Israeli strikes flatten buildings, mosques in Gaza
Israeli strikes flatten buildings, mosques in Gaza
Death toll rises to 313 in Gaza, with close to 2,000 wounded, as tensions continue to escalate on the second day.
At least 313 Palestinians have been killed as Israel struck 426 targets in Gaza, its military said, flattening residential buildings in giant explosions.
Among those killed in Gaza were 20 children. About 2,000 others are wounded, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said more than 20,000 Palestinians left Gaza’s border region to head further inside the territory and take refuge in UN schools.
Nebal Farsakh, the spokesperson of the NGO Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC), told Al Jazeera that their medical teams were facing “great challenges” in Gaza, adding that they had called on the international humanitarian community to open humanitarian corridors so that NGOs like them could safely carry out their work of helping people in the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday night, Energy Minister Israel Katz said Israel would halt the electricity supply to the besieged territory. The Palestinian enclave – home to some two million people – has been under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade.
Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed said humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip were in “constant deterioration”.
What used to be 120 megawatts of electricity has now decreased to only 20MW, provided by power plants that are paid for by the Palestinian Authority, ElSayed said.
Meanwhile, healthcare institutions had to rely on spare generators to continue operating through the night due to Israel’s decision to halt the electricity supply while residents were left to endure the darkness with the unsettling backdrop of explosions not far away.
Israeli strikes flatten buildings, mosques in Gaza
Nothing new, Israel has been doing that for decades now.
66So Israel responded to terrorism with terrorism.
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46Israel has been nothing but terror for decades
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At the end it is all politics and state media propaganda on both sides.
Both sides feel morally right and as a result more damage is done and more civilian population is killed. And it is the regular people who suffer the most.
I am just afraid that there would be a prolonged offensive from Israel deepening the humanitarian crisis and there would be a lot of pain inflicted on regular people. This won't really help de-escalation of the tension in the region, and perhaps would strengthen the resolve.
9Well well if this is not the consequence of their own actions.
-20I don't know if you can call it a consequence considering Israel would have done something like this on your average monday anyway.
There isn't a good guy here to cheer for. Both sides act out atrocities like unthinking pre-schoolers in a fistfight hitting harder and harder, except there isn't an adult in sight with the ability to safely break it up.
Both sides consider the other so evil, neither is able to consider any part of the other as undeserving of death.
22And both combatant leaderships want the fight. It's good for them. Hamas's purpose for existence is killing Israelis and having Israelis kill innocent Palestinians. Bibi's government is rushing authoritarianism so his corruption doesn't bring him down. A good external threat and some holy fire rained on the enemies of Israel is great for him politically. The people making the decisions don't give a shit about the people who die.
4Have you ever actually read a bit of history on that region beyond the comments on reddit? Like the 3 days war, the Yom kippur war, the peace talks? Seriously? Palestine has had so many opportunities to form their own country. But won't even start if it requires accepting Israel as an independent state as well.
Israelis have certainly become more cruel and jaded as the years have gone on. But this isn't two kids on a playground. This is a stable adult trying to barter with a belligerent drunk cousin who says if he can't inherit everything then he'll just burn it all to the ground and take the ashes.
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Professional illegal occupies vs poorly organised freedom fighters.
Having said that, attacking helpless civilians and children is cowardly and cannot be considered acceptable no matter what the political situation.
1Sounds like it was a bad move on the poorly organized side since they seem to be in severe disadvantage.
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The Palestinians probably shouldn't have started a war and then let combatants hide behind civilians.
-30Palestinians didn’t start this war. Not even close. Saying this shows a pretty clear ignorance of the history of Israel and Palestine.
16Western media is full of it. Check a news aggregate and put US as your country and you'll see news media orgs across the map today talking about the evils of hammas and how the poor isrealutes were attacked. Conservative and liberal news alike sticking their noses so far up Israel's grundle without shame or remorse.
8hamas is an arm of Iran. the Palestinians getting killer don't deserve this. it's a proxy war by a terrorist state using militants against a people's who of course are going to fucking retailiate
7They're talking about the current round, not the whole thing
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