Israel intensified airstrikes in Rafah on Wednesday as Israeli officials are threatening to invade the city, which is packed with an estimated 1.5 million Palestinians.
Reuters reported that the Israeli bombardment in Rafah killed over a dozen members of the al-Noor family, including a one-and-a-half-year-old girl. At the site of the bombed house, Palestinians criticized the US for vetoing a ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council and for its support of the Israeli onslaught.
“Since October 7 and until this moment, the US has been supporting Israel with rockets, aircraft and tanks. All of these massacres are because of America,” said Youssef Sheikh Al-Eid, whose brother was inside the targeted house, according to Reuters.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said a total of 118 Palestinians were killed in Gaza from February 20-21, bringing the total death toll up to 29,313, with 69,333 others wounded. About two-thirds of the casualties are women and children.
Israeli officials also said they intensified operations in the nearby city of Khan Younis, where Israeli forces are fighting Hamas on the ground. Fighting also continues up in northern Gaza, where the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said one of its soldiers was killed on Wednesday.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has threatened that Israel will invade Rafah by Ramadan, which begins on March 10, if Hamas doesn’t release the remaining Israeli captives.
Qatar-mediated hostage negotiations have not shown much promise after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vetoed a round of talks last week, but Gantz claimed on Wednesday that there are “early signs” of “possible progress” in the latest effort to work toward a deal. But he added if an agreement is not reached, “we will continue operating also during Ramadan.”
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One day after isolating the US from the rest of the world to veto a Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire, the Biden Admin today appeared before the International Court of Justice to defend Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
The West Bank was part of Jordan,not Palestine.Jordan shelled Jerusalem during the 1967 war.,Israel took it. If Palestinians want it for the Palestinian state,which is reasonable-let them work out a peace treaty with Israel.
They’re proud of this:
https://x.com/CensoredNws/status/1760437742788342162?s=20
Beautiful clip. It made me proud. I cried. She is such a courageous woman. …See, if I were genociding people, I would probably keep it a secret and not tell anybody like the Turks did. This woman has B@LLS. Maybe she should run for President this November?
Oh, the glory of Zionist femininity! Hillary, Nancy, and Ursula must be beaming. We came, we saw, they died.
Dude! You took it to a higher level! You turned up the HEAT!!!
Israeli’s Victoria Nuland?
LOL, but you’re repeating yourself, brother! You’re in good company:
Mark Twain — ‘Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.’
I agree with Israel. The number of dead Palestinians is inaccurate. But I do disagree that it’s lower. I’m thinking all those bombs dropped on 2.3 million Palestinians in a small area must be killing more than that? Now we drop more bombs on 1.5 million Palestinians in a smaller area than before? …I can’t see those low numbers happening. …Well, that’s unless we’re more stupid than the Russians? …God forbid.
If a narrative is not 100% true, it is a LIE! The narrative of October 7 is NOT 100% true, not even close! All this killing on both sides s based on a lie. (that Hamas killed 1200 Israelis) If people think they can’t be fooled because they are versed in the “official narrative” they have swallowed the Kool Aid!
Who decides what is true? However,when I see on TV-seminude,crotch bleeding women being hauled off into captivity-it is obvious what is going on.
“when I see on TV-seminude,crotch bleeding women being hauled off into captivity-it is obvious what is going on.”
tell thet one ’bout them 40 beheaded babies agin, jakey. beheaded babies is bad when theys israelis, huh?
Abie Abie Abie-HA
That’s all you got when you know you are full of bullshit.
You must have saved that so you could prove what YOU say is true. So, show us. Or. Just. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
Typical “antiwar”. When you own this site,then you can tell me what to do-until then-listen and learn.
If you’re going to post a comment that claims something, then I have a right to ask for some proof. So, show us that “semi nude, crotch bleeding woman being hauled off into captivity” or Shut. The. Fuck Up.
Jake said he saw it on TV, therefore it must be true.
Airstrikes on a city that had less than 300,000 people and now is packed with up to 1.5 million with people living in tents on the city’s streets. What could possibly go wrong with that scenario? But hey, there must be some bad guys somewhere amongst the 1.5 million so why change tactics now? Kill everything that moves.
Deja vu all over again. “Generalplan Ost” (General Plan East) was a plan devised by Nazi leaders in 1941–1942 to remove all “inferior” groups like the Slavs from eastern Europe. Believing they were going to win World War II the Nazis planned to use expulsion, enslavement and mass murder to eliminate the Slavs living in the conquered territories, and resettle those “empty” areas with Germans. Does it sound like Gaza today?
It sounds like the plan of the Revisionist Zionists since a couple of decades before WWII.
Only Hamas invaded Israel.Slavs did not invade Germany.
What’s your point, other than justifying an ongoing genocide? If you’re attacked, then you can kill any living creature in the vicinity of those who attacked you? You keep trying to find reasons as to why you condone an ongoing genocide but none of them fly.
come on man, you know he is just making up shit so that you will waste your time replying to him. he probably even gets paid extra for every reply.
So anyone who disagrees with you is paid.HAHAHA.
I hear ya man. But I’m going to follow any genocide cheerleader around like stink on shit. In his case, pig shit.
Pointing out the fallacies in these statements.
There were no fallacies. You just add irrelevant bullshit to make them seem that way.
“All of these massacres are because of America.”
And much of the world, including a great many Americans, will never forget.
Too bad the cretins in charge don’t give a shit what we think.
Yeah, but what the world thinks matters in the long run, especially now, as US hegemony slips steadily away.
Every year there are fewer and fewer Americans who can still remember America before it became a third world banana republic.
I have a long memory and a solid background in American history and I think it’s the same old oligarchy it has always been, and the greedy empire/wannabe hegemon it has been for a very long time.
The only things really missing now are 2 things:
Gas ovens and swastikas’
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The only solution to all of these problems is the Enabler in Chief (otherwise known as PresidentSonOfABitch) and his puppet in Tel Aviv – in chains – in the dock at the Hague for ethnic cleansing, following a complete clean sweep of the governments of their two countries.
Nothing less will make any difference whatsoever.
“”Enabler in Chief…””
just wait until next year maybe there will be a different Enabler in Chief.
then we can all say “take that world!”