Israeli attacks in Gaza on Thursday included a strike on a vehicle that killed five journalists and strikes near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, which killed at least five medical workers.
Early Thursday morning, an Israeli strike hit a vehicle clearly marked “press” that killed five journalists for the TV channel Al Quds Today. According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, the slaughter brings the total number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 2023 to 201.
The press vehicle was hit near the gates of the al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza. According to Al Jazeera, one journalist’s wife was in the hospital giving birth to their first child.
The Israeli security agency Shin Bet acknowledged the strike and claimed it targeted Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants who were “masquerading as journalists” but offered no evidence to back up the claim.
According to Drop Site News, three medical workers were killed in a strike on a residential building near the Kamal Adwan Hospital. A total of 50 Palestinians are believed to have been killed in the strike.
“There are approximately 50 martyrs, including three of our medical staff, under the rubble of a building opposite Kamal Adwan Hospital after an airstrike by the occupying forces,” said Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The dead medical workers included a pediatrician, a lab specialist, and a maintenance. Two paramedics were killed in separate strikes near the hospital.
Kamal Adwan has come under near-daily Israeli attacks since the Israeli military began an ethnic cleansing campaign that’s focused on Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia. The Israeli military has been forcibly displacing Palestinian civilians and destroying every building in sight, so they have nowhere to return.
Israeli strikes pounded targets elsewhere in Gaza on Thursday, and the Health Ministry said in its daily update that at least 38 Palestinians were killed and 137 were wounded in the previous 24-hour period. The ministry’s numbers don’t account for Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths that were a result of the US-backed Israeli siege.
The ministry said the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 45,399 and the number of wounded to 107,940.
In October, a group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza estimated in an open letter to President Biden 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.
This might as well be happening on another planet where the Old Testament god of vengeance and wrath is alive and well. What?! This is happening in the so-called Holy Land?
Ain’t nothing holy about it.
And there never was.
I remember in the Sixties many saying that they had to find another Holy Land since there was nothing holy about the place any more.
They will be counted as at least 5 "Hamas terrorists". No matter who they murder, Israel always claims that at least half are "terrorists", even if they're children.
Some even say that babies are terrorists because they have it in their DNA, therefore the IDF has no problems with killing children and babies. It is more than just brainwashing it is total mind control to the utmost.
The recipients of this so-called mind control are corrupt pieces of shit. I doubt they require programming. Their so-called religion is festooned with hate.
Half? More like all. They even say it out loud.
I don’t know the details but that’s what some analyst say: they approx. count half as “terrorists” and the rest as “collateral damage”.
And to think that anyone in the USA who will be labelled "anti-Israel" (instead of "humanitarian" in response to PROVEN genocide!) can possibly be "deported" is a testament to EVIL! It also shows who is in charge. US Congresspeople and employees and officials who kowtow to Israel's massive crimes against humanity should ALSO be indicted for war crimes. This includes Trump (Who I've voted for THREE TIMES) when he resumes the Presidency and continues the "aid to genocide" to Israel! Israel can't possibly be fighting "terrorism" when it displays ALL the attributes of a "terrorist"! It uses "terrorism" to create more "terrorism", which in reality is blowback for human rights violations! Israel and the USA ARE the main sponsors of terror on the planet, not "Israel's enemies". Time and again they have displayed a MASSIVE disregard for human life!
Trump and his regime will be another trainload of mental health basket cases.
Trump/Musk alone are enough to have nightmares.
I voted for Biden, that is just as regrettable. In a red state my vote did not count, still, I regret it.
I voted Independent. No longer could vote for Trump after I watched him during his first term. The man was mostly show, bluster and grandstanding and not much real action. After "warp speed" covid vaccine I had enough of him. there he took action which benefitted him and Big pharma big time.
voting for Biden was an absolute "NO" nd that went to kamala as well.
I skipped voting, there was nothing to vote for. Trump is and always has been a conman, Harris has no substance she stands for nothing.
The selection of appointments Trump is making confirms all you mentioned, his Elon Musk connection is the cherry on the cake. We need a real person with simple common sense and decency and willing to serve the nation, not some megalomaniacs who believe they own the nation and are omnipotent. We need honest leaders, people with character, where are they? What we have in congress are people who applaud the insane war criminal Netanyahu, he is a sadistically evil man.
If you did not care enough to vote, than you don't care who runs the country. So quit complaining about the leadership.
There’s no shame in understanding that your vote won’t make a difference to the outcome and choosing not to be part of the half of Americans who roll in the filth of affirming the system.
If this were a true democracy voters would have a choice, too bad it is not, it is an oligarchy, the modern kind of bourgeoise nobility. If you believe your vote counts you are a sucker.
What leadership[ did you vote for? Netanyahu is running the show, the psychopath is the leader of the team, Trump/Musk/Netanyahu and there is the VP VANCE if that means anything, but of sound body and soul they are not. Normal people would feel responsibility and guilt for the massacre of the thousands of women and children, they never showed a hint of remorse and neither did the people who surround them, instead they are moving heaven and earth to get more of the same, Iran and China will could be the next victims, if they get their way.
The Zionists are worse than the Nazis!!!!!!
DiD the Nazis make special effort to murder children as the soldiers of the Jewish state seem to be doing!!!! And WE AMERICANS ARE SUPPORTING THESE MONSTERS, NOT WITH MATERIAL SUPPORT BUT FULL SPECTRUM SUPPOTT EVEN AT THE UN TO KEEP THE SLAUGHTER GOING!!!!! WE AMERICANS SHOULD BE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN POSSIBLY DO TO STOP THIS OBVIOUS GENOCIDE, NOT PROVIDING ANY SUPPORT TO WHAT IS PLAIN TO SEE HAS BECOME A RIGUE TERRORIST STATE COMMITTING A GENOCIDE OF YOUNG & THE INNOCENT!!!
I’d go with they are very similar. I actually sometimes call Israel “the bastard son of Hitler”, although I get censored when saying that (or even much milder things) in most social media, sigh!
Yes, the Nazis made great effort to kill children of ethnic minorities and disabled ones (eugenics was the horror in those days, specially in the lands under nazi influence but also in many other places). It’s hard to claim that Zionists are “worse” than the Nazis but it’s quite apparent that they are pretty much the same.
Ryan Grim & @ryangrim
8h
IDF is now openly acknowledging the 5 journalists they incinerated were indeed operating as journalists, but the IDF believed their work was "combat propaganda”.
The IDF is entitled to its opinion and is free to engage in media criticism, but deliberately killed 5 journalists because you don't like their work is terrorism, barbarism, a crime against humanity, and should be prosecuted immediately
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Wow! American "journalists" must be shitting their pants. Imagine if that became a trend.
A new and different approach to kill freedom of expression and a free and fair press…
God's very own murderers. Go forth and slaughter, Israel…. The streets of gold await you (as soon as we wash away the blood).
The Israeli Zionist government of B. Netanyahu is the greatest humanitarian scandal of the 21st century, with the active assistance of the Biden-Harris administration and of president-elect D. Trump's verbal support.
History will record that the Israeli government is committing the first genocide of the 21st century, killing civilians in Gaza by the tens of thousands, as if they were animals.
This is revolting and is a return to military barbarism.
Any reason while you feel like you have to post images instead of just quoting what you want to feature?
I am sorry. I don't know why this came out that way.
I only typed my text on my computer and transferred it on my post.
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"Journalists" should be put in quotes.
If you are involved in a war to destroy Israelis, you don't become a journalist just because you write "Press" on your car.
Why do you find it necessary to twist reality to fit your worldview?
1. It's not a war to kill Israelis. It's a war of liberation to be free from occupation.
2. Israel has killed over 200 journalists, many of which have been documented by forensics and eyewitnesses proving it was intentional.
3. Israel prevents journalists from entering Gaza. This alone according to western standards of press freedom is daming to Israel's claim of ever telling the truth of what goes on there. Aljazeera and Arab journalists are there on the ground showing the truth. That's why Israel slaughters them.
4. They killed Shireen Abu Aqlah of Aljazeera in broad daylight, why wouldn't they kill journalists in the "fog of war" when they have the US zionist lobby to whitewash any and all crimes they commit?
5. You are basically saying that Israel has a right to kill a Palestinian in Gaza not because of what they do but because of who they are or what they believe. So any civilian who supports the right of Palestinians to defend themselves against Israel is a legitimate target for murder?
6. If every Palestinian in Gaza is against Israel, which they are BTW (except the 17k+ children slaughtered by Israel and nearly half of the population of Gaza who are under 18 who are as innocent as the pure driven snow and had no choice in the matter). According to such twisted logic they are all legitimate targets. You just made the case of intent for genocide. Everyone thanks you.
7. The bad news is that those who think in this way will live dreaded, wretched, depressed lives until the end (reminds me of Gollum). Whether they win the war or lose they have nothing to look for in this life accept ridicule, contempt and pity from the rest of humanity. The ring (zionism) is so preciousssssss! Go for it!
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1. Yes, the stated goal of Hamas is to kill Israelis. When Hamas had a choice between peaceful economic development to help their own people or murdering Israelis, they put all their resources into killing Israelis. They killed as many men, women, children, and babies as they could.
Hamas is also part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which took support and viewpoints from the German government of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Surely you know this. If not, I will provide reliable sources.
As for "liberation," that makes a great bumper sticker or Harvard banner, but you have it backwards. Israel left Gaza in 2006; Hamas kicked out the legal government (the Palestinian Authority) in a violent coup soon after. They are not a legal government and they torture and murder their own people, who have no freedom and who are deliberately being used as human shields. The only group occupying Gaza is Hamas.
These are facts you can't dispute.
2. People get killed in wars, and it seems that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are pretty loose in their definition of "journalist". As you have no source for your claims, it's impossible to know what you mean by "intentional". Wars are inherently chaotic, especially in urban warfare.
3. Oh please.
4. Americans know there is a war and that wars are bloody. That's why we try to avoid them. However, claiming that the "US Zionist lobby" (code words for…wink wink…you know who…) cover up things is dishonest and false.
4. (the second time). Any person who joins a war can expect to be a target. That's why they call it war.
All Hamas has to do is surrender, and the war would be over. They could have done that on Oct 8. Instead, they choose war. They got their wish.
Also, "murder" is the unlawful killing of a human being. Deaths in wars are not considered unlawful. However, you can avoid them by not starting wars, as Hamas did.
5. You are responded to something I never said. War should focus on combatants, but wars almost always have civilian casualties. More than 20,000 civilians died in France after the D-Day invasion. The US wasn't committing "genocide"; they were fighting a war to defeat Germany.
Again, this is why people should avoid wars.
6. Your Lord of the Rings analogy is bizarre and pointless. Israelis are facing some tough times; however, they are certainly doing better than people in my country (USA).
I don't get tired of teaching in the hopes that if doesn't benefit you, it will benefit others.
1. All the Israel apologists saying it from now until the cows come home doesn't make it true. A. I've dealt with this in numerous posts. Hamas never said that it wanted to just "kill Israelis." Whatever that means. They have taken up arms to oppose a military occupation. The nature of the bloody occupation endangers the lives of Israelis. Hamas has said over and over again their war is with Israel, and not the civilians. The founder said it decades ago. They amended their charter to reflect the reality. The real point is that yes the criminal will engage in psychological projection to deflect from his/her crime. "We're not genociding the Palestinians. They want to kill us." B. This is the mentality of the colonial oppressor. "We stole your land, coralled you into a Prison and gave you crumbs. How dare you become ingrates and turn around and bite the hand that feeds you." They're only crime of not building the Gaza/Singapore is that they chose to be like the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto who fought rather than the hapless victims who went silently in the night like sheep to the slaughter. You can hardly blame any of them. C. October 7th will go down in history for two reasons, one as a brilliant military raid and two, as the opening salvo to freeing Palestine from Israel. The killing on that day can be attributed to a. cowardly Israeli retreat resulting in chaos. b. those killed in the crossfire c. hannibal directive d. hamas didn't expect or know about the rave concert. e. stupidity, negligence and criminality on the part of Israel to pretend those settlers in the Gaza envelope were just lilly white suburbanites going about their own business. They allowed people to live next door to an open air prison where they were living on the very lands the inmates used to live. It's kind of grotesque to do that to human beings. No wonder they broke out. They just probably wanted to see what their stolen land and homes looked like. They just wanted to breathe the air on the other side. The Gaza envelope was a fortified millitary installation. f. the cowardly chaotic withdrawal of the israeli army left a gap which brought in other armed groups and civilians which contributed to the killing of Israelis. D. Hamas and MB. Like today, weak non state actors are forced or find themselves in sitruations where they have to engage with different players to be relevant. The MB, Arabs, whoever in the Middle East was trying to navigate between brutal Nazis and Brutal British and French. They were all the same. So they would try to play one off the other. However, MB is known to be non violent and they participate in the political process throughout the ME despite the repression. E. Israel left Gaza in 2005. Not a serious argument. Israel still maintained control in every other way. In fact before leaving they didn't have all that electronic surveillance they later implemented which watched everything that moved in Gaza. Births, deaths everything was monitored. What the Zionist talking point really intends to say is "they made it impossible for us to stay militarily so we will redeploy, focus on stealing the West Bank and let these people starve or be forgotten into oblivion". The Israelis got kicked out because of resitence and until today they are still fighting the resistance 20 years later. F. Coup. Patently false. Hamas won fair and free elections. PA would not let them govern. The PA security apparatus jailed and tortured Hamas men. So Hamas came in to the internal security building just to teach them a lesson and they folded like a deck of cards. As collaborators for the Israeli occupation they had no motive to fight. G. Illegal, torture, murder their own people, human shields. Gazans blame their circumstances on Israel and its occupation. Hamas is not beyond criticism but no one blames Hamas for what Israel does including using them as human shields as that's a proven Israeli tactic over and over again.
I disputed all of what you said because they are not facts.
2. There are already cases filed by aljazeera and other media outlets and organizations and countries around the world accusing Israel of unlawful killings of journalists, war crimes. Since Israel is conducting a war of extermination of course journalists are intentionally being killed. The sources are out there and being documented by citizen journalists as well.
3. Very telling that there wasn't even an attempt at a response.
4. I don't know how by just saying it, makes it true. Americans are just as ignorant as they claim others are. Until recently they were falling for zionist lobby narrative propaganda hook, line and sinker. That is quickly changing. Beware.
5. (edited second 4) All Hamas had to do was surrender. Wishful thinking. Surrender to the Zionist subjugation of their people? Until today Israel has not achieved its stated goals of destroying Hamas and returning the captives. It did destroy the Strip and its people beacuse they are cowards and can't face the Hamas fighters. And God bless those brave men who were smart enough to build tunnels to be able to pop out and take down a few Israeli soldiers. Death by a 1000 cuts. And oh Hamas has fired a missile today or yesterday as far as Jerusalem. Do you know what the joke is? It was fired from Beit Hanun which is the northernmost part of Gaza which Israel claimed to have subdued time and time again. What do the cowards do in retaliation of their failure to stop rocket fire from under their noses, they destroyed Kamal Adwan hospital and killed medical personnel. So brave. If I was an Israeli I would have at least enslaved them and used their free labor to provide medical service for all the israelis being killed and wounded. No but the savages had to kill them. Just makes more palestinians want to be fighters and doctors and journalists.
6. (edited 5) World War II was a western war. We had no dog in that fight. The Colonized world was a victim of that war as much as the Europeans. One must remember that Germany came out of a context. They just wanted a piece of the colonial slaughtering pie that the British and French had been in for a while. And the whole point of western American liberalism is that WW II was of the past and to be avoided at all costs. What the Germans did was not pretty, but neither what the Americans was pretty. Hamas actually treats its captives with humanity. Anyway in response to WWI and it applies to WWII, that Irish poet William Butler Yeats had the sentiment so beautifully:
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love.
7. (edited 6) It's ok, others understand. Zionism has turned its adherents into slaves of false notions of superiority, greed, apathy, despair, just unsalvageable wretches like Gollum. They believe in nothing but preciousssss lies. And the way you couched feigning that you did not understand exposes that you did. You're just trying to deny it.
As shakespeare would say "Methinks the lady doth protest too much."
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Apologies to the rest of you for this being so long, but if you come across these silly, outdated, futile talking points you can pass this along to those who want to learn.
Cowardly downvote troll
Maybe if you had something to say, you could do more than personal comments. Time to block you.
As Salamu Alaykum. Happy New year.
And to you, peace. Thanks and all the best to you and yours. 2025 is gearing up to be another intense year here at home and abroad.