Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli attacks in Gaza killed 48 Palestinians and wounded 53 over the previous 24-hour period, based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians who were brought to hospitals and morgues.
Attacks on Thursday included strikes on the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza. Initial reports said at least nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling on the camp. Later in the day, Al Jazeera reported a total of 16 people were killed and 55 were wounded in Nuseirat.
Israeli strikes also continued to pound northern Gaza, which has been under siege as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign since early October. A child was killed by an Israeli strike on Gaza City, and at least one Palestinian was killed in an attack on Jabalia. In Beit Lahia, four were reported killed in attacks on two houses.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that several Palestinians were killed in southern Gaza in Israeli attacks on civilians in and around the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah.
The UN issued a new warning on the lack of aid on Thursday, saying that out of 55,000 pregnant women in Gaza, 15,000 are on the verge of famine. Earlier this week, Save the Children said that about 130,000 children under the age of 10 are trapped under the Israeli siege in northern Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 44,330 and the number of wounded to 104,933.
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.
Even Iran cynically leaves Palestinians to the slaughter. About the only actors outside of Palestinians themselves providing any speed bump to genocide at all are Yemeni Houthis and Hezbollah.
Imagine if the USSR had allowed the Holocaust to continue while taking turnsies on V2 rockets or the like with Berlin. Implies this genocide isn't Iran's issue.
I don't know there's much that the IRI can really do, apart from supporting local proxies. One might ask, shifting slightly east, what PAKISTAN could (be) do(ing).
Pakistan also does not have a foothold on the Mediterranean Middle East (argument could be made for its close relationship with the KSA) and ALSO does not have "force projection" capabilities across that distance. Ballistic missiles yes; but air support, troops, ships, armor direct from the IRI (or Pakistan, keeping with the example) is not feasible. And such measures of "direct defense" of Gaza would be necessary.
Unfortunately, the Apartheid State of Israel maintains "escalation dominance" over Gaza, West Bank, south Lebanon – simply by proximity.
Precisely Uncle Sapien!
If we’ll recall, Iran launched missiles at Israel (as have their supplied allies or as some parse it proxies) in order to stop the genocide in Gaza. This turned into tit-for-tat exchange of fire, now dropped, and Iran appears to be sitting on hundreds of thousands of missiles in tunnels which they won’t do anything with until the Israel and the US attack them again. This appears to be completely decoupled from the unabated continuing Gaza slaughter, with the Palestinians left twisting in the wind.
Pakistan does not care about the Palestinians. And after Israel carved up Hezbollah they are losing interests also.
Mine was an example by way of geographical proximity – that neither the IRI nor its neighbouring Pakistan have the necessary force-projection infrastructure or logistics to wage the necessary defensive campaign the Palestinians need to permanently oust the IDF invaders.
Generally speaking, it's not a good idea to attack a powerful neighbor and slaughter their people. They don't like that.
Hezbollah and Iran get the message. They and the Israelis know that no one cares. The world did allow the mass murder of Jews by the Germans. And you – despite your virtue signaling – couldn't care less about the 200,000 who died in Chechnya, the 600,000 people who died in the Syrian civil war, the 900,000 Tutsi slaughtered, the 1 million killed in the "War on Terror," the 1.5 million who died in the Armenia genocide, the 5 million who died in the Potosi mines, or the 10 million who died in the Congo under King Leopold.
I protested against the two of those my tax dollars openly paid for and I started an FM community radio station that broadcast regular anti-war messaging for several years. Does mom’s basement at least have windows so you have a general idea of what time of day it is, or do you time things by when she serves you pizza bagels?
I see – so, you can't respond to my post, except with juvenile (and pointless) personal attacks and self-congratulations?
Sign of a failed argument.
”If I had a hammer! I’d hammer in the morning! I’d hammer in the evening! All over this land! I’d hammer out danger! I’d hammer out warning! I’d hammer out the love between our brothers and our sisters! All over this land!”
”Where have all the flowers gone?! Long time passing… Where have all the flowers gone?! Long time ago…”…
Slaughtering Palestinians in the tens of thousands does not endear any of us to Israel… … …
"any of us"? I'm sure there are MILLIONS of morons who blindly and without any real facts support the mass murdering policies of Israel!
Here is an interesting look at the connection between the birth of Hamas and Israel that is little mentioned in the mainstream media:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2023/10/blowback-israels-connection-to-birth-of.html#google_vignette
@CharlesHomer56:disqus Ron Paul, Raimondo and others hold this view. No need to dispute the facts, however, the conclusion is faulty. It reeks of American and Zionist exceptionalism, dismisses Palestinian agency and totally misreads the organic role of Islam in the region.
It's just convenient nonsense for Israeli and American pundits who have to explain away Palestinian agency and the ability to confound US-Israeli Zionist plans by saying they made a mistake rather than admitting Palestinian resistance to oppression is the blowback.
It is also faulty because it keeps vilifying Hamas and by design the majority of the Muslim world who supports Hamas. It allows the dishonest to say "We support the Palestinian people, it's just the evil Hamas that controls them and is responsible for their misery that we oppose."
Finally, because a lot of Arabs and Muslims don't care what Americans think, no one has bothered to publish and translate the many academic works and articles that debunk this convenient American parisian political nonsense.
https://www.presstv.ir/Live
http://www.empowermentresources.com/info2/childrenlearn-long_version.html
US ammunition kills 48 Palestinians in Gaza over 24 hours. The Israelis simply drop the ordinance with assistance of US targeting info. Kinda reminds me of Ukraine.
https://x.com/i/status/1861771447711981920 https://x.com/i/status/1862562483203928568
Only a warped and sick mind could imagine to do this, yet the MSM stays silent.
Israel needs to cool its Jets!!! NOW!!!
”Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground! Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your bodies down…”
Palestinians need to be free and they need food…
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Life, sometimes, seems to be about loss…