All Eyes on Rafah

I agree with you completely, and your logic is correct.

If Netanyahu gets the escalation he desires we will soon find out whether the defences are applicable to both sides.

Sadly, this is the new world that we live in now. In any future conflicts it will be a free for all, International law has been made a joke of, so I hope all the people making those excuses keep the same energy when a side they care about is on the receiving end, as anything goes now and flimsy excuses for the IDFs behaviour has allowed this.

Yup, this one seems to be to disrupt the negotiations, because if Hamas withdraws from the negotiations due to this massacre then failure can be blamed on them, convenient for Netanyahu. Poor Gazans are just pawns in this sick game.
In the other thread about Olmerts article he referred to peace forces in Gaza from neighbouring countries approved by Israel. Hamas won't agree to this as it amounts to occupation by the back door.

"This is perhaps the sixteenth time Israel has claimed the target of its massacres is the leader Mohammad Deif. With every large-scale massacre resulting in dozens or hundreds of civilian casualties, Israel justifies it by claiming it targeted a high-ranking leader, only for us to later discover the falsehood of their claim.

The brutality of Israel knows no bounds."
https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/1812057842741805100
There is no proof that he has been killed, in fact sources on the ground state that he is very much alive. Think about it logically, why would a senior member of Hamas be walking around above ground, instead of in tunnels?
What likely was the IDF again targeted civilians, perhaps because the negotiations for a ceasefire are not going their way. When the extent of the carnage was revealed and decent humans were rightly outraged, the IDF came out with this story knowing that the useless Media would repeat it uncritically and their useful propagandists (aka Tommy Robinson) would spread it via social media. The IDF is trying to desensitise us to massacres but decent people will not fall for that nonsense.

It’s got to the point where I’ve stopped listening to Israel’s excuses for killing civilians, I am done listening to their justifications. I don’t care who was there, I don’t care that Hamas make their job difficult, just stop it, stop killing these poor people. All I see is dead and injured children, and dirt covered people crying in pain, and I don’t see anything that makes this OK.

Mohammad Deif was killed today.

Oh my heart 💔💔💔💔💔

www.instagram.com/reel/C9REx5bqL_2/?igsh=OG50NHRteGlreWJ2

And don't anyone tell me this is Hamas propaganda

Forgot to mention Action Aid UK:

We are utterly horrified and appalled by the devastating attack on the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis and extremely concerned about the safety of our staff and partners in the area, some of whom we have not yet been able to make contact with.

This is an area that had been designated a safe humanitarian zone, yet at least 71 people have been brutally slaughtered there today and hundreds injured, once again making it perfectly clear that absolutely nowhere is safe in Gaza.

As yet more Palestinians mourn their loved ones or attempt to seek medical help from a health system that is overwhelmed and on its knees, we plea – yet again – for this nightmare to come to an end and for a permanent ceasefire, now.

Full statement

ActionAid utterly appalled by devastating al-Mawasi attack in Gaza

www.actionaid.org.uk/latest-news/actionaid-utterly-appalled-devastating-al-mawasi-attack-gaza

Indeed it’s a no brainer. I believe none. They’ve both lied to suit their narrative.

@UnashamedSlattern

"If there is a choice between believing a terrorist entity capable of the atrocities of Oct 7th and the atrocities it’s perpetrated on in its own people, and the army of a democratic country, it’s a no brainer really. I just need to engage my brain. More people should try it."

You do realise that other entities are on the ground in Gaza right?

The press from numerous countries, aid agencies like Save the Children, Medicine San Frontiers, UNICEF, MAP, DEC, the Red Cross, doctors from around the world working in Gaza hospitals...

It's not a binary choice between Hamas and the IDF.

Funnily enough I haven't seen anyone claim "Pallywood" for months.

Or "dolls".

Or Israelis dressed up in headdress mocking Palestinian mothers.

They were everywhere at first.

All gone now.

Wonder why.

@UnashamedSlattern

Pallywood? So what would you call this then?

"Here is a video of a woman who claims to be in Gaza, a nurse at the Shifa Hospital while it's being bombed, speaking a mix of English, "Arabish" and with al distinctly Hebrew accent.

Every staff member of the hospital who was asked have said they never seen her before, and that they had no idea who she was, they all identified her language, mode of speaking, vocabulary, and accent as being non-Gazan, non-Palestinian."

www.instagram.com/p/Czh2sF_LaUp/?igsh=anFmemQ3OGxpMGpu

It is.

The level of disinformation and fakery is off the scale. I've stopped clicking the links on these threads. There's no point in debating specific instances. (I can't for the life of me work out how to hide the board on the app and have it stay hidden so these mega threads I posted on weeks ago keep springing back onto my page.)

OTOH, everyone knows war is bad.

Energy would probably be better spent petitioning for peace or discussing realistic roadmaps to same.

We'll be accused of being in an echo chamber soon.