Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #10

[Brightchaser47]

When the extent of Hamas’ takeover of the Shifa Hospital becomes clear, a lot of international and UN agencies are going to look very, very silly as people rightfully ask: You should have known—why didn’t you say anything?
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1723802577094037875

Great visual. Thanks for posting.

 

[PommyMommy]

Gaza has fuel.

Here’s how much:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1718683251852579179

 

[fred&edna]

I have been watching U.S. and the Holocaust (on PBS) and your quote reminds me of when news first came out about what Hitler was doing to the Jews and he claimed he was only responding to a Jewish uprising even though there were journalists reporting on what was really happening.

I know I fuss a LOT and nothing here is about ME but it nearly breaks my soul to think history could repeat itself. I just couldn't live with myself if I said and did nothing in defiance. I cannot and will not look away.

 

[margarita25]

 

[Brightchaser47]

Any thoughts on why they were taken out of the incubators? At least in the incubators they are kept away from draft and airborne viruses.

Also, where are the baby's mothers? I assume they would be at the hospital if they have a preterm infant in an incubator. Why are the babies lined up and surrounded by cardboard boxes? Why aren't their mothers holding them to keep them safe and warm?

Excellent questions.

 

[MyBelle]

"World Health Organization says Gaza's main hospital is 'not functioning' after heavy airstrikes left it without electricity and desperately short of supplies - amid war of words over whether Israel or Hamas are to blame for babies being trapped there."​

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"A heart-breaking photo shows seven newborn babies wrapped in green scrubs laid beside each other on a bed after they were taken out of incubators due to a power outage at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Strip."

Gaza's main hospital 'not functioning' after heavy airstrikes

A heart-breaking photo shows seven newborn babies wrapped in green scrubs beside each other on a bed after they were taken out of incubators due to a power outage at Al-Shifa hospital.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The only hearts that are breaking belong to those of us with hearts. Bombing the building that housed the incubators is beyond cruel and inhumane. smh

JMO

 

[Simply Southern]

"World Health Organization says Gaza's main hospital is 'not functioning' after heavy airstrikes left it without electricity and desperately short of supplies - amid war of words over whether Israel or Hamas are to blame for babies being trapped there."​

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"A heart-breaking photo shows seven newborn babies wrapped in green scrubs laid beside each other on a bed after they were taken out of incubators due to a power outage at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Strip."

Gaza's main hospital 'not functioning' after heavy airstrikes

A heart-breaking photo shows seven newborn babies wrapped in green scrubs beside each other on a bed after they were taken out of incubators due to a power outage at Al-Shifa hospital.

www.dailymail.co.uk

They are worried about heat loss and four aren't even wrapped up? Insane to risk the infants for a photo shoot. Never seen infants used as human shields.

Looks like they have electricity.

I'm praying for these infants.
Moo

 

[Dotta]

I lost hope that this land will ever be peaceful.
This hatred is terrifying.

JMO

 

[PommyMommy]

Rep. Shontel Brown
@RepShontelBrown

Saddened and outraged that a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn has been desecrated. Sending my thoughts to the local Jewish community- we are with you. Antisemitism is clearly on the rise and we must speak out. Antisemitism and all forms of hate have no place in NE Ohio or anywhere.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1723860291342008819

Cemeteries? This is so disgusting and disrespectful. Heaven help us. MOO

3min ago

Jewish cemetery in Cleveland vandalized with swastika graffiti​

Graves at a Jewish cemetery in Cleveland were vandalized with swastika graffiti, according to the local Jewish federation.

On its Facebook page, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland says some 20 people cleaned up the graffiti at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, which it hails as “further proof of the strength of our community and the unwavering commitment to one another that connects us.”

 

[Springb16]

I know I fuss a LOT and nothing here is about ME but it nearly breaks my soul to think history could repeat itself. I just couldn't live with myself if I said and did nothing in defiance. I cannot and will not look away.

I have come sadly to the realization that it is repeating and I too cannot and will not look away or do nothing.

 

[Momoffourboys]

Bring them home.Now.#HamasislSIS

https://twitter.com/x/status/1715324477880381536

 

[Momoffourboys]

A sizeable US demographic, many Evangelicals are sending money and manpower to Israel​

A month into the Israel-Hamas war, Evangelicals aren’t just helping fight antisemitism at home – they’re hosting fundraisers and sending volunteers and supplies to the Jewish state​

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“While things are bleak on the college campuses and in some places in the country, it’s not representative of mainstream America. We have 10 million members. So many people want to help in a physical way to give Israel and Jewish people some sense that you are not alone,” CUFI’s co-executive director Shari Dollinger told The Times of Israel.
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CUFI, founded in 2006, has so far raised $2.65 million for Israeli charities, primarily first responders. On October 15, member churches shared the same talking points in sermons. The organization is selling yard signs and unity pins showing an American flag together with the Israeli flag for $2. All proceeds go to Israeli charities, Dollinger said.

“We have a deep love and affection for Jewish people. It’s deep-rooted and real,” said Dollinger, who did her senior thesis at Brandeis University on Christian Zionists’ impact on US Foreign Policy.
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In keeping with Christian Just War tradition, we also affirm the legitimacy of Israel’s right to respond against those who have initiated these attacks as Romans 13 grants governments the power to bear the sword against those who commit such evil acts against innocent life,” says the statement.
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“Hamas is the enemy in this, not just to Israel, but to the Palestinian people and everyone who desperately seeks peace in the Middle East,” Leatherwood said

https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-sizeable-us-demographic-many-evangelicals-are-sending-money-and-manpower-to-israel/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Momoffourboys]

‘The Abducted Hearts’ exhibit embodies the enormity of 242 hostages in Gaza​

In the courtyard of Ness Ziona’s cultural center, a month of the Israel-Hamas war is marked with stark black life-sized silhouettes of the people who were kidnapped on October 7​

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Called “The Abducted Hearts,” Ness Ziona and the hostage families’ organization Bring Them Home Now have installed 242 cast iron statues, one to represent each individual hostage, each with a heart-shaped hole in its center.
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The all-black statues are cut to represent the different ages and types of people captured on October 7 — from a caregiver pushing an elderly man in a wheelchair to a baby holding a teddy bear. There are adults and youths, and movingly, a woman sitting on the ground with her knees to her chest, screaming.
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A massive wall with the now familiar “kidnapped” posters gives a backdrop to the statues. The posters include the portraits and names of Hadar Goldin and Shaul Oron, two Israeli soldiers killed in the 2014 Gaza War whose bodies have been held by Hamas since then.

On the other side of the wall of the 242 kidnapped and missing posters is a space where locals have painted and drawn their own tributes. Several have painted colorful flowers, others have penned blessings or quoted biblical verses. There is a jar of markers for any who are moved to add to the visual offerings

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-abducted-hearts-exhibit-embodies-the-enormity-of-242-hostages-in-gaza/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Momoffourboys]

Gideon and Noa Chiell, 24 & 27: Siblings with matching tattoos:​

Hebrew phrase ‘There’s no such thing as impossible,’ has since been tattooed on additional family. Siblings were murdered at the Supernova rave, October 7​

Noa Chiell, 27, and Gideon “Gidi” Chiell, 24, were murdered by Hamas terorrists at the Supernova festival on October 7.

They were considered missing for nine days until their bodies were finally identified.

The siblings, from the small northern town of Ahuzat Barak, are survived by their parents, Aviela and Sagui, and a brother, Harel. Noa was slated to start a master’s degree program this fall and Gidi was the founder of “Radio Berlin,” which organized parties and raves in Tel Aviv with international DJs.

more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/gideo...attoos/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Momoffourboys]

Hamas planned to push October 7 massacre to the West Bank border - report​

Under Hamas's original plan, it would have hit many other major Israeli cities and IDF bases and go as far as the West Bank, where it has allies in the form of local terrorist cells.​

Hamas's original plan for October 7 went beyond just a massacre in the Gaza border area and taking hundreds of hostages, but to continue their assault up to the border with the West Bank, The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing Western and Middle Eastern security officials briefed on collected evidence.

This information was obtained from numerous maps, notes, supplies, and other written instructions found among the bodies of dead Hamas terrorists in the Gaza border area, as well as from interrogations of Hamas captives.

"We know from interrogations that Hamas came in with detailed plans of their attack, including which commander should rape which soldiers in different places," Defense Minister Yoav Gallant explained to The Washington Post.

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The report further said that this would have come at a high cost, with Hamas knowing the level of Israel's response.

"They were very clear-eyed as to what would happen to Gaza on the day after," a senior Israeli military official told the outlet. "They wanted to buy their place in history — a place in the history of jihad — at the expense of the lives of many people in Gaza."

However, while Hamas may have expected this level of Israeli response, the involvement of the US may have come as a surprise.

"An Israeli response? Yes, we expected that," senior Hamas political leadership member Ali Barakeh told The Financial Times in late October. "But what we're seeing now is the entrance of the US into the battle, and this we didn't count on."

Hamas planned to push October 7 massacre to the West Bank border -report

Under Hamas's original plan, it would have hit many other major Israeli cities and IDF bases and go as far as the West Bank, where it has allies in the form of local terrorist cells.

www.jpost.com

 

[PommyMommy]

This article was recommended by Jonathan Conricus (@jconricus) / X (twitter.com) during today's briefing hosted by StandWithUs - YouTube. It's a doozy. MOO

May 27, 2015

Gaza: Palestinians tortured, summarily killed by Hamas forces during 2014 conflict

Hamas forces carried out a brutal campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel and others during Israel’s military offensive against Gaza in July and August 2014, according to a new report by Amnesty International. ‘Strangling...

www.amnesty.org

As well as carrying out unlawful killings, others abducted by Hamas were subjected to torture, including severe beatings with truncheons, gun butts, hoses and wire or held in stress positions. Some were interrogated and tortured or otherwise ill-treated in a disused outpatient’s clinic within the grounds of Gaza City’s main al-Shifa hospital. At least three people arrested during the conflict accused of “collaboration” died in custody.

“Hamas forces have displayed a disregard for the most fundamental rules of international humanitarian law. Torture and cruel treatment of detainees in an armed conflict is a war crime. Extrajudicial executions are also war crimes.

 

[Leve]

"World Health Organization says Gaza's main hospital is 'not functioning' after heavy airstrikes left it without electricity and desperately short of supplies - amid war of words over whether Israel or Hamas are to blame for babies being trapped there."​

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"A heart-breaking photo shows seven newborn babies wrapped in green scrubs laid beside each other on a bed after they were taken out of incubators due to a power outage at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Strip."

Gaza's main hospital 'not functioning' after heavy airstrikes

A heart-breaking photo shows seven newborn babies wrapped in green scrubs beside each other on a bed after they were taken out of incubators due to a power outage at Al-Shifa hospital.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I really hope none of these baby's heath was compromised when they were posed for this picture.

 

[Sundog]

Darya Safai MP
@SafaiDarya

We are not in a sharia court here. This is not the Islamic Republic of Iran or an Islamic caliphate.It is Washington DC where these extreme threats reverberate through the speaker, where sentences are apparently already being handed down. The demonstrators are threatening Western politicians, MPs and media, making it clear to them that they themselves will deal with the "genocide" they are "organising".It reminds me of the many fatwas and death sentences pronounced and carried out in Islamic Iran against the "enemies of Allah".They stamp, they will bring them to justice, they judge, they condemn and they ensure that some will even take action.The West really needs to take this seriously before there is no turning back.Let what happened over the past few days be a wake-up call.The signs are abundantly clear.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1723709308012019738

Good reality check.

 

[PommyMommy]

DEC 1, 2009
Sources: Hamas leaders hiding in basement of Israel-built hospital in Gaza - Haaretz - Israel News (archive.org)
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During a cabinet meeting a week ago, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said senior Hamas officials found refuge in the hospital basement because they know Israel would not target it, due to the patients in the upper floors. Palestinian sources told Haaretz that not all the senior Hamas leaders are hiding in one place.

Rather, they have spread out, and some are constantly changing locations. Some of the bunkers they are using were linked by tunnels Hamas built in recent years.

JUL 11, 2014
Hamas leaders again 'hiding under hospital' | The Times of Israel
Gen. Eliezer Marom, the former head of the Israel Navy, tells Channel 2 that Hamas leaders in Gaza are again hiding from Israel under the wards of Gaza’s main Shifa hospital.

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Channel 2 is reporting that Hamas has spent the time since the 2012 conflict emplacing launchers and arms stockpiles near schools, mosques and UNRWA facilities, and in apartment buildings — hoping that the local population will serve as human shields that will prevent Israel from targeting its weaponry.

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[PommyMommy]

JUN 12, 2007
Gaza: Armed Palestinian Groups Commit Grave Crimes | Human Rights Watch (hrw.org)
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In internal Palestinian fighting over the last three days, both Fatah and Hamas military forces have summarily executed captives, killed people not involved in hostilities, and engaged in gun battles with one another inside and near Palestinian hospitals. ...

“These attacks by both Hamas and Fatah constitute brutal assaults on the most fundamental humanitarian principles,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch. “The murder of civilians not engaged in hostilities and the willful killing of captives are war crimes, pure and simple.”

On Sunday, Hamas military forces captured 28-year-old Muhammad Swairki, a cook for President Mahmoud Abbas’s presidential guard, and executed him by throwing him to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City. ...

In addition, Fatah and Hamas forces engaged in battles in and around two Gaza Strip hospitals on Monday. After Hamas fighters killed Fatah intelligence officer Yasir Bakar, Fatah gunmen began firing mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, drawing Hamas fire from inside the building, killing one Hamas and one Fatah fighter

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