Palestinians accuse Israel of carrying out acts of âethnic cleansingâ to depopulate the northern edge of the enclave to create a buffer zone, Reuters report.
Israelâs campaign has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, displaced most of the 2.3 million population and reduced much of the coastal enclave to ruins.
This sums it up perfectly:
Winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly two million Palestinians displaced by the devastating 14-month war with Israel are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain.
The United Nations warns of people living in precarious makeshift shelters that might not survive the winter.
It has said at least 945,000 people need winter supplies, which have become prohibitively expensive in Gaza. The UN also fears infectious disease, which spiked last winter, will climb again amid rising malnutrition.
Utterly shameful that the âinternational communityâ is allowing innocent people to suffer like this.
Any government still backing them is complicit.
Unfortunately thatâs most of them in this barbaric world weâve made for ourselves.
Israel are just evil now.Not even pretending .Out in the open genocide because they know they can!
This could have been resolved. Week ONE.
Mossad had ALL the Tunnel Entry & Exciteâs mapped. Within which Hamas had its Command and Weaponry.
Solved Subterranean. Without surface collateral.
Ignored like rabid dogs. By a Government, hell bent on replicating The Holocaust.
Worldwide empathy for that event. Destroyed. As these Innocent Children.
. Hamas took hostages only to pressure Israel to release these Palestinian hostages and other prisoners, and to end their other abuses and crimes. If Hamas released the hostages unconditionally, they would have no leverage to pressure Israel to end the war. There is no reason to believe that Israel would stop pulverising Gaza once the Israeli hostages are released, and in fact there is plenty to suggest otherwise. No Israeli hostages are being held in the West Bank, yet the Israeli occupation and settlers continue to terrorise the Palestinians living there, including by taking more Palestinians hostage. Lebanon has no Israeli hostages and recently agreed to a âceasefireâ, but Israel has still been bombing Lebanon. Syria has no Israeli hostages, yet Israel never gave up its occupation of the Golan Heights and has just taken advantage of the recent regime change to expand its occupation of Syria and wipe out the countryâs defensive capabilities.
The Israeli government doesnât care whether their actions are considered legitimate or not by most of the world; they donât need to, given that they receive unconditional and unlimited material support from the most powerful country on Earth. If the Israeli hostages are released, Israel will continue to receive weapons and continue killing for âsecurityâ reasons, which has been the standard justification for Israelâs crimes, even before October 7.
Images from Gaza City showed residents combing through smoking rubble.
Bodies including those of small children were lined up on the ground, shrouded in white sheets.
Elsewhere, the civil defence agency said an Israeli strike killed five security officers tasked with accompanying aid convoys as they drove through the southern city of Khan Yunis
Netanyahu describes himself as the leader of the Jewish people, empowered to speak on my behalf. The Jewish people have been around far longer than Benjamin Netanyahu, or the State of Israel for that matter. I never asked for him. Whenever Jews are attacked somewhere else in the world, some Israeli minister commands us all to flee to historic Palestine and shelter under his nuclear umbrella: the dream of state zionism is of a Europe without any Jews. Did they dream it themselves?
An Israeli sniper shot dead a Palestinian child in Rafah, and witnesses in Gaza filmed the Israeli army opening fire on a man trying to retrieve the childâs body in an apparent violation of the ceasefire agreement.
I can rarely bear to read about the carnage caused by Israel, the suffering caused whilst our own government has been complicit. To have to see it happening, relentlessly and being powerless has affected millions of decent people.
Do we have faith in the ceasefire? Not while the current regime are in power. How long before they decide to finish the job, weeks?
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/24/middleeast/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-withdrawal-intl/index.html
Israel is going to continue occupying southern Lebanon past the Sunday deadline by which they were meant to fully withdraw, not to mention their almost daily ceasefire violations.
Is anyone surprised?
I never knew Gaza was such a little thing: