Rockets have been fired from Gaza "across southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the infiltration of Hamas militants."

Over 100 Israelis have died and more than 900 were injured after rockets were fired from Gaza by Hamas militants, Israeli officials said Saturday.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 were killed in Gaza and at least 1,610 were injured Saturday in retaliatory attacks from Israel.

“We are at war. We will win,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.

The Israeli Defense Forces earlier declared “a state of alert for war,” according to a statement issued by the IDF.

“Over the past hour, the Hamas terrorist organization launched massive barrages of rockets from Gaza into Israel, and its terrorist operatives have infiltrated into Israel in a number of different locations in the south,” the IDF said early Saturday.

  • Anduin1357English
    -2•9 months ago

    The have not secured the safety and security of their people, though. What their decades of oppression has bought them is continuous warfare.

    Oh yes, what reason do they have to not intensify that effort militarily now? They aren’t going to look for peace to solve this anytime soon.

    So doubling down on the approach of assigning collective blame to a whole population for the actions of some.

    I can blame the whole Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip when Hamas is what they voted for, democratically.

    So you keep arguing for massive war crimes of a level too extreme even for the far-right Israeli government, in other words.

    I am an online commentator. Do I look like I hold sway over their policies? This is just the outcome that I expect Israel to pursue, given that the Palestinians have been so belligerent.

    False. It takes the will and the courage to out the terrorists amongst them to the Israelis so that the terrorists will be hindered and slowly wiped from prominence.

    Ah, so you just want them to be quislings and collaborate with their own oppressors. When has that ever worked again, remind me? This is nothing but an excuse to justify your support for continued oppression.

    And so I see that you support terrorism. A shame.

    That is the risk you run when you oppress a population for decades. But if that were to happen, at least they would actually have a moral leg to stand on. Now they do not.

    And so Israel is justified to be worried about the risk, because you handwaved it for them because “they would deserve it”.

    So to make this clear: You’re regretful Israel is unable to carry out what would be one of the worst crimes against humanity since World War 2? Something which would reach stage 8 of Stantons 10 stages of Genocide?

    If you could relocate these troubled Palestinians somewhere that they can form a new state without all this constant conflict - without breaking up families, I will call that a win because they would have a chance to have a future in autonomy rather than little while in oppression.

    It isn’t a humanitarian failure if done right, just don’t scatter them to the world like refugees. It’s not that hard to avoid “genocide”.

    And besides, the Israeli goodwill is running out.

    Well, yes, gross human rights violations for decades do eventually tend to piss people off.

    I do actually mean that the Israel’s patience has run thin on being amicable with the Palestinians. I don’t know what meaning you had in mind.

    Calling crimes against humanity “just”. So much for caring about the millions of innocents you casually are arguing for harming.

    The Palestinians started the conflict before the independence of Israel, and they lost even with the aid of the Arab League. If that isn’t a lost cause, I don’t know what is. It’s only just that Israel be given the peace that it has earned, multiple times over.

    If you don’t like it, the Arab world is free to try their luck again. It’s better when Israel’s enemies take off their mask so that they can openly wipe the floor with them.