Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that US-backed Israeli attacks killed at least 58 Palestinians and wounded 213 over the previous 24-hour period as Israeli strikes continued to pound targets across the besieged territory.
The Health Ministry’s numbers account for 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 attacks included a strike on a home in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, which killed at least 11 Palestinians, including five children. Another strike on a separate home in Deir al-Balah killed four people. Another Israeli attack in the northern city of Beit Lahia flattened a home and killed a family of seven.
The Health Ministry said that since Israel restarted its genocidal war on March 18, at least 1,149 Palestinians have been killed, and 3,647 have been wounded.
The US-backed assault has had an enormous toll on children. The Health Ministry said on Monday that at least 505 children had been killed by Israeli attacks since March 18, accounting for 36.3% of the deaths. Another 1,249 children have been wounded as of Monday.
Besides the massive airstrikes and shelling, the Israeli military has also expanded its ground offensive and now controls more than 50% of the Palestinian territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear that his long-term goal is a full Israeli military occupation and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.
It is all on Hamas who initiated this mess and could have stopped it at any point in the last 18 months by laying down their arms and releasing all the hostages. It is Israel's job to see than Hamas can never again commit mass murder in Israel. Unless they follow another mad man—– Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh: "We love death like our enemies love life! We love Martyrdom."
Sourcing is always of benefit to those who are paying attention.
Hamas Charter (Preamble) 1988– "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
Obliterate: to remove from existence : destroy utterly all trace, indication, or significance of.
Hamas has been very honest about their ambition.
All Israel's wars were initiated by Zionist terrorism.
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Hamas decided their own future with their 1988 Charter calling for the "obliteration" of Israel. — Source: Hamas Charter (Preamble)
Is there some reason why you’re focused on a past Hamas charter rather than the current Hamas charter? Is it possible that just maybe there are differences between the two?
When I pay my rent, I have to pay the amount listed in the current lease, not a past lease.
Hamas did not change their ambition because they re-worded it. You can read all the current statements by Hamas spokesmen in recent years. They only have one ambition and they are very honest about it.
If they haven’t changed their ambition, why do you insist on using an obsolete charter instead of the current one to describe that ambition?
If I get pulled over by a cop for speeding, he doesn’t say “yes, I know the sign says the speed limit is 55 miles per hour, but back in 1988 it said something else.”
To let the readers know how long they have stated this ambition.
Your false analogy does not apply to Hamas.
In 2017, a revised Hamas Charter included three departures from the 1988 manifesto. The new document practically replaced the founding charter of 1988.
The 2017 covenant separates the struggle against Zionism from general antisemitism, stating Hamas fights Zionists, not for their Jewishness but because of their "illegal" project:
Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine.
The 2017 Charter shows a readiness on the part of Hamas to accept a two-state solution along the 1967 borders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Hamas_charter
On the other hand, war criminal Netanyahu only has one objective. He has decided to abandon any ceasefire deal and resume his genocidal agenda. In fact, it's the fascist Israelis calling for the "total annihilation" of Palestine.
The 1977 Likud party manifeso states: "between Jordan and the Sea there will only be Israeli sovereignty."
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Nice propaganda posters!
Since when did a newspaper clipping from 1946 become a propaganda poster? Moron.
King David Hotel bombing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
Go back to school.
Here you go pipsqueak.
In the past two weeks Israel has carried out a "Kafr Qana" nearly every day in the Gaza Strip, and no one is calling for it to stop. The Kafr Qana nightmare has evaporated. There is no longer any need to be make sure not to kill dozens of innocent civilians. No one cares. The IDF spokesperson no longer needs to lie, the prime minister no longer needs to be sorry. The world and Israel's conscience have melted away.
https://archive.is/vvgFZ
Ah, some minds are still working!….
Is this lunacy part of advancing civilization?
Israeli Soldiers Expose War Crimes in Gaza ‘Death Zone’
April 9, 2025
IDF soldiers admit to committing war crimes in Gaza, with one officer revealing they not only kill military-age men, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs …[and] pissing on their graves.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/09/israeli-soldiers-expose-war-crimes-in-gaza-death-zone/
Believe me those soldiers will not be speaking out about this much longer.
Hamas could have put a stop to this at any point in the last 18 months by simply laying down their arms and releasing all the hostages. Instead they continue to state that there will be more October 7's, leaving Israel with no choice but to continue until the last Hamas terrorist is either dead or lays down his arms, followed by terms of surrenders.
Do you know what Hamas's terms of surrender are for the Israelis? Please give an honest and academic response.
Go away and share your polluted views with someone else! Unbelievable! Hamas and the Palestinians have put up with Israeli "October 7's" for over 70 years, so don't give us your perverted apologies for a WAR CRIMINAL nation! You have blood on your opinion!
You have ignorance on your opinion. Palestinian Arabs had an offer to build an independent state with the 1947 UN Partition Resolution, and they would be celebrating 77 years of independent statehood today with pre-1967 borders. However, collective Arab Countries chose war instead and they lost. They chose war several more times and they lost. If you risk everything to gain it all , and when you lose, you don't get go back to the status quo each time.
The massacres of Palestinians and the driving of Palestinians from their homes began prior to the Arab invasion.
The invasion was an effort to protect the Palestinians from Zionist war criminals.
Unfortunately the Zionist war criminals won that war and the next 2 wars in 1956 & 1967, both of which were started by Israel.
10 March 1948, [2 months BEFORE the Arab invasions] a group of eleven men, veteran
Zionist leaders together with young military Jewish officers, put the final touches on a plan
for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
That same evening, military orders were dispatched to units on the ground to prepare for the systematic expulsion of Palestinians from vast areas of the country.
The orders came with a detailed description of the methods to be used to
forcibly evict the people
large-scale intimidation;
laying siege to and bombarding villages
and population centers;
setting fire to homes, properties, and goods;
expelling residents;
demolishing homes;
and, finally, planting mines in the rubble to prevent the expelledinhabitants from returning.
Each unit was issued its own list of villages and neighborhoods
to target in keeping with the master plan. Code-named Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), this was the fourth and final version of vaguer plans outlining the fate that was in store for the native population of Palestine.
The previous three plans had articulated only obscurely how the Zionist leadership intended to deal with the presence of so many Palestinians on the land the Jewish national movement wanted for itself. This fourth and last blueprint spelled it out clearly and unambiguously: the Palestinians had to go.
The plan, which covered both the rural and urban areas of Palestine, was the inevitable result both of Zionism’s ideological drive for an exclusively Jewish presence in Palestine and
a response to developments on the ground following the British decision in February 1947 to end its Mandate over the country and turn the problem over to the United Nations.
Clashes with local Palestinian militias, especially after the UN partition resolution of November 1947, provided the perfect context and pretext for implementing the ideological
vision of an ethnically cleansed Palestine.
Once the plan was finalized, it took six months to complete the mission. When it was over, more than half of Palestine’s native population, over 750,000 people, had been uprooted, 531 villages had been destroyed, and 11 urban neighborhoods had been emptied of their inhabitants.
The plan decided upon on 10 March 1948, and above all its systematic
implementation in the following months, was a clear case of what is now known as an ethnic cleansing operation"
https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/jps/vol36-141/vol36-141_b.pdf
If Sunday's horrific bloodbath in the current phase of the Gaza war does not stop Israel; if the killing of a Rafah medical team fails to stop it, what could stop it? Nothing. Israel can carry out as many massacres as it likes. And apparently, it would like quite a lot of them.
In the opening strike of the renewed warfare in Gaza, Israel killed 436 civilians, among them 183 children and 94 women. Kafr Qana four times over and then some.
https://archive.is/vvgFZ
Only Hamas can stop it, but they love their martyrdom. Lay down your arms and release the hostages, simple!
Hamas invited Israel into Gaza on Oct 7th for a reason. They made their statement, why wait until Israel has to turn Gaza into a parking lot???
Is the Israeli regime willing to release its hostages too, or does that just go one way?
They have prisoners, some are terrorists, some with blood on their hand, some are facilitators of the terrorism, some were just throwing rocks at the authorities. Try throwing rocks at the authorities in an Islamic Country and see how long you will live.
A hostage is a person captured and held by another party, to force the other party to comply with demands.
“A hostage is a person captured and held by another party, to force the other party to comply with demands.”
And Israel has been caging Palestinians and then trading them — that is, using them as hostages — for decades.
No, the demand for Hamas prisoners are coming from Hamas in return for prisoners, many with blood on their hands.
You can play your words games all you want but if Hamas does not surrender, Israel will have to stay on their backs while the good people of Gaza continue to live in grief and chaos.
It’s not just Hamas that the Israeli regime has traded Palestinian hostages to. It did so at least as early as 1968 (trading 165 Palestinian hostages for 12 Israeli hostages taken in an El Al hijacking). In 1970, the Israeli regime traded a Palestinian hostage to Fatah for an Israeli hostage. In 1975, the Israeli regime traded 20 Palestinian hostages to the Egyptian regime for fthe bodies of two Lehi fighters who’d been hanged for an assassination in 1945. In 1978, the Israeli regime traded 76 Palestinian hostages to the PFLP-GC in return for an IDF soldier.
All of those exchanges happened years before Hamas even existed. The Israeli regime stockpiles Palestinian hostages and trades them as a matter of policy.
Israel could stop it but choose no to. They have chosen to be more terroristic than those that are "designated terrorists". And whether Hamas surrenders or continues on doesn't change that fact.
Yes, and Israel then acted like brutal savages from Oct 7th to the present. Outdoing anything the "designated terrorists" could even have dreamed of doing. I don't understand why you continue to blame Hamas for that. Israel didn't have to turn Gaza into a parking lot, they chose to turn Gaza into a parking lot.
Will you please study some history going back to 1948 and even before when the Zionists planned the establishment of Israel to get a foothold into the Middle East. Teh Zionists have never stopped killing, raping, stealing property ever since then. Hamas is in a defense position not to be slaughtered altogether.
In 1947, the UN offered two stateless people an opportunity to build two independent nations. One group chose to build a nation, and five Arab Countries chose war and they lost.
Israel declared statehood in 1948, and in 1949 became member State at the United Nations. Palestinian Arabs were then occupied by Egypt in Gaza and Jordan in the West Bank for the next 20 years until they decided to go to war with Israel again and they lost again.
For twenty years there were no Israeli settlements in the West Bank or Gaza, and yet Israel was a constant target. So it was never really about settlements. Arab Countries just did not want a non-Muslim country in the Middle East.
“Israel declared statehood in 1948, and in 1949 became member State at the United Nations, agreeing to the UNR 181 borders as a condition of that membership.”
Fixed, no charge.
The refusal by the Arab population of the mandate territory to accept UN Partition Resolution 181 (1947) demonstrated that Palestinian Arabs were not interested in establishing their own state if it meant allowing the existence of a Jewish state.
This opposition to acknowledging the right of a Jewish state to exist still lies at the core of the conflict 77 years later.
Arab disagreement with the establishment of a Jewish state per UNR 181 doesn’t magically cancel out the fact that Israel was established on, and its membership in the UN was continent on, Israeli acceptance of UNR 181.
Let’s say I own two houses next to each other. I offer to rent them, one to you and the other to someone you don’t like, for $1,000 per month each.
You accept. The person you don’t like doesn’t accept.
That doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay your damn rent.
Arab disagreement with the establishment of a Jewish state per UNR 181 doesn’t magically cancel out the fact that Israel was established on, and its membership in the UN was continent on, Israeli acceptance of UNR 181.
Let’s say I own two houses next to each other. I offer to rent them, one to you and the other to someone you don’t like, for $1,000 per month each.
You accept. The person you don’t like doesn’t accept.
That doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay your damn rent.
Does not apply.
If you're going to try to hand-wave away things you don't want brought into the discussion, at least do so theatrically. Entertainment may not be a good substitute for argument, but it's better than being boring.
Weak
The IDF are so brave dropping bombs on defenseless people trapped in their open air prison camp. No more buildings left to bomb so now they're bombing people in tents. Exactly like how the Romans would have mercilessly crushed a slave revolt in 30 BC if they had these kind of weapons of mass destruction.
According to our resident propagandists: this is an act of supreme kindness, giving Palestinians choice. We can slaughter and terrorize you, or you can choose to go into the desert.