The IDF said it had taken steps before the air strike to āreduce the risk of harming uninvolved civiliansā
Perhaps they could explain how they did that.No,of course they canāt.
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The numbers reveal the true scale of the war in Gaza. As it drags on, Israelā¦
Hamas has had its day of reckoning over the violent October 7 attacks, but Israelās day of reckoning for its eight-month-long response is still to come. The question is, has its response been proportional?
āFrozen**ā** children ā itās an unusual description of an appalling reality.
Theyāre the words Sydney clinical psychologist Scarlett Wong used after a recent trip to Gaza with Doctors Without Borders.
āWhen you see a starving child, they are apathetic, they have no response,ā she told SBS News. āThis is the kind of thing we were seeing from a medical view ā¦ children have become frozen, with no emotion, and apathetic.ā
The situation, Dr Wong said, was āthe worst humanitarian disaster I have ever seenā.
Gaza has become one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of our time. The UNās World Food Programme has said [parts of Gaza are now gripped by "a full-blown famiine.
One of the few countries denying this is Israel. Not only is there not a famine, said Ron Dermer, a member of Israelās war cabinet, but there is an abundance of food.
He told a startled Yalda Hakim on Sky UK recently that there were in fact ābustling marketsā with fruit and vegetables.
Dermerās claim defies all available evidence. Given the Israeli army has drones flying constantly across the tiny enclave, Dermer could have provided
Politicians in all countries these days seem to be quite prepared to persist in telling lies even when thereās overwhelming evidence to contradict them.
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More than 8,000 children under five years old had been diagnosed and treated for acute malnutrition, of whom more than 1,500 had a more severe form, Dr Tedros added
"Itās very unsettling to see a child when their parent canāt protect them, itās heartbreaking when a parent canāt protect their child, so increasingly Iām hearing people say I just want this over, Iām happy if thereās an air strike on me tonight.
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The tactical pause is part of an ongoing misleading and contradictory narrative by the Israeli military, quite similar to the narrative of evacuations, safe zones across the Gaza Strip where people ended up being killed.
Right now, whether thereās a tactical pause or not, when compared with the number of trucks allowed into Gaza from Karem Abu Salem crossing, itās less than what is sufficient and whatās needed to help people to combat the difficult living conditions. Weāre only talking about four commercial trucks and five fuel trucks. When compared with the greater needs on the ground, this is nothing.
It looks like from the pattern of how itās happening, itās either the crossings are closed and no commercial trucks are allowed, or if they are allowed, there are conditions created on the ground to make it very difficult for the delivery of aid
As of yesterday, about eight law enforcement officials were killed as they were securing the delivery of commercial trucks to the market here in the central area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza
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āThis business of destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear ā itās simply throwing sand in the eyes of the public,ā Mr Hagari told Israelās Channel 13 TV.
āHamas is an idea, Hamas is a party. Itās rooted in the hearts of the people ā whoever thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong.ā
Most of us having been saying that from the start.
But itās taken so many deaths for someone in Israel to recognize it.
Not that it will make any difference with Netanyahu in charge.
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Earlier reports put the estimated death toll at 42.
Israeli media reported that the air strikes may have been targeting a senior Hamas official.
Thatās alright then.
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The Australian Senate voted down a motion put forward by the Greens to recognise the statehood of Palestine. 23 out of the 26 Labor Senators voted against. Only 1 of them voted in favour.
Had 20 of those 23 voted in favour, the motion wouldāve passed.
Shameful
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It was so close.
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The Israeli military says itās looking into the incident.
Itās a big hole,so quite appropriate from the IDF for once.
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Ministryās figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence service
the UN, and WHO.
Furthermore, the UN estimates that, by Feb 29, 2024, 35% of buildings in the Gaza Strip had been destroyed,
so the number of bodies still buried in the rubble is likely substantial, with estimates of more than 10 000
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The Jewish settler colonial project is protean. It changes its shape but not its essence. Its tactics vary. Its intensity comes in waves of severe repression and less repression.
Its rhetoric about peace masks its intent. It grinds forward with its deadly, perverted, racist logic. And yet, the Palestinians endure, refusing to submit, resisting despite the overwhelming odds, grasping at tiny kernels of hope from bottomless wells of despair. There is a word for this. Heroic
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A poll by Roy Morgan published last November found marked differences between generations when it came to attitudes to the war in Gaza.
People aged 18 to 30 were more likely to believe the Australian government favours Israel, and more likely to want greater action by Australia to support Palestinians.
Itās tragic that the world is run by indoctrinated old people.
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More slaughter
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Very well said 
Watching Lammy cosying up to Netanyahu and Hotovely makes me ashamed to be British, too many British politicians are in Israelās pocket.
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