Palestinian Resistance Launch Major Attack on Israel: What Happened? – LIVE BLOG

[Karlysymon]

This was part of the recent "From our own correspondent"

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, A standoff in the South China Sea

The Philippines' coast guard confronts China; tales from Israel, Argentina and Antarctica

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For generations, Jewish families from around the world have migrated to Israel. But the current war in Gaza and fears over long-term security there mean some Israeli citizens are looking abroad for a quieter life. Mark Lowen reports on a new influx of Israelis seeking asylum in Portugal.

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What’s amazing is they still believe they can defeat Hamas. What’s so jarring about the endless recruits fighting the IDF? You know you’re just making the resistance grow, that’s your plan, to create an endless stream of combatants wanting to avenge their slaughtered parents and relatives. Your plan is to continue the occupation indefinitely and cement your presence in an attempt to ‘defend’ Israel from the very problem it has not only created, but exacerbated over the past 7 months.

There's 'Widespread' Belief Among US Officials Israel Can't Eradicate Hamas | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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[Daze]

3-second video that you can actually enjoy for hours on end. Atleast i could.

 

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[Stucky]

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[Stucky]

Warning of "Srebrenica" in Gaza as Israel seizes Rafah crossing

Aid cut off as "full-blown famine" in Gaza's north spreads southward.

electronicintifada.net

 

[Stucky]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1788121919000080632

 

[Stucky]

Revealed: UK military has flown 200 spy missions over Gaza in support of Israel

British spy planes have recorded up to 1,000 hours of footage over Gaza, including from the day Israel assassinated three UK aid workers.

www.declassifieduk.org

 

[Stucky]

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[Haich]

A partial withholding of the shipment of some bombs, but still sending other weapons. Are we supposed to rejoice at this? The endless supply of arms, aid and weaponry is and will continue. Just remember, especially for those Zionist lurkers on here, Hamas accepted a ceasefire deal that was put forward by the accredited negotiators Egypt & Qatar. Israel then immediately began this onslaught into Rafah as a response and thus rejected the deal which included the release of Israeli hostages and an eventual permanent ceasefire.

US paused weapons shipment to Israel amid concern over Rafah, senior US official says

Rafah’s mayor says city ‘stands on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe’ as pressure builds on Israel to pull back from attack

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[Haich]

Piers Morgan pressuring this Israeli spokesman on why he can’t recall the civilian death toll but can recall how many resistance fighters they’ve allegedly killed.

 

[Stucky]

What it’s like to be used as a human shield by the Israeli army

Israeli soldiers rounded up Ahmad Safi and his male family members in Khan Younis and made them stand atop a sand dune for 12 hours as the soldiers took cover behind them during a firefight with Palestinian resistance fighters. This is their story.

mondoweiss.net

 

[Haich]

Warning: Distressing images

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[Haich]

London has a lot of boroughs which support the freedom of Palestine. Murals have been popping up all over depicting aspects of Palestinian culture or of heroes who have been documenting the atrocities and genocide throughout the past 7 months.

East London is notably known for its huge support of Gaza.

Redbridge: Artists defend Palestine mural amid controversy

An Israeli legal support group is calling for its removal, saying it "promotes divisiveness".

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[Orwell's mentor]

EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants

Read the full letter, obtained by Zeteo, which threatens sanctions in defense of Netanyahu.

zeteo.com

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This was posted in the Twitter feed:

The hubris of a falling empire making these threats makes me smirk. I'd laugh more if it wasn't to the detriment of the Palestinians.

 

[Stucky]

Florida’s representative in US Congress incites annihilation of Gaza

A video has been circulating on social media of Brian Mast, Florida’s representative in the US Congress, saying he believes, “Israel should go in there [in Gaza] and kick the s*** out of them.”
Mast was responding to a question by human rights activist Medea Benjamin on whether he thinks Israel should agree to a ceasefire following an agreement by Hamas.
“I think Israel should go in there and kick the s*** out of them. Just absolutely destroy them, their infrastructure, level anything that they touch.”

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[Stucky]

AJ,

‘Hamas will move northwards’: Israeli military spokesman

Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, said he expects Hamas to regroup and continue operating even after the Rafah operation, but that Israel will keep pursuing it wherever it goes.
“I want to tell the public so that they do not delude themselves: Even after we deal with Rafah, there will be terror,” Hagari said in an interview with Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
“Hamas will move northwards and try to reconstitute itself, even in the next few days. In every place Hamas returns to, including in northern and central Gaza, we will return to operating.”

 

[Stucky]

Third mass grave found at al-Shifa Hospital: Gaza’s media office

Medical teams have found a third mass grave inside Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, with 49 bodies so far recovered, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
It said the team expects to find dozens more as the process of retrieving bodies continues.
The media office said there have been a total of seven mass graves found inside hospitals so far.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the crimes of genocide and the continuous killing committed by the occupation army against our Palestinian people,” it said in a Telegram post.
“We hold the US administration, the international community and the occupation fully responsible for these mass graves and this blatant aggression.”

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[Karlysymon]

The ICC Had Better Be Ready to Reap the Whirlwind

In “Already a Travesty, the ICC Eyes Charges Against Israel” (op-ed, May 2), Eugene Kontorovich warns that the International Criminal Court may soon overstep its jurisdiction by issuing arrest...

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In 2021 President Biden rescinded his predecessor’s executive order that threatened sanctions against anyone involved in an ICC investigation, arrest, detention or prosecution of an American or a nonconsenting ally like Israel. Mr. Biden thought an olive branch would keep the court within its jurisdictional bounds. He was wrong.

If the ICC issues a warrant for an American or Israeli, these sanctions must return with even greater scope—seizing assets and denying visas for ICC officials involved, and mandating financial sanctions against any bank that processes a transaction for the ICC. Member states that honor illegitimate ICC arrest warrants should also face a menu of diplomatic, economic and strategic consequences. The objective: Grind ICC operations to a halt and block member enforcement of illegitimate warrants.

In light of that^^, and while this is Canada, i couldn't help but wonder how quickly this is going to be used to silence criticism of Israel...."antisemitism"

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[Karlysymon]

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Spoiler

Negotiations to secure a cease-fire in Gaza aren’t yet dead, but Israel has begun its assault on Rafah nonetheless. While everyone will take a side when it comes to assigning blame for this unfolding human catastrophe, the talks have been revealed as an exercise in bad faith by all involved.

There was bad faith from Israel because, in the days before the latest round of peace talks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been so vocal in his insistence that no matter what might emerge in Cairo, the Israel Defense Forces would at some point move into Rafah. This was a transparent attempt to doom efforts at bridging the gap with Hamas.

There was bad faith on the part of Hamas, because its Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh implied by omission that the document he approved was the same one Israel already accepted. This was untrue. What Hamas agreed to on Monday was a counteroffer. I doubt Haniyeh believed for a second that Israel would accept, so for him this was about shifting responsibility for collapse of the talks.

Al Jazeera — recently banned from Israel — has published what purports to be the text of the proposal Haniyeh agreed to. Its provenance hasn’t been verified, but two elements ring true and I think go to the heart of why this war is proving so deadly and difficult to end.

The first is that the proposal was so clearly an attempt to paper over the yawning gap between two essentially unreconcilable positions. Israel wants its hostages back without having to accept an end to the war; that would leave Hamas in place in Gaza and therefore victorious. Hamas, meanwhile, will trade its hostages only for a permanent Israeli withdrawal. Both demands can’t be met simultaneously.

The purported deal mediated by officials from Egypt, Qatar and the US consists of a three-stage plan in which the first 42-day phase included detailed procedures to begin an Israeli stand down and partial hostage release. The two remaining phases, according to the Al Jazeera document, would move to a “sustainable calm” in which all hostages would be traded for prisoners and an Israeli withdrawal, followed by reconstruction and compensation. The deal was to be guaranteed by Egypt, Qatar, the US and the United Nations.

I’ve argued many times that it’s in Israel’s long-term interests, and in the shorter term that of the hostages, to accept less than its war aims in exchange for their return alive. Israel could then engage the international community to take on the burden of Gaza’s reconstruction, and crush Hamas using a much broader military, economic and diplomatic toolkit over time. The key is to stop the bloodshed, and with that the erosion of Israel’s perceived international legitimacy and rise in global antisemitism that it’s causing.

It's clear that Israel is not buying this argument. The war cabinet decision to reject the latest cease-fire offer from Hamas was unanimous and the IDF’s plans in Rafah didn’t skip a beat. But before dismissing that response as warmongering in its purest form, consider what was not in the mediated agreement: Any mention of Hamas and its future.

I have been critical about the way in which Israel has conducted the war, in particular its failure to build a political strategy and its high tolerance for civilian deaths. The operation in Rafah, which involves closing a key entry point for aid and attacking a town that’s host to more than 1 million refugees from other parts of the strip, can only promise worse. Even so, the Israeli concern about Hamas remaining in Gaza as the IDF leaves is justified.

It pays to listen carefully to what Hamas says, and on Monday the group’s head of international relations, Osama Hamdan, gave a lengthy webinar on the website of Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement. He made three things very clear.

The first is that Hamas considers its terrorist operation on Oct. 7, and the war it provoked, to have been an enormous success. His tone is jubilant, with no sign of remorse for the more than 34,000 Palestinians who the Gaza health authority says have lost their lives as a direct result of that attack. In the view of Hamas, the operation halted the process of normalizing Israel’s global acceptance as a legitimate nation state and turned the Palestinian cause global. Again and again, he praised the “heroes” on the university campuses of the West as evidence of a geopolitical pivot in favor of Hamas.

The second point Hamdan repeatedly stressed was that the aim of Hamas is to eliminate Israel — not to make peace with it. And lastly, that the organization sees a cease-fire as no impediment to pursuing that goal; he even cast Gaza’s reconstruction as providing the means for ordinary Palestinians to join in the struggle.

“Now we are heading toward a cease-fire, but this doesn’t mean the confrontation will stop,” Hamdan said. “We need to continue our resistance against the occupation, but I think the confrontation will become bigger and wider.”

In other words, you can’t fit a piece of paper between the approaches of Hamas and the Israeli government. Neither has been serious about negotiating a cease-fire, because neither is willing to give up its war aims. This is the murderous logic of the extremists who currently dominate the leadership on both sides, bent on either Jewish or Palestinian control from the River to the Sea.