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the death toll is now estimated to be 168000 or higher, corresponding to ~8% of the population

in 10 years everyone's going to lie to you and say they opposed this from the start, or they will treat it like an innocent mistake like they did the iraq war

edit: correction, 168000 is a forward looking estimate of how many would be expected to die even if a ceasefire was achieved today, due to disease, starvation, lack of access to medical care, etc, based on the number of reported deaths (which is obviously a huge undercount, because there is no longer an entity in gaza capable of keeping track of the death toll)
« Last Edit: July 08, 2024, 09:32:06 PM by ultimamax »


It has been a while since I've posted, as the situation in Gaza has become extremely overwhelming. Despite supposedly being in peace talks, they have increased the number of raids and bombings significantly, making it nearly impossible to keep up with the number of concurrent tragedies between Khan Yunis and Rafah, both supposed safe zones.
Only 17% of Gaza remains official safezones but with how many attacks still are occurring in the supposedly humanitarian safe areas, this means very little. Still, to begin with, Gaza was one of the most densly populated areas on Earth:
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/gaza-strip-map-density-israel-hamas-conflict/index.html
and now to reduce that area to less than 20% of its original size is utterly inhumane.

Attacks are frequently being conducted now on UN Humanitarian Aid sites such as schools that are being used to house the displaced civillians.

On July 14th Israel bombed humanitarian safe zone Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, killing 141, and injuring around 400.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyx0qdkn45eo
This was supposedly to target a senior Hamas official, but afterwards the IOF admitted the attack didn't achieve its goal, killing bystanders without achieving anything.

On July 15th Israel bombed the Abu Oraiban resulting in the death of 22 and injury of over 100 people, with children among the casualties:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1631w5n9vo
Even pos Anthony Blinken expressed concern over civillian deaths in this attack.

On July 17th Israel bombed the al-Razi school in Nuseirat, another UN run humanitarian site, killing 25
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/palestine-israeli-warplanes-target-another-unrwa-school-in-al-nuseirat-camp/vi-BB1q83Ma
and on the same day launched another attack on "safe zone" Al-Mawasi, killing 17
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/16/israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-of-palestinians-in-southern-and-central-gaza

On July 18th, Another attack on a UN-run school, this time in Zeitoun, marks the 9th school bombed in 10 days.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-strikes-unrwa-school-gaza-city
The school was being used to house displaced people, killing at least two and injuring 8.

On the same day, Ben-Gvir, a far right Israeli minister visits the Al-Aqsa mosque, an important religious site that has been the center of many tensions where the IDF prevented Muslims from entering for prayers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/18/israeli-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-visit-al-aqsa-mosque
In a move that is undoubtedly concoted to inflame reactions, he then used the site, that Muslims aren't allowed to pray at, to give his own prayers for an end to Hamas and a return of hostages. (which would already have been returned if they just agreed to the peace proposal layed out weeks ago that had already been watered down from the permanent peace that Hamas had wanted to the 6-week deal Israel had been pushing for)

On July 19th, The International Court of Justice had ruled that Israel has been illegally occupying Palestinian Lands
https://theintercept.com/2024/07/19/icj-ruling-palestine-israel-occupation-settlements/
And the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner confirmed that the february slaying of 6yo Hind Rajab and her family in a car by tank and machine gun had constituted a war crime.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/gaza-killing-hind-rajab-and-her-family-war-crime-too-many-warn-experts
Despite this, Israel showed no signs of slowing their aggression as 24 more are killed in the Nuseirat camp, and a couple dozen more are killed in other safe zones such as Khan Yunis.
https://aje.io/2wbw71?update=3058119

On July 20th, Israel continued it's attacks on neighboring countries, now for the first time on Yemen, striking an oil facility in the port of Hodeidah, killing six and injuring eighty-three
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/20/middleeast/yemen-israel-strikes-hodeidah-intl/index.html
There were also multiple attacks in Gaza leading to over two-dozen casualites cumulatively, one where a member of the press was killed
In Jabalia https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/147154
Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-refugee-camp-cease-fire-talks-grind-on/
Among others https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/20/torn-up-bodies-israel-intensifies-bombing-campaign-in-gaza

On July 21st, People are continuously shuffled and displaced as each supposed safe refugee zone is ordered to evacuate
https://www.ft.com/content/8a7a1138-ec8f-494b-99fe-d9e548fe4df8
And another attack on the Al-Mawasi refugee camp leads to 25 killed and 50 wounded
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/21/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas

On July 22nd, Tanks sent into Khan Yunis, after safe zones were again shrunken, killing 70 people who were unable to evacuate in time
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-orders-evacuation-part-gazas-khan-younis-after-renewed-rocket-fire-2024-07-22/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/middleeast/israel-gaza-war-khan-younis-humanitarian-zone-intl/index.html

On July 23rd, Ahead of Netanyahu's visit to Washington DC to speak to congress, hundreds of Jewish Protesters were arrested for during their protest in support of Palestinians and an end to US arms shipments to the apartheid state of Israel.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/hundreds-palestinian-protesters-arrested-capitol-hill-ahead-netanyahu-rcna163368
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/24/headlines/400_jewish_protesters_arrested_in_us_capitol_demanding_us_end_support_to_israel
This is while the UN is increasing monitoring of a growing Polio outbreak as Gazans are reduced to only 20% of their available land to live on, and Israel has been purposefully targeting water treatment facilities in the region
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/gaza-health-update-who-23jul24/


This brings us to yesterday, July 24th, when Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke in front of the Congress of United States
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/us/politics/netanyahu-congress.html

In the speech he attempts to justify the horrors that Israel have been committing as necessary for the security of the Israeli people. He attempted to paint the conflict as part of the US's own fight against Iran, and condemned protestors who are demanding peace and an end to the slaughter of civilians as supporters of terrorists.

A speech that was laden with misinformation...
https://abc7.com/post/fact-checking-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahus-address-congress/15094067/


A speech that was met with a standing ovation...
https://x.com/AOC/status/1816178848876355964
Except... who was that actually applauding?
Less than half of all sitting congress members from each party were actually in attendance. The photos of a crowded congressional chamber standing and cheering the justification of genocide, are appearantly paid atendees there to fill out the crowd for publicity's sake.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/24/congress/big-democratic-stars-skipping-netanyahu-speech-00170890
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/07/24/dozens-democrats-skip-netanyahu-speech-congress/74511667007/
https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1816173408918421683

If even our own representatives don't want to be associated with this continued genocide, why the forget are we pushing it so hard?

Oh I apparently never mentioned in this thread, that Netanyahu is now officially wanted as a war criminal by the ICJ, the highest court in the world,
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/22/headlines/netanyahu_heads_to_washington_to_address_congress_despite_icc_arrest_warrant_for_gaza_genocide
and yet we let him speak infront of congress.


At the risk of pissing off Soukuw, I am updating this post instead of quadruple posting

Israel has now bombed the primary water reservoir for the civillians in Rafah
https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2024/07/29/israels-blowing-up-of-drinking-water-reservoir-crime-against-humanity

This is a UN-recoginized crime against humanity.

This is also occurring simultaneously with an officially declared Polio Epidemic directly caused by the destruction of water facilities and sewage treatment facilities and further exacerbated by the population of Gaza now being allowed to live in an area now 14% of it's originally already densely populated borders.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-health-ministry-declares-polio-epidemic-blames-israel-2024-07-29/

Even the Israeli people have had enough of these ongoing atrocities. Israeli protestors, upset at the mistreatment and torture of their Palestinian neighbors who have detained by the military, have stormed a military court in Beit Lid after the results of an internal investigation of the acts of soldiers at Sde Teiman prison.
https://twitter.com/GLZRadio/status/1817979627530231945
Oh... so as more information became clear, I realize i was sadly mistaken on this. The protestors were actually far-right Israelis who were protesting the arrest and sentencing of nine officers at an IDF-run internment camp for Palestinians, after the officers were found guilty of loveually assaulting and torturing Palestinian prisoners.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-30-07-2024-87f1c99b0bb6a0eff86e659f4dc4c524

So yeah. I do have to make corrections on these posts sometimes as I get more information. I am disturbed that I had to correct this last point to something much worse.
« Last Edit: July 30, 2024, 07:59:15 PM by Ladios »

Today's news is worthy of a whole new thread at this point. (7/31, it passed midnight as I was typing this up)

Israel has assassinated a senior Hamas member as he attended the inauguration of Iran's next president. Specifically, the senior member considered to be one of the most moderate and open to dialogue. Specifically the senior member who was the head of the ongoing negotiations. The negotiations that started back in May, that have only taken so long to begin with because despite Hamas giving up many of their desired outcomes, Israel has been dragging their feet. brown townysts are saying this will potentially completely dismantle all negotiation efforts so far, and prevent them from restarting as new leadership is found within the ranks of a now especially retaliatory Hamas. It has been said before in this thead that Netanyahu will likely lose his reelection if Israel is not currently at war when the ballots are cast, and it seems entirely his goal to ratchet up the stakes against the will of practically anyone outside of his far-right extremist nationalist allies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp4wgqypwrxo
https://www.nbc.com/the-reidout/video/the-reidout-73124/9000375270
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/obituary-tough-talking-haniyeh-was-seen-more-moderate-face-hamas-2024-07-31/

This attack, as I mentioned, was while Haniyeh was attending the inaguration of Iran's newest president, Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart-surgeon turned politician, with a history of protestagainst the Iranian governemnt, who campaigned on the platform that he wanted to open up dialogue with the west, and help end hostilities between Iran and the US.
Now, with an attack on Iranian soil, killing an important diplomatic guest, Israel has challenged Iran's military and despite Masoud's intention to keep the peace, he is going to be forced to retaliate to this direct attack on their soil.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-haniyeh-iran-tensions-08-01-24-intl-hnk/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-iran-hamas-hezbollah-haniyeh-262194a2d70273207ed1d1a5cb9ab09b
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/middleeast/brown townysis-iran-options-ismail-haniyeh-killing-intl/index.html

This is the exact sort of thing that the US has warned Israel not to do, and with the US pledge to come to Israel's aid in the event of a direct assault from Iran, Netanyahu has single-handedly committed American Troops to a ground war in the region.



Oh, and another thing the US told Israel not to do? Attack the Lebanese capitol of Beirut.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dont-bomb-beirut-us-leads-push-rein-israels-response-2024-07-29/
That article was from two days ago. We have explicitly warned them that doing so would start an all-out war in the region.

So guess what Netanyahu did?
If you guessed, bomb Beirut? You would be right
This strike has killed a top commander of Hezbollah, in retaliation for a missile hitting a football field in Israel, which Hezbollah did not take credit for.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-strike-beirut-52c2a1711e274859b60daf8d2db3e0e2

It should be noted that the militant group which operates out of Lebanon is always quick to take credit for the successful strikes they make, and in the past they specifically target military installations, attempting to keep civilian casualties to a minimum. The neighborhood that was specifically attacked was one with communities that had the group had been reaching out to due to their ethnic connections with Lebanon and Syria before the state of Israel took over the territory.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/07/golan-strike-israel-and-hezbollah-war/679285/
There is much confusion over how the rocket attack acutally occured, and signs point to it having been an accident.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-golan-heights-soccer-rocket-hezbollah-explained-97d4377713a209cf130b7b0f3476e1c4
And there is speculation that a failure of the Iron Dome missile system had caused one of Israel's own missiles to misfire and strike the football field.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/did-an-israeli-iron-dome-missile-cause-the-majdal-shams-mass

We may never know, however, because beyond the Israel's claim that the missile were of a make used by Hezbollah, by the time news crews arrived, all of the debris from the missile itself had been taken away, and no image has been released that would confirm the origin of the missile.

But whatever the origin of the missile that killed the 12 civilians, Israel has acted against the US's warnings and struck a busy neighborhood in the capitol city of Lebanon in retaliation, killing a leader of Hezbollah and five civilians (two children and three woman)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/30/idf-targets-beirut-suburb-in-retaliation-for-attack-that-killed-12-in-the-golan-heights.html?&qsearchterm=beirut
https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-strike-beirut-52c2a1711e274859b60daf8d2db3e0e2

And, in what seems to be the final death knell of any attempt at peace, Netanyahu has basically stuck out his tongue at Lebanon and Iran saying that if they try to respond in any way to these attacks, Israel will respond with force.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/netanyahu-says-israel-will-exact-heavy-price-attacks-response-strikes-rcna164579

The US is now scrambling to patch up a dam that is diplomatic relations in the region while Netanyahu is effectively striking that same dam with a battering ram.
https://www.ft.com/content/5c01ccb9-968f-44a3-8b79-c6b5acc1c679



Oh also, Two more clearly marked members of the Press were killed in Gaza, bringing the total of journalists killed since october to 113. Just a reminder, it is an internationally recognized warcrime to kill a member of the press.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/world/middleeast/al-jazeera-journalists-killed-airstrike-gaza.html

(and not one loving Al Jazeera link in this whole post)



Edit: Update 8/3/24
This is the exact sort of thing that the US has warned Israel not to do, and with the US pledge to come to Israel's aid in the event of a direct assault from Iran, Netanyahu has single-handedly committed American Troops to a ground war in the region.


The US has now deployed 4000 Marines to Israel in advance of Iran's counterattack.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-sends-fighter-jets-ships-middle-east-ahead/story?id=112526711
https://news.az/news/us-deploys-12-warships-to-middle-east

As the kids today might say:
We are so loving cooked.
« Last Edit: August 04, 2024, 12:28:51 AM by Ladios »

I have had a difficult time keeping up with these updates since July, as there is so much happening every day at this point. Also, I have the general sense that no one here really cares all that much so I am kinda just talking into the void but now there's two days in a row of coordinated attacks by Israel in it's neighboring country of Lebanon, where they targeted and blew up electronic devices.
Pagers on this Tuesday, killing 9 and injuring thousands of civilians leading to overwhelmed hospitals
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-hezbollah-israel-exploding-pagers-8893a09816410959b6fe94aec124461b
and now radios* on Wednesday, leading to more deaths including those currently attending funerals for the previous day's attacks.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/

(*Sorry for the misinformation here. It wasn't only radios but phones, laptops, and other electronic devices were also turned into improvised explosives. I should have done more research before I posted.
https://itc.ua/en/news/not-just-pagers-iphones-laptops-electronic-locks-and-other-devices-exploded-in-lebanon-today/
)

A clear breach of international law and the Geneva convention:
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/exploding-pagers-law/
(particularly the addendum on booby-trapped objects made to look like every-day devices that even Israel had signed, and the clause on preventative measures to limit civilian casualties, which Israel hadn't ever signed anyways so who cares, right?).
I will try my best to summarize the last month and half in a short page.



Week of 8/4-8/10
Israel bombed more schools killing 80 in Al-Tabaeen, 30 in Gaza City,
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/10/nx-s1-5070489/israeli-airstrike-gaza-school
9 members of UNRWA were found to have been involved in the October 7th Hamas Attack and were fired from the aid organization
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152841
The EU calls for Israel to stop destroying infrastructure such as water treatment plants in Gaza (which Israel ignores)
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/gazastatement-high-representative-destruction-critical-civilian-infrastructure-and-worsening_en
Yemeni rebel group, Houthis takes down 2 US drones
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-rebels-american-mq9-reaper-drones-2ca2dc1c5316ca5473c3843d97780b2b
And a rocket attack at US base in Iraq injures 7
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/politics/personnel-injured-iraq-al-asad-airbase/index.html
Israel launches a major offensive into Khan Younis (a previously designated safe zone)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/families-flee-new-israeli-assault-gazas-khan-younis-2024-08-09/
UN is called to investigate the rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/08/israels-escalating-use-torture-against-palestinians-custody-preventable
A temporary 3 Day ceasefire was agreed to after the largest string of casualties so far in the war
https://www.voanews.com/a/fragile-gaza-truce-between-israel-and-islamic-jihad-holds-/6691465.html
It lasted 3 minutes
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/08/08/Israel-says-striking-Gaza-militants-after-start-of-ceasefire-
Israel launches more airstrikes into Lebanon
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strike-kills-senior-hamas-figure-south-lebanon-2024-08-09/
Future President Kamala Harris says ceasefire is necessary after protestors appear at rally on the day that an airstrike at a UN School kills 100 sheltering civilians
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-urges-hostage-deal-ceasefire-053744610.html


Week of 8/11-8/17
Hamas agrees to ceasefire deal laid out by the United States, with the support of Egypt and Qatar. Netanyahu still refuses to agree to it (even after Hamas dropped several of their key demands including the ceasefire being permanent)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/11/middleeast/hamas-sinwar-ceasefire-netanyahu-intl/index.html
Western leaders have asked Iran to hold off on their retaliatory strike in response to the Israeli bombing during the inauguration of Iran's new president. Iran has said they will not retaliate if a ceasefire is reached.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/only-gaza-ceasefire-can-delay-irans-israel-response-sources-say-2024-08-13/
As of today, September 19th, Iran has not yet launched the major offensive it has planned, and is waiting to see how the ceasefire deals play out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/world/middleeast/iran-israel-retaliation-attack-explained.html
More evacuation orders were announced for the Gaza city of Khan Younis
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/11/world/israel-iran-hamas-gaza-war
Ceasefire and hostage deal talks resume in Doha, Qatar
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw32jj4973o
At this point, at least 40,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240815-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-qatar-set-to-host-high-stakes-gaza-ceasefire-talks
Israel enters these talks with a new demand, that they keep control of all the territory through Gaza's southern border
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/14/g-s1-16958/gaza-ceasefire-talks-israel-hamas
Polio, a highly infectious virus spreads in Gaza due to the breakdown of all medical services, and supplies of clean water
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/16/gaza-sees-first-polio-case-in-25-years-as-un-calls-for-mass-vaccinations
Netanyahu continues to prevent his negotiators from agreeing to the ceasefire deal
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/19/netanyahu-ceasefire-hostage-deal-demands


Week of 8/18-8/24
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrives in Israel and claims that it is Hamas who is holding up the ceasefire deal
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/blinken-says-netanyahu-supports-gaza-ceasefire-bridging-proposal-2024-08-19/
Hamas leader counters that they have already agreed to several of the US-endorsed ceasefire deals, but Israel keeps adding new demands and moving the goalpost
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/senior-hamas-official-criticizes-blinkens-gaza-proposal-claim-2024-08-19/
Israeli tanks enter the Deir el-Balah region forcing more evacuations
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tanks-push-deeper-into-gaza-biden-urges-peace-2024-08-22/
Israel launches more attacks on Lebanese soil
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-815681
At the Democratic National Convention, parents of Israeli hostage in Gaza give emotional speech asking for an end to ceasefire and emphasizing that we must listen to the voices of those effected by the ongoing conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/hamas-hostages-dnc-democratic-convention-8beec50f25edfef0c2430655291254df
The DNC apparently doesn't seem to think this includes families of the Palestinians experiencing genocide.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/22/dnc-palestinian-american-speech-denied
The continued war is proving detrimental to Israel's economy
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68884729


Week of 8/25-8/31
Hamas rejects new demands added by Israel, but has said it would agree to the previous plan suggested by the United States
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-says-it-rejects-new-israeli-conditions-gaza-ceasefire-talks-2024-08-25/
Israel and Hezbollah have a major exchange of fire pulling Lebanon further into the current conflict
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/25/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-attack
The UN is forced to halt aid operations as further evacuation orders are announced by Israel
https://dailyprogress.com/news/nation-world/un-aid-operations-paused-amid-evacuation-orders/video_0dfbc2a7-8718-59ef-8816-bb98250c94a8.html
Israel abducts and tortures Palestinian doctors and healthcare workers
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/26/israel-palestinian-healthcare-workers-tortured

Israel launches major ground offensive into the West Bank
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-idf-west-bank-operation-palestinians-killed/

Note this is not Gaza where most of the war has been occurring so far, which means I have to update the title to "the war on Palestine" rather than just Gaza.
Well I would, but as I have posted this, as mentioned before, with the two electronic warfare based mass casualty events in Lebanon, this is now officially a war on not just Palestine but Lebanon as well, but we are getting ahead of ourselves here. Back to the week of 8/25:


Large scale missile attacks are conducted against the west bank. Israeli foreign minister says the plan is to conduct a Gaza-style operation in this occupied territory as well.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/28/middleeast/israel-operation-west-bank-intl-hnk/index.html
World Food Programme is forced to suspend activities after being the frequent target of Israeli attacks
https://www.wfp.org/news/wfp-temporarily-suspend-staff-movement-across-gaza-following-security-incident-targeted-wfp


That's it for august.
It should be emphasized that with now numerous attacks occurring against civilians and refugee camps daily, I have stopped including them in these updates. On every single day you look up in august, however, you can find a home, school, hospital, or United Nations-run refugee center that has been the target of an Israeli airstrike or ground assault.

I am going to have to post whats been happening in September in a second post below, maybe later today. I need a bit of a break to process all of this again.

I will end, however with this:
On the 2nd of September, in an extremely rare criticism of Netanyahu, President Joe Biden, a staunch Zionist, criticized the Israeli Prime Minister for consistently and intentionally loving up these ceasefire deals
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-netanyahu-secure-hostage-deal-amid-protests-israel/story?id=113322446

If you can get even Genocide Joe to say, look man enough is enough, how loving off base are you?
« Last Edit: September 20, 2024, 03:22:38 PM by Ladios »

« Last Edit: September 19, 2024, 07:21:45 PM by Goth77 »

Things are really deteriorating faster than I can keep up with, let alone post about, so TLDR:
US sending 40,000 more troops as US citizens are encouraged to evacuate Lebanon due to continual bombardments of Israeli airstrikes,
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-send-troops-ready-help-evacuate-us-citizens-lebanon-rcna172367
Killing 550+ Lebanese civillians in airstrikes which in one day is more than double the total casualties from the last several month long invasion Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/lebanon-civilian-death-toll-israel.html
as Israel preparing a ground invasion of their neighbor country, Lebanon,
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe8nkj9wyo
and has been conducting strikes now in Syria as well
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrian-air-defences-confront-aggression-central-region-2024-09-08/

But for more specifics, So far in September:

Week of Sep 1st - 7th

Israel recovered the bodies of 6 hostages, including one American-Israeli
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israeli-bodies-found-in-gaza-rcna169125
Protestors in Tel Aviv, Israel, Demand Netanyahu end the war and accept the hostage deal to bring the remaining hostages home safely. Bibi, of course, refuses to cave in to these demands.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/02/middleeast/israel-general-strike-hostage-deal-intl-hnk/index.html
Raids on the city of Jenin in the West Bank increase in intensity leading to even more deaths at the hands of Israeli soldiers
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-jenin-hamas-militants-c1618cc024d8a5269486e266593b5434
US Pushes yet another new Ceasefire Proposal
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-negotiators-racing-present-new-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-sources-say-2024-09-04/
Netanyahu refuses pull out of the area bordering Rafah and Egypt where Gazans have been trying to flee the ongoing genocide
https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-philadelphi-corridor-gaza.html

Sidebar into the stuffshow of American Politics
Donald Annoying Orange claims that Israel will cease to exist if Jewish Americans don't vote for him,
https://www.timesofisrael.com/vote-for-me-or-israel-will-be-annihilated-Annoying Orange-says-in-pitch-to-republican-jews/
And has said that if Republicans lose the election because the Jewish population of Philidelphia doesn't vote for him, it will be their fault.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23859/Annoying Orange-jewish-voters-israel-election-2024
Which is an extremely dangerous dogwhistle to use when most of your supporters think Neo-national socialists are perfectly fine people as it is.
Also, this brings me to
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Get the forget out of my thread with your anti-semetic bait.

This thread is criticizing the acts of a xenophobic colonialist far-right government. Posts like that attempt to shift the discussion towards the very bullstuff that causes people to equate anti-zionism with anti-semitism.

Anyways,


Week of Sep 8th-14th

Protests continue in Tel Aviv, with the Israeli Security Cabinet meeting to discuss whether to accept the most recent deal to release the hostages.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/security-cabinet-meets-in-tel-aviv-as-anti-government-activists-protest-outside-idf-headquarters/
Israeli Airstrike on area that the Israeli Military designated as a safe zone that they would not bomb in Al-Mawasi, kills at least 19
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/middleeast/gaza-khan-younis-israel-strike-intl-latam/index.html
Turkish-American, Aysenur Eygi, was shot in the head by the IOF during a protest. Israeli forces first tried to claim that this was while they were being assaulted by the protestors but video evidence confirms that they fired into a crowd that was peaceful at the time and Aysenur had been walking away from the soldiers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/
US Presidential Debates happened. Annoying Orange said he would help Israel wipe out Palestine. Kamala said that she "is working non-stop for a ceasefire", but will not stop sending Israel military support which most people agree would be the only way at this point we could actually pressure Israel to stop their genocide.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/gaza-debate-kamala-Annoying Orange-israel-palestine/
Israel bombs another school that had been converted into a refugee shelter, killing civillians and United Nations Aid Workers
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/12/headlines/israel_strikes_gazas_al_jaouni_school_for_5th_time_kills_18_palestinians_incl_6_unrwa_staffers
By 9/13, the WHO has managed to vaccinate half a million children against Polio in Gaza
https://www.who.int/news/item/13-09-2024-around-560-000-children-vaccinated-in-first-round-of-polio-campaign-in-gaza
The UAE says that it will only support a post-war plan that involves an independent Palestinian State
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/09/14/uae-says-not-prepared-to-support-plan-for-post-war-gaza-without-palestinian-state



Week of Sep 15-21

Yemeni militant forces, Houthis, manage to launch a missile that gets through the Iron Dome, starts a brush fire but no casualties.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/missile-fired-yemen-set-off-sirens-central-israel-military-says-2024-09-15/
Israel confirms that 3 Israeli hostages found dead in December were killed by Israeli airstrike
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/3-hostages-likely-mistakenly-killed-idf-airstrike-rcna171197
Airstrike on residential building in Nuseirat Refugee Camp kills 16
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-houthis-netanyahu-gallant
"Unauthorized Leaflets" were dropped by Israeli Forces over Lebanon, encouraging the citizens to evacuate. (This is a known form of psychological warfare with an intent to destabilize a region in advance of an invasion, which as mentioned above in the summary, has since been confirmed is imminent)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-investigating-unauthorised-leaflets-ordering-lebanon-evacuation-2024-09-15/

Israeli causes a mass-casualty event in Lebanon with the simultaneous detonation of pagers, radios, walkie talkies, fingerprint devices, laptop and phone chargers, tablets, and other electronics,
https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-hand-manufacturing-pagers-exploded-lebanon-source/story?id=113851347
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah-syria-ce6af3c2e6de0a0dddfae48634278288
This is a clear war crime (as explained in the previous post) and a pre-meditated one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taiwan-firm-denies-making-pagers-used-lebanon-explosions-rcna171594
These devices have been in circulation since 2020, meaning that this attack was prepared for Four Years Ago, before this current conflict in Gaza had even been started.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/21/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-exploding-pagers/
A combined 42 people were killed and 3500 injured by these terrorist attacks conducted by Israel.

The UN General Assembly demands Israel end its occupation of Palestinian territories with a vote of 124 to 14, with 43 abstentions.
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12626.doc.htm
Hezbollah leader calls the pager attack an act of war in a televised speech while Israeli fighterjets buzzed the city with non-stop sonic booms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/19/israel-lebanon-attack-explosions-hezbollah/
Citizens in Lebanon try to make light of the continuous and stressful sonic booms with website to rate the quality of the sonic booms on a scale of 1-10
https://jidarsot.com/
Israel announces it is entering a "new phase of war" after it's pager attacks, and begins further bombing of Lebanese cities.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/walkie-talkie-blasts-lebanon-japan-icom-israel-new-phase-war-hezbollah-rcna171773
Israel launches airstrike on Lebanese capitol of Beirut, killing a militant commander
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hezbollah-rocket-attack-mideast-tensions-a6a95169a21b45dc86d86182e255fa7e
The US has basically determined it is unlikely to be able to achieve a ceasefire deal that Israel and Hamas will agree to
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-ceasefire-deal-unlikely-bidens-term-wsj-reports-2024-09-19/
Israel conducts more attacks on Beirut suburbs in Lebanon, killing at least 38
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-lebanon-attacks-09-21-24/index.html
Israeli soldiers are recorded pushing tied and bound men off of rooftops
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-soldiers-push-bodies-off-roof-west-bank-raid-qabatiya/



This Week so far, Sep 22-26

Israeli forces shut down Al Jazeera offices in West Bank, prompting outcry from Federation of International Journalists
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rd5z17px4o
Extensive strikes in Lebanon kill over 500 in one day of massive airstrikes
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/24/middleeast/israel-strikes-lebanon-hezbollah-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html
Israel hacks Lebanese telecomunications networks
https://www.wired.com/story/amid-air-strikes-and-rockets-an-sms-from-the-enemy/
90,000 Lebanese are displaced as Israel continues bombardment of its norther neighbor and prepares for its ground invasion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hezbollah-live-updates-lebanon-gaza-war-rcna172605
So far this week over 700 have been killed in Lebanon
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hezbollah-hamas-latest-mideast-26-september-2024-5b9819b5d3bd7b1c3da9268affb82b31
The US and France, seeking to avoid a larger war throughout the whole of the middle east, try to hold a 21-day ceasefire before things escalate too quickly
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/lebanon-temporary-ceasefire-plan-hezbollah-israel

Also, Netanyahu gives a bizzare speech supposedly to the people of Lebanon:
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/netanyahu-tells-lebanon-citizens-to-get-out-of-harm-s-way-amid-hezbollah-clashes-219953221601
Where he claims that Israel's war isn't with the Lebanese people, but with insurgents who have hidden bombs pointed at Israel in civilian's homes and garages, and that Israel has the right to bomb the citizens homes in self-defense. This speech justifying Israels aggression, supposedly directed at the Arabic-speaking Lebanese people, was given in English with only English captions, which is the language that most Americans speak...

And as of two hours prior to this write-up:
Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the proposal for a ceasefire with Lebanon and launches more airstrikes against the capital city of Beirut.
This is while the Israeli Prime Minister is currently in New York City to address the United Nations General Assembly
https://abc7ny.com/post/benjamin-netanyahu-un-speech-protest-general-assembly-israel-hamas-lebanon/15358326/



Update as of morning of 9/27
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently giving a speech at the United Nations in New York


Many delegates including those from Turkey walk out in protest.
He declares that Israel will continue its war until "total victory".
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Just imagine if terrorists turned El Paso and San Diego into ghost towns. How long would the American government tolerate that? Yet Israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for almost a year. Well, I've come here today to say: Enough is enough.
As Rafah, (which I will remind our readers was the supposed safe zone designated by Israel for evacuees of Gaza) has been shelled and obliterated to the state where it has been called a "Ghost Town" itself.

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Our enemies seek not only to destroy us, they seek to destroy our common civilisation and return all of us to a dark age of tyranny and terror.
These claims are made as the confirmed death toll in Gaza exceeds 41,000 and 700 in Lebanon.

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The Israeli leader says singling out his country is "a moral stain on the United Nations", making the institution "a swamp of anti-Semitism".

"I say to you, until Israel - until the Jewish state - is treated like other nations, until this anti-Semitic swamp is drained, the UN will be viewed by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous farce," he said.

He also spoke about the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court, a UN body, against him and Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, linking the measure to anti-Semitism.


Related but unrelated:
In the face of the peaceful student protests against the ongoing Genocide in Gaza, the University of California schools have been approved more military weapons in order to combat the threat that is non-violent student encampments in solidarity with a non-white country. Great look UC.

« Last Edit: September 27, 2024, 11:00:20 AM by Ladios »

Get the forget out of my thread with your anti-semetic bait.

This thread is criticizing the acts of a xenophobic colonialist far-right government. Posts like that attempt to shift the discussion towards the very bullstuff that causes people to equate anti-zionism with anti-semitism

It's not anti-semetic bait or whatever u wanna call it, it's just a video showing you how they feel. They think it's okay to put someone to death for their religious beliefs. If you agree with that, there is something wrong.

It's not anti-semetic bait or whatever u wanna call it, it's just a video showing you how they feel. They think it's okay to put someone to death for their religious beliefs. If you agree with that, there is something wrong.
Who is they? The post doesn't say Zionist boy.  The post doesnt say Israeli Nationalist boy. The post says Jewish boy. The person in question speaks as if he speaking on behalf of Judaism. Which he does not. There are so many Jewish folks against the ongoing genocide that this child does not speak on behalf of. What was the purpose of your post other than to say "look what Jewish people think about us"? It was anti-Semitic bait.

Who is they? The post doesn't say Zionist boy.  The post doesnt say Israeli Nationalist boy. The post says Jewish boy. The person in question speaks as if he speaking on behalf of Judaism. Which he does not. There are so many Jewish folks against the ongoing genocide that this child does not speak on behalf of. What was the purpose of your post other than to say "look what Jewish people think about us"? It was anti-Semitic bait.
by 'they' I'm referring to the group of boys in said video. They identify as jewish, though as far as I can tell they are zionist extremist since they are calling for death of anyone who doesn't believe their religion (sounds quite extreme, doesn't it?) It's important to note I'm not the person who uploaded that video, so I have no control over what they choose to title it. I don't care what religion they identify as, calling for the death of people who do not believe in your religion is wrong, plain and simple.

calling for the death of people who do not believe in your religion is wrong, plain and simple.
That is clearly not the point I am arguing about. You can try to divert the conversation all you want, but the crux of the matter is the way this specific video you specifically chose to use was presented.

They identify as jewish, though as far as I can tell they are zionist extremist
Then why didn't you choose a video that talked specifically about Zionist extremists?

It's important to note I'm not the person who uploaded that video, so I have no control over what they choose to title it.
You do have control, however, over not posting something that is clearly presented to be representative of an entire culture/ethnicity's point of view.
You very well could have posted an article talking about Zionist hostilities against Christians or something else of the sort. This was the video you posted, instead.
Why did you feel the need to post that video? How does it contribute to the discussion about the ongoing actions of the Israeli state military?

I don't normally go out of my way to look up these sort of videos, it just happened to pop up in the bitchute feed. When I saw it, it reminded me of zionist extremeism, which reminded me of this thread, so I posted the link here.

I could gladly look up some other videos talking about the particular subject if you'd like - I believe I posted one in the past talking about how Israel is a tribal and supremacist state. I'm not trying to argue with you, I think any form of extremeism, especially those which hurts innocent people, is bad.


Ok, well please try to be more aware of the specific language used in things you repost. That kind of thing did not add to the specific point of this thread which is to summarize the military and political actions of the nation-states involved in this conflict. All it was was something saying "look at this Jewish person saying how much they hate Christians." I am having trouble believing you cannot tell the difference.

But this is distracting from current events, and the ongoing escalations made by the right-wing governments.


Israeli airstrikes have leveled six apartment buildings in a residential area of Beirut in an attempt to strike a Hezbollah leader.
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-airstrikes-suburb-617575d9c5d7c711bc02e7b81d2ba4ad
The attack killed at least 6 people and injured 91. There were several other bombing runs also conducted by Israel over these past two nights.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hezbollah-live-updates-health-workers-killed-lebanon-rcna172975
This strike occured shortly after Netanyahu gave his speech at the UN and told Biden that he would be rejecting the ceasefire proposal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-bombing-continues-netanyahu-addresses-un-ceasefire/
Biden has since told his own allies that we cannot expect Netanyahu to pull out of Lebanon.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/27/israel-targeted-hezbollah-nasrallah-beirut-bombing-00181439
At this point Israel has bombed over 1,600 targets in Lebanon.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/27/israel-lebanon-gaza-war-biden
The US has previously advised American Citizens to leave Lebanon but as of yet has not provided a government sponsored evacuation plan like the did for US citizens in Israel at the start of this round of conflicts in October '23
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4896896-evacuation-lebanon-us-embassy/
https://x.com/Rrrrnessa/status/1839778361956061504


Update 9/28
Less than 9 days after giving his speech to the people of Lebanon, Hezbollah Leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-airstrikes-28-september-2024-c4751957433ff944c4eb06027885a973
Since the US had been trying to negotiate a ceasefire with Nasrallah, this has undermined any upcoming chances at a peace deal between the Lebanese militants and Israeli government.
After the death of the leader of Hezbollah, the supposed reason for all of these airstrikes to begin with, Israel has since stepped up its attacks on Beirut.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-hamas

Apparently the whole reason Netanyahu even visited the UN to give his speech complete with weird cartoon graphics of the status of the war, was to serve as a distraction and make Nasrallah believe he would be safe from attack during the week that the Israeli PM was abroad.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pms-trip-to-ny-part-of-diversion-so-nasrallah-would-think-he-was-safe-report/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/27/israel-hezbollah-war-lebanon-latest-news13/
« Last Edit: September 28, 2024, 10:42:38 PM by Ladios »

Breaking:
stuff is hitting the fan.
Israel has now launched a ground invasion of Lebanon
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-lebanon-war-hezbollah-09-30-24-intl-hnk/index.html
In response, Iran has launched a missile strike against Israel.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-iran-us-warns-ballistic-missile-attack-amid-idf-ground-operations-lebanon-hezbollah/
A second wave of Iranian missiles was just launched.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/01/israel-lebanon-attacks-live-blog-ground-offensive-hezbollah-hamas-gaza-war

Earlier yesterday 9/30
Netanyahu warns Iran that nowhere in the middle east is out of reach of Israel's attacks, and that Iran will be subject to a new regime change soon, which some have interpreted as a declaration of war.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-netanyahu-tells-iranians-regime-change-will-happen-sooner-people-think
Just a reminder that Iran's newest elected president ran as an anti-establishment candidate with the goal of restoring peaceful interactions with the US and its allies, and Israel assassinated the Hamas leader in charge of negotiating the peace deal, in Iran, during the inauguration of Masoud Pezeshkian who ran on a platform of normalizing relations and easing tensions.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2024, 01:47:27 PM by Ladios »