Israelās army chief: āNo Lebanon village out of our reachā
Weāve fought in Gaza, so we know how to do it in Lebanon if we have to. After what you did [in Gaza], there is not a village in Lebanon that you cannot enter and destroy.
Most regimes try to cover up their human rights abuses and war crimes or at least attempt some form of obfuscation. Not Israel though, just out there bragging about it to anyone whoāll listen.
More than three months after the October 7 attack on Israel that triggered the war, more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed and Gaza is a wasteland of rubble, with all but a handful of its 2.3 million population squeezed into a tiny corner at the southern end of the enclave.
āRather than channel feelings of inherited guilt into opposition to genocide in general, they (Germans) seem to have concluded that they need to promote alternative genocides to make amends.ā
Marta Solomon.
According to Human Rights Watch, settler violence in the West Bank was already at its worst in two decades before the outbreak of war in Gaza, but it has since doubled.
"The UN has reported many incidents where settlers were heavily armed and accompanied by Israeli Security Forces or wearing ISF uniforms ā¦ this activity is abhorrent, and the international community has rightly condemned settlements and called on the Israeli government to act.
Images of Israeli troops cheering as educational institutions were blown up went viral on social media, including one showing the complete demolition of a distinctive blue UN school in northern Gaza.
āHamas embeds its operation within and under hospitals and other medical facilities,ā said Elad Goren of COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry branch that coordinates with the Palestinians.