2y ago

Moment Israeli airstrike hits Gaza tower block after Hamas attack – video

www.theguardian.com

Israeli airstrikes destroyed a tower block in Gaza City after Hamas militants launched a rocket and air attack on Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The Israeli army launched Operation Iron Swords against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with Israel's president, Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the country, is 'at war'.

Al Jazeera journalist Youmna El Sayed was reporting live from Gaza the moment the missile struck Palestine Tower behind her.

Sources in Gaza said at least 198 Palestinians were killed in the strikes

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Palestine strikes Israel: 22 dead (huge outcry) Israel strikes Palestine: 200 dead (nobody bats an eye)
Israel is a problematic subject with how imbalanced it is handled in media, resembling more propaganda than anything else.
- According to the United Nations the number of injured and killed has been in imbalance for over a decade.
  No party has been innocent in this conflict but I would lean on the side that retaliation and attacks from israel are far more deadly and damaging than from Palestine.
  
  Looks like that was updated half an hour before the comment you replied to was made.
  And earlier this afternoon 22 was the official count for Israeli deaths, 220ish Palestinians.
  So Israel has updated their number, and it looks like Palestine hasn't.
  That being said, both sides can pretty much say whatever right now. There's no way to know what it actually is, there's too much chaos for anyone to know.
  
  By the time this escalation ends up, the number would be quite disproportional as ever. And I can tell you for certain on which side the civilian casualties would be at least two times higher, as usual and I am pretty certain you can guess too.
  Not supporting Hamas or any civilian casualties here on both sides, but what Israel is usually doing is not exactly diffusing the tension and usually it makes things even worse.
  
  And those are civilians.
- So you think Israel should just accept that a genocidal terrorist organisation attacks its civilian population? Yes, Hamas uses civilians as meat shields but what are the Israelis supposed to do? Let themselves be slaughtered?
  Jesus fucking Christ. Terrorist supporters all around here. I'm genuinely disgusted.
  
  This is the same Israel with their elite mossad forces, yes? "Meat shields" are a poor excuse for indiscriminately bombing a city block when you have elite spec ops units. They don't do it because they have no other choice, they do it as a threatening show of force. "Fuck with us and we'll kill anyone even near you".
  There's a middle ground that doesn't involve slaughtering innocents.
  
  The israelis are supposed to respect the israeli/palestinian borders and stop colonizing palestinian land.
  what hamas did is terrorism and they need to be brought to justice.
  and israeli leaders need to be brought to justice also.
  
  Quick question: why does the innocent victim state have (until today) roughly 20x the casualties of the genocidal terrorist organization?
  Even with the updated estimates (as I type this comment, 232 Palestinians dead since the attack and 250 Israelis dead), Israel has killed over 10x the amount of people.
  So like... how's that work?
  
  This is an inhuman comment
- How about the illegal occupier who runs an apartheid state?
- That's because Hamas is a terrorist organization with the goal of exterminating Jews. The founding documents of Palestine calls for the killing of Jews and repurposing any land they occupied for setting up a Sharia caliphate. No matter how many times you falsely call it apartheid, that doesn't change. They want to kill all Jews.
- what are your thoughts on the rockets that came from the other side first, killing over 100 civilians?
  real example where both sides are fucked. no, there is no excuse for any of them
  
  "First" is very relative. If you count that as the first action, sure. But others might say it has been going on for decades with one side being oppressed by the other, being treated as sub-humans and expelled from their homes.
Please explain like I'm 5 : why Israël doesn't go after military/strategic targets instead of destroying city blocks?
- Because this was probably a military target.
  A lot of militant groups use civilians as human shields to either completly prevent a strike or a least create bad publicity to spin their propaganda.
  There were a lot of Israelis taken into Gaza by force, my guess is they are kept in the most important places to create a moral dilemma.
  You either attack and kill your own civilians or let the enemy have undisturbed action.
  
  Israel and the Occupied Territories: Shielded from scrutiny: IDF violations ... https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/mde151432002en.pdf
  Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N. | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinian-israel-children-idUSBRE95J0FR20130620
  I just thought I'd add this to counter the usual one sided view on the matter.
- Gaza doesn't have anything else. It is not a country, it is a concentration camp and it in general is not permitted to have anything resembling an organized self defense.
  It makes it easier to bulldoze over their towns on Ramadan and then act shocked when some of them retaliate during your high holiday.
  Israel could simply stop settling the land that doesn't belong to them and exterminating Palestinians, and Hamas could stop lashing out and killing Israelis but the only way that happens is if the political leadership of those two selfishly monstrous regimes were to simply all die.
  There can be no peace as long as one country is allowed to make another into an apartheid state while they ethnically cleanse the population from land they feel entitled to control.
- City blocks are military targets when your goal is to get rid of people living there.
  
  The correct answer is that Hamas purposely launches these attacks from city block, schools, hospitals, etc which is literally a war crime so when there is retaliation they can cry foul. Don't believe terrorist apologist.

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