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erodriguez

(871 posts)
Wed May 14, 2025, 07:08 AM May 14

Israeli bombing wave kills dozens in Gaza including at least 22 children, say reports

Source: The Guardian

The Associated Press, citing local hospitals, reported that at least 22 children were killed in Gaza overnight on Tuesday and early on Wednesday by Israeli airstrikes. Reuters quoted local authorities and medical officials who said at least 50 had died in strikes on Wednesday morning on houses in Jabaliya in northern Gaza.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/israel-hits-gaza-hospitals-in-deadly-strikes-after-pause-to-allow-release-of-edan-alexander



How can people defend these war crimes?

If the US is not going to end this the rest of the world should. We are officially the bad guys.
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Israeli bombing wave kills dozens in Gaza including at least 22 children, say reports (Original Post) erodriguez May 14 OP
More killings...women and children...what will the apologists say to these daily killings now? brush May 14 #1
Hamas apologists? Beastly Boy May 14 #9
Yep, especially with some. MarineCombatEngineer May 14 #10
I have no use for Hamas and honestly not much use for the muslin faith questionseverything May 14 #2
Boots on the ground Bohunk68 May 14 #3
You forgot to add "thoroughly debunked" to "reports" from the Hamas officials. Beastly Boy May 14 #4
Say reports from the Hamas "local authorities and medical officials" Beastly Boy May 14 #5
Guess the OP left that part out? MarineCombatEngineer May 14 #6
Hamas says it, and immediately much of DU automatically believes it. DavidDvorkin May 14 #7
Blame Hamas Canada Kid May 14 #8
Wow the comments on here are just shameful. erodriguez May 14 #11

brush

(59,990 posts)
1. More killings...women and children...what will the apologists say to these daily killings now?
Wed May 14, 2025, 07:25 AM
May 14

There's now way to defend this. These are war crimes.

Beastly Boy

(12,424 posts)
9. Hamas apologists?
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:35 AM
May 14

They will never question the accuracy or the thoroughness or the motivations behind the OP and will respond with the usual knee-jerk outrage singling Israel out as the two-dimensional comic strip cartoon villain.

Happens every time, without fail.

questionseverything

(10,832 posts)
2. I have no use for Hamas and honestly not much use for the muslin faith
Wed May 14, 2025, 07:25 AM
May 14

Because it subjugates women but

Bombing women and children who are starving and freezing in freakin tents behind a wall ( open air prison) is just wrong

If they say there are terrorist mixed in with them Isreal needs to put boots on the ground and find them

Bohunk68

(1,386 posts)
3. Boots on the ground
Wed May 14, 2025, 09:06 AM
May 14

is what is killing so many Palestinian children with a bullet to the brain, according to other reports posted here.

Beastly Boy

(12,424 posts)
4. You forgot to add "thoroughly debunked" to "reports" from the Hamas officials.
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:54 AM
May 14

And you wisely didn't specify whose boots on the ground you are talking about.

Beastly Boy

(12,424 posts)
5. Say reports from the Hamas "local authorities and medical officials"
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:16 AM
May 14

As usual, no reports of Hamas operatives operating in the vicinity. An ommission that is easily rectified:

The IDF struck Hamas terrorists who were operating from within a command and control center located in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the military announced on Tuesday.

According to the military, the compound was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.

Senior Hamas officials continue to use the hospital for terrorist activity, through cynical and brutal use of the civilian population in the hospital and its surroundings, the military added.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-853741

And
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 | IDF and Shin Bet [Israeli internal security organization] confirmed on Tuesday evening that they had eliminated Gaza "journalist" Hassan Aslih in a targeted strike in Khan Younis during the night. Aslih had operated on October 7 under the guise of being a media professional, broadcasting live footage of a burning tank near the border fence. Last month, Israeli forces attempted to assassinate him in another strike in Khan Younis, but he survived.

In an official statement, it was reported that the forces "eliminated key Hamas operatives in the area of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Among those killed was terrorist Hassan Aslih, who broadcast live images of a burning Israeli tank near the border fence while disguised as a member of the press.

Aslih, a member of Hamas's Khan Younis Brigade, infiltrated Israeli territory and participated in the organization's brutal massacre on October 7. Throughout the massacre, he documented and uploaded footage of looting, arson, and murder to social media.
https://www.bridgesforpeace.com/resource/hamas-terrorist-who-posed-as-journalist-broadcast-live-footage-from-october-7-eliminated

And from the cited article:
Late on Tuesday, the Israeli military warned of imminent airstrikes on Jabaliya and nearby Beit Lahiya after Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed militant group in Gaza allied with Hamas, fired rockets towards Israel from the neighbourhoods.

--snip--

Israeli media reported that the target of the strikes on the European hospital complex was the Hamas leader, Mohammed Sinwar, brother of the group’s previous leader, Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in an Israeli operation in October 2024. Israel’s military said it hit a “Hamas command centre” beneath the hospital.


Canada Kid

(149 posts)
8. Blame Hamas
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:26 AM
May 14

The terrorist group Hamas has always hidden among the population, using them as human shields. This is their MO...putting these poor common folks in harm's way as they continue to sniper at Israeli troops, fire rockets into Israel, tunnel under the hospitals, schools, and places where people live or gather. The only unfortunate choice for the Israelis is to bomb and straif these hiding places to attempt to root out the terrorists. Israel is not proud of the fact that they have been forced to use methods to try to eliminate the constant danger that are quite against our moral values...but Israeli lives are far more important than those of a murderous band of lowlifes. Note that the method of announcing their number of losses are always unclear and released by an agency obviously under Hamas control. Hamas only wants power, money, and control. Their own kind means nothing to them. Religion is used to control the population, force and fear keeps them at bay, media control keeps them ignorant.

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