Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip killed at least 155 Palestinians over 72 hours, according to death toll updates released by Gaza’s Health Ministry.
On Saturday, the Health Ministry said Israeli forces killed 120 Palestinians and wounded over the previous 48-hour period. On Sunday, the ministry said 35 Palestinians were killed and 94 were wounded in the past 24 hours.
The ministry’s figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues. “There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
Israeli strikes on Sunday included attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north, which has been under a total siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign. The Israeli military issued a new evacuation order for Shejaiya, an eastern suburb of Gaza City, resulting in more forced displacement of Palestinian civilians.
Israeli forces again targeted the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beith Lahia, another city that’s been under total siege. The shelling wounded the hospital director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, who has been drawing attention to the siege by releasing video statements and talking to media outlets.
According to Al Jazeera, Gaza Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that Abu Safia suffered an injury to his back and left thigh due to metal fragments but was now in a “stable” condition in hospital.
From his hospital bed, Abu Safia said the attack won’t stop him and other hospital staff from “completing our humanitarian mission, and we will continue to do this job at any cost.”
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 44,211 and the number of wounded to 104,567. A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza estimated in an open letter to President Biden in October that the US-backed Israeli onslaught has killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, a total that includes indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who led the letter, told Antiwar.com in a recent interview that the estimate was the bare minimum they came up with by looking at the available data.
And yet Hamas choose to continue the war and have more Palestinians die.
Could you open your eyes a bit wider good Tim?…. This is now a humanitarian crisis.
Yes, it is a humanitarian crisis which Hamas can end by surrendering. But they chose not to. Hamas is OK with losing 100s of Palestinians as long as they can kill an Israeli or two every few days.
…and get naive, gullible people to see them as the victims.
Unfortunately, there are still naive gullible people who believe the Zionist lies.
Whose names rhyme with "Tim". And "Burns".
All this is standard MSM hogwash, justifying genocide.
People die in wars. That is what happens. Look how many civilians died as England and the USA burned and flatten Germans and Japanese cities in WW2. The fact is that as long as Hamas continues to hold hostages and fire at the IDF, Palestinians will die. Calling it "genocide" makes you feel good, but does not change the fact that Hamas started this war on Oct 7 and they have the power to end it. Yes, I know they had their reasons to start this war, but they still started it.
You just keep repeating the same bullshit. Wait a few days and repeat. You are a disgusting human being.
On the plus side, enough of us keep calling out his genocide-apologetics that newcomers to these forums will NEVER have to wonder if "this Tim Burns has anything worthwhile to say". He does not.
It is a genocide. The World Court, Human Rights Watch, & Amnesty International have all determined that it is.
Your comment that use of "genocide" makes me feel good is deeply offensive. It indicates the depth of your ignorance and susceptibility to Official Media narratives. That the US officially could support in any way the hideous massacring of innocents puts this country at its lowest point ever in my view. Have you heard about the use of 2000 pound bombs and shooting toddlers in the head and the chest, with videos of these atrocities celebrated by fanatical Israelis? Use of "genocide" is accurate since for example we know Netanyahu's intent is to eliminate the Palestinians and assume their territory for his and his cohorts' purposes, which are expansion and domination of territory. Possibly you say a person could "enjoy" using such a term to describe the horrific slaughter going on of the innocents, particularly the children, because you think the term is propaganda. But it is not, it's accurate as a portrayal of reality. I recommend you follow the site Middle East Eye for a while and get informed.
Major Burns is fine with it. He has exchanged any morality and humanity he had, to give His Favorite Peeps™, the Apartheid State of Israel, absolute power to do absolutely anything.
Most galling (or most telling), Timbit runs from every challenge to explain WHY he blindly takes the ASI side on EVERY issue. ALWAYS does he reflexively blame Palestinians and "Hamas". NEVER has he objected to A SINGLE ATROCITY that the ASI has been proven to have committed. His ignorance and bias are phenomenal.
I pretty much repeated what you just said. Sorry. Bad habit of not reading other's replies first.
I ALWAYS do that.
Ignorance would mean he's uninformed. He isn't. I've given him numbers on the 2000 lb bombs dropped until I'm blue in the face and it always comes back to him blaming Hamas for Israel's actions. There is absolutely no limit to what Israel can do brutality wise that he thinks they should be held accountable for.
@disqus_lbkuZ0DrY6:disqus@warsrus:disqus@disqus_KAfPEpsMYs:disqus Tim you are hilarious. The comic relief is good for the soul. not calling it a genocide! makes you feel good!
"People die in wars."
Please Tim, go to war.
"Please Tim, go to war."
That is only metaphorically where I want to send him.
Anywhere else works,
@briancantin:disqus@dreamjoehill2:disqus 🙂
LOL!!!!! @dreamjoehill2:disqus
More bullshit.
The Israelis need to lay down their arms and surrender.
@briancantin:disqus@disqus_lbkuZ0DrY6:disqus What's good for the goose is good for the gander. LOL
Stop projecting. We Palestinians don't hate Jewish people because they are Jewish, we hate only those who stole our land, kicked us out and are trying to finish the job (and those who support them). BTW, they need to thank us Muslims for saving, protecting and hiding them over and over again from Christian Crusades, Europeans and Hitler.
False.
He does not view Palestinians as human.
Israel is goading this war, not Hamas! Do you think Nutty Yahoo gives a crap about dead Israelis? He murdered almost 1200 of them on O7 and then blamed ALL the deaths on Hamas. A total lie!!!
(Then he added the juicy stories, designed to maximize public hatred against Hamas, of babies being slaughtered and mass rapes!) The only people who would support this kind of "warfare" would also take "kill shots" to destroy their own lives- Clueless dimwits!
Nonsense. Hamas did the attack and killing on Oct 7. Yes there were some friendly fire deaths on that day, but all those citizens of Israel would still be alive if Hamas did not attack. And no attack by Hamas no counter attack by Israel and 20,000 Hamas fighters and another 22,000 Palestinians civilians would still be alive.
False.
". Yes there were some friendly fire deaths on that day, but all those citizens of Israel would still be alive if Hamas did not attack.'
You're a sick unit. Israel does no wrong in your demented mind only.
The only nonsense here are your comments. You can't even believe them yourself unless you've been living under a rock these last 14 months. But no self-respecting rock would let you live under it so we can all just assume that you're either the dumbest motherfucker on the planet or you're just that fucking sick.
To your last line, it's a false dichotomy.
He is likely BOTH.
And you continue to spew bullshit.
Have I already invented this Metric / S.I. unit in this forum ?
It's called the Burns. Or centiBurns or nanoBurns.
A "Burns" is the height, in nautical miles, required to stack bulls**t claims & assertions before they become a Fact.
So when Timbit says "Hamas surrender = genocide ending", that's a 1 nanoBurns statement. If he states that 500 million more times, he is halfway to making it a statement concordant with observable reality.
False. You are an awful liar.
This is a damn onslaught against the people of Palestine!
Israel needs to put the damn brakes on all this! People need to get to some Peace negotiations and now! Targeting hospitals on purpose is surely a violation of some humanitarian laws!!!
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If Hamas would free the hostages and put down their arms, this would stop. And Hamas putting military assets in hospitals voids international protection that hospitals get.
But these guys only blame Israel. (Hamas fired some more rockets on Israel today…so, they clearly have no problem with how things are going).
@disqus_dw0PWv6cnf:disqus@disqus_EUEJcUK1H4:disqus@disqus_KAfPEpsMYs:disqus Yeah makes me proud of them, that they choose not go like lambs silently into to the night. Their stand would have made victims of the Nazi holocaust proud. They are akin to the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto.
Why do you keep repeating the same bullshit? Do you not listen to Netanyahu, Smotrich and the rest? And the international protection of hospitals isn't voided because of Israel's bullshit claims.
He's a liar who has only ever convinced himself.
@unclesapien:disqus@warsrus:disqus Who says he has convinced himself? LOL
"If Hamas would free the hostages and put down their arms, this would stop."
A filthy Zionist lie. Israel has been killing Palestinians en masse for over 70 years.
Also, Bibi says it will notstop even if the hostages are released.
This slow motion holocaust has been going on for 76 years. This was just the latest opportunity to finish 1948. And for the millionth time Hamas was established after the slow motion holocaust began. As for the military assets in the hospitals it's just not true. 1) Ehud Barak on CCN gave it away when he said it was Israel who built the tunnels underneath shifa hospital. 2) propaganda photos showed an empty machine gun in some basement corner. That supposedly was the evidence for destroying the hospital and killing doctors and patients. And they couldn't find any evidence for any other other dozens of hospitals and medical clinics they destroyed. Stop this nonsense it's humiliating you. 3) Remember that creepy Israeli military spokesman who got caught by Mahdi Hassan showing a calendar as a terrorist guard list at the hospital. Shame on you! @disqus_lbkuZ0DrY6:disqus
@dreamjoehill2:disqus@unclesapien:disqus
Everyone writing replies to these news stories is careful not to get too critical and threatening of Israel for fear of censorship or worse? OK- That little pile of crap smelling up the whole world and infecting others with hatred is called Israel. Its US enablers are the scum of the earth! There! We need some "treason" law that holds accountable those in the USA who support genocide!
This site allows attacks on Israel without censorship. You only get your comments deleted if you fail to follow the well established and quite liberal posting rules.
Why would "attacks on Israel" require censorship, as opposed to "attacks on Burkina Faso" or "attacks on Italy" ?
What sort of Special Pleading (a Fallacy, mind you) are you quietly advocating for, Major ?
Try to answer honestly; we already know the correct answer.
Watch how quickly this is censored:
Israel is an evil nation and [slur or supremacist claim based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity deleted by moderator – TLK]
That's funny, as this site goes out of its way to present any author hostile to Israel's existence. However, they do have some reasonable guidelines against slurs based on identity. It sounds like you have done so and have run afoul of the guidelines.
As for your critique of Israel, you sounds remarkably uninformed. First of all, the world is filled with hatred, especially in the Middle East. If you can take a break from being brave for attacking Israel, try looking up the history of the current conflict in Syria, with over 300,000 dead, or go back a bit to the war between Iraq and Iran, with over 1 million dead.
As for "genocide", the dead in Gaza are typical for a war; the US killed more than 40,000 people in one raid in Germany, plus more than 200,000 people with two bombs in Japan.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians living in Israel (Israeli Arabs) have the longest life expectancy in the Arab world. In fact, it is longer than African Americans in your country (78 vs 77 years), but of course, you would rather do nothing about your fellow citizens, whcn it might detract from your privilege; you would rather focus on other countries who are committing "genocide".
@disqus_dw0PWv6cnf:disqus LOL, you should be banned for this racist comment "First of all, the world is filled with hatred, ESPECIALLY in the Middle East." (emphasis added) You are singling out Middle Easterners.
2. Syria was destroyed and divided between sunni and shia to maintain Israeli dominance in the regions. Even so let them kill themselves, Israel doesn't need to exist there. (Sunni and shia are also to blame)
3. Iran Iraq war was instigated by the US to get back at Iran for the students who took American CIA agents hostages and put back the shredded pieces showing US espionage in Iran and the entire region. It was also to weaken both countries for US and israeli interests. (Iran and iraq are of course not blameless for falling for the trap.)
4. Gazan civilian deaths are not "typical" for a war given that Israel purposefully targets civilians. And the kicker is beacuse they can't win in a stand up fight against Hamas and Hezbollah the cowards take it out on the civilian population who support the resistance and those who don't.
5. "Duh the Americans killed more than the Israelis." Comparing them to American mass murders doesn't help your argument.
6. Uhoh! Racist again. You made a Freudian slip here. Why did you compare them to African Americans? Is it because the Arab Israelis have also been treated as second class citizens? And all your saying is Israeli Arabs are treated like third class citizens but we keep them alive a little longer than the US average so we can torture them longer with the other 99 discriminatory, racist and oppressive laws and measures. (I am so right it doesn't even need a source cite).
@disqus_ohIOfcAv3e:disqus@donnavolatile:disqus
And @knappster:disqus can't you ban this guy for repeating debunked points over and over again LOL!!!!
Israel kills and kills and kills again… in complete indifference of the world.
And senile Joe Biden uses the US veto at the U.N. to protect Netanyahu's Israeli government.
Don't ask yourself why the world is going to hell.
”And we’ve got to get ourselves, back to the garden”…
Subsistence or other small farms are under attack by Dems.
”By the time I got to Woodstock! We were half a million strong! And everywhere was a song and a celebration! We are stardust, we are golden and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden!!!”
Israel is the United States.
The United States is Israel.
Israel:
God’s Chosen People
United States:
American Exceptionalism*
The Earth’s Last Best Hope**
The Indispensable Nation***
The One Indispensable Nation****
A Colonial-settler land.
The Promised Land,
Manifest Destiny is our stand.
A land with no people for
A people with no land.
Indian Territory(ies)
Palestinian Territory(ies)
Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Illegally Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Indian Reservations
Palestinian Reservations
“Area C”, Palestine?, you pray.
“Bantustans,” you say.
Apartheid is the only way.
No!, genocide is here to stay.
Why? Because election year or not Israel's supporters pay United States government representatives to obey.
Wait, all social and economic leaders in America and the "Western World" take Israel's supporters money, it's the only winning game to play.
United States Indians
Israel, PalestinIndians
Different names for the same thing, ethnic cleansing and Genocide.
The truth you can’t hide.
One and the same.
The Principle of Identity,
A difference only in name.
dennis hanna
[ I was born and raised in Pennsylvania … Penn's (William Penn) … sylvania (forest) …
The indigenous people, Lenape people.(1)
I attended and graduated from the University of California (later named the University of California at Berkeley).
The California Native American Genocide
The Ohlone are the predominant Indigenous group of the Bay Area, including the Chochenyo and the Karkin in East Bay, the Ramaytush in San Francisco, the Yokuts in South Bay and Central Valley, and the Muwekma tribe throughout the region. There were more, far more than one hundred indigenous peoples in California .(2)
dennis hanna
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only ask them to think”
Socrates, 470 – 399 B.C.E.
*The first reference to the concept by name, and possibly its origin, was by French writer Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835/1840 work, Democracy in America:
“The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.”
**President Abraham Lincoln
Annual Message to Congress — Concluding Remarks
Washington, D.C.
December 1, 1862
One month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln sent a long message to Congress which was largely routine, but also proposed controversial measures such as voluntary colonization of slaves and compensated emancipation.
“… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. …”
***It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.
Madeleinee K. Albright,
U.S. Secretary of State (1997–2001).
Stated on NBC's Today Show (February 19, 1998)
****"The United States is and will remain the one indispensable nation in the world. Now, sustaining our leadership, keeping America strong and secure means we have to use our power wisely," Obama said in his address to the American Legion in North Carolina. August 27, 2014 ( not the first or last time he uttered these words )
Please note, President Obama
clarified and specified “… the one indispensable nation …”
The President, thus, closed the rhetorical door on any other nation being “indispensable.”
In meaning and use, “the,” definite article, acts as a function word to indicate that a following noun or noun equivalent is a “unique” or “a” particular member” of its class; i.e. “the” President as compared to “a” president.
President Obama, of course, knew this being “ivory league” educated at Columbia University (B.A.) and Harvard University (J.D.)
Lenape people of Pennsylvania (1) Name meaning: "Lenape" translates to "the people" or "the real people". Subdivisions: The Lenape were divided into three main groups: the Unami (people downriver), the Unalachtigo (people near the ocean), and the Munsee (people of the stony country). Lifestyle: They were semi-nomadic, living in villages with dome-shaped dwellings called wigwams made from bark, and relied on hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants for sustenance. Impact of European settlement: With the arrival of Colonial-settlers, European, the Lenape were "ethnically cleansed" and "genocided."
Those not "ethnically cleansed" and "genocided" were forced on to and restricted to reservations.
(2) The first comprehensive treatments of this subject were published very recently, in 2012 and 2014. These are An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley, and Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan Lindsay. Both authors are professors of history in California.
That was huge. Would take 900+ Tweets to have said all that on The X. You must have Disqus Platinum !
We are in need of another Woodstock…. Let’s make some magic happen on our blessed Earth!
“We are stardust, we are golden and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden!…”
We tried in '99. Got muddy & stupid.
What did Woodstock accomplish? Americans should work longer hours to fund more war!!
Old hippies, new hippies! “Let’s get it on! And we proceeded to tear the whole house down!”
Israel is killing in Gaza, in the west Bank, in Lebanon, in Syria and Iran. The world looks on helpless because the USA and part of the EU support Israel with weapons adn money almost daily.
Both our political parties are ruled by Israel. Then we have the Christian sector here that also believes in killing the "terrorists" in order to make room for Jesus to return. It makes zero sense that Jesus would come back there adn reward the Israelis and the Christians for killing others and committing genocide.
Heard some Christian on TV today saying that Israel will be blessed and the Palestinians punished for committing genocide in Israel killing righteous, freedom loving democratic Israelis.
Man, how fat did Jesus get lazin' around eternally in heaven after his unfortunate 36 hours in hell ? You need to clear out a million & more Palestinians so "1976 Elvis" Christ can fit through that narrow Sinai gap between the Red Sea and Persian Gulf ?
"Yo Jesus so fat, his bellybutton gets to Jerusalem 15 minutes afore HE does !"
The Iranian Supreme Leader just issued a call for the death penalty for Israeli leaders for these continuing actions. This incident demonstrates that he is correct, nothing less suits this outrage.
That is true even under American Federal law, which provides the death penalty for these specific crimes.
18 USC 1091: "The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) is-
(1) in the case of an offense under subsection (a)(1),,1 where death results, by death or imprisonment for life and a fine of not more than $1,000,000, or both