archive.org/details/the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east-by-oded-yinon-israel-shahak-yinon-oded-shah/page/n2/mode/1up
… And no, Hamas operatives are not in tunnels at Khan Younis…! But, their traps are…!
Israel has notified the world that it could use "doomsday" weapons on the Hezbollah (Lebanon) and perhaps Iran. This is the reason that President John F. Kennedy tried to get Ben-Gurion from developing the bomb. President Kennedy, correctly, surmised that an Israel with the bomb would be a belligerent in the ME. Just prior to his assassination, I believe commissioned by Allen Dulles, he exchanged terse letters with Ben-Gurion over the issue. Of course, Johnson proved to be a willing "partner" who did not "want to embarrass an ally" over the attempted sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty, and seek real justice.
There are books and articles that argue that the Mossad assassinated Kennedy. I’ve read that there isn’t much night and day between the CIA and Mossad.
Ceasefire Now’ – Israeli Generals Reveal Extent of Army Crisis in Gaza
”Israel’s top generals are advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza, even if it means the Palestinian movement Hamas remains in power, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
This stance has reportedly created a rift between the military and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes a truce that would allow Hamas to survive the war.”
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/ceasefire-now-israeli-generals-reveal-extent-of-army-crisis-in-gaza/
Israel has certainly killed a few — but very few — of the Hamas fighters. Being Gaza's administrative organization "Hamas" has, in addition to its military wing, many civilian personnel. They and their families no doubt live above ground, so killing Hamas's civilian personnel is a rather straightforward matter.
Have you ever heard any news report make a distinction between the military and civil branches of Hamas? So in the wholesale obliteration of Gaza's infrastructure, putatively in pursuit of “Hamas”, who exactly have the Israelis killed? Hint :Not Hamas's fighters.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, is headquartered in an impregnableunderground fortress. That's “impregnable” as in "Fuck You, IDF". Which is why the Israeli military has lost the "war" in Gaza against the Al-Qassam Brigades … which remains undefeated, intact, indeed flooded with new recruits.
The IDF/IOF remains unrivaled when it comes to brutalizing, torturing, and murdering unarmed and defenseless women and children, but against armed, trained and committed soldiers … not so much.
If Netanyahu was a sane leader rather than a mad dog, there might be some hope of Israel stepping back from the brink and surviving, but I suspect that the mad dog will lead them all the way to hell.
We shall see.