There’s a witness account where an Israeli citizen from one of the kibbutzim, locked in his safe room, describes getting a phone call from an IDF helicopter operator who asks, “Are there terrorists in your home? If so, I’m blowing up the house.”
In footage published by the biggest Israeli news site Ynet (Yediot) as well as by Israeli Channel 12, you can see Israeli helicopter operators opening fire on what they estimate as “300 targets” that day, including on people fleeing from the dance party, while they admit being unable to differentiate partygoers from Palestinian militants, saying Hamas operatives were instructed “to walk, in order to confuse” the Israeli Air Force, and that they were “in a dilemma, not knowing who to shoot, because there were so many.”
“We did not agree with everything with the resolution,” [US Ambassador] Thomas-Greenfield said. “Certain key edits were ignored, including our request to add a condemnation of Hamas.”
14 out of 15 members agree: fuck off with your but do you condemn Hamas.
No, you see, its actually China that puts their country too close to US millitary advisors. They should move China away or esse they are clearly escalating
No no you don’t understand! The proper way to attempt to address an ongoing genocide is to wring your hands and give more weapons to the people doing it. Doing anything proactive is bad form you silly geese.
How many pounds has each US citizen paid for with their tax dollars, i wonder? How many people were killed? How much do you have to pay in taxes for that number to average out to >=1?
Palestinians live in refugee camps and don’t have a military or weapons industry, is this amount even necessary? This is good for Russia, because these weapons could have gone to Ukraine.
That was the goal pushed by Iran. By putting the Russian Invasion in the background, Western support diluted and those that oppose it could do it openly while Putin's army goes full steam ahead of their elections.
Iran is helping Hamas financially and perhaps in some technical aspects, and nothing is wrong with tha. But not to the point of running Hamas or having prior knowledge of their operations.
Yes there's no public conspiratorial evidence in the attacks, and probably even if there was nobody wants this to escalate it into a full blown war.
Your point that Hamas is independent is challenging because there are clear links and both economic and material support comes from the Republic. That said, AFAIK (and I know very little) I've been told that their collaboration isn't hierarchical, so if Hamas decides to go in a blaze of glory, it could have been their own choice.
That said, while running the Syrian campaign Hamas had ties to other organization e.g. here, it seems that as the group shrank, their support base concentrated in Tehran (e.g. 1, 2).
What I refer mostly is this, while we can doubt the conclusions, the implications of Hamas being invited to Moscow, Bogdanov "unwavering support" and the common presence of certain materials made me think that even if neither Iran nor Russia had anything to do with it, they still had enough clarity given the support before the whole thing blew out.
Where has the ties been proven? It is not like we are seeing Iranian generals and politicians in Gaza Strip a la with US politicians in the Israeli regime.
If you asked me, I think Iran should be doing more to help Hamas, but to suggest that they planned the attack when they too were surprised by it is absurd, and reduces the indigenous Palestinian resistance to an Iran-affiliated militia.
I think you don’t know why Palestinians fight. There’s a reason it was named Al-Aqsa Flood aljazeera.com/…/israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mo… and it isn’t the first time Hamas responds to Israel desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Blaming Iran or Russia for Hamas’ actions proves you are high on US propaganda.
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