Israel's Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel...

Israel’s Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the besieged Strip in the wake of the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance. His comments have drawn criticism for advocating collective punishment of Gaza’s entire civilian Palestinian population in breach of international law.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant ordered an increase in intensity of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

Gallant said that the war Israel is fighting against Hamas is “a war for our future.”

He added: “Exacting a heavy price from the enemy is a necessary condition for our existence in the region.”

Gallant makes the comments during a visit to the Israeli Air Force’s underground command centre at the Israeli occupation forces headquarters in Tel Aviv.

link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231009-israeli-minister-we-are-fighting-human-animals/

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
    255·
    1 year ago

    Every single liberation group was considered a terrorist organization. Fuck, even Antifa gets called that and they’re not even an organization.

    • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ve always wanted to find sources of the monarchy calling American revolutionaries terrorists. Maybe that language wasn’t prevalent then.

      • Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
        86·
        1 year ago

        Which children? Did Hamas target children like Israel does, or were they unfortunately caught in cross fire while they were fighting against their genociders?

          • Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
            53·
            1 year ago

            Please show me evidence where Hamas targeted civilians minding their own business, and weren’t just caught in crossfire. I doubt it.

            • JillyB@beehaw.org
              2·
              1 year ago

              The massacre at a music festival early on would suggest Hamas isn’t just a group of freedom fighters.

              • Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
                11·
                1 year ago

                Hamas did not massacre a music festival or even target it. The idiots held a dance rave at the border of a concentration camp and a war zone, and they ended up caught in cross fire. Grab any half sane person on the street and they’ll tell you this is a bad idea.

      • Bloops@lemmygrad.ml
        132·
        1 year ago

        Incorrect. Hamas, in accordance with the Quran, believes it is possible for Muslims, Jews, and Christians to live in harmony. Furthermore, in their updated charter they explicitly reject targeting Jews for simply being Jewish:

        Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

        Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        I do agree that conservative Islam is partially to blame for the violence and terror but so is conservative Judaism. The conservative jews think it’s their God given right to take the homes of the Palestinians and rule over them. Religion is fueling the fire on both sides.