Gaza: In the face of horror, we cannot look away.

GoldenBoy89 · Saturday at 11:02 AM

It sure is nice to live in a country where we can just bury our heads in the sand and ignore the death we are funding around the world.

Hentenza · Saturday at 3:08 PM

As long as hamas continue to hide among the people and use the people and civilian areas to hide the people of Gaza will continue to suffer. You guys are blaming every one else except for the terrorists that stated it all and continue to further the fight at the expense of civilians.

“An analysis of battlefield videos released by Hamas and interviews with three Hamas members and scores of Israeli soldiers, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, suggests that Hamas’s strategy relies on:

Using hundreds of miles of tunnels, the scale of which surprised Israeli commanders, to move around Gaza without being seen by Israeli soldiers;
Using civilian homes and infrastructure — including medical facilities, U.N. offices and mosques — to conceal fighters, tunnel entrances, booby-traps and ammunition stores;
Ambushing Israeli soldiers with small groups of fighters dressed as civilians, as well as using civilians, including children, to act as lookouts;
Leaving secret signs outside homes, like a red sheet hanging from a window or graffiti, to signal to fellow fighters the nearby presence of mines, tunnel entrances or weapons caches inside;
Dragging out the war for as long as possible, even at the expense of more civilian death and destruction, in order to bog Israel down in an attritional battle that has amplified international criticism of Israel.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/world/middleeast/hamas-gaza-israel-fighting.html

public hermit · Saturday at 7:56 PM

Seven died today from malnutrition, including one child, and twenty-four were killed by Israeli forces while trying to access food.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/02/nx-s1-5490943/gaza-palestinians-deaths-food-aid

rjs330 · Saturday at 8:52 PM

public hermit said:
Seven died today from malnutrition, including one child, and twenty-four were killed by Israeli forces while trying to access food.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/02/nx-s1-5490943/gaza-palestinians-deaths-food-aid

That information came from the Hamas Health Ministry. More propaganda.

And if course NPR is happy to spread it.

johansen · Saturday at 9:24 PM

rjs330 said:
That information came from the Hamas Health Ministry. More propaganda.

And if course NPR is happy to spread it.

Much of the world had the same response 90 years ago to reports circulating of things difficult to imagine.

My inlaws hosted a christian Palestinian but Israeli citizen exchange student, the war broke out 6 weeks after she got here. Pretty rough time for her not knowing if her brother would make it out. He did..

Yes, children really are used as target practice by both sides, and yes she has seen people killed in real life by Israeli soldiers shooting at civilians.

rjs330 · Sunday at 10:32 AM

johansen said:
Much of the world had the same response 90 years ago to reports circulating of things difficult to imagine.

My inlaws hosted a christian Palestinian but Israeli citizen exchange student, the war broke out 6 weeks after she got here. Pretty rough time for her not knowing if her brother would make it out. He did..

Yes, children really are used as target practice by both sides, and yes she has seen people killed in real life by Israeli soldiers shooting at civilians.

Israel does not purposefully shoot civilians. Civilians will ALWAYS AND ALWAYS have been casualties in war. The difference is Hamas uses civilians as human shields on purpose. Hamas also shoots civilians on purpose. Israel does not purposefully target civilians just to target civilians unlike Hamas.

Israel cannot be expected not to create any civilian casualties when you have an enemy that hides and attacks from homes, businesses, hospitals, ambulances and camps. Thats an impossible thing to ask or expect.

And there are civilians who are helping Hamas as well.

Israel targets Hamas. They do not purposefully shoot civilians for target practice.

public hermit · Sunday at 11:22 AM

rjs330 said:
Israel targets Hamas. They do not purposefully shoot civilians for target practice

Nonsense, they're shooting civilians every, single day. They aren't all "accidents" of war by any measure.

Hentenza · Sunday at 11:24 AM

public hermit said:
Nonsense, they're shooting civilians every, single day. They aren't all "accidents" of war by any measure.

You are buying into the kool aid.

ViaCrucis · Sunday at 11:30 AM

rjs330 said:
I dont believe the propaganda.

You seem enthusiastically willing to believe Israel's state propaganda.

-CryptoLutheran

Hentenza · Sunday at 11:31 AM

ViaCrucis said:
You seem enthusiastically willing to believe Israel's state propaganda.

-CryptoLutheran

I’m more concerned with the terrorist propaganda.

Lost4words · Sunday at 11:33 AM

public hermit said:
From Vatican News' Deputy Editorial Director, Massimiliano Menichetti:

How much longer must we wait? What more must we witness before we stop the barbarity of war... an appeal recently relaunched by Pope Leo XIV? A cry is raised each day from Gaza.

In a world that is informed and connected, where every event is documented and broadcast in images and sound, people are dying of deprivation. Technology records suffering but does not cure it. Faced with such inhumanity, indifference is not an option. We cannot become numb or turn away after seeing such suffering.

Political leaders and governments must not remain silent.

Gaza: In the face of horror, we cannot look away - Vatican News

Vatican News' Deputy Editorial Director, Massimiliano Menichetti, reflects on the paradox of dying of hunger before a connected and technological ...

www.vaticannews.va

What is happening in Gaza is insane, barbaric, genocidal. Why isn't everyone condemning this?

All started by hamas.....

Lukaris · Sunday at 11:34 AM

Hamas always has weapons though while the people starve regardless of what might be.

ViaCrucis · Sunday at 11:36 AM

Hentenza said:
I’m more concerned with the terrorist propaganda.

Israel state propaganda IS terrorist propaganda.

State-terrorism is STILL terrorism.

-CryptoLutheran

lismore · Sunday at 11:39 AM

public hermit said:
Why isn't everyone condemning this?

I saw a headline from a European Political Leader today which said that people who take hostages aren't victims, they're savages. If Hamas released the hostages it might go some way towards ending this horror, but I don't think there can be any peace there until Hamas are gone. Hamas want the destruction of Israel, there can be no reasoning or negotiating with them. God Bless

Hentenza · Sunday at 11:39 AM

ViaCrucis said:
Israel state propaganda IS terrorist propaganda.

State-terrorism is STILL terrorism.

-CryptoLutheran

Your opinion. Hamas started it and continues to hide among the people regardless of how many die. It wouldn’t surprise me if they stage murders to blame Israel. That is how terrorist organizations work.

ViaCrucis · Sunday at 11:39 AM

Lost4words said:
All started by hamas.....

Only if we completely ignore the literal decades of history before October 2023.

Also "they started it" isn't a good excuse when it's children on a playground. It's far less valid of an excuse here, where literal human lives are at stake.

-CryptoLutheran

lismore · Sunday at 11:48 AM

Hentenza said:
It wouldn’t surprise me if they stage murders to blame Israel.

Hello! That's very possible. The technical name for that is I believe a false flag incident. It is forbidden by the Hague Convention which Israel is a signatory to but Hamas is not. God Bless You

Lukaris · Sunday at 1:31 PM

Iran is a major ally of Hamas and received media support from a major European news agency. Where this precisely fits into whether IDF is culpable or not, I don’t know but it must be a factor somewhere.

Reuters gave nearly $4 million in services to Iran state media – Free Beacon

Reuters provided close to $4 million in news content to Iran’s state-controlled broadcaster over more than a decade, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Friday, citing leaked documents and internal communications.

www.iranintl.com

Lost4words · Sunday at 2:27 PM

ViaCrucis said:
Only if we completely ignore the literal decades of history before October 2023.

Also "they started it" isn't a good excuse when it's children on a playground. It's far less valid of an excuse here, where literal human lives are at stake.

-CryptoLutheran

They started the current bloodshed. All down to them going on a murderous rampage on that fateful October.

johansen · Sunday at 3:43 PM

public hermit said:
Nonsense, they're shooting civilians every, single day. They aren't all "accidents" of war by any measure.

There have been a number of whistle blowers etc and direct confessions from as i recall, at least 10 years ago, that they aim for the knees..

The purpose is to cause dehabilitation and demoralization, not just reduce the population.

As for the poor girl, she gets treated like a half breed, having an Israeli passport stamped palestinian.

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