An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed that there were “hostage situations” in the southern city of Ofakim and the nearby kibbutz of Beeri.

Hamas said it had taken “dozens” of Israeli soldiers hostage and moved them to the Gaza Strip as footage emerged appearing to show gunmen in military fatigues leading a group of mostly barefoot women down a street in Israel.

The announcement and video verified by NBC News came hours after Hamas launched a deadly land, air and sea attack and fired a huge barrage of rockets at Israel.

    • HEISENBERG
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      How is what zionists have been doing any better?

      • @Cryophilia
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        They’re not. Everyone sucks here.

      • @Cryophilia
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        21 year ago

        That implies Israeli crimes are excusable.

        No, it doesn’t, but the fact you think it does says a lot about YOU.

        Rational, informed people condemn both sides here.

      • Spzi
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        Our projections only ever reveal about ourselves, and never about the person onto which we thought to project.

    • @Clown_Tempura
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      You sound like a spastic. I wonder how many Palestinian civilians the Israeli government has killed. They really do deserve each other.

    • @[email protected]
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      Self defense is inexcusable? Or only inexcusable when certain people deign to exercise such rights?

      • @fluxion
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        31 year ago

        This will only bring more conflict upon the people Hamas pretends to “protect”

        • @[email protected]
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          Worse than the abuse and degradation that they already experience? Worse than losing their land to thieves backed by the western world? Worse than being targeted by Zionist security agents?

          • @fluxion
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            31 year ago

            Yes, since now all those things will be escalated in revenge for these indiscriminate attacks. It goes both ways, it’s not one side that needs to relent; to achieve peace, both sides need to relent, but acts like this make that notion more and more implausible, and in the end it’ll only lead to further escalation and further suffering, and given that Israel has more resources than Palestine or Gaza, that suffering will be felt more by the people Hamas “protects”.

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          The Israelis murder and kidnap Palestinian children on an almost daily basis. They kill Palestinians regularly. Are they not civilians being unfairly brutalized or is it only unfair when the western world says so? Or only when the victims are female, another bizarre western norm.