Israeli soldiers rounded up Ahmad Safi and his male family members in Khan Younis and made them stand atop a sand dune for 12 hours as the soldiers took cover behind them during a firefight with Palestinian resistance fighters. This is their story.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel There's no such thing as Palestinian resistance fighters. They are terrorists who almost killed my parents and are still holding my cousin hostage. They burned families alive and mutilated and raped my friends. That's no resistance. That's hate based crimes.
I think your reporting should reflect the fact that most of the people killed at the kibbutz were killed by the IDF in accord with their 'Hannibal Directive'. In fact, survivors said that Hamas treated them quite well while they were held captive.
The attacks on Gaza meet all the criteria for genocide, and it should be named as such in your coverage. In fact, it's a textbook-perfect case, according to internationally-known experts. 1| 3
In any event, crimes by Hamas—no matter how horrific—are no excuse, legally or morally, for genocide. (Didn't we all learn when we were about seven years old that two wrongs don't make a right?) 2\3
You should also be very clear that this did not start on October 7 — it is the result of decades of violence by the Israeli Occupation Forces perpetrating Israel's violent and illegal occupation and attacks on hundreds — thousands, really — of Palestinians every year. ###
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3. In any event, crimes by Hamas—no matter how horrific—would be no excuse, legally or morally, for the massacre of civilians, for genocide. (Didn't we all lear when we were about seven years old that two wrongs don't make a right?) [2\3]
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel The IDF are cowards. Time & time again they have shown us that they are incapable of doing anything right. Day in & day out they continue to shoot first then ask questions later. They are known to even kill their own citizens & soldiers. The IDF cannot feed the Palestinian population. They are too damn busy bulldozing cemeteries,homes & schools. No running water, medicine or food can get through. The IDF are terrorist & what we are watching & reading is nothing but a genocide. Israel is not to be trusted at all. They have lied so many times as to what they are doing.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel You cannot go around the world teaching or talking about the holocaust & yet you tell the world that collective punishment is not being applied in Palestine. You cannot tell the world that what the IDF under the command of Benjamin Netanyahu is not carrying out a genocide. You cannot tell the world about the holocaust & yet you stay it’s okay to deny an oppressed group of people food, water, clothing, medicine etc.