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What about all the people who live there? What are they supposed to do? Are they included in this resort district or are they removed?
I think there should be an application process for those who are willing to take part in the "moving forward" process, but they would have to pass psychiatric and general knowledge tests before being allowed to stay, and also, they should be required to learn Hebrew. Those who fall outside these guidelines, or reject them outright, should be transported somewhere else.

Aka. Full assimilation.
 
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I think there should be an application process for those who are willing to take part in the "moving forward" process, but they would have to pass psychiatric and general knowledge tests before being allowed to stay, and also, they should be required to learn Hebrew. Those who fall outside these guidelines, or reject them outright, should be transported somewhere else.

Aka. Full assimilation.

Goodness, that's a horrible plan.
 
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I think there should be an application process for those who are willing to take part in the "moving forward" process, but they would have to pass psychiatric and general knowledge tests before being allowed to stay, and also, they should be required to learn Hebrew. Those who fall outside these guidelines, or reject them outright, should be transported somewhere else.
If “somewhere else” includes, say, a patch of land in Arizona, sure, why not?
 
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Netanyahu calls Pope Leo XIV after deadly Israeli strike on Gazan church

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Pope Leo XIV on Friday after Israel's deadly attack on the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza that killed three people and wounded 10 others, according to the Vatican.

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President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to address the strike on the church, the White House said.

"It was not a positive reaction," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said of Trump's response.
 
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I think there should be an application process for those who are willing to take part in the "moving forward" process, but they would have to pass psychiatric and general knowledge tests before being allowed to stay, and also, they should be required to learn Hebrew. Those who fall outside these guidelines, or reject them outright, should be transported somewhere else.

Aka. Full assimilation.
Landon, what you have described is called ethnic cleansing and is classified as a form of genocide. Please rethink this.
 
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WHO condemns Israeli attacks on its facilities in central Gaza

The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel's offensive in central Gaza has compromised its efforts to continue working, after its facilities came under attack.

The UN agency accused Israeli forces of attacking a staff residence in the city of Deir al-Balah on Monday and mistreating those sheltering there. Its main warehouse was also attacked and destroyed.

It said the WHO staff residence was attacked three times, and that staff and their families, including children, were "exposed to grave danger and traumatized after air strikes caused a fire and significant damage".

The WHO said one of its staff detained by troops during the raid on the residence was still being held and demanded their immediate release.

The Israeli military said it detained "several individuals suspected of involvement in terrorism" in the area and that most were released.

The UN also said it had received growing reports of children and adults suffering from malnutrition and warned that "the last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing".

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said on Tuesday that 33 people, including 12 children, had died from malnutrition across the territory over the past 48 hours.

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Additionally, the nonprofit group World Central Kitchen (WCK) announced on Wednesday that it had run out of supplies and ingredients needed to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
Above from May.

Chef José Andrés speaks out as World Central Kitchen forced to pause cooking in Gaza

Andrés said the nonprofit ran out of ingredients for meals.

"We have finished all the stock in hand, and our trucks are stuck at the border," WCK wrote in an Instagram caption. "We are continuing to bake bread and deliver water. But the people of Gaza still need a hot meal. Yesterday, we served 80,000+ meals -- and we are ready to start cooking again the moment that aid trucks make it safely to our field kitchens."

In an update on its website Sunday, WCK noted that this was the second time it had been forced to pause kitchen operations over "lack of access to aid." The first instance occurred in May, following what it described then as a "complete depletion of food supplies." The group's operations restarted 12 weeks later, in June, after it received new aid shipments.

The pause in operations comes as hundreds of Palestinians have been killed trying to access food from aid distribution sites run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group, amid what the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health and global humanitarian groups have described as a forced starvation campaign by Israel. Israel previously barred humanitarian aid shipments from entering Gaza for 11 weeks this spring before lifting the blockade to allow for limited aid deliveries.

Israel has denied accusations that it is using starvation tactics against Palestinians, claiming the humanitarian groups are aligned with Hamas.
 
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More than 100 aid groups warn of 'mass starvation' in Gaza amid Israel's war with Hamas

Their statement warned of "record rates of acute malnutrition."

The organizations warned that some aid workers are now joining food lines in Gaza, saying they are "risking being shot just to feed their families." Repeated deadly shootings around aid distribution centers have killed hundreds, according to the United Nations.

"90% of Gaza's population face difficulty accessing water," the director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a press conference Wednesday.

The joint statement accused the Israeli government of implementing "restrictions, delays, and fragmentation" with a total siege of the Gaza Strip, resulting in "chaos, starvation, and death" of Palestinians.

Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam International were among the international aid groups that signed the statement.

Israeli Government Spokesman, David Mencer pushed back, saying "there is no famine" in Gaza, in an online briefing Wednesday.

He went on to say, "Hamas hammassed hamas hamas. Hamas hamas hamasly Hamas. Hamas."
 
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise

After four months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s few remaining hospitals now have wards for the growing number of malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones.

Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics.

Nearly 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations, and hospitals are reporting rising deaths from malnutrition and starvation.

Israel has imposed severe restrictions on the amount of food and other aid entering the enclave. At times, it allowed more trucks to enter, including during a six-week ceasefire earlier this year.

But on March 2, Israel reimposed its blockade, lifting it only partially in May after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “pictures of mass starvation” could cost his country the support of the United States and other allies.

In a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, an Israeli military official said there was a “lack of food security inside Gaza,” but blamed a failure to distribute aid on the U.N.

The U.N. says Israeli authorities are the “sole decision-makers” on who, and how much, aid enters Gaza, as well as the type of supplies that are allowed in.

Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said that colleagues had begun receiving “SOS messages from staff who are hungry themselves, who are exhausted themselves.”

Gaza’s ability to make its own food has been almost entirely destroyed as Israeli military operations have wiped out farmlands and factories.

In a statement this week, a group of journalists from the Agence France-Presse news agency warned that the Israeli blockade and subsequent hunger crisis had made conditions for their Palestinian colleagues in Gaza “untenable.”

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, some of our journalists were killed in conflict, others were wounded or made prisoner, but there is no record of us ever having had to watch our colleagues starving to death.”
 
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise

After four months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s few remaining hospitals now have wards for the growing number of malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones.

Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics.

Nearly 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations, and hospitals are reporting rising deaths from malnutrition and starvation.

Israel has imposed severe restrictions on the amount of food and other aid entering the enclave. At times, it allowed more trucks to enter, including during a six-week ceasefire earlier this year.

But on March 2, Israel reimposed its blockade, lifting it only partially in May after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “pictures of mass starvation” could cost his country the support of the United States and other allies.

In a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, an Israeli military official said there was a “lack of food security inside Gaza,” but blamed a failure to distribute aid on the U.N.

The U.N. says Israeli authorities are the “sole decision-makers” on who, and how much, aid enters Gaza, as well as the type of supplies that are allowed in.

Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said that colleagues had begun receiving “SOS messages from staff who are hungry themselves, who are exhausted themselves.”

Gaza’s ability to make its own food has been almost entirely destroyed as Israeli military operations have wiped out farmlands and factories.

In a statement this week, a group of journalists from the Agence France-Presse news agency warned that the Israeli blockade and subsequent hunger crisis had made conditions for their Palestinian colleagues in Gaza “untenable.”

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, some of our journalists were killed in conflict, others were wounded or made prisoner, but there is no record of us ever having had to watch our colleagues starving to death.”
The question remains: Is this state-sponsored terrorism?
 
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The question remains: Is this state-sponsored terrorism?
I'm convinced Israel is guilty of war crimes and genocide/ethnic cleansing.
 
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Israeli Government Spokesman, David Mencer pushed back, saying "there is no famine" in Gaza, in an online briefing Wednesday.

He went on to say, "Hamas hammassed hamas hamas. Hamas hamas hamasly Hamas. Hamas."

Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid

An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.
 
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Far-right minister says Israel pushing to ‘wipe out’ Gaza, will make it Jewish

“The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out,” Eliyahu told Haredi radio station Kol Barama. “Thank God, we are wiping out this evil."

“All Gaza will be Jewish,” he said, though he clarified that Arabs who are loyal to Israel will be tolerated.

After holding his tongue throughout the afternoon and evening, Netanyahu issued an English statement on his office’s official X account after midnight on Thursday-Friday in which he declared that Eliyahu “does not speak for the government I lead.”

[Eliyahu has made other questionable statements, such as:]

Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu urged that Israel “must find ways for Gazans that are more painful than death” to defeat them and break their morale, as the US did with Japan.
 
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