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Over 210 massacred at Nuseirat refugee camp by IDF

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ConnieCounter · 08/06/2024 18:53

https://www.thejournal.ie/israel-bombs-refugee-camp-200-dead-hamas-gaza-6402337-Jun2024/

The footage coming out of this this absolutely sickening. So many precious children killed. I've never seen anything like it. Poor innocent babies.

It's great that they managed to rescue 4 hostages (though it seems they killed others) but the human cost of that for Palestinians (and potentially other hostages) is absolutely obscene and not acceptable.

'This is what a massacre looks like': Israeli bombardment kills more than 200 in central Gaza

The Al-Aqsa Hospital has been overwhelmed by the dead and wounded arriving following the bombing.

https://www.thejournal.ie/israel-bombs-refugee-camp-200-dead-hamas-gaza-6402337-Jun2024

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ConnieCounter · 10/06/2024 09:35

Scirocco · 10/06/2024 09:25

Yeah. I'm ok, just confirmed what people actually think. I know other people who received messages across a range of forums and social media platforms. There are some very lost people out there.

I hope you reported that. That's outrageous.

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Scirocco · 10/06/2024 09:27

@10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne and people are then all surprised Pikachu face when a country that considers children acceptable targets for soldiers, ends up on a list of countries that allow not very nice things to happen to children...

Scirocco · 10/06/2024 09:25

ConnieCounter · 10/06/2024 09:08

Do you mean you received private messages?

Yeah. I'm ok, just confirmed what people actually think. I know other people who received messages across a range of forums and social media platforms. There are some very lost people out there.

10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 10/06/2024 09:24

Scirocco · 10/06/2024 08:46

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.

I'm sure someone will be along soon to explain how the young children in particular could be armed terrorists or otherwise deserving of being massacred.

But, InshaAllah, they will be reunited with their loved ones in Jannat al-Firdaus.

There are always people who choose to make excuses and make up ridiculous scenarios about child terrorists/human shields than admit that Israel is in the wrong. Also, apparently one of the people the IDF listed as a terrorist killed in the attack on Nuseirat camp, is an 8 year old boy!

https://x.com/LeilZahra/status/1799876958064656583

"But, InshaAllah, they will be reunited with their loved ones in Jannat al-Firdaus."

🙏🙏

x.com

https://x.com/LeilZahra/status/1799876958064656583

ConnieCounter · 10/06/2024 09:08

Scirocco · 10/06/2024 08:43

You're right. The gloating messages I recently received as part of the celebrations confirmed that to me.

Do you mean you received private messages?

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Scirocco · 10/06/2024 08:46

10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 10/06/2024 08:43

The names and faces of some of the people killed during the attack.

https://x.com/buffyslayer91/status/1800017157566407012

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.

I'm sure someone will be along soon to explain how the young children in particular could be armed terrorists or otherwise deserving of being massacred.

But, InshaAllah, they will be reunited with their loved ones in Jannat al-Firdaus.

Scirocco · 10/06/2024 08:43

ConnieCounter · 10/06/2024 07:53

@BibiSuzanne you are right of course.

If anyone is still defending this there's nothing that can be said to appeal to their humanity. They clearly don't have any.

You're right. The gloating messages I recently received as part of the celebrations confirmed that to me.

10UsernamesNotAvailableTryAnotherOne · 10/06/2024 08:43

The names and faces of some of the people killed during the attack.

https://x.com/buffyslayer91/status/1800017157566407012

x.com

https://x.com/buffyslayer91/status/1800017157566407012

ConnieCounter · 10/06/2024 07:53

@BibiSuzanne you are right of course.

If anyone is still defending this there's nothing that can be said to appeal to their humanity. They clearly don't have any.

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Auvergne63 · 10/06/2024 07:37

BibiSuzanne · 10/06/2024 06:28

Please don't engage with some posters. They deliberately write what they do to either goad or spread misinformation.
It is like banging your head against a brick wall.
We will never change their minds. If everything they have heard and seen hasn't yet then nothing will. They just like to play word games in order to accuse us of antisemitism or hate speech and delete our posts.

You are right, of course. Very sad to feel the need to do this.

BibiSuzanne · 10/06/2024 06:28

Please don't engage with some posters. They deliberately write what they do to either goad or spread misinformation.
It is like banging your head against a brick wall.
We will never change their minds. If everything they have heard and seen hasn't yet then nothing will. They just like to play word games in order to accuse us of antisemitism or hate speech and delete our posts.

MrsJackThornton · 09/06/2024 23:33

I don't know how individual Israelis can do this to children, but it seems a lot of them can.

Some of the IDF themselves have spoken out about it

Breaking the Silence is an NGO started by IDF veterans to speak out about the atrocities they have witnessed and/or taken part in. I'm not saying this absolves them, but I appreciate them for speaking out.

One of the things they have spoken out about is the IDFs use of Palestinian civilians as "human shields" to protect their soldiers from attack

Anyone who bleats on about "its their own fault, they knew what they were getting into etc etc" about a group of people, half of whom are children, who are killed by Hamas, and killed by the IDF simply because they were born in Gaza and caught between a fight not of their own making might like to read the word of IDF veterans who have spoken out. Perhaps their words will be more believable to some.

ConnieCounter · 09/06/2024 22:34

MrsJackThornton · 09/06/2024 22:31

I appreciate I have already answered this once, but your response that essentially boils down to "I don't care if 12 year old children are beaten, sexually assaulted and denied their rights because its not my child" to point out the rather obvious fact I should have done in my previous post

Those 12 year old children, as well as being denied the support of their legal parent or guardian also undergo the following as reported by Unicef:

Confessions from children are extracted by a mixture of sleep-deprivation, threats –of death threats against them or their families, sexual assault and solitary confinement- and physical violence. Confessions to be signed are often written in Hebrew, which most Palestinian children do not know

So you are right, if your 12 year old was Palestinian whether or not they had actually thrown stones would be a moot point. Because after being sleep deprived, beaten, sexually assaulted and put in solitary confinement they too might sign a confession in a language they didn't understand and then undergo more years of physical and sexual abuse whilst not being allowed to see you

If you really have no empathy for that, I cannot understand.

Horrendous. That is absolutely heartbreaking to read. God love those poor children. I don't know how individual Israelis can do this to children, but it seems a lot of them can.

The lack of empathy from certain posters is genuinely chilling.

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Dulra · 09/06/2024 22:33

@MrsJackThornton in any other democratic country those responsible for abusing children in that way would be arrested for child abuse and behind bars themselves

MrsJackThornton · 09/06/2024 22:31

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:05

@MrsJackThornton My 12 year old wouldn't be throwing stones at armed soldiers so it's a moot point 🤷🏻‍♀️

I appreciate I have already answered this once, but your response that essentially boils down to "I don't care if 12 year old children are beaten, sexually assaulted and denied their rights because its not my child" to point out the rather obvious fact I should have done in my previous post

Those 12 year old children, as well as being denied the support of their legal parent or guardian also undergo the following as reported by Unicef:

Confessions from children are extracted by a mixture of sleep-deprivation, threats –of death threats against them or their families, sexual assault and solitary confinement- and physical violence. Confessions to be signed are often written in Hebrew, which most Palestinian children do not know

So you are right, if your 12 year old was Palestinian whether or not they had actually thrown stones would be a moot point. Because after being sleep deprived, beaten, sexually assaulted and put in solitary confinement they too might sign a confession in a language they didn't understand and then undergo more years of physical and sexual abuse whilst not being allowed to see you

If you really have no empathy for that, I cannot understand.

Dulra · 09/06/2024 22:17

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:05

@MrsJackThornton My 12 year old wouldn't be throwing stones at armed soldiers so it's a moot point 🤷🏻‍♀️

Regardless of whether your 12 year old would throw stones at a soldier or not name one other democratic nation that would imprison children? Children are safeguarded and protected not arrested, they are recognised as not being at the age of criminal responsibility. 13 up yes but they are, if the crime was serious enough, such as rape or murder put in young offenders institutions not adult prisons. For a crime of throwing stones? Slap on the wrist and a fine. Why is Israel so out of step with other democratic nations on this?

Scirocco · 09/06/2024 22:14

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:05

@MrsJackThornton My 12 year old wouldn't be throwing stones at armed soldiers so it's a moot point 🤷🏻‍♀️

In a potential survival situation, if a stone was all they had with which to defend themselves, they might well try to defend themselves. Most people would - survival is a pretty strong motivator.

MrsJackThornton · 09/06/2024 22:13

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:07

But that's you assuming innocence of all Palestinian prisoners

That's you assuming the guilt of all Palestinian prisoners. The poster who asked about this only presumed the innocence of 4 out of 500-700 children.

Many of whom are being held before trial. Apparently innocent until proven guilty does not apply to Palestinians

MrsJackThornton · 09/06/2024 22:11

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:05

@MrsJackThornton My 12 year old wouldn't be throwing stones at armed soldiers so it's a moot point 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yeah thats really the key take home message from my post 🙄

Was it really that hard to empathise for one moment with a Palestinian child or parent? Just for one moment

You seem lacking in understanding what children who have been subject to attacks etc their whole life might do.

Do you really think a 12 year old with PTSD might really react perfectly in every situation? Your moot point is so very very far from the actual point.

ConnieCounter · 09/06/2024 22:09

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:05

@MrsJackThornton My 12 year old wouldn't be throwing stones at armed soldiers so it's a moot point 🤷🏻‍♀️

Count yourself lucky that you're not living under brutal occupation then.

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tobeornottobe1 · 09/06/2024 22:09

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:05

@MrsJackThornton My 12 year old wouldn't be throwing stones at armed soldiers so it's a moot point 🤷🏻‍♀️

It might be your 12 yr old, if they just saw (you) their mother being shot in the head and all they had was a stone in their hands to try and defend themselves. Maybe?

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:07

hjlm · 09/06/2024 21:04

@Februaryfeels but that's you putting value on life. Innocent child rescue does not equate to adult hostage life rescue.

But that's you assuming innocence of all Palestinian prisoners

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 22:05

@MrsJackThornton My 12 year old wouldn't be throwing stones at armed soldiers so it's a moot point 🤷🏻‍♀️

MrsJackThornton · 09/06/2024 21:57

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 20:35

Well no, it wouldn't be the same

They wouldn't be rescuing hostages who were kidnapped by terrorists

If it was your 12 year old daughter, arrested for throwing stones, you weren't allowed to court of support her, then she was put in military prison, raped, beaten, starved and denied medical treatment and you weren't allowed to visit, that would all be fine would it? Because the IDF aren't terrorists?

ScrollingLeaves · 09/06/2024 21:50

Februaryfeels · 09/06/2024 20:35

Well no, it wouldn't be the same

They wouldn't be rescuing hostages who were kidnapped by terrorists

It seems to me that this is putting a lot of faith in the name and official designation, “terrorist”, rather than looking at comparable acts in regard to their effects.

37,000 of whom many are women, children and old men, killed in 8 months, with a death toll that has risen to 274, with more than 700 others injured, at the Nuseirat refugee camp alone in the just the last 24 hours, is not bad going for non-terrorists. And that’s without the mass destruction of schools, hospitals. universities, homes and general infrastructure.

This record is a long way from being beaten by Palestinian terrorists, heinous and monstrous though they have been.