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PF5
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many people would say this is why the initial attack happened Oct. 7th...guess it just depends which side you support/believe/etc.
as far as your comment about cutting heads off babies and Israel makes attempts and Israel willing to negotiate...false...western media maybe?!
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U.S., Experts Cast Doubt on Palestinian Claims of Israeli Strike on Hospital
The U.S. has collected signals intelligence showing that the explosion at the hospital compound in Gaza was caused by the militant group, U.S. officials said, buttressing Israel’s account.
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PF5
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Israel has done plenty of premeditated attacks against Palestinians...but I've already been over this...it's called apartheid...
HacklemanPoke
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True to form. You ask a question not hoping for an actual answer. It’s your intellectual dishonesty on full display. You are trolling someone you look down on because they don’t hold the same views as you. It’s obvious PF5 is an informed person who is not just seeking information from “fair and balanced” solely US or even pro Israel media. Good for him.
You were just waiting to pounce.
This is not a serious assertion....right?
PF5
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U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution to condemn violence in Israel-Hamas war apnews
The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have condemned violence against all civilians in the Israel-Hamas war including “the heinous terrorists attacks by Hamas” against Israel, and would have pushed for humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
Twelve of the 15 Security Council members on Wednesday voted in favor of the resolution sponsored by Brazil. The United States voted against, while Russia and the United Kingdom abstained.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said after the vote that President Joe Biden is in the region engaging in diplomacy to secure the release of hostages, prevent the conflict from spreading, and stress the need to protect civilians.
The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have condemned violence against all civilians in the Israel-Hamas war including “the heinous terrorists attacks by Hamas” against Israel, and would have pushed for humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
Twelve of the 15 Security Council members on Wednesday voted in favor of the resolution sponsored by Brazil. The United States voted against, while Russia and the United Kingdom abstained.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said after the vote that President Joe Biden is in the region engaging in diplomacy to secure the release of hostages, prevent the conflict from spreading, and stress the need to protect civilians.
No I seriously wanted to know what HIS opinion was of unbiased news. You were just waiting to be a dick. True to form.
HacklemanPoke
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I don’t have to wait for that. Ask anyone that knows me.
Biden says Palestinians ‘gotta learn how to shoot straight’ after hospital blast that killed about 500 people
President Biden told reporters Wednesday that Palestinian terrorists have “gotta learn how to shoot straight” — one day after an explosion outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip.
nypost.com
PF5
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Summary (BBC)
- Hundreds of vehicles carrying aid are waiting to be allowed into Gaza to bring in vital supplies
- US President Biden has secured an agreement with Egypt to allow up to 20 lorries to enter the territory
- Aid agencies are warning that far more will be needed - UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, says about 100 lorries a day will be required
- Earlier, UK PM Rishi Sunak met Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, telling him: "We want you to win"
- Israel has continued to bomb Gaza and hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes
- The enclave also remains under siege, with Israel blocking supplies of water, electricity, food and fuel across its border
- The most serious escalation in the conflict in decades erupted on 7 October, when Hamas launched an attack on Israel, killing more than 1,400 people
- More than 3,700 people have been killed in Gaza since then, the health ministry in the territory says
PF5
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Palestinians trapped in Gaza find nowhere is safe during Israel’s relentless bombing apnews
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes pounded locations across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including parts of the south that Israel had declared as safe zones, heightening fears among more than 2 million Palestinians trapped in the territory that nowhere was safe.
In the nearly two weeks since a devastating Hamas rampage in southern Israel, the Israeli military has relentlessly attacked Gaza in response. Even after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate the north and head to what it called “safe zones” in the south, strikes continued across the territory overnight and Palestinian militants continued firing rockets into Israel.
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The bombardments came after Israel agreed Wednesday to allow Egypt to deliver limited humanitarian aid to Gaza, the first crack in a punishing 11-day siege. Many of Gaza’s residents were down to one meal a day and drinking dirty water.
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The Associated Press has not independently verified any of the claims or evidence. (of the hospital blast)
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More than 1 million Palestinians, roughly half of Gaza’s population, have fled their homes in Gaza City and other places in the northern part of the territory since Israel told them to evacuate. Most have crowded into U.N.-run schools-turned-shelters or the homes of relatives.
Following airstrikes early Thursday, sirens wailed as emergency crews rushed to rescue survivors from a building in Khan Younis, where many residents were believed trapped under misshapen bed frames, broken furniture and cement chunks.
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The Musa family fled to the typically sleepy central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah and took shelter in a cousin’s three-story home near the local hospital. But at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, a series of explosions, believed to be airstrikes, rocked the building, turning the family home into a mountain of rubble that they said buried some 20 women and children.
The dead body of Hiam Musa, the sister-in-law of Associated Press photojournalist Adel Hana, was recovered from the wreckage Wednesday evening, the family said. They don’t know who else is under the rubble.
“It doesn’t make sense,” Hana said. “We went to Deir al-Balah because it’s quiet, we thought we would be safe.”
The Israeli military said it was investigating. (ok...)
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In northern areas that Israel warned to evacuate, airstrikes also hit three residential towers in al-Zahra, the Hamas-led Interior Ministry in Gaza said, as well as homes along the border with Israel. Israel has massed troops in the area and is expected to launch a ground invasion into Gaza, though military officials say no decision has been made.
The Gaza Health Ministry said 3,785 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, the majority of them women, children and older adults. Nearly 12,500 others were injured, and another 1,300 people were believed buried under the rubble, health authorities said.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, mostly civilians slain during Hamas’ deadly incursion on Oct. 7. Roughly 200 others were abducted. The Israeli military said Thursday it had notified the families of 203 captives.
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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes pounded locations across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including parts of the south that Israel had declared as safe zones, heightening fears among more than 2 million Palestinians trapped in the territory that nowhere was safe.
In the nearly two weeks since a devastating Hamas rampage in southern Israel, the Israeli military has relentlessly attacked Gaza in response. Even after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate the north and head to what it called “safe zones” in the south, strikes continued across the territory overnight and Palestinian militants continued firing rockets into Israel.
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The bombardments came after Israel agreed Wednesday to allow Egypt to deliver limited humanitarian aid to Gaza, the first crack in a punishing 11-day siege. Many of Gaza’s residents were down to one meal a day and drinking dirty water.
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The Associated Press has not independently verified any of the claims or evidence. (of the hospital blast)
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More than 1 million Palestinians, roughly half of Gaza’s population, have fled their homes in Gaza City and other places in the northern part of the territory since Israel told them to evacuate. Most have crowded into U.N.-run schools-turned-shelters or the homes of relatives.
Following airstrikes early Thursday, sirens wailed as emergency crews rushed to rescue survivors from a building in Khan Younis, where many residents were believed trapped under misshapen bed frames, broken furniture and cement chunks.
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The Musa family fled to the typically sleepy central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah and took shelter in a cousin’s three-story home near the local hospital. But at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, a series of explosions, believed to be airstrikes, rocked the building, turning the family home into a mountain of rubble that they said buried some 20 women and children.
The dead body of Hiam Musa, the sister-in-law of Associated Press photojournalist Adel Hana, was recovered from the wreckage Wednesday evening, the family said. They don’t know who else is under the rubble.
“It doesn’t make sense,” Hana said. “We went to Deir al-Balah because it’s quiet, we thought we would be safe.”
The Israeli military said it was investigating. (ok...)
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In northern areas that Israel warned to evacuate, airstrikes also hit three residential towers in al-Zahra, the Hamas-led Interior Ministry in Gaza said, as well as homes along the border with Israel. Israel has massed troops in the area and is expected to launch a ground invasion into Gaza, though military officials say no decision has been made.
The Gaza Health Ministry said 3,785 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, the majority of them women, children and older adults. Nearly 12,500 others were injured, and another 1,300 people were believed buried under the rubble, health authorities said.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, mostly civilians slain during Hamas’ deadly incursion on Oct. 7. Roughly 200 others were abducted. The Israeli military said Thursday it had notified the families of 203 captives.
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State Dept official resigns in protest of Biden Admin giving aid to Israel
A U.S. State Department official who worked on global arms transfers resigned Wednesday due to his opposition to the Biden administration's additional military aid to Israel amid the war with Hamas.
Why it matters: Josh Paul, who was director of congressional and public affairs at the department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, posted his resignation letter online in a rare act of public dissent against the Biden administration as the president prepares to ask Congress for an unprecedented military aid package for Israel following his visit to Tel Aviv Wednesday.
Paul, who had been at the State Department for 11 years, called the response of the Biden administration "an impulsive reaction built on confirmation bias" and "intellectual bankruptcy" and said he couldn't work in support of a "shortsighted, destructive, unjust" policy.
A U.S. State Department official who worked on global arms transfers resigned Wednesday due to his opposition to the Biden administration's additional military aid to Israel amid the war with Hamas.
Why it matters: Josh Paul, who was director of congressional and public affairs at the department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, posted his resignation letter online in a rare act of public dissent against the Biden administration as the president prepares to ask Congress for an unprecedented military aid package for Israel following his visit to Tel Aviv Wednesday.
Paul, who had been at the State Department for 11 years, called the response of the Biden administration "an impulsive reaction built on confirmation bias" and "intellectual bankruptcy" and said he couldn't work in support of a "shortsighted, destructive, unjust" policy.
PF5
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Tensions grow in Gaza as people compete for water and food access (BBC)
We've been getting some more detailed figures over the last 24 hours illustrating the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
With a million people having fled their homes, "frustration and tensions" are growing among the displaced competing for a "critically short supply" of water, food and medicine, says the United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA.
It says the UN’s designated shelters - most of which are school buildings - are overcrowded, with children, the elderly, the disabled and pregnant women most vulnerable.
Most of the water grid is out and fuel is unavailable to power pumping and filter systems. So the cost of drinking water is rising considerably. OCHA says the main sources are remaining bottles for sale and private sellers operating small purification plants powered by solar panels. It says bottled water is now "unaffordable for most families".
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Palestinians gather around the debris of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in Khan YounisImage caption: Palestinians gather around the debris of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis
As for healthcare, the entire system is verging on collapse, say aid agencies. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the lack of fuel means medical teams are working in darkness and have stopped using elevators, in order to preserve power for emergency wards.
The UN says Gaza City’s Shifa hospital was "overwhelmed" by the inflow of wounded patients after the blast at al-Ahli Arab hospital on Tuesday. It says doctors were forced to attempt surgery on the floor and in the halls, mostly without anaesthesia.
OCHA says nearly 100,000 housing unit are destroyed or damaged, adding that the number of decomposing bodies under collapsed buildings is "an increasing humanitarian and environmental concern".
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