Hamas says it has launched a rocket attack towards the Tel Aviv area in central Israel for the first time in nearly four months. At least eight rockets were launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza and several were intercepted, the Israeli military says. No injuries have been reported.

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            That link is broken. But here’s one.

            Israel’s military, which is trying to eliminate Hamas in Gaza, said it was investigating reports that a strike it carried out against commanders of the Islamist militant group in Rafah had caused the fire.

            If Hamas is camping amongst citizens, expect this to happen again.

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                I brought Reuters and you brought… whatever that site is.

                Arguing this stuff on Lemmy reminds me of arguing with right-wingers on Facebook back when I had one - y’all post the most obscure sources.

                And the children thing comes up too instead of acknowledging the fact that Hamas actively uses human shields by camping with civilians.

                So, again, if they’re going to camp with civilians, expect this to happen again.

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                  God forbid there is a news reality that is not in English anywhere in the world. This is why russia is focusing its propaganda efforts in South America and India, because it knows Anglosphere hubris will lead them to ignore non-English media bubbles, but they are very much there, that’s how a dipshit like Órban wins elections.

                  PS: sorry about the rant, it’s not directed at you in particular :/

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s almost like Hamas is a puppet for Israel, designed to keep giving Israel an excuse to continue their genocide.

    • @[email protected]
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      Western imperialism and having insurgency groups used for divide and conquer tactics grow out of control and backfire. Name a better combo

  • @[email protected]
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    Sure would be nice if people in that region stopped attacking civilians at every opportunity.

          • @[email protected]
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            Oh my bad, soldiers and police trying to protect concertgoers from getting slaughtered wholesale at a music festival are fair game. Do you hear yourself?

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              The soldiers mostly got killed in military bases. Which happen to be stationed right next to music festivals.

              Also a lot of soldiers dancing at that music festival. Nothing more fun than a rave next to a concentration camp.

          • @[email protected]
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            All of the Gaza death toll numbers you see include Hamas in those numbers.

            There’s no way to know how many deaths in Gaza are Hamas (they don’t wear uniforms) but Hamas themselves has said they lost 6,000. The actual number is likely much higher. But whatever the actual number is, it’s included in the Gaza death toll numbers.

            • @[email protected]
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              Hamas themselves have never said they have lost 6.000. They have never released any number.

              Israel has released numbers. 1400. 1200. 1139. 695.

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          Israel has pointedly said that the civilian death toll is irrelevant no matter how big it gets. Killing 3 civilians for every terrorist is considered acceptable numbers by the IDF. For some reason if Hamas uses the same logic to kill 300 soldiers and 900 civilians (many killed by Israeli friendly fire) they’re wrong?

          I’m against violence by both sides but this attempt at justifying one and condemning the other is stupid.

          • @[email protected]
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            That kind of twisted logic is exactly what many in this thread are using — somehow defending Palestinians’ murder of civilians because they are oppressed. It’s repulsive.

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      “Hey! Stop that! Be genocided in peace! How dare you fight back!”

      Look, if we’re gonna agree that Israel has been occupying Palestine for decades and abusing them for decades, at a certain point you need to admit that Hamas isn’t 100% at fault. Just like how the USs actions in the Middle East increased extremism and terrorism, so has Israel’s. You can’t keep murdering mothers and fathers and expect the children to grow up thinking that “peace as dictated by your oppressors” is the solution.

      • @[email protected]
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        Nobody is ever 100% at fault, life doesn’t work that way. People are interconnected with each other in ways we can never fully disentangle.

        The question is how best to move forwards towards peace. And that, is not helped by continuation of violent conflict. 8 rockets towards the Israeli seat of govt isn’t “fighting back”, not vs their air defence. It’s “not enough people have died yet”.

        • @[email protected]
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          How many rockets has Israel launched? Defending yourself with 8 rockets vs hundreds? Get real

          • @[email protected]
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            I think that was their point. 8 rockets has zero chance of aiding Hamas’s war effort so launching them only helps Netanyahu’s argument that they need to continue their war effort. Sending the rockets from Rafah makes it even worse when the world is saying that Israel should stop attacking Rafah.

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            Thank god israel is throwing 2000 pound guided bombs on refugee camps instead of blindly guestimating a few rockets with calculated trajectories pointed towards military bases…

            70% of all homes in Gaza just destroyed themselves right

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        I don’t think either of you are wrong. What you are both seeing is a feedback loop. You decide which you want to put first here, but for simplicity’s sake, Israel attacks a threat, which kills people’s innocent loved ones. This creates more people who become a threat by attacking Israel, which results in Israel attacking that threat, and the cycle continues indefinitely.

        • @[email protected]
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          Hamas has long advocated for a ceasefire and is still offering one to this day.

          The “circle of violence” is 100% israel.

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        Yes, the oppressed are eager to hurt people any way they can, and nobody can expect it to be any other way.

        But still, launching long range missiles isn’t an impulse action. There are so many actors domestic and internationally to do production, procurement, installation, logistics, assembly, that we can assume someone high up has made a strategic decision based on expected outcome.

        And the expected outcome is extremely obvious: a) zero tactical gains, and b) more excuses to ignore international pressure and hit Rafah even more brutally.

        • @[email protected]
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          Or you do nothing and get completely walked all over.

          Because what’s your solution? Words aren’t doing shit.

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              The PA tried peace and the West Bank is being ethnically cleansed more every day.

              The problem here isn’t Hamas. It’s israel.

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                I upvoted you, because your point about the occupied West Bank is valid, but let’s be clear: Hamas is very much a problem. They haven’t held real elections in Gaza for close to 2 decades and have been in severe violent internal conflict with their Palestinian opposition.

                Israel being genocidal maniacs doesn’t mean everyone shooting rockets at them is automatically a good guy.

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                  The “Palestinian opposition” here being the PA, a tool of israel that does nothing but serve israel. The official organisation of Uncle Tom. And as I just stated, they are giving away the entire West Bank to israel and helping israel arrest Hamas members trying to resist.

                  Guess who hasn’t held elections either? The PA.

                  Hamas is certainly not the “goodest of guys”. If you want perfect victims look elsewhere. But their violent resistance is only as a means to reach peace. Hamas has already offered a ceasefire and is prepared to agree to a 2state solution. Only israel does not want peace

                  So no, Hamas is not the problem. Israel is the problem.

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    People without a state fighting for their right to be a state shoots rockets at country that they are at war with.

    Kiev shoots rockets into Russia and everyone gets it.

    I’m anti-war as much as the next person but I can understand that a besieged people will act like they are under seige.

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      Kiev shoots rockets into Russia and everyone gets it.

      “Kiev” eh, tovarisch? Ukraine doesn’t bomb residential targets. Palestinians should have their own country but don’t defend what Hamas are doing here.

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        It’s been almost a decade of civilian targets in Donetsk Oblast getting struck. Sure, blame it on civil war, but point still holds.

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      In Ukraine’s case russia is guilty of both the crimes of hamas and Israel:

      russia invaded with the intent to wipe out their neighbour and wiping out Ukrainian identity from the region (like hamas wants to wipe out Israel and would if they had the means). They resort to unethical asymmetric tactics and torture innocents in the name of national liberation like hamas.

      as well as

      levelling whole cities with massive civilian casualties without regard for human life (like Israel is doing).

      There is no equivalence.

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        You’re living in fantasy land. Israel is wiping Palestinians off the planet, actions > words. Israel is guilty of Hamas and Israels actions according to your own logic.

        There is absolutely equivalence, both are besieged and their actions are understandable at the state level. Fight back to your oppressors.

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          So you think what hamas did on Oct 7th was to “Fight back to your oppressors”? You’re the one living in fantasy land.

          • @[email protected]
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            I did not say that and wouldn’t. Israel created the conditions for Hamas to come to power.

              • @[email protected]
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                You can’t just call everyone who disagrees with you a “Zionist”. We can read comments and your responses to them. That’s exactly what extremists, like Zionists, do.

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              In all discussions I’ve had about this, the root of the whole issue that fractures discourse is: should Israel disappear or not?

              I think not (even if the original partition plan was too utopic and inviting a disaster), so the best Palestinians will ever get is what was in the original partition agreement, which you just have to accept peacefully, not with war, war declarations make palestine lose ground e.g. 1967 borders. I’m sure if a Palestinian government (not fucking hamas) recognized Israel, they’d get their state tomorrow, but this was never accepted, sooo…

              if instead ou think Israel should disappear or turn into an ungovernable fractured state like Lebanon, like hamas wants, then…“fight back to your oppressors” and you’ll have endless war.

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                Whether it should or not, I think the fact needs to be accepted that Israel won’t disappear and the question now is whether or not Palestinians get to, at the very least, have the West Bank and Gaza as an independent nation. I hope they get more than that, but Israel is not going to disappear. A two state solution is, I hope, something that will eventually be reached.

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                  I think the wast majority of the world agrees with this. It’s even the US’ official position.

                • @[email protected]
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                  I think the fact needs to be accepted that Israel won’t disappear

                  No it should not.

                  As long as the Palestinians not recognized israel, israel has no right to exist. If israel wants to gain that right it can do so by accepting a two state solution

          • @[email protected]
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            The clock didn’t start on October 7th. Zionists have been massacring Palestinians since 1948. Palestinians have every right to fight their occupiers.

            • Flying SquidM
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              One act of violence does not justify another. That’s the whole reason there’s now a genocide. You’re just taking it back a step.

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                The reason there’s a genocide is because the Zionists want to exterminate Palestinians. It’s unfinished business. October 7th is just the latest excuse.

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                  It sounds more like you’re making an excuse for October 7th. And if October 7th resulted in a genocide, I’d say that it was not justified in any way.

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                It did. New countries recognized palestine as a state, many universitis diversed from companies supporting israel. Icc and icj sided with palestinians etc. Algeria sacrificed 1 million persons to get their independence.

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                  Yes, but France only had to gtfo of Algeria, they just had to swallow their pride, give up and go home. Where do you expect Israelis to go?

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            Yes, it was. The goal was to get both civilians and military hostages and also ruin the abraham accord. I think what hamas did was terrible and wrong and a crime against humanity because they killed civilians but it doesn’t remove their status a resisting group. In fact resistances group killed innocent civilians like the mau mau but didn’t made britain the good guyd

    • @[email protected]
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      Can’t believe you’re being downvoted. Palestinians have ever right to defend themselves against Zionist colonists who have stolen their country.

      Israel is built on stolen land and mass graves.

      • @[email protected]
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        Eh, internet points are not real. Much of the conversation devolves into purity of tactics for a people who attack their subjugators. Decades of subjugation and genocide are irrelevant but we will overanalyze the actions of the oppressed as society always does.

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        Show me any nation state that isn’t. I’d be really interested if there are actually any.

    • @[email protected]
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      Ukraine fires rockets at military targets. Hamas fires rockets at civilian population centers. Most people get the distinction.

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        Yes, it’s the Russian spelling, but it was the widespread on English language maps for decades. It’s an easy mistake to make. Kyiv is preferred, sure, but the actual name is Київ.

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          It’s 2024. The naming has significance and to ignore that is disrespectful, and communicates a pro Russian invasion stance.

          Edit downvotes from pro Russians. Fuck yall

  • @MyEdgyAltOP
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    Maybe more genocide will make Israel safe. Genocide is the best path to peace and security, right? 🤪

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      Soo… the battle of Berlin was a genocide against the German people, because the Soviets killed 125000 German civilians besides the enemy combatants.

      Call it what it is: a war. There are blockades, starvation, massacres in war, especially in urban combat. That is why you avoid declaring war or invading your neighbours, like hamas did on Oct 7th, but hamas doesn’t give a shit about Palestinians, so long as they manage to wipe out Israel.

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        Is it war when one group is wholly reliant on another for access to food, water, communication, electricity and other forms of aid?

        It’s ridiculous to call this a war when there’s such a dependency. Israel wants Palestinians in gaza over the southern border or dead, an ethnic cleansing and genocide.

        Not to mention the West Bank, which is not controlled by Hamas, being a center of settler violence and concentration camps for Palestinians.

        Some war.

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          Why is Palestine not a country? When Israel was created, Palestine was supposed to have been officially created too, you know why?

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            Would you have accepted someone slicing the territory your people lived in as far back as you remember, expelling you from your home and telling you to move someplace else? I wouldn’t have. Perhaps that’s why.

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              You mean the 1948 partition resolution (which didn’t expel anyone from anywhere) or the 1967 armistice borders? Or do you mean the illegal settlements in the West Bank?

              • @MyEdgyAltOP
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                Ah yes, nobody expelled anyone from anywhere in 1948.

                The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, killing at least 107 Palestinian villagers, including women and children. … The massacre was carried out despite the village having agreed to a non-aggression pact. … was a central component of the Nakba and the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight.

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                  Ok, fine, I read up on it and the Nakba was BEFORE the declaration of war by arab states. I think I saw an explanation that said they were expelled because they supported the arab invaders…which was propaganda I guess.

                  I guess it is a sort of “civil war” of independence, but still pretty fucked up any way you look at it :/

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            Hasbara bot be gone!

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        The Soviets in WWII are not really an image you want to be compared to. They actually did commit multiple genocides in that era. Not against the Germans, I mean they did murder and rape a lot of people, but they were not motivated by the eradication of the German population. Those murders and rapes were “simply” war crimes.

        So the battle of Berlin was not a genocide. Katyn and the Holodomor arguably were. Killing innocent civilians is “just” murder, a war crime. When Ben-Gvir speaks of fighting “human animals”, making Gaza a “slaughterhouse” and “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth”, that makes it into a genocide.

        It’s the motivation, especially the explicit, professed motivation of the leadership that makes what Israel - and by the way, also Hamas, though less successfully - is doing genocide, not just “normal” war crimes.

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          Yea, there are a number of guys in the Israeli government that should answer for war crimes too, particularly that fanatic gvir.

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        The only invaders are the Zionists who were invited into Palestine and then repaid the favour by ethnically cleansing 750000 Palestinians and committing genocide.

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        7 months and you’re still getting this wrong.

        Genocide does not have to exterminate everyone to be considered genocide. Erasing the nation is also a definition of genocide; and Netanyahu has publicly admitted to this. His party charter says to eliminate Palestine. He said he will never allow a Palestinian state, and that Palestinians don’t exist and are just Jordanians. His cabinet has toyed with the idea of forcibly deporting all Palestinians. The ICC and ICJ have spelled out how Netanyahu’s policies meet the definition of genocide.

        Can we let this falsehood die already?

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          Grozny 1999

          Ramadi/Fallujah/Mossul 2004-2016

          Aleppo/Homs 2012-2016

          Mariupol/Bakhmut/Avdiivka 2022-2024

          Gaza 2024

          So yea, bibi, gvir, smotrich and the hamas leadership should all rot in jail for war crimes to set an example. assad, putin and bush too.

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      There’s IDF all around them, but instead they fire the few rockets they have left at a civilian population center.

      Terrorists to the bitter end.