Hamas Attacks Israel

[Suranis]

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/sta ... 7378976995

Mueller, She Wrote@MuellerSheWrote

NEW: Biden calls for peace, a two-state solution, a free Palestine, & will impose sanctions against Israeli extremists in the West Bank. He also calls for support for Ukraine. Here is a gift link to the President’s opinion piece in WaPo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... savc9sjhaI

The Wapo Article says Sanctions against Hamas Extremists, not Israeli Extremists.

[raison de arizona]

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/sta ... 7378976995

Mueller, She Wrote@MuellerSheWrote

NEW: Biden calls for peace, a two-state solution, a free Palestine, & will impose sanctions against Israeli extremists in the West Bank. He also calls for support for Ukraine. Here is a gift link to the President’s opinion piece in WaPo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... savc9sjhaI

The Wapo Article says Sanctions against Hamas Extremists, not Israeli Extremists.

I have been emphatic with Israel’s leaders that extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and that those committing the violence must be held accountable. The United States is prepared to take our own steps, including issuing visa bans against extremists attacking civilians in the West Bank.

[Suranis]

The Wapo Article says Sanctions against Hamas Extremists, not Israeli Extremists.

I have been emphatic with Israel’s leaders that extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and that those committing the violence must be held accountable. The United States is prepared to take our own steps, including issuing visa bans against extremists attacking civilians in the West Bank.

I was more going on this sentence as it mentioned "sanctions," but ya you are more right than wrong.

We are going after Hamas and those who finance and facilitate its terrorism, levying multiple rounds of sanctions to degrade Hamas’s financial structure, cutting it off from outside funding and blocking access to new funding channels, including via social media.

[Volkonski]

Israel approves hostage deal with Hamas

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/22/middleea ... index.html

Israel’s cabinet has approved a deal that would see the release of at least 50 hostages – women and children – from Gaza, according to an Israeli government statement, in what is expected to result in the first sustained pause in fighting and major de-escalatory step since Israel’s war with Hamas began.

The freeing of the hostages will come in exchange for a four-day truce in Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza, the statement said. It made no mention of the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, though it is understood this is also a key part of the deal.

The deal was approved by the Israeli cabinet by a significant majority, a government source told CNN.

A more detailed statement will be sent to families of the hostages later today, the statement added.

There are 239 hostages being held captive in Gaza, including foreign nationals from 26 countries, according to figures from the Israeli military.

[Volkonski]

South African lawmakers vote to suspend diplomatic ties with Israel, shut embassy

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sa ... 023-11-21/

South African lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favour of closing down the Israeli embassy in Pretoria and suspending all diplomatic relations until a ceasefire is agreed in its war with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

The resolution is largely symbolic as it will be up to President Cyril Ramaphosa's government whether to implement it; a presidency spokesperson said Ramaphosa "notes and appreciates" parliament's guidance on South Africa's diplomatic relations with Israel, particularly on the status of the embassy.

"The president and cabinet are engaged over the matter, which remains the responsibility of the national executive," Vincent Magwenya said.

Ramaphosa and senior foreign ministry officials have been vocally critical of Israel's leadership during its devastating military campaign against Hamas in the densely populated Gaza Strip, calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate them for potential war crimes.

[raison de arizona]

Why are there hundreds (thousands?) of Palestinian women and children in Israeli jails?

[andersweinstein]

Why are there hundreds (thousands?) of Palestinian women and children in Israeli jails?

Some info on the released prisoners here:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/202 ... 2f2ab40000

[raison de arizona]

Israeli representative blames a CNN producer's family for being killed in Gaza.

Tapper: “Where are they supposed to go?”

[RTH10260]

Rockets fired at U.S. Embassy in Iraq as Mideast violence keeps escalating

DECEMBER 8, 2023 / 6:53 AM EST / AP

Baghdad — A rocket attack on the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad caused minor damage but no casualties Friday morning, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

The attack is the first on the embassy located in the heavily fortified Green Zone of Iraq's capital to be confirmed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. The Green Zone houses Iraqi government buildings and embassies on the west bank of the Tigris River.

Iran-backed militias in Iraq have claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks that targeted bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria since Israel declared war on Hamas two months ago. The U.S. military says 78 attacks have been carried out against U.S. facilities over the past weeks, of which 37 were in Iraq and 41 in Syria.

An Iraqi security official said 14 Katyusha rockets were fired Friday, of which some struck near one of the U.S. Embassy's gates while others fell in the river. The official said the rocket attack caused material damage but no casualties.

A U.S. military official said a multi-rocket attack was launched at American and coalition forces in the vicinity of the embassy complex and the Union III base, which houses offices of the U.S.-led coalition. The official added that no casualties and no damage to infrastructure were reported.

An embassy spokesperson said the U.S. Embassy was attacked by two salvos of rockets at approximately 4:15 a.m. local time.

"Assessments are ongoing, but there are no reported casualties on the embassy compound," the official said, adding that no specific group had claimed responsibility for firing the rockets as of Friday morning but early indications pointed to Iran-aligned militias.

"We again call on the government of Iraq, as we have done on many occasions, to do all in its power to protect diplomatic and Coalition partner personnel and facilities," the official said. "We reiterate that we reserve the right to self-defense and to protect our personnel anywhere in the world."




https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rockets-fi ... scalating/

[RTH10260]

Attacks on US troops in Iraq and Syria have resumed, Pentagon says

By Meghann Myers
Dec 7, 10:28 PM

After a Thanksgiving weekend break that coincided with a humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas war, Iran-backed militias have resumed attacking bases housing American troops in Iraq and Syria, although less frequently than in October and November.

The Pentagon has recorded 78 attacks total, spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters on Thursday. That number includes five attacks since Nov. 29, the last day of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

“Look, in terms of the attacks on our forces I think it’s important to remember that it’s good that we have not seen attacks on our forces in the last 24 hours,” Singh said. “We would like to see that continue.”

It’s hard to say whether the attacks will escalate to previous levels, Singh added, when multiple attacks were taking place daily between Oct. 17 and Nov. 22.

There have been 66 total injuries, Singh said at the briefing, a number that’s held steady since late November. Officials have not specified how many of those incidents included traumatic brain injuries.




https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your ... agon-says/

[Flatpoint High]

Travel warning for Israelis

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[Ben-Prime]

It's a good thing we of the Joobish persuasion like Mongolian Beef, amirite?

[neonzx]

It's a good thing I pretend to be Canadian when I travel as an honorary Jew overseas. I do shit like that so they never see me coming.


In seriousness, this whole thing is a f*cking mess. But has been been for a very very long time. We mere Fogbowers are not going to solve it.

[Ben-Prime]

It's a good thing I pretend to be Canadian when I travel as an honorary Jew overseas. I do shit like that so they never see me coming.


In seriousness, this whole thing is a f*cking mess. But has been been for a very very long time. We mere Fogbowers are not going to solve it.

I mean, in theory, I could quit my job, make aliyah to Israel, obtain my citizenship by right under the Law of Return, and run for office, creating a High Court of Kosher Bundogs or something if I obtain the Premiership, but, yanno, I'm just not ambitious enough.

[raison de arizona]

18-year-old Israeli Tal Mitnick, who refused mandatory military service last month in objection to Israel's war on Gaza, describes his time so far in Israeli military prison and the culture of warmaking in Israel.

[RTH10260]

Hamas official says ‘no chance’ hostages will return to Israel after Netanyahu rejects deal
The prime minister said he rejected the terms of a deal which included Israel’s complete withdrawal from Gaza

Guardian staff and agencies
Mon 22 Jan 2024 03.04 CET

The prospect of a deal to release the remaining hostages held by Hamas appeared to recede on Sunday after a Hamas official said Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of their conditions meant there was “no chance” of their return.

Netanyahu had earlier dismissed the militant group’s conditions to end the war, which he said included leaving Hamas in power and Israel’s complete withdrawal from the territory.

A Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, told Reuters the Israeli prime minister’s refusal to end the military offensive in Gaza “means there is no chance for the return of the [Israeli] captives”, which are estimated to be 130 in number.

Netanyahu is facing mounting pressure to secure the release the hostages, but said in a statement that the Hamas demands included “the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of all the murderers and rapists … and leaving Hamas intact.”

“I reject outright the terms of surrender of the monsters of Hamas,” he added.

On Sunday evening, family members of hostages began a protest outside Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in Jerusalem. Israel’s Hostages and Missing Families Forum said the protesters would remain until “the prime minister agrees to a deal to return the hostages”.

In a separate statement, the advocacy group demanded that Netanyahu “clearly state that we will not abandon civilians, soldiers, and others kidnapped in the October debacle”.

“If the prime minister decides to sacrifice the hostages, he should show leadership and honestly share his position with the Israeli public.”

Under a deal brokered in late November by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, more than 100 of the estimated 240 hostages taken captive to Gaza during an attack by Hamas militants on 7 October were freed in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... jects-deal

[Suranis]

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The problem with this photo is that it's an unused bullet. In a fired bullet all you would have is the red bit at the tip. The Brass bit is left behind in the Gin and is expelled after firing. Its what contains all the Gunpowder et all.

So, unless the Israeli's are using Catapults that bullet hasn't been shot at anything. So the picture is lying.

[Suranis]

The logical and dispassionate view of what is going on is that everyone is perfectly fine with Palestinians getting bombed to shit - as long as it's not Israelis doing it. Even the so called "Palestinian Solidarity" organizations are either not mentioning the other massacres happening, or if they are it is not being reported.

[RTH10260]

Bullet.jpg


The problem with this photo is that it's an unused buller. In a fired bullet all you would have is the red bit at the tip. The Brass bit is left behind in the Gin and is expelled after firing. Its what contains all the Gunpowder et all.

So, unless the Isreali's are using Catapults that bullet hasn't been shot at anything. So the picture is lying.

To note that nobody can confirm that said cartridge was ever in the hospital, nor the photo was even taken in there.

[Uninformed]

Appears to be a .50 BMG armour piercing incendiary round.

[RTH10260]

Appears to be a .50 BMG armour piercing incendiary round.

The Israeli have been using machine guns, and this coud also have been from a gun mounted on a tank. It's a war zone, even the Israeli will leave drop some. The Middle East is a war zone, such a round could easily have been picked up on the battle fields of Syria.Why not just a frame from one of the several gun releated Youtube channels.

[RTH10260]

Israel’s campaign in Gaza ‘plausibly’ amounts to genocide, US court finds
But federal judge in California says lawsuit aimed at stopping US military support for Israel is outside court’s jurisdiction

Julian Borger Global affairs editor
Thu 1 Feb 2024 18.01 CET

A federal court in California has ruled that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “plausibly” amounts to genocide, but dismissed a case aimed at stopping US military support for Israel as being outside the court’s jurisdiction.

“There are rare cases in which the preferred outcome is inaccessible to the court. This is one of those cases,” the US district court in the northern district of California ruled. “The court is bound by precedent and the division of our coordinate branches of government to abstain from exercising jurisdiction in this matter.

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“Yet, as the ICJ [the international court of justice] has found, it is plausible that Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide,” the judge in the case, Jeffrey White, said in his ruling, in a case brought by Palestinian human rights groups and individual Palestinians against President Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary.

“This court implores defendants to examine the results of their unflagging support of the military siege against the Palestinians in Gaza,” the ruling said.

The judge explained his decision that the matter lay outside the jurisdiction of his court, because the Palestinian groups were asking it to interfere with US foreign policy.

“Because any determination to challenge the decision of the executive branch of government on support of Israel is fraught with serious political questions, the claims presented by plaintiffs here lie outside the court’s limited jurisdiction,” White said.

The Palestinian groups and their lawyers said they might appeal against the dismissal of the case, but welcomed the judge’s judgment on the potential for genocide.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... rnia-court

[RTH10260]

Could one infer that the US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq also meet this standard of genozide?

[Dave from down under]

Shhh

[RTH10260]

Israel confirms deaths of 31 hostages as Hamas responds to truce proposals
Qatar says Hamas ‘generally positive’ about proposals, while pressure grows on Netanyahu government over handling of crisis

Peter Beaumont and Patrick Wintour
Tue 6 Feb 2024 22.32 CET

Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of Palestinian prisoners for the return of more hostages.

The number of the dead equates to more than a fifth of the remaining 136 hostages being held by in Gaza, according to available intelligence collated by the Israeli military, and comes amid pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over its handling of the hostage crisis.

Qatar’s Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, whose country is acting as a mediator between the two sides, said on Tuesday that Hamas’s response to proposals drawn up by the US and Israel and tabled more than a week ago “inspires optimism”, but he said he would not go into details.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, speaking with the Qatari PM on his fifth tour of the region since the 7 October attacks, said he would discuss Hamas’s response with Israel on Wednesday.

“There’s still a lot of work to do be done, but we continue to believe that an agreement is possible, and indeed essential,” Blinken said.

A statement from Hamas referred to “a comprehensive and complete ceasefire, ending the aggression against our people”. Israel has previously ruled out a permanent ceasefire and it is believed it was proposing a pause in the fighting of 40 days.




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... eport-says