Hamas launches war on Israel

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Skybird

that's just me being “defeatist” again.

Yes it is!!

[mapuc]

I'm without words-How deep can hate go ?

Israel isn't treating the Palestinians the same way, very far from it.

Yes the other Arab countries do not want anything to do with the Palestinians.

As a group of young Arabian guys once told me:
They are our Muslim brothers, however we don't want them to live in our country. They can work here, taking the dirty jobs and they can visit us on their vacations.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

[Exocet25fr]

[Exocet25fr]

And AGAIN TODAY !

Israeli army kills two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank

Two Palestinian children were shot in the back and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

Ayman Nasser al-Haymouny, 12, was killed in Hebron while 13-year-old Rimas al-Amouri was shot in the Jenin governorate.

Both Ayman and Rimas were targeted suddenly and without warning in the back with lethal force by Israeli soldiers safely positioned inside armoured vehicles. Israeli forces have nothing but contempt for Palestinian children’s lives and systemic impunity means they will face no consequences.

Israeli plans to intensify military operations in Tulkarem and surrounding refugee camps in the occupied West Bank are evidence of GENOCIDAL INTENT.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stressed that these Israeli attacks constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, urging international action.

OCHA also counted 34 incidents of Israeli settler violence towards Palestinians in its latest report.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/...sweeping-raids

[Jimbuna]

Family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says new returned body is hers

The family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says a body handed over by Hamas on Friday is hers.

"Our Shiri was murdered in captivity and has now returned home," the family said in a statement. Israel's forensic officials who have been examining the body are yet to confirm the identification.

Remains handed over by Hamas on Thursday which it said were those of Shiri Bibas turned out to be an unidentified woman, Israel said.

It comes as six living hostages are handed over by Hamas on Saturday as part of a ceasefire deal. More than 600 Palestinian prisoners will be freed by Israel in exchange.

The Bibas family said: "For 16 months, we sought certainty, and now that we have it, there is no comfort in it, but we hope for the beginning of a closure."

Hamas previously said the mother and her two children were killed in an Israeli air strike.

Earlier, a senior Hamas official confirmed to the BBC that the handover of the new body from Hamas to the Red Cross had taken place on Friday evening.

Israel had accused Hamas of breaking the terms of the ceasefire deal after forensic testing showed the remains handed over on Thursday were not that of Shiri Bibas.

The bodies of her sons, Ariel and Kfir, were returned to Israel, as was that of another hostage, Oded Lifschitz.

Hamas spokesman Ismail al-Thawabta said in a post on X on Friday that Shiri's remains seemed to have been mixed up with other bodies under rubble after the air strike.

Israel has disputed the claim that Ariel and Kfir Bibas were killed in an airstrike, with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari telling a press conference "forensic findings", which have not been seen by the BBC, suggested the boys had been killed "deliberately".

He said evidence had been shared with "partners around the world so they can verify it".

Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were aged 32, four and nine months respectively when they were kidnapped during the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.

They were taken hostage along with the children's father, Yarden Bibas, 34, who was released alive by Hamas on 1 February.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw20d3l4jpo

[Jimbuna]

Three more Israeli hostages - Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert - have been handed over to the Red Cross in Nuseirat, central Gaza

Hisham al-Sayed, the last of the six to be freed today, will be released without a public ceremony - according to Israeli media

Earlier, crowds in Tel Aviv cheered as Avera Mengistu and Tal Shoham were freed this morning - in total, five hostages have been freed today

In return, Israel will release 602 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, according to the Palestinian prisoners' media office

It comes after Israel said a body returned by Hamas earlier this week was not that of Shiri Bibas, as they had claimed - her family has since said a new body handed over by Hamas on Friday is hers.

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Sinn Fein leaders to boycott White House visit over US Gaza plan

“We are all heartbroken as we witness the suffering of the Palestinian people and the recent comments of the US president around the mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza, is something I cannot ignore,” Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said at a news conference in Dublin on Friday.

“The decision not to travel to the White House has not been taken lightly, but it is taken conscious of the responsibility each of us as individuals have to call out injustice.”

Sinn Fein party leader Mary Lou McDonald also addressed the news conference, saying she could not visit Washington “while there was a threat of mass expulsion hanging over the Palestinian people”.

Political leaders from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland usually travel to the US for the annual celebration of Ireland’s national day on March 17.

Ireland has been a vocal critic of Israel’s conduct during the conflict in Gaza and one of the staunchest defenders of the Palestinian cause within the European Union.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/...r-us-gaza-plan

[Jimbuna]

Six hostages freed by Hamas have been reuniting with their families following their earlier release

The release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners and detainees has been delayed, reports suggest

Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert were released in Nuseirat, central Gaza, while Avera Mengistu and Tal Shoham were freed in Rafah, southern Gaza

Hisham al-Sayed, whose release was conducted in private, has been accompanied to an Israeli hospital by his family

Questions remain over Hamas's handling of Shiri Bibas, who was "brought home" last night after a body returned on Thursday turned out not to be hers, the BBC's Sebastian Usher writes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country will "never forget and never forgive" the "brutal murder" of Shiri Bibas and her children. Hamas says they were killed by Israeli bombing.

[mapuc]

Heard in the news that the Autopsies of the children showed that they had been strangled with the bare hands.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

God only knows what else the savages did to them

[Reece]

They all have to face God on the last day, I would hate to be in their shoes!!

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Reece

They all have to face God on the last day, I would hate to be in their shoes!!

All very true. It's hard to understand the hate that would drive acts like this.

[Exocet25fr]

^
proof of this.....

Israelians said........!

It's not the first time they lie