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So hamas doesn't protect their journalist?
Moo
So hamas doesn't protect their journalist?
"My son died because he was trying to deliver the voice of the truth to the world," she said.I think this was for the safety of journalist. If not protected, hamas could be taken them hostage. Wouldn't that make dandy news?
IDF Allows Journalist to be Kidnapped by Hamas in War Zone
Moo
Just want to point out that confusion can be avoided by using the format below:"A breakthrough in the case of Hamas hostages.
'They want to use the situation tactically'.
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Israel and Hamas agreed on a four-day truce and the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip.
- 'From Israel's perspective, the return of 50 people from captivity is a big success. However, the situation does not aim to completely extinguish the conflict',
says an Israel analyst.
The situation does not aim to completely extinguish the conflict
- 'At this point, the fuel for this conflict is running out' -
says an Israel analyst from the Institute of International Affairs.
He emphasizes that
'for several weeks this has been the case and people have been talking about the need for a moment of respite, some form of ceasefire.
And he emphasizes that the moment to cease fire is needed to help the civilian population. -
'So that humanitarian and material aid reaches those most in need, and this is practically the entire Gaza Strip at the moment.
- Hamas wants to take advantage of the situation tactically, hence the suspension of Israeli air operations.
Not only combat ones, but also reconnaissance ones.
So this is a moment for Hamas to regroup'.
The expert emphasizes that the important question is how all this will be implemented.
'Will there be any attempts at provocation, attempts to break the agreement, or renegotiate the terms?'
- he enumerates.
'Hostages are a tool of influence - the strongest that Hamas has'
He points out that the provisions of the agreement include a condition that a ceasefire day can be guaranteed for every 10 hostages.
'But it is doubtful that Hamas would decide to release everyone in such a case, extending the war silence for a few weeks',
- he says.
The expert notes that
Israel will strive to defeat Hamas.
'The question is whether they will have enough money and time for this.
Conducting hostilities in the Gaza Strip involves a lot of forces and resources,
not only strictly military ones',
he adds."
Przełom ws. zakładników Hamasu. "Chcą wykorzystać sytuację taktycznie"- WP Wiadomosci
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From my country's MSM
PS
The whole post is a quotation of the MSM article.
Just pointing out![]()
It'll end up looking just like this.![]()
Or maybe is the universal language of communicating when multiple languages are involved ... aka ... aviation. It's possible too that whoever is doing the texting was also aware that the hostage was able to speak english thus assumed family members could too - they did after all get the phone number to text.It looks that way to me! Maybe your friend, who is proficient in English is doing the texting.![]()
I agree, Hamas has created a concentration camp for it's citizens. Such a shame, cutting off all opportunities for a successful, independent free enterprise economy free of Hamas.OTOH, Israel, for years, has often blocked any humanitarian aide, in the way of ships from other countries, to deliver help. Gaza is often referred to as an Open Air Concentration Camp.
This:Information missteps have led to questions about Israel’s credibility
Israel has released several pieces of incorrect or disputed information, leading to weakened credibility and online ridicule.
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Israel’s public-relations machine has gone into overdrive in recent weeks to make the case that its pummeling of Gaza has been necessary and conducted in a way meant to minimize civilian deaths. It has allowed journalists, including those from NBC News, to embed with its soldiers in Gaza, maintained a steady drumbeat of social media posts, and made Israeli representatives available for TV appearances.
But in its recent outreach to global allies, Israel has released several pieces of inaccurate or disputed information including claiming that an Arabic calendar was a shift schedule for Hamas kidnappers, and using curtains as evidence that hostage videos had been filmed in a hospital.
The widespread reaction calling out these questionable pieces of evidence has weakened Israel’s credibility, according to some experts, and could lead to a boy-who-cried-wolf situation unless concrete evidence for a Hamas headquarters is found beneath Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, one of Israel’s key contentions at this stage of the war.
“The irony is they might find something and nobody is going to believe them,” said H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington, D.C., think tank. “At this point their credibility is shot.”
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Most notably, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari showed what he said was evidence that the Al-Rantisi hospital had been used by Hamas to detain hostages. He pointed to a piece of paper, saying that it showed a rota for guarding the captives. “Every terrorist has his own shift,” he said.
Written above the document in pen was “Al-Aqsa Flood,” Hamas’ name for its Oct. 7 assault. But Arabic speakers pointed out that the rest of the paper merely showed days of the week, with no trace of the Hamas captors’ names described by Hagari.
Elsewhere in the hospital, he pointed out curtains had been hung on a wall with no window. There was “no reason” to do this “unless you want to film hostages and deliver movies,” Hagari said.
Some people from the region pointed out that this is a common interior decor theme among Palestinian households.
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Nevertheless, ridicule soon followed. Videos on social media have lampooned increasingly ridiculous and mundane objects held up as “IDF evidence.”
Israel has been accused of spreading misinformation before. Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson for Arab media, Ofir Gendelman, posted to X a video that he claimed showed Gazans faking their injuries with makeup. Despite countless people correcting him that the footage was in fact from a Lebanese film, it had not been deleted as of Friday.
Attacking a hospital is a war crime unless a military or militant group is using it for operations, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Even then, doctors and patients must be warned, with extra care taken not to harm those who stay.
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Information missteps have led to questions about Israel’s credibility
Israel has released several pieces of incorrect or disputed information, leading to weakened credibility and online ridicule.www.nbcnews.com
Moo..Hamas are a proscribed terrorist organisation and as such I expect they are pretty free to employ whatever rules of engagement fits the agenda at the time.
Israel is a free democratic state which instead of playing the terrorist is expected to be who they are and operate in accordance with the rule of law, their own as well as international.
The Gaza strip is an enclave which is described in the Cambridge dictionary as "...a part of a country that is surrounded by another country, or a group of people who are different from the people living in the surrounding area:"
In the starving Gaza enclave even fresh fish is an issue.
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The construction of the seaport has been a major objective of successive authorities in Palestine. It took six years, from the start of the Oslo Accord process in September 1993,until September 1999, for Israel to consent to allow the Palestinian Authority (PA) to begin construction of a Gaza deep sea port and, even then, the port was not to be functional until there had been an agreement with Israel on a joint protocol regarding its operation. Construction of a port had begun before the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September2000, with costs being met by Donor States. However, in October 2000 the Israeli air force destroyed both the sea port and Gaza's existing airport near Rafah in response to the killing of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah. In 2001, the Dutch-French consortium scrapped plans to build a port in the Gaza Strip, citing security problems in the area, which would have been financed by The Hague, Paris and the European Investment Bank. In 2005, in a climate of improving ties following the death of Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, Israeli approval was given for the construction of the port, although Israel would retain control of territorial waters offshore. The port is part of a package of Israeli gestures that includes the gradual handover of West Bank cities to Palestinian forces, and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. However, there has been no significant progress and the project remains on hold.
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Israeli bombs rain down on Gaza once more. The surprise, unprecedented attack by Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades has been met with indiscriminate Israeli aggression, forcing everyone in the besieged enclave to seek shelter whilst awaiting their fate.
At the time of writing, the Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gollant, has ordered a "complete siege" of the Gaza strip: "no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed."
In many ways, however, this is just a more explicit extension of the daily realities Gazans have faced over the last 16 years under Israeli blockade, with Gaza's fishermen are public enemy number one.
Israel restricts the fishing border in Gaza to just six miles and is patrolled by Israeli ships and naval commandos who injure and kill anyone who crosses the border. This is in flagrant violation of the Oslo Accords - signed between Israel and the PLO in the 1990s - that grants Gaza's fishermen to venture up to 20 nautical miles from the shore to fish.
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Israeli blockade plunges Gaza's fishermen into net of misery
Israel's 16-year blockade of the Gaza Strip has turned the fishing industry in Gaza into a tool for collective Palestinian punishment. Fishermen are regularly killed at sea, with sustained Israeli restrictions suffocating a symbol of Gazan identity.www.newarab.com
I'd wager IMO that the failure of the UN to be able to codemn the atrocities, massacre and institutionalized rape (by the UN's own definition a precussor to genocide [where the hell are @UN Women --- this is their domain!) Yet silence from them] by Hamas is because they were and are too busy 'vacuuming'.US envoy raises rape of women on Oct. 7 during Security Council meeting: ‘Where is the outrage?’
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield raps fellow UN Security Council members for minimizing or ignoring the crimes committed by Hamas on October 7.
“It has been less than two months since Hamas carried out its barbaric terrorist attack against Israel, but many members of this council seem to have forgotten or attempted to erase the horrors of that day. And many still cannot bring themselves to unequivocally condemn Hamas’s acts of terror,” Thomas-Greenfield says.
“The children who were executed in front of their parents. The families who were burned alive. The young people who were gunned down with glee. We have also seen horrifying footage that points to Hamas’ rape and sexual assault of innocent civilians. Where is the universal condemnation? And where is the outrage?” Thomas-Greenfield asks during a Security Council session focused on the plight of women in the Israel-Hamas war.
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The first included 1,016 Palestinian attacks against Israeli targets in Israel and abroad. The second included 349 Israeli attacks against Palestinian targets.
Countering Palestinian Terrorism in Israel - Office of Justice Programs
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Countering Palestinian Terrorism in Israel - Toward a Policy Analysis of Countermeasures ... Findings and recommendations are presented from a study that examined ...
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A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IS PRESENTED, FOCUSING ON THE ENVIRONMENT, GOALS, AND STRATEGIES OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS. Abstract.
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More:Following indisputable evidence indicating the Shifa Hospital served as a Hamas command and control center, the director of the hospital was apprehended and transferred for questioning by the ISA.
Not only did Hamas exploit the hospital's electricity and resources to build and sustain an extensive network of terrorist tunnels under it, its terrorists also sought refuge there immediately after committing the massacre of October 7, taking Israeli hostages with them.
I was joking.Or maybe is the universal language of communicating when multiple languages are involved ... aka ... aviation. It's possible too that whoever is doing the texting was also aware that the hostage was able to speak english thus assumed family members could too - they did after all get the phone number to text.
This is going to be interesting, but it may be bluster. This sounds like something the Taliban would do. But Hamas, could also be posturing. Gaza can't exist without aid groups.More:
2 hr 17 min ago
Al-Shifa Hospital director reportedly arrested by IDF while evacuating.
In response to his arrest, the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza said it had suspended cooperation with WHO and said the United Nations "bears full responsibility" for his detention.
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November 23, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
A truce between Israel and Hamas will begin Friday at 7 a.m. local time (midnight ET), with 13 civilian hostages to be released by Hamas hours later, Qatar announced.www.cnn.com
"The Ministry of Health decides to stop full coordination with the World Health Organization on the issue of evacuating the remaining wounded and medical teams until a report is submitted explaining what happened and the detainees are released," it added.“The United Nations bears full responsibility for this event and we await appropriate and urgent measures on their part to address this," the Hamas-run ministry said.
…except when they tell you they will repeat 10/7 over and over and over. And the West is next. IMOThis:
And while some of Hamas’ propaganda has been able to sidestep Western efforts to limit its reach, Hellyer, whose career has included senior anti-radicalization roles in the U.K. government, said this information war should not be seen as one between two equal parties.
“We don’t take seriously what a terror group says, but we do take seriously what an army says, especially one that’s an ally of ours,” he said. “So we naturally hold it to a higher standard.”
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MOO MOO Never believe Hamas, but since Israel is our ally, I judge what they say by our standards. Hamas is a terror group, they are expected to lie.
I understand Hamas has a strong propaganda machine and shadowy groups like the CIA and Israel's counterpart often need to resort "dirty tricks" and "get down to their level" to counter the propaganda, however what Israel tells the world through it's official channels is judged by our standards. MOO MOO
This is WHY most countries don't allow media in an active war zone without military protection."My son died because he was trying to deliver the voice of the truth to the world," she said.
In the weeks before his death, Saliem acknowledged the grave risks that came with documenting the war — but he also said he did not believe the deaths of so many journalists in Gaza was random. _______________
Israel's military vigorously denies that it deliberately tries to kill or target journalists in Gaza, Lebanon or the West Bank.
But as the death toll mounts, advocates of press freedom say they find those denials harder to accept.
"It has been the most shocking and awful slaughter of journalists that I am aware of ever," said Tim Dawson, the deputy general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists.
His Brussels-based group claims more than 600,000 members globally, made up of trade unions and journalism associations.
"My real fear is that there is a deliberate attempt to try and keep the world's eyes off Gaza since the seventh of October," he said.
Others who work to ensure the safety of journalists and media organizations echo his concerns.