The commander of the IDF's 98th Division said he would work on evacuation plans "if and when" he is told to launch an invasion.

The commander of the IDF’s 98th Division said he would work on evacuation plans “if and when” he is told to launch an invasion.

A Hamas police vehicle was struck in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Wednesday evening in what Palestinian media reported as a targeted assassination by the IDF.

According to the reports, Hamas police’s special forces head, Majdi Abd al-Aal, was killed in the suspected attack.

  • PhiloEnglish
    -12•9 months ago

    And why would Hamas need to keep Gazans captive in the largest open air prison in the world, maintained by Israel.

    let’s see if I understand this. The Gaza Strip is bordered by Israel on two sides, Egypt on one side, and the Mediterranean on the last side. Yet almighty Israel is the prison keeper? Surely you jest.

      • PhiloEnglish
        -10•9 months ago

        An occupation does not equal a prison. Nice try though.

        • @KeeponstalinEnglish
          9•9 months ago

          The only way to replace apartheid is with a democratic system.

          The West Bank is like an open-air prison where you send petty criminals who are allowed more time to go outside and work outside. And there’s no harsh regime inside but it’s still a prison. Even the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, if he moves from Area B to C, he needs the Israelis to open the gate for him. And that’s for me very symbolic, the fact that the president cannot move without the Israeli jailer opening the cage.

          There is, of course, a Palestinian response all the time to this. Palestinians are not passive and they don’t accept it. We saw the first Intifada and the second Intifada, and perhaps we will see a third Intifada. The Israelis say to the Palestinians, in a prison management mentality, that if you resist we will take away all your privileges, like we do in prison. You won’t be able to work outside. You won’t be able to move freely, and you will be punished collectively. This is the kind of the punitive side of it, collective punishment as retaliation.

          INTERVIEW: Ilan Pappé: How Israel turned Palestine into the biggest prison on earth

          Israel controls all aspects of movement, Water, Air space, Sea access, borders, Imports (food and building supplies), Labor exploitation, and maintain the apartheid through violence

          A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where people are confined against their will and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes. Authorities most commonly use prisons within a criminal-justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those who have pled or been found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment.

          It is absolutely an open air prison, except you get in just by being born inside the OPTs with the only court you’ll ever see being a military court where even children can be taken from their families indefinitely with administrative detention

          • PhiloEnglish
            -12•9 months ago

            Gaza Strip is not the West Bank. They are two distinct geographical locations. Why is it you Hamas apologists can’t even answer simple questions with simple answers?

            • @KeeponstalinEnglish
              7•9 months ago

              The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza fit the definition of a prison to different degrees. Those links go into extensive detail on both. I don’t know what else I can do if you refuse to look at the sources I provide for details

              • PhiloEnglish
                -9•9 months ago

                Gaza does not equal the West Bank. I don’t know what else I can do if you refuse to use logic.

                • @KeeponstalinEnglish
                  9•9 months ago

                  Obviously they are different territories, they are also both Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). If you want information on how Israel maintains the apartheid of both territories, I have provided you the links above. If you want a comprehensive list of the history of the OPTs I can give you more links for additional context

                  • PhiloEnglish
                    -9•9 months ago

                    Wait a minute. This is like a magic trick. First, it is Gaza, then the West Bank. Now it’s an occupation but earlier it was a genocide. Make up your damn minds if you want anyone to take you seriously.

        • @filisterEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          Can they travel freely? Didn’t Israel bomb their only civilian airport years ago? Doesn’t Israel block their sea access too?