IDF airstrikes reportedly carried out on 'humanitarian area'

Yes, people seem to forget that, just because a button is pressed from a distance and there are no hands on the bodies, it does not mean that the IDF and their bombs are not decapitators, de-limbers, and burners of Palestinians and their children by the thousands.

This just made me cry.

The father and 2 brothers of 18 month old Ahmed Al-Najjer speak about him and the day he was tragically murdered by the Israeli government.

www.instagram.com/reel/C71DXfzNAzs/?igsh=MTc0Z3F5c3hrb2Nzcw==

I do not consent to dehumanisation.

Dresden would a war crime under the Geneva Conventions agreed after WW2

as would Hiroshima and all indiscriminant bombing of population centres

this probably will be deemed genocide : "Where's Daddy"
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

They sometimes seem to say this is an existential war, and war is brutal. Look at Dresden. Etc

Thank you @AhNowTed interesting read

Sorry didn't mean to strike anything. Bloody app.

Here's a take from an Israeli PhD I follow on X

1/ Returning to Israel after eight days of travel, tired and heartbroken. I am reading Israeli responses to the Rafah massacres and studying official Israel's plans and predictions (worth mentioning: Israel is looking for "alternative local leadership" as it destroys Gaza). --->

2/ The imperviousness of the Israeli public cuts me to the quick. Support for the war remains a consensus. Soldiers have begun to die again. 100000 Israeli are still displaced. The economy is in tatters. Netanyahu is beginning to gain in most polls. A cosmic vicious circle. --->

3/ Israel's genocide is grim and glum. Many Israelis will tell you that those celebrating are "messianic", and that once the "war" is over we will get our priorities in order and stop funding and protecting settlements in the West Bank. That was our mistake, you see. --->

4/ The "crazy" settlers demanded all of "normal" Israel's attention! Most of the IDF was protecting them and that left no real force for the towns and villages around Gaza! We won't make the same mistake twice. As soon as the "war" is over. When is that? Who knows. --->

5/ That is a typical Israeli progression at the moment. Passionately swept up in tactics, always in possession of various in-house straw men, in complete denial of the very possibility of a future. This is Hamas' fault/ Netanyahu's fault/ the settlers' fault. Not ours. --->

6/ Israelis fight in Gaza to defend a leadership and a government many view as corrupt. But this is actually useful, because as long as it is about "them" (Hamas, Netanyahu, settlers), it isn't about "us". "We" are, at best, reluctant. This doesn't being us joy. --->

7/ This is the systemic evil. It isn't the wicked government (which is wicked indeed). It isn't rhe settlers. It isn't the ultra-orthodox. It isn't even Hamas. It's us. We devoted our lives to the basic fallacy, that democracy can sustain and be sustained by its opposite. --->

8/ We talked about "justice" with the same breath that denied justice to millions. We were a light unto the gentiles just as we institutionalized our supremacy over the Palestinians and everyone else. We upheld a paradox. Now we are a hollow, brittle shell.

@ori_goldberg

You won't get an answer I am afraid.

How do the pro-Israelis justify this? What's the spin on this to make it seem less bad or like Hamas's fault? For the avoidance of confusion I'm talking about people who are suffering severe burns and injuries due to bombing by Israel and are being denied basic healthcare by Israel.

If any are lurking here I'd love to know.

Horrific. So most likely no proper pain relief and at very high risk of their burns becoming infected. If the US aren’t turning a blind eye to this suffering as they claim, then what are they going to do about it? Let me guess, nothing, absolutely nothing.

I worked on a burn unit for 2 months 40 years ago. I am still haunted by it.

Just heard on the news that the UN said since the attack in Rafah they are down 2/3s of the supplies they were getting into the region daily

Agree @Dulra it's unbearably cruel

Rafah crossing being closed is no excuse either - 17 US medics were evacuated thro' Kerem Shalom recently, other crossings are available and the IDF even took down part of the border fence to make a temporary crossing not so long ago

Where there's a will there's a way

This is so upsetting. Burns injuries are horrific, the pain those people are in would be unbearable. It is cruel and evil to leave people suffering in this way. There is no reason to deny people proper medical care. No excuses, this is not how democratic nations conduct themselves so no one should ever claim that Israel is one.

Fantastic

WHO also say they have 60 trucks of medical aid in Egypt waiting to be delivered into Gaza

No end to the suffering inflicted by Israel on these innocent civilians

No supplies, hospitals to treat burn victims in Gaza

Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO’s representative for Palestine, said the closure of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt means that Palestinians who suffered burns during the Israeli attack on their tent camp earlier this week are unable to access the specialist burns and trauma care and medicines that they need.

“You can only do so much in Gaza. And when it comes to really extensive burns, et cetera, there’s no place currently in Gaza where that can be treated,” he said.

According to the UN, some 75 people who were wounded in the attack are receiving treatment at the International Medical Corps (IMC) field hospital in southern Gaza, with 25 of them in very critical condition.

Survivors and eye-witness testimony

‘Bodies everywhere’: the horrors of Israel’s strike on a Rafah camp

Sheltering displaced Palestinians describe the fear and grief caused by Sunday’s airstrike that killed 35 people

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/bodies-everywhere-people-describe-horror-israeli-strike-rafah-camp

Re: see screen shot of what you posted.

That is unbearably sad to hear, but that child’s love was from another realm showing what a human heart is capable of.

This is from Haaretz:

Toddlers go up in flames, and the Israeli public celebrates, erases, chatters or yawns – that's what our hell looks like. When you embark on a campaign of vengeance, as the saying goes, dig two graves; Israel has such a strong desire for revenge that it is slowly sinking in a dark abyss, hand in hand with the ruins of Gaza"– Yoana Gon

Yesterday was a tough day after reading the testimony of the mum who lost her 6 kids and today I read this. 💔💔💔💔

@ScrollingLeaves I don't know who created it and put it out there originally, all I know it was doing the rounds.

Ah, I see, thank you: So it was put out by Israel to remind people that Hamas captured and killed babies on Oct 7.
Somehow I misread it that Hamas had put it out as self propaganda, and so I was flummoxed and had worked out weird interpretations.