Posted on 11/23/2023 7:20:29 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Israel's military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells.
Nearly 1 million Palestinians have fled the north, including its urban center, Gaza City, as ground combat intensified. When the war ends, any relief will quickly be overshadowed by dread as displaced families come to terms with the scale of the calamity and what it means for their future.
Where would they live? Who would eventually run Gaza and pick up the pieces?
“I want to go home even if I have to sleep on the rubble of my house,” said Yousef Hammash, an aid worker with the Norwegian Refugee Council who fled the ruins of the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya for southern Gaza. “But I don't see a future for my children here.”
The Israeli army’s use of powerful explosives in tightly packed residential areas — which Israel describes as the unavoidable outcome of Hamas using civilian sites as cover for its operations — has killed over 13,000 Palestinians and led to staggering destruction. Hamas denies the claim and accuses Israel of recklessly bombing civilians.
“When I left, I couldn’t tell which street or intersection I was passing,” said Mahmoud Jamal, a 31-year-old taxi driver who fled his northern hometown of Beit Hanoun this month. He described apartment buildings resembling open-air parking garages.
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In the seven weeks since Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, Israel unleashed more munitions than the United States did in any given year of its bombing campaign against the Islamic State group — a barrage the U.N describes as the deadliest urban campaign since World War II.
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I guess Hamas forgot about that part when they attacked Israel.
The usual 'Boo-Hoo BS' from the AP...
With any luck.... yeah.
The only thing I “fear” is the solution being pushed that white majority countries should take all the Palestinian refugees.
Can someone explain, in adult words and concepts, how Mossad missed 7,000 rockets and thousands of men preparing and training for months to years?
Uh, is that not the point? 🦃
When was the last time Isabel visited Lahaina?
Uninhabitable?
You mean, like Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin, Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima, for example?
The legacy news is nothing without hyperbole.
Where can a people go to are obsessed with hate and killing people? Golda Meir said there will never be peace so long as they hate Jews more than they love their own children. They are a sick society that must be quarantined forever.
Who was it who said “Elections have consequences?”
Don’t start nothin’ / won’t be nothin’.
Hmmmm......
Would you say it has become a “ruinous heap,” and
won’t be inhabited again for a very long time?
Is this a precursor, example, symbol, or maybe a
replacement for Damascus?
Karma? Commit barbaric acts of evil and they expect to have a home to return to?
This is the start of the campaign to pressure the US to take in Gazan refugees.
It happens. How did the US in 1941 miss the Pearl Harbor attack: with a huge Japanese fleet with hundreds of aircraft, thousands of men, planned for almost a year. How did we miss it?
There are numerous examples of successful sneak attacks in history.
GOOD!!!
Great Rush line, but would correct thread Gaza was and will remain uninhabitable
Israel, of course, was not caught off guard by the attack on Oct 7th.
Now, they are insisting the US receive millions of Gazan refugees.
This is a two-fer. They get rid of their problems and strengthen their hold on the area and the US/West becomes less nationalistic with each Mohammedan we take.
They let it happen. Netanyahu planned this as an excuse to empty Gaza and to delay his corruption case. That’s the only explanation that makes sense.
Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and 10/7 have one thing in common- we underestimated the little bastards!
That's dumb, because it would also make the US/West less pro-Israel.
You seem to think people believe FDR didn’t allow it to happen…
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