At least 115 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources told WAFA, the vast majority being killed by an attack on an apartment building in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.
The medical sources said at least 109 Palestinians, including many women and children, were killed by the strikes on the building in Beit Lahia. Earlier reports put the death toll at 93, including 25 children.
According to Middle East Eye, the five-story building was owned by the Abu Naser family, who recently took in many displaced Palestinians. At the time of the strike, it was estimated that 300 to 400 people were sleeping in the building.
Many of the people wounded in the strike were dying due to the lack of medical resources in the area, which has been under total siege since early October as Israel is attempting to carry out an ethnic cleansing plan in northern Gaza. The nearby Kamal Adwan hospital was recently attacked by Israeli forces and is unable to treat the wounded.
“We cannot treat those wounded in the Beit Lahia massacre due to lack of resources,” Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the hospital’s director, told Al Jazeera. “Most of those injured may die due to lack of resources. The world must act and not just watch the genocide in Gaza.”
The massacre was bad enough for the US to say it was concerned about the attack, but there’s no sign it will impact US military aid for Israel. “We are deeply concerned by the loss of civilian life in this incident. This was a horrifying incident with a horrifying result,” said State Department spokesman Matt Miller, who acknowledged the “reports of two dozen children killed.”
As usual, Miller said the US would ask the government of Israel about the incident instead of calling for any kind of accountability. “We have reached out to the government of Israel to ask what happened here,” he said.
Israeli strikes were also reported in Gaza City and near the southern city of Rafah. Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update that 41 Palestinians were killed in the previous 24-hour period, bringing its recorded death toll to 43,061. At the time, it said 93 were killed or missing in the strike in Beit Lahia.
The Health Ministry’s numbers do not account for the Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
How in the hell can any Arab or Muslim American even think about voting for Kamala Harris in light of what her administration is allowing to go on in Gaza?
How the hell can any human being with an ounce of compassion even think about voting for her, when her administration funded this genocide?
Too many people will be caught between Trump and Gaza next week at the voting stations. Sadly they fail to see a 3rd party as an option.
Consider the recent election in my province. 47 seats needed for majority. 46 went to the (center-Left) NDP, 45 to the Conservatives…and 2 to the Green Party. The NDP forms a minority government – but NEITHER they nor the Conservatives have a majority on partisan votes WITHOUT the support of the "3rd party" Greens.
"If you think something's too small to be effective, you've obviously never slept with a mosquito in the room."
What "province" are you in? Are you speaking of Canada which has a parliamentary style of government? That is totally different from our system of government here in the American Republic.
Americans can take a position outright in a 3-candidate race with hypothetically as low as just over 33.3% of the vote. The big parties want no one ever to consider that.
It would be possible to win the presidency with 23.1% of the vote. And that would be true even with only two candidates.
What do the candidates "win"?
Nothing. The "winner" is just the figurehead for the real control, and entity that cannot be touched, or, wind up like President Kennedy.
In British Columbia. Every riding has candidates – there are 93 ridings in the province. The party with the most elected Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA’s) forms the government. 47 or more MLA’s from a party constitutes a Majority Government; less than that, a Minority Government (requiring consensus or coalition to pass bills).
The Premier is the leader of the governing party as elected by the party. It is possible, and has happened, that the Premier can change (perhaps 2-4 times) between elections (due to resignation or losing their seat in a by-election).
Elections are in October every 4 years; a comparatively recent change as it used to be like the federal system where an election was called any time up to ~6 years from the last one, either by the governing party or by Non Confidence Motion passed in Parliament.
Ridings are generally divided to try and carry equal numbers of eligible voters, which can lead to really odd ridings distinctly not aligned with municipal boundaries.
She has no administration.
The vice-president has precisely zero power to fund anything.
Vice-President Kamala Harris just said the other day in a rare interview that she can't think of a single thing she would do differently than Joe Biden. Pay attention.
And any sitting republican VP would have said the same god damned thing for any sitting republican president. Especially right before an election. Saying something negative about your party's president would be political suicide. And no republican would have answered that question differently.
Technically, Congress is responsible for funding under Article 1 …. so no administration has that power. HOWEVER Harris in her role as tie breaker in the Senate, can sometimes exert that vote to fund. As has happened.
The claim that Harris has zero power in this regard is incorrect.
Yes, Harris could cast a single deciding vote in the Senate in the event of a tie.
Which would mean that the decision lay entirely in Biden’s hands, since 51 votes are not enough to overrule his veto.
You used the term "zero power", right? Breaking a tie on a budget bill isn't zero power.
Again, according to the Constitution, Biden can't fund anything without Congress. Without that tie breaking vote, a budget bill wouldn't be passed. So…. Harris doesn't have zero power. Biden being capable of vetoing is irrelevant.
In theory.
Or vote for the guy who bitches about them not funding it to the level he would have.
I stuck with Jill Stein. I would rather throw my vote away in protest of genocide than throw it away in support of it.
It looks, Satanyahu is helping his friend Trump.
Trump promised to stop financing NATO and Ukraine. So, all money will go to Israel.
If that comes to pass, before he passes, Trump would plant a hotel along the Gaza shores. To hell with the hotel in Moscow.
Unfortunately the ones who have vested interests in the party. They are trying to fear mongering us in to voting for Harris over Trump. The majority of our community will not vote for Harris and will stay home, vote 3rd party or vote Trump.
A majority of Arab Americans are Christians.
40% of Palestinians worldwide are Christians
30% of the Levant is Christian
Nicely stated! I am a Christian but not “born again”, cause I was born correctly, as a Pisces, a person of peace, astrologically speaking!
Curious where did you get those numbers?
SHAME on the USA and its master Israel for all the murder and mayhem they cause. May God have mercy on their corrupted souls!
The US is interested in maintaining its wealth and power, which means using allies around the world.
Many allies aren't so great, such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Canada, etc.
Because they know Trump will encourage "finishing the job" in Gaza.
Which means they should vote for neither Trump nor Harris.
Bernie Sanders has a fair rationale for that. He says as bad as Genocide Joe is, and how bad Harris will likely be, it is more likely Trump will be worse;
KAMALA BACKED BIDEN ON EVERYTHING!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113396578896726204
"“Trump will be worse on Gaza” is such an obnoxiously dishonest argument. It’s completely unfalsifiable and can’t even be tested after the election since abuses keep getting worse in Gaza anyway, and it’s based on nothing but the claim that very vague statements made by Trump prove he’ll facilitate Israeli atrocities more than the current administration already has been. It’s completely empty narrative fluff with no basis on the facts in evidence.
There are all kinds of legitimate cases to be made that Harris would be a little bit better than Trump on some aspects of domestic policy and the environment, but there is no case whatsoever to be made that he’ll be worse on Gaza than the administration that’s already committing genocide there. He could be worse, he could be a bit better, or he could be exactly the same. There’s no way to know, and there won’t be any way to know in a universe where we can’t observe alternate realities to compare what each presidential candidate would have done if they’d won. It’s an entirely unanswerable question that people are just pretending to know the answer to.
Harris and the Democrats have repeatedly attacked Trump for not starting a war with Iran when he was president. She criticized him for making John Bolton sad when he refused to bomb Iran. How is that less insanely pro-Israel than anything Trump has said?
If you want to argue that Harris will be better on reproductive rights or something then go ahead, but when it comes to Gaza don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining." –Caitlin J
"Biden wants to immediately stop all aid to Israel," Trump said May 10 on Truth Social. "Any J*wish person who votes for Crooked Joe Biden should have his/her head examined!"
Trump did lay out a few markers in the three weeks that followed the Hamas attack. He said on Oct. 11 that a future Trump administration would “fully support Israel defeating, dismantling, and permanently destroying the terrorist group Hamas,” while telling the Republican Jewish Coalition later that month that Hamas fighters “will burn forever in the eternal pit of hell."
Just days after Hamas attacked Israel, Trump, in a video posted from his Mar-a-Lago estate here, declared:“I kept Israel safe. Nobody else will. Nobody else can. And I know all of the players — they can’t do it.”
Trump is a personal friend of Netanyahu.
No way. Netanyahoo was one of the first to congratulate Biden after he was declared the winner in 2020. Trump saw that as extraordinarily disloyal. Both Bibi and Jared thought Trump’s political career was over. They miscalculated.
All that can be said is we absorb these atrocities with dignity, patience and resistance in all of its forms. Keep in mind the Algerians sacrifi ed one million of their citizens from 1954-62 to be free of French colonial rule. Our lives are no more important .
as for the elections, depending on how close this I would say all eyes should be on Michigan. If Trump wins the tight races like PA and AZ, Michigan could hand the race to Trump. We are full intent on punishing the Democrats for the genocide. If we are successful it's a message to both parties.
LOL. Punishing the Democrats by putting in Trump is really dumb. Trump treats minorities like garbage. He will green light Israel moves to expand into the West Bank. And you won't sent a message to both parties.
BTW The Algerian situation is not the same as the Middle East situation.
We survived 4 years of Trump. 50k+ didn't survive one year of Biden-Harris. Actually the worse Trump is the better it is for the Middle East to blow up and overthrow it's corrupt rulers. America can't win in Afghanistan much less a boiling over Middle East.
as for Alheria and Palestine it doesn't matter what you think. Algerians and Palestinians view it that way as do Arabs and Muslims around the world. And freedom loving people if the world.
Oh and another important point, the zionisy lobby is finding harder and harder to control the narrative, especially with the youth. And it's spending more and more money to defeat candidates who actually voted to continue arming Israel but called for a ceasefire. Trump will increase the lobby's failings.
Netanyahu's theme song.
My sentiments exactly, my brother. Our spirits are connected somehow!?
You and I will never donate to Western pro-war websites.
Unfortunately, they will jail us if we don’t donate our taxes to fund the same thing.
Music soothes the savage soul!
George rocks us all peacefully!!!
We're sick and tired. Why can't we finish them all "faster" like Trump suggested? Of course I'm being sarcastic but that doesn't mean a lot of us don't think this way. Side note, I would like to see if this comment will show up or be "removed" by an unknown someone.
There are no unknown someones to remove comments here. There’s me.
We do have automated filters (some of them created by Disqus, some of them by us) to HOLD possibly guidelines-violating comments that may violate our guidelines until I have time to check them, but if a comment is REMOVED, it’s removed by me.
And there was never any question of this particular comment being removed. It contains no guidelines-violating content, nor does it contain comment likely to trip the review filters.
Thomas, Are you not reading that I have the documentation of my 2 Antiwar comments being “removed” over the past 9 days in my Disqus profile or are you just annoying me until I go away?
Well, at least you’re finally commenting about it on the site section where the comments were removed, instead of somewhere else where you haven’t had comments removed. I guess that’s progress of a sort.
When you have comments removed (as opposed to temporarily held for approval or removal), I’m the one who removes them.
I don’t care whether you go away or stay. Makes no difference to me all. But if you stay, your comments will be subject to the same moderation guidelines as everyone else’s.
Have a nice day.
So, are we back to you removing my 2 comments after you wasted my time for 2 days telling me you didn’t remove them in your useless responses? Oh well. I have news for you. I certainly don’t need your useless waste of time responses to have a nice day.
The DETROIT NEWS' comments filter don't even allow me to use the terms, "Kammy" or "Kammie" instead of Kamala.
Inability or unwillingness to read for comprehension on your part does not imply an inability to write for meaning on my part.
Tom you have more patience than I do. "attacks against http://Antiwar.com will be removed." NA constant complaining abut antiwar removing his comments is an attack on Antiwar.com.
Bullshit.
A complaint is not necessarily an attack.
So far, I’ve been assuming that his or her complaints are just complaints … although I have noticed that every time we have a fundraiser, someone seems to show up pretending to not be able to read and complaining of imaginary persecutions. So I suppose it COULD be a particularly ineffectual way of trying to attack the site.
I’ll keep an eye on it.
no it isn't; but being a warmonger with warmonger comments is an attack on antiwar.com.
Oh give it up. So you had one comment maybe removed. Big deal.
I have a solution. Let's go to war against Iran. …What's that? …Well, I'm told every minute of every day that the reason why Israel kills those innocent civilians is because of Iran–Correct?
Cynical much?!
;-%
Not cynical enough
Here's another suggestion: Hamas stops fighting and releases all hostages, and agrees to live peacefully.
There IS one "vote" the American people should have put before them- do we let an international tribunal try American "leaders" and their international accomplices before a military tribunal represented by ALL the world's nations?
What are you smoking? That will never happen.
But you would be for it, right?
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Would a Hamas surrender and return of all hostages end the conflict?
No. Greater Israel would. And nothing else. That's the plan and was the plan when Hamas was allowed to attack.
Of course it will end this war. Others future wars, no. As long as the Palestinians believe they are entitled to land that grand fathers and in many cases great grand fathers lost 76 years ago wars will continue.
Why not do it for “this war” and end the inhumanity? The “future” allows for hope.
End the inhumanity? So, Israel is going to give up annexing North Gaza? And the future is shot.
Stop the genocide with a surrender and release of hostages. That is reasonable at this point.
Continuing the conflict only sacrifices Gazans and hostages. WHY?
The genocide is only going to be downgraded to ethnoc cleansing. Again, is Israel going to stop the annexing of North Gaza? I'll answer for you: NO! Have you not been listening to them?
Continuing the “fighting” (slow slaughter) and holding hostages only gives Israel license to continue the conflict.
Losing northern Gaza to annexation (like the probable future for Ukraine, Russian annexation) is a simply a fact result of losing a war.
Stopping the war is step one, toward sanity.
So, in other words, the inhumanity will continue but not quite on the scale of a genocide. I guess in your view those hundreds of thousands being driven from their land doesn't qualify as "inhumane" and is just "a simple fact". Good way of sanitizing things.
It's unlikely that the UN general assembly will repeal or modify UNR 181, in which the borders of Israel are set absent such repeal or modification. Occupation isn't annexation.
Wonder if same will apply to Russia in east Ukraine.
Ukraine's borders weren't set in UNR 181. In fact, they weren't set by the UN at all. IIRC, they were solely and entirely negotiated with one other regime, and never even reported to the UN as member states are supposed to do.
Can you guess which other regime the borders were negotiated with (hint — it starts with "R")?
Sounds like UN approval is optional.
Maybe … except that Israel in particular agreed to the UNR 181 borders as a condition of UN membership.
Which means that unless the UN repeals or revises UNR 181, or Israel surrenders its UN membership, those are Israel’s borders.
Maybe … except Israel might not surrender its membership based on its right of self-defense after Oct. 7th.
And a likely veto by the UK and US that would stop expulsion.
Another mini massacre. Always keeping the daily killing to a number that won't generate as much outrage as say an attack the magnitude of Oct 7th would (and did). A couple hundred of those and presto you have a genocide while the sheeple go about their daily business like it's just another day.
Looking at the photo you can clearly see that no one in the group shows any sign of staving. They look in shape. Yet, for the last year Israel has been accused of staving people.
There are (were) 2.3 million people in Gaza. Do you actually think those that are starving are going to be out and about? Or do you think that Gaza, that had a good portion of their population already "food insecure" BEFORE Oct 7th, wouldn't be facing starvation even though the aid going into the strip is a tiny fraction of what it was before that? Are you THAT fucking stupid?
Has is occured to anyone else that quite possibly Nutandyahoo and posse are really satanic AI experiments that got loose out of some U.S. defense department basement laboratory?
Last year, Hamas invaded Israel and kill many, kidnapped others.
Israel fought to defend themselves.
A truce was reached by both sides. Hamas broke this truce.
So – all deaths, all bombing is directly on Hamas.
If Hamas would not have broken the truce, none of this would have happened.