Posted on 10/10/2023 8:04:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood on Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory as Israel vowed a retaliation for Hamas’ surprise weekend attack that would “reverberate ... for generations.”
Aid organizations pleaded for the creation of humanitarian corridors to get aid into Gaza, warning that hospitals overwhelmed with wounded were running out of supplies. Israel has stopped all access of food, fuel and medicines into Gaza, and the sole remaining access from Egypt shut down Tuesday after airstrikes hit near the border crossing.
The war began after Hamas militants stormed into Israel on Saturday, bringing gunbattles to its streets for the first time in decades. At least 1,600 lives have already been claimed on both sides, and perhaps hundreds more. Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza hold more than 150 soldiers and civilians hostage, according to Israel.
The conflict is only expected to escalate. Israel expanded the mobilization of reservists to 360,000 on Tuesday, according to the country’s media. After days of fighting, Israel’s military said Tuesday morning that it had regained effective control over areas Hamas attacked in its south, and of the Gaza border.
A looming question is whether Israel will launch a ground offensive into Gaza — a 40 kilometer-long (25 mile-long) strip of land wedged among Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to 2.3 million people and has been governed by Hamas since 2007.
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Ukraine is soooooo last year....
Question: Why do you bury Muslim ten feet deep?
Answer: Because down deep they’re good people.
Has the UN issued a resolution calling on Israel to “show restaint”?
Well, I do think some of it is CGI. I’ve seen youtube videos of Russian aircraft being shot down that were actually CGI.
By today’s standards, them’s just tactical nukes. If you dropped one on the University of washington, it wouldn’t even break windows in downtown Seattle.
Ukraine is soooooo last year....
Those bombs killed people then and they’ll do it again today.
I wouldn’t want to be in downtown Seattle if Little Boy or Fat Man showed up.
Though I agree, how deadly those small bombs are very much depends on where you are when they happen. I was only pointing out that those bombs were not as big as people think. The problem was they were dropped on paper cities. Well, the heat had a negative impact on the people within that range as well.
I suspect people farther away would have been blinded if they were staring right at it.
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