The Israeli military has almost completely destroyed the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, once one of the most densely populated places on earth, turning it into a “ghost town,” Haaretz reported on Sunday.
First established in 1948 as a refuge for Palestinians driven from their homes by Zionist militias during the establishment of the modern state of Israel, the Jabalia refugee camp has been under a total siege since early October as part of a new ethnic cleansing campaign to move all Palestinians in northern Gaza to the south.
The IDF estimates that it has completely destroyed 70% of the buildings in the camp, and the ones that remain are damaged. “During a brief visit to the camp Friday afternoon, I could see that even the few buildings that are still standing were badly damaged,” wrote Haaretz reporter Amos Harel.
According to IDF data, the Israeli military has forcibly driven 96,000 Palestinian civilians out of the Jabalia refugee camp. The IDF also says it killed 2,000 Palestinians during the operation, claiming most were armed, but there is a significant amount of evidence that the IDF kills unarmed civilians and counts them as “terrorists.” The IDF says 35 Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting in the camp since early October.
The Haaretz report says only 100 “terrorists” and a similar number of civilians remain in the camp. “Jabalia has become a ghost town. Outside, you mainly see pack after pack of stray dogs roaming around and hunting for scraps of food,” the report reads.
The ethnic cleansing campaign, which is based on an outline known as the “general’s plan,” has been focused on Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia. In each city, the IDF is demolishing every building in sight to ensure Palestinian civilians have nowhere to return, and the campaign will likely lead to the establishment of Jewish settlements and permanent Israeli occupation.
May they be haunted by those souls.
Haunted til their dying day,when they are damned for eternity.
The biggest "war" for Israel is on the horizon. That will be the "war" to try and deal with the international condemnation and boycotting of EVERYTHING Israel! We will NEVER forget, to use Israel's own "Holocaust-inspired "justification" for its massive and unforgivable war crimes! And let's all hope that those "leaders" in the USA who support this butchery and are obviously compromised and blackmailed by Israel are brought to their knees in some way!
They must go to hell burning with white phosphor. Weapons evil people design and produce and use.
Sounds good. I wish I could believe it.
You're delusional if you think "the world" is going to start a war with Israel, which has one of the strongest militaries plus nuclear weapons.
International condemnation and boycotting? Nope. Even the other Arab nations are staying out of this war. Why would Egypt, for example, help Hamas, which is part of their mortal enemy the Muslim Brotherhood? Saudi Arabia is negotiating with Israel again; even the new Syrian government has made positive statements about Israel.
No, the American government isn't "compromised" (despite your feeble implications); Israel is a US ally (actually, a "major non-NATO ally" by law), and Israel isn't doing anything the US didn't do in WWII and other wars.
It doesn't need the world to deal with Israel. Light-armed, barefoot Hamas fighters were filmed for all to see carrying out heroic attacks that drove an already raving lunatic state to the point of madness. Under the facade of all this bluster, Israel is feigning confidence because its whole Zionist project is in the weakest state it has been in since its inception.
One of the "strongest" armies in the world is on the verge of collapse.
I don't know what you're talking about when the Wall Street Journal, the NY Post and the Times have all reported the growth and increasing effect of BDS in the last year.
The Arab states staying out of the war should actually scare Israel to death because they are pushing the people into a domino affect uprising that will blow Israel off the map. For example, wouldn't it be ironic that instead of Israel kicking Palestinians out of the West Bank to Jordan, Jordanians bring down their puppet King and Palestinians from the East Bank flood the West Bank and kick out all the settlers living on illegally occupied land?
Day by day, American by American, the "special relationship" is being questioned and people are quickly viewing Israel not as a strategic asset but a strategic liability.
Comparing what Israel is doing with what America did in WWII just weakens your position 1. The whole point of WWII was to prevent anything like that from happening again. That means western society is regressing not progressing. 2. It just reminds us that what Israel is doing as a pattern bears an uncanny resemblance to what Nazis did. 3. The comparison to other war crimes just guts the hilarius claim that Israel is the most moral army in the world. @disqus_ohIOfcAv3e:disqus@renatelittlejohn:disqus @siu1968 @existentialdread:disqus
"International condemnation…? Nope."
'Alexander' a scumbag liar? Yup.
"Belgium wants sanctions against Israel for Gaza bombings" [Reuters 11/8/23]
"France, Italy and Spain 'outraged' after UN peacekeepers injured – and accuse Israel of violating international law" [Sky, 10/11/24]
"Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has…accused Israel of 'indiscriminate killing of Palestinians' during its military operation in the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the leaders of France, Italy, and Spain jointly condemned the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for attacks on United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon2. Spain's acting Foreign Minister also condemned attacks from Gaza against Israel3."
[Bing 'condemnation of Israel' search, 12/24]
I block people who make insulting personal attacks. You are blocked.
Drink your milk.
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It is time for Israel to find the lord Jesus Christ…
Donna that would not make them better.
It's time for Israel to end.
LOL
Another day, another massacre by Israel and the USA and the rest of the world just writes about it.
"rest of the world just writes about it" Which is what you just did.
When they do write or talk about it you would accuse them of being ant-Semitic.
That depends on what they write. If they chant "Death to Israel" or the coded message "Free Palestine" then yes they are Anti-Semitic.
How about "From the river to the sea, all people will be free"?
Equal and free might be better.
I always assume equality is necessary for actual freedom, but I suppose not everyone would agree so you’re undoubtedly right.
When you say “from the river,” Israelis assume you wish to “free” Arabs by expelling Jews and retaking their lands. “Equal” is important to clarify or even emphasise that you don’t wish to expel Jews.
I had said a version like this: “From the river to the sea, Arabs and Jews equal and free.”
You could even say, “From the river to the sea, integration and equality without disunity.”
“Israelis assume”
And it’s a stupid assumption, and in almost all cases dishonest anyway. They know damn well what is meant, they’ve had it explained to them myriad times, and will not relent their position that anyone advocating for equality for Arabs/Persians/etc. actually want to send all the Jews to the ovens. The majority of the Israelis that I’ve dealt with believe that anyone who wishes to treat them as anything but the Ubermenschen secretly wish to exterminate them, probably out of jealousy or fear. Admittedly I met most of them while traveling in Latin America (where they were without exception the worst tourists of any nationality by far) so perhaps they weren’t representative of Israelis as a whole, but pretty much everything that I’ve read about Israeli society the last few years seems to indicate not. Most of the good ones seem to have left the country.
" The majority of the Israelis that I've dealt with believe that anyone who wishes to treat them as anything but the Ubermenschen secretly wish to exterminate them"
"I met most of them while traveling in Latin America (where they were without exception the worst tourists of any nationality by far) "
That's been my experience with Israeli tourists in the US. Genocidal psycohpaths are likely to be unpleasant and cruel people.
All you say is true, but I like the poetry of the rhyme and rhythm, it hits the bulls eye.
It’s important. That’s why so many like the song, “are you down with opp? Yea you know me.”
But they wouldn’t dare to steal land from a baby Palestinian.
An absurd standard. There are no countries where everyone is equal and free.
Many people here are from the United States, a nation with massive inequality, especially along racial lines.
In some parts of Chicago, for example, the difference in life expectancy between White and Black neighborhoods is 30 years (90 vs. 60). In fact, the life expectancy for an Israel Arab is higher than for an African American (78 vs. 77). Yet – the Americans feel they can lecture others about "equality"- without solving their own inequality. How convenient.
The US has unequal results, but there is equality. People believe in inequality as a point of faith, but it isn’t real. There is remnant inequality such as lead in water, but that just needs investment.
There’s nothing like Israel in the US, today. Discrimination in the US, today, is primarily along wealth lines or citizenship status.
Americans get to lecture Israel because we send you psychopaths billons every year.
End all US aid to the Israeli war criminals!
US supports Israel because Israel supports the US. That is why allies do, whether it's Japan, Germany, Jordan, South Korea, etc.
Plus, Israel provides advanced military, computer, and medical technology to the US, as well as intelligence in a very important but volatile region of the world.
But, if you prefer, Israel can provide the most advanced weapons systems and software to Russia and/or China. Then they have an advantage over the US; plus, Israel can join with Russia, giving them control of Middle East oil. I'm sure you won't mind paying $9/gallon for gas as you drive to the unemployment office – because the US economy has collapsed without cheap oil.
As for "war criminals," you should start with a look at your own country, which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Germany and Japan, including the use of nuclear weapons on women and children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; plus the millions killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and the "War on Terror".
But it's always easier to point to others than face your own shameful history of brutal slaughter – while you continue to enjoy the security and privilege. Your hands are coated with the blood of innocents, but you don't care.
“US supports Israel because Israel supports the US”
LOL. With friends like Israel who needs enemies. Israel is a parasite, not an ally.
“But, if you prefer, Israel can provide the most advanced weapons systems and software to Russia and/or China. Then they have an advantage over the US; plus, Israel can join with Russia, giving them control of Middle East oil.”
You vastly over-estimate Israel’s importance, in keeping with the fact that you are arrogant Zionist filth.
“Your hands are coated with the blood of innocents, but you don’t care.” Zionists have no standing to give lectures on morality or genocide, pig.
Your arguments are as pathetic as your manners, so no point responding. Just blocking you.
"We". ?????? I don't send anything to the criminals that run the Israeli gang of mass murders. Resources are stolen from me by criminals that run the US state. And indeed they are psychopaths too. Psychopaths sending extorted funds to other psychopaths.
Yes, we Americans send billions to Israel via our government.
What are we going to do about it?
During the Vietnam war, I refused to work past the point where I paid any taxes. I went hungry for days a number of times. I know. Big deal, right?
I’ve been anti war, anti imperialism for 60 years as of 2024. I’ve organized demonstrations, given talks and lectures, funded anti war candidates, sent money to relief organizations.
It’s been discouraging. I have been able to convince some family members and others. Always too few. I’ve lost a lot of “friends” by trying to get through to them. I found I didn’t really need those.
It sickens me to the core what has happened and is happening. The images of torn up, starving children, the desperate staring eyes. And yes, I have nightmares but I wake up. These people live the nightmare. For them, there is no waking up.
I cannot stop it. I cannot save them.
But as it is the rhyme and rhythm are great, the privilidged poetry license.
"From the river to the sea, all people will be free"?!!!
They are free, except that Hamas illegally occupies Gaza, but Israel is cleaning that up.
Think again. Israel has become a dirty word all over the world. Generations upon generations won't be able to clean it up. @brian_bixby:disqus
Hamas is not illegally occupying Gaza.
There is no legal justification for that lie, war criminal lover.
Maybe if you bothered to learn the facts, you wouldn't have to resort to personal attacks.
Hamas is not a legal government and they illegally occupy Gaza, an act that has zero international recognition.
The Palestinian Authority held elections which were disputed; Hamas then staged a violent coup in Gaza, killing PA officials and declaring themselves in charge in Gaza.
Since then, they have never held elections and ruled Gaza with torture and arbitrary killings.
The legal authority in Gaza is the Palestinian Authority, which does not recognize Hamas.
As for "war criminals," the claim is weak and overblown.
There is a war going on in Gaza now, in response to the unprovoked Hamas attack on Israel; Hamas could have surrendered at any time but they decided not to, and they prefer to hide behind women and children as human shields.
Casualties happen in wars, which is why responsible leaders avoid wars.
The civilian casualties in Gaza are similar to those in France after D-Day. Were Americans "war criminals" by liberating France? I guess by your logic, they were.
“Maybe if you bothered to learn the facts, you wouldn’t have to resort to personal attacks.”
You are distorting and misrepresenting facts in support of genocide.
You’ve earned far more than just insults, you filthy genocidal Zionist monster.
I have no interest in your sophistry and genocidal rhetoric.
End all US aid to the Zionist war criminals!
The fact that to you, a Zionist, the slogan “Free Palestine” is “anti-Semitic” speaks volumes. You’ve essentially confirmed the “anti-Semitic tropes”. To you, the world asking that a people be free from a violent and brutal oppression is a threat to your existence (as a Jewish supremacist state). By calling it “anti-Semitism” to oppose Israeli oppression, you imply that Jews inherently support/have loyalty to Israel. And by saying it’s “anti-Semitic” (essentially anti-Israel) to want a people to be free (unless they’re Israeli Jews), you confirmed that Israeli policy is the racist, oppressive, inhumane policy we always knew it was. Well done.
Free Palestine is no antisemitic, you lying blood soaked piece of shit.
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Israeli soldiers are increasingly engaging in acts of brutality and war crimes in Gaza, with the appearance of more “callous” and “ideologically violent” troops, according to a detailed analysis published in Haaretz by Professor Yoel Elizur, former chair of the Council of Psychologists and emeritus professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The article documents disturbing incidents, including one commander’s unprovoked attack on a four-year-old child. “The commander suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here. Stepped on his stomach three times and left,” the article quotes soldiers as saying. When questioned, the commander responded: “These kids need to be killed from the day they are born.”
That's the type of murderer you support, killer.
Humanity cringes at the thought of such an image. No doubt we will here about how his buddy was killed by the Palestinian resistance and he was suffering from ptsd, etc. which would have garnered some understanding but for the fact that he never belonged there in the first place.
Well, that is called self exposure, you showed your color, fighting for their human rights is anti-Semitic tells it all.
I am proud to let you know, I support the human rights of the Palestinian people. The USA/ISRAEL ALLIANCE IS BARBARIC, inhumane and below any human beings or animals, they are dehumanized creatures, evil.
Death to Zionism and all colonialist ideologies!
Yes, "Death to Israel," once and for all,
Symbolic words believed since days of yore.
Echoed by Pat Henry in that great hall,
Death to tyranny—it shall be no more.
@renatelittlejohn:disqus@brian_bixby:disqus@luchorpan:disqus@donnavolatile:disqus@existentialdread:disqus@disqus_E05j4B3lQf:disqus@dreamjoehill2:disqus@sidpits:disqus@warsrus:disqus
You have a Palestine phobia.
I have been against Zionism since the Sixties. Now at age 86 all I can do is write about it and I do support doctors without borders with some money and have donated some to some other Palestinian cause. I am not a person who toots its own horn but since you assume I do nothing but write I had to respond.
Tim is quite simply an immoral defender of Zionist war criminals and their crimes.
Unlike most Americans, he supports Israel's genocide against Gaza with every lie he can imagine.
Tim is a Netanyahu lover.
Ugh. Disgusting!
At least he's not like you, a supporter and defender of these terrible crimes against humanity.
And you don't even do that much. Is it fair enough to call people like you Netanyahu lovers or would you prefer to call it suffering Palestinian phobia?
When it comes to war crimes Israel and the USA are one nation, at least 4 times has the US blocked any ceasefire, and continues to cover and protect the ISRAELI war-crimes in the UN, no matter how brutal and abhorrent the crimes really are down to the newborn babies.
They are barbaric killers but condemn the Hijab Muslim women wear. Women's rights issues so they say.
The rest of the world knows that people die in wars, which is why most countries avoid attacking powerful neighbors.
Plus, the Arab world is staying out of Gaza, because they do not support Hamas or its parent, the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, Egypt considers the Muslim Brotherhood a mortal enemy, which is why they closed their border with Gaza after the illegal takeover of Gaza by Hamas.
Even Saudi Arabia is back to negotiating with Israel.
As for the US, they support their allies, even if it upsets professors at Harvard (who enjoy comfort and privilege based on the extremely violent US history).
The massive bombing of civilian structures, carpet bombing of Germany, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the war when the allies had already won were never treated like the war crimes they really are.
Now the ISRAELIS/AMERICANS demolish basic medical structures, hospitals, schools and ambulances, all are protected by the Red Cross l and Red Crescent symbol and no one even mentions the magnitude of these war crimes. Medical care givers are tortured and killed. Is it possible to be more barbaric than the Israeli/American coalition, two nuclear powers, putting their barbarity up for show when they butcher a nation down to the last women and child?
There is no excuse for the butchery and crimes of the Israeli/Americans. The 2 nations united in war crimes of such magnitude, and they want to talk about human rights and law.
The US and Israel are the butchers of the century…!
"The massive bombing of civilian structures, carpet bombing of Germany, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the war when the allies had already won were never treated like the war crimes they really are." None of those events occur when "the allies had already won". Yes, the allies were winning but the war was still going on an allies troops were dying every day. All those attacks that you complain about were designed to reduce the allies losses at the expense of the Germany and Japan. Germany had to be totally smashed before they surrendered. Japan facing a similar fate wisely decided to quit the war. Now which way will Hamas choose, total destruction of Gaza or will they realized it is time to give up?
Give up what? Their struggle to be free from living in the world’s largest concentration camp (the one that has existed for years before Oct 7)? They’ll never give up, and each passing day reveals the diabolical nature of the Zionist mindset and what a stain on earth the Zionists have become. The world will never go back to the “Israelis as poor wittle victim” mindset again. You revealed too much this time.
All those attacks that you complain about were designed to reduce the allies losses
Baloney, and you know it. The flattening of Dresden and firebombing of Tokyo had no military aim, just destruction for its own sake. That's been pointed out to you before.
The use of nukes in Japan were not militarily necessary either, they were actively trying to surrender and the US War Department knew that (they had intercepted and decoded communications pleading for intermediaries to negotiate surrender). Instead the generals concealed that information from Truman and multiplied their own estimate of US casualties from an invasion by a factor of 20 for no other reason than to get his approval. They wanted to use their new penis-enhancement equipment to win the eternal dick-wagging contest against the Soviets, and no one was going to stop them.
Palestinians will choose to resist the theft of their homeland by the Zionist colonizers.
You are a defender of crimes against humanity.
Hope you get cancer!
A manual upvote for the comment, except the cancer part. Not that he perhaps doesn't deserve it but not to make it personal and to keep the discussions educational and fruitful for those who will come after us.
The Ukrainians will have to be smashed totally, that is why Biden keeps funding the suicide of the Ukrainians. The USA makes sure of that, and Europe must be smashed. That is what the civilized USA can do best. Hamas is resisting genocide, they may lose but the Israelis and Americans will pay a price for doing it, they are pariah states and will be hated around the globe for a long time to come if anything life is left.
Do you know who gives up Tim? The human being that used to believe in something, went through a genocide and began to believe in nothing. That void of darkness led him to genocide someone else. And then he's made to pay for his crime. A vicious circle that leads to hopelessness, inferiority complex and despair. That's who gives up Tim. @renatelittlejohn:disqus
To my knowledge the explicit use of the term UNCONDITONAL surrender, was used at the end of WW I, the first time in history against Germany, an American idea. It was extremely brutal and humiliating, the goal was to wipe out Germany, and Hitler who was a Private in the war and experienced the slaughter first hand, never forgot.
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER dates back at least as far as the Muslim conquest of the Nabu Qurayza in the seventh century.
YOU are right, genocide is not new either, but I think the total annihilation of a nation, the meaning of the term was not as pronounced as it is in our time. But then again they did not have the industrial power, technology we have to do it. What is to be gained with the brutal destruction of nations our so-called civilized nations do to other human beings? Gaza is nothing but rubble and dying people. The inhumanity of it is mind boggling, total insanity. Netanyahu must be insane, no normal man/woman could do what he does, his lies alone are beyond normal. Trump looks as demented as Biden. What is wrong with normal people tolerating this?
In WW I the Anglo-Saxon demanded brutal, unconditional surrender from Germany, the Germans made the Jewish people pay and the Jewish people make the Palestinians pay, and so it goes, while we confess to believe in HUMAN RIGHTS except for the Palestinians.
The Haaretz report says only 100 “terrorists” and a similar number of civilians remain in the camp. “Jabalia has become a ghost town. Outside, you mainly see pack after pack of stray dogs roaming around and hunting for scraps of food,” the report reads.
And by "scraps of food" they mean human remains. Fortunately, the most moral army in the world bulldozes a lot of those "terrorists" into the ground so the dogs can't get at them (/s).
Should have read lower in the discussion before posting, I suppose.
It's worth repeating.
hunting for scraps of food
You could probably best read that as "hunting for corpses to scavenge". The IDF are keeping them well fed.
Another day, another crime against humanity.
The state of Israel has become a crime against humanity.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi
@s_m_marandi
13 members of a single family were wiped out in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza City last night.
The slaughter never ends.
Kudos to Pope Francis for having the courage to tell the truth, on Christmas day, December 25, 2024.
The Israeli Netanyahu government is bombing and killing droves of children in Gaza. This is inhuman. This is sheer cruelty. This is not war, this is plain and simple genocide https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0f2ca18944523c632d2be136c75480f592061a25daa6258083420afa297ec75b.png