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Bombs are falling all around us’: fear in Gaza as Israel vows to tighten siege
The Guardian ^ | 9th October 2023 | Ruth Michaelson

Posted on 10/09/2023 8:17:32 PM PDT by Cronos

Civilians in Gaza sheltered in fear amid constant bombardments targeting residential buildings and communications infrastructure on Monday, as Israeli officials vowed to further tighten a punishing siege of the densely populated enclave.

“I can see the plumes of smoke from the bombings through my window,” said Rama Abu Amra, 21, from south of Gaza City. She screamed as the bang of a nearby explosion could be heard.

“The bombs are falling all around us, we can’t even tell where they’re hitting. I can even smell the gunpowder now,” said the university student.

“It’s so scary. We don’t know what’s happening around us. We are so afraid about what will happen next,” she said. “For two days, we have woken up hearing bombs falling around us without knowing what’s happening. It has come as a total shock, we almost didn’t know if it was happening in real life or in a nightmare.”

....Gaza’s Al Mezan Center for Human Rights expressed outrage at the decision. “This is a collective punishment against 2 million Palestinians and a war crime of unprecedented dimensions,” it said.

The news of a complete shutdown of supplies followed an announcement by Israeli officials the previous day that they would cut the majority of electricity supplies to the enclave, where basic infrastructure was already at breaking point following repeated Israeli bombardments and a 16-yearblockade that had vastly curtailed supplies of fuel, construction materials, medicines and food.

...During past assaults, Israeli military forces routinely used a tactic they describe as “roof knocking”, in which a smaller explosive is dropped on a building as a warning for people to evacuate before it is destroyed. But reports from across the Gaza Strip suggested buildings were hit without either a warning or a message to those inside that their lives were in danger.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
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Cry me a river...
1 posted on 10/09/2023 8:17:32 PM PDT by Cronos
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Good. May the sound of the bombs be the last thing you hear.


2 posted on 10/09/2023 8:19:11 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Cronos
Hamas is getting the Hamas Treatment.
3 posted on 10/09/2023 8:19:39 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to he)
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That what happens when you are mass murdering scum. As the Nazis, Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy if you want to know the end game


4 posted on 10/09/2023 8:21:23 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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>> “It’s so scary. We don’t know what’s happening around us. We are so afraid about what will happen next,” she said.... “It has come as a total shock”

Your thugs promised that the hostages would protect you, eh?

Prepare to suffer and die.


5 posted on 10/09/2023 8:22:08 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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Glad they are terrified. Drive them into the sea.


6 posted on 10/09/2023 8:23:45 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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Too bad the Israelis can’t bomb The Guardian.


7 posted on 10/09/2023 8:23:53 PM PDT by devere
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Internet sleuths have already identified one of the Shani Louk thugs, apparently.

May he die in a pen of hungry hogs.

8 posted on 10/09/2023 8:24:14 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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It’s so scary. We don’t know what’s happening around us. We are so afraid about what will happen next,” she said. “For two days, we have woken up hearing bombs falling around us without knowing what’s happening

An easy solution to calm your fears of being woken up with the sound of bombs falling around you. Have a daisy cutter dropped on top of you. You won't be awakened. You will never hear it coming.

9 posted on 10/09/2023 8:24:38 PM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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“The bombs are falling all around us”

Don’t worry they will get them sighted in soon.

It takes a few rounds to get everything zeroed in.


10 posted on 10/09/2023 8:24:40 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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11 posted on 10/09/2023 8:24:49 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: nonliberal
I get all my Hamas news from the Guardian.

12 posted on 10/09/2023 8:25:06 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Cronos

annihilate.


13 posted on 10/09/2023 8:26:34 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Cronos

14 posted on 10/09/2023 8:27:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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FAFO....FA has already happened....we’re now in the FO stage.


15 posted on 10/09/2023 8:30:30 PM PDT by xp38
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“I can see the plumes of smoke from the bombings through my window,” said Rama Abu Amra, 21, from south of Gaza City. She screamed as the bang of a nearby explosion could be heard.

Die screaming, Rama, you Palestinivermin.

16 posted on 10/09/2023 8:31:08 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Cronos

Carthaginian option.


17 posted on 10/09/2023 8:32:02 PM PDT by tomkat
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The poor, murderous dears.


18 posted on 10/09/2023 8:32:15 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: Cronos

19 posted on 10/09/2023 8:32:43 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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I'm really trying to pity them. Really

20 posted on 10/09/2023 8:34:02 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (EVERY TIME A HEMI STARTS, AN EV DIES!)
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