Hamas fires rockets towards the Tel Aviv area in central Israel for the first time in months.

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.

  • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
    8017·
    6 months ago

    Sure would be nice if people in that region stopped attacking civilians at every opportunity.

      • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
        6114·
        6 months ago

        TIL killing 1143 people in one day at one location is not “en masse”.

          • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
            2316·
            6 months ago

            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?

            • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1811·
              6 months ago

              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.

          • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
            149·
            6 months ago

            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.

            • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
              104·
              6 months ago

              Hamas themselves have never said they have lost 6.000. They have never released any number.

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

        • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          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.

          • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
            11·
            6 months ago

            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.