Hamas launches war on Israel

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Blödsinn.

Cluster bombs and bunker busting bombs are two VERY different designs. The article contradicts itself by claiming it was a cluster bomb, and later says it was a bunker busting bomb. Cluster amunitions are designed to cover a huge area with small bomblet, If you want to crumble a big building, you take one big warhead ordnance for ehat in essenc eis not an area but a point target, maybe with a penetrator charge attached to it.

But it feels so good and rightous to accuse Israel of using cluster ammuntiion in civilian areas, they are so criminal these inhumane Jews, aren't they... Thats why they, whenever they cna, warn people in target areas of a bombing and giv e them time to save themselkves and neighbours. Hamas and Hezbollah dont do that, but hide behind playing children and women's skirts. The scum of the earth.

Israel is doing what it realized after 1700 slaughtered Jews that it should have done much earlier - it is removing Hamas and Hezbollah from their supposedly ancestral core territories, and kicking them out, without compromise.

Before the war, it was said that Hamas and Hezbollah could not be defeated militarily. These voices have since fallen silent, for obvious reasons. The haters of Israel in the West will not forgive Israel for daring to defend its citizens, even if only after a grim and bloody wake-up call.

You reap what you have sown. Corruption haunts Gaza, Lebanon, West Jordan. People, where allowed, vote these corrupot elements in, do not rebel, do not revolt, do not chase them away. They let this happen in their places. You reap what yxou have sown. They could have ha dpeace and moderayte wealth SINCE DECADES, but they rejected it every time in a bid for getting all and evertyhing - by a faint hope of destroying Israel and chasing all Jews away.

Yes, you reap what you have sown. My sympathy is absolutely limited.


Heck, even their Arab brothers and sister in other countries do not want to have anythign to do with the Palestinian Aabs, or Hezbollah in Lebanon. Their protests to Israel are surprisingly mild.

Says it all really and I'll add Egypt building that huge impenetrable wall to a growing list.

[Jimbuna]

Israel says rabbi who went missing in the UAE was killed

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what it described as a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.”

The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel “will act with all means to seek justice with the criminals responsible for his death.” Israeli authorities did not say how they determined the killing of Zvi Kogan was a terror attack and offered no additional details.

Kogan, 28, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who went missing on Thursday, ran a Kosher grocery store in the futuristic city of Dubai, where Israelis have flocked for commerce and tourism since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in the 2020 Abraham Accords.

The Emirati government did not respond to a request for comment. However, senior Emirati diplomat Anwer Gargash wrote on the social platform X in Arabic on Sunday that “the UAE will remain a home of safety, an oasis of stability, a society of tolerance and coexistence and a beacon of development, pride and advancement.”

Early Sunday, the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency acknowledged Kogan’s disappearance but pointedly did not acknowledge he held Israeli citizenship, referring to him only as being Moldovan. The Emirati Interior Ministry described Kogan as being “missing and out of contact.”

“Specialized authorities immediately began search and investigation operations upon receiving the report,” the Interior Ministry said.

Netanyahu told a regular Cabinet meeting later Sunday that he was “deeply shocked” by Kogan’s disappearance and death. He said he appreciated the cooperation of the UAE in the investigation and that ties between the two countries would continue to be strengthened.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-ua...3ae87d70462117

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Hezbollah fires ‘340 missiles’ at Israel, hits Ashdod naval base, Tel Aviv

Hezbollah targets Israeli military sites after Israel killed 20 in a strike in central Beirut as EU top diplomat calls for ceasefire.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/...-three-wounded

[Exocet25fr]

Israel sanctions Haaretz due to articles that ‘hurt’ Israeli state

The Haaretz newspaper called the decision ‘another step in Netanyahu’s journey to dismantle Israeli democracy’.

Netanyahu is trying to silence a critical, independent newspaper.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/...-israeli-state

Dying in ‘Hell’: The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel

One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors may have been raped to death, recent revelations show. He’s not the only one.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/...iled-by-israel

[Jimbuna]

[Exocet25fr]

Flooding in Gaza compounds hardship of people displaced by Israeli attacks

Gaza’s Government Media Office says about 10,000 tents either washed away or were damaged due to the storm. We were affected by the rain. Our children were soaked. Our clothes got wet and we have nothing to protect ourselves, just the tent. On Monday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said in a statement that about 10,000 tents were either washed away or damaged due to the storm, appealing for international help to provide displaced families with tents to shield them against the rain and cold, many tent sites are near the coast and are not designed to withstand these horrific conditions, especially as colder weather approaches. Palestinian people say Israel appears determined to depopulate the area permanently to create a buffer zone along the northern edge of Gaza. Israel has repeatedly denied this accusation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/...sraeli-attacks

[Jimbuna]

Gazans can't even help themselves in some instances....no wonder none of the nearby countries are willing to help them in any meaningful way.

Gangsters block aid distribution in south Gaza

Amid severe food shortages in Gaza, increasingly violent thefts by criminal gangs are now the main obstacle to distributing supplies in the south, aid workers and locals say.

They allege that armed men operate within plain sight of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a restricted zone by the border.

The BBC has learnt that Hamas - sensing an opportunity to regain its faltering control - has reactivated a special security force to combat theft and banditry.

After gangsters robbed nearly 100 UN lorries, injuring many of the Palestinian drivers, on 16 November - one of the worst single losses of aid during the war - a number of alleged looters were then killed in an ambush.

A notorious Gazan criminal family then blocked the main Salah al-Din Road leading from Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing point for two days last week.

Witnesses said iron barriers were erected and lorries trying to access the aid distribution point were fired at.

“Law and order have broken down in the area around the Kerem Shalom crossing, which remains the main entry point of goods, and gangs are filling the power vacuum,” says Sam Rose, deputy director of Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in Gaza.

“It’s inevitable after 13 months of intense conflict - things fall apart.”

As the rainy winter weather begins, humanitarian officials say solving the worsening situation is critical to meet the huge, deepening needs of most of Gaza’s 2.3 million population - now displaced to the centre and south.

“It is tactical, systematic, criminal looting,” says Georgios Petropoulos, head of the UN’s humanitarian office, Ocha, in Gaza.

He says this is leading to “ultra-violence” in all directions - “from the looters towards the truckers, from the IDF towards the police, and from the police towards the looters”.

There has been increased lawlessness in Gaza since Israel began targeting police officers early this year, citing their role in Hamas governance.

“Hamas’s security control dropped to under 20%,” the former head of Hamas police investigations told the BBC, adding: “We are working on a plan to restore control to 60% within a month.”

Some displaced Gazans in the south welcome the new Hamas efforts against criminal gangs.

“Killing the thieves who stole aid is a step in the right direction,” exclaims one man, Mohammed Abu Jared.

However, others see them as a cynical attempt to take control of lucrative black markets.

“Hamas is killing its competitors in stealing aid,” says Mohammed Diab, an activist in Deir al-Balah. “A big mafia has finished off a small mafia.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93qevdpzvqo

[Skybird]

If I take two pictures of myself, one in a red T-shirt and wearing sunglasses, and one in a green T-shirt and without sunglasses, but a blue cap on my head, do these two pictures then show two different men?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

If I take two pictures of myself, one in a red T-shirt and wearing sunglasses, and one in a green T-shirt and without sunglasses, but a blue cap on my head, do these two pictures then show two different men?

Pardon?

[Exocet25fr]

a clown remains a clown.........

[Dargo]

Israel agrees ceasefire with Hezbollah

Israel has agreed a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon after weeks of negotiations with the US and other Western allies. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, announced the ceasefire just now in a televised speech after a meeting of his cabinet. The US-led proposal involves Hezbollah leaving southern Lebanon and Israel withdrawing its troops from the country. Israeli media reported that the ceasefire will take effect at 10am local time on Wednesday.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Pardon?

Hamas' role in Gaza, a devil posing as a social worker.

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by Dargo

Israel agrees ceasefire with Hezbollah

Israel has agreed a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon after weeks of negotiations with the US and other Western allies. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, announced the ceasefire just now in a televised speech after a meeting of his cabinet. The US-led proposal involves Hezbollah leaving southern Lebanon and Israel withdrawing its troops from the country. Israeli media reported that the ceasefire will take effect at 10am local time on Wednesday.

Netanyahu lists three reasons for the ceasefire in Lebanon

1. Focusing on Iran
2. Letting forces recuperate and allowing the supply of weapons [he seems to refer to US delay in weapon supply]
3. Isolation of Hamas

[Exocet25fr]

A ‘new page’: World reacts to Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

Agreement greeted with relief in Lebanon and beyond, with some pushing for ‘urgent steps’ to end Israel’s war in Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/...llah-ceasefire

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Hamas' role in Gaza, a devil posing as a social worker.

Ah, right