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Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office

news.un.org Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office

Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.

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As a wise man once said, if you wonder what you would've done during the Holocaust, you're doing it now.

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- wut
  
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  "Nothing" The answer is nothing
  
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  In elementary school, when the teacher is teaching what the Holocaust was, someone usually raises their hand and asks "Why didn't anyone do anything?", hence "What would you do during the Holocaust?". There's something equivalent to the Holocaust happening in Gaza, and yet most people aren't stopping it.
  
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It's sick that the US voted to give the Zionist regime billions on the same day that mass graves of people executed by Israeli soldiers are being uncovered.

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- We can still prevent that money from being released with the Leahy Law.
  
  But we won't.
  
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- And Blinken shamelessly calls China the muslim genociders.
  
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  Blinken has been giving me Kissinger vibes with how much he's been supporting Israel's genocide.
  
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- yeah I can't really blame any foreign actor who blows up a bunch of Americans over this.
  
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They have become the very same people that once herded them into ghettos.

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- And herded them into camps to be starved and killed for no reason other than being who they are. Took less than a century to become who they hated the most.
  
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This will be the news that causes the USA to finally tell Israel to stop, I’m sure.

Israel is a pack of lunatics.

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- A pack or war criminals.
  
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- After they just passed a bill to give them more money? I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not but I certainly hope so.
  
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- My feeling is the US feels they are too committed now to stop and just hope that Israel will stop by itself soon.
  
  I'm not saying I like it, but it definitely feels like that...
  
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That's some proper Nazi shit from the "most moral army in the World".

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- "most moral army in the world" is a bit like the dryest lake.
  
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- literally all they do. the butcher's star means the same thing as the swastika at this point, and the Jewish people should probably take an example from the Navajo.
  
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Western values on full display here with pretty much every western regime openly backing this genocide.

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- Peak "RuLeS-bAsEd WoRlD oRdEr" moment out of the crackerverse
  
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- Don't forget India
  
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Possible war crimes?? Israel hit war crime bingo in the first month and has been trying to get a full card since!

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- also, they're playing on like ten cards, and won't be going home (also stolen, free space!) until they win on every single fucking one.
  
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ThE mOsT mOrAl ArMy In ThE WoRlD

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- to be fair, they do atrocities at such a rate, it requires some grasp of morality to so constantly defile it.
  
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Israel is basically Isis

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- Nah America hates Isis
  
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  ISIS fights against all America's enemies. Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya....
  
  Thankfully israel funds ISIS by buying their oil. And ISIS decided to attack Iran, Syria and now even Russia! Very convenient people!
  
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  The rest of America might hate Isis, but the USA is Isis' primary employer.
  
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  They used to. Now they don't.
  
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  If you really, actually follow the money, you'll find Amerika is bankrolling ISIS. Do you really think Israel's spending their own money buying IS oil? Or could it be the millions upon billions Amerika pumps them with to do Empire's genocidal bidding?
  
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- no, they haven't tried to end the world this month, have literally any discipline, and don't commit the sheer breadth of war crimes; they just do the same handful a bunch, and I'm not even sure they win on frequency.
  
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They’re taking tips from Russia

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- And the Nazis.
  
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  They're being a bunch of jerks.
  
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- And weapons form the US and cheers from Germany to do it.
  
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- Less civilians died over two years in Ukraine than in a month in Gaza. The west is showing the world what real atrocities look like here.
  
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For real what is it with them, where are they even trying to go with this?

Edit: I mean the Israel army. What is their end goal?

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- Isn't it obvious? Genocide. They want to be the next US, Australia, or Canada. Kill all the natives, or enough to make them not a threat anymore, and take all the land for themselves. Only difference we're supposed to know not to do that anymore.
  
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  You'll notice that the report doesn't estimate whether they died before or after Israel's incursion.
  
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- The extinction of the Gazan population and total annexation. That was the long plan anyhow.
  
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- do you seriously still have to ask?
  
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- Total victory!
  
  /s
  
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- I think it's mostly vengeance rage, they think the Hamas attack on civilians allow them to use any means to find the Hamas soldiers, including killing civilians. While some extremist parties may covertly push for actual genocide, I don't think that's what the military tries to do in general.
  
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  I see where people might think that if you're just looking at the immediate context from the October 7th attacks, but I urge you to look into the conditions Palestinian people had been living under for decades, especially in Gaza. Rather than vengeance, when you look into the history, the October 7th attacks feel more like an excuse to go full throttle into carrying out what the Israeli government and hardcore Zionists already been trying to do for a while now.
  
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  The political establishment in Israel does not recognize Palestine, their goal has long been the eradication of the Palestinian nation.
  
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  I understand it's easy to blame Hamas and the Palestinian resistance for Israel's disproportionate and genocidal response, but the second Nakba was long coming.
  
  [June, 2022] How threats of a second Nakba went mainstream https://www.972mag.com/second-nakba-mainstream-israeli-right/
  
  [May, 2023] Why Israel's leaders call for 'Second Nakba' https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-israels-leaders-call-for-second-nakba
  
  [Aug, 2023] Why Palestinians Could Be Facing Another Nakba https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-second-nakba/
  
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Death to the settlers; worse to their benefactors.

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- I dunno, I could stand for both to get worse.
  
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"Israel the only democracy in the Middle East and the defender of Western Civilization."

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Remember to vote Biden btw.

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Reports from local people:

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/i-felt-like-pulling-my-heart-out-of-the-earth-testimonies-from-the-mass-grave-at-nasser-hospital/

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So maybe I missed something but the report doesn't make it really clear who is to blame for the mass graves or when they were made.

So at this point this could've been Hamas or Israel, right?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68881325

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- Any side could be committing genocide, it could be the ones that have completely flattened acres of homes and fly planes to kill civilians or it could be the ones fleeing their land, we just don't know
  
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  lol if that's your best rebuttal, a blatant false framing of context as if Hamas are these pleasant freedom fighters with no blood on their hands... Then you don't have much. Tell me, have you even heard what they did on October 7th?
  
  If you perceive Hamas as innocent freedom fighters then you're naive and duped.
  
  I'm no fan of Israel either. But don't pretend Hamas wouldn't do the same if they had the means, and hasn't done terrible things to its own people.
  
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