Death toll surpasses 1,300 as Israel strikes Gaza and fierce battles intensify between Hamas gunmen and Israeli troops.

Hamas’s Qassam Brigades has threatened to execute Israeli captives if Israel continues to bombard and kill civilians in Gaza.

“Any targeting of innocent civilians without warning will be met regretfully by executing one of the captives in our custody, and we will be forced to broadcast this execution,” said Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’ Qassam Brigades.

“We regret this decision but we hold the Zionist enemy and their leadership the responsibility for this,” he said.

  • nonailsleftEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Do you have any sources of, for example, countless women being raped by the IDF/Israelis?

      • nonailsleftEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Ok not to say this isn’t awful but you if you have to go back 75 years to find 4 rapes, don’t you think the wording ‘countless’ and the implication this is a regular practice in the West Bank is a bit of a lie?

        • jadalovelace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          didn’t see it was already 75 years ago. i think you’re right.

          i went looking online to see if i could find any reports on rape allegations. most sources are news websites that i’m not familiar with so i don’t want to use them as source.

          most reputable news sources have articles about rape allegations among soldiers, not from palestinians. Which i think is a problem in every army, regardless of the nation.

          so i think i’m in agreement with you here that there’s not much evidence that the IDF is raping palestinians.

          having said that, it feels like a technicality in the face of all the palestinians the IDF has murdered and evicted. Where i’m talking exclusively about civilians, not hamas terrorists.

          • nonailsleftEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I don’t think it is just a technicality really. Accusations of systemic rape as a weapon of war are very serious. If they are used as a counter argument to say “it’s not important that Palestinians immediately go on a raping spree the very moment they step foot out of Gaza, because the Israelis have been doing it for years” that is a clear lie. Such lies need to be called out, not excused as unimportant technicalities. How are you deciding that those Israeli kids deserved it if you don’t really care about facts

            • jadalovelace@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              oh i never meant to say that any of the israeli victims deserved it.

              neither the israeli nor the palestinian people deserve what has been happening.

              i do think its unfair to be shocked at palestinian aggression while ignoring israeli war crimes.

              none of it is ever deserved or justified. the hamas attack from last week should be fought back with tooth and nail. hamas needs to be brought down.

              and netanyahu and any israeli politicians involved in the colonization for the past two decades should be tried for war crimes.

              • nonailsleftEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Ok then we are on the same page I guess

                But I feel kind of dirty having to defend the Israelis against a lot of propaganda. Letting this kind of casual lies to excuse horrid violence pass will not serve anything but normalize more violence.

                • nonailsleftEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Ok then we are on the same page I guess

                  But I feel kind of dirty having to defend the Israelis against a lot of propaganda. Letting this kind of casual lies to excuse horrid violence pass will not serve anything but normalize more violence.

                  Also, where we might disagree: you say Hamas should be brought down. But they are deeply entrenched between the civilians in Gaza. So how do you suggest it’s done?