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Do we actually know who bombed the hospital in Gaza yet?

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Ididivfama · 18/10/2023 13:10

I keep seeing mixed reports. It’s really unsettling not to know.

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Ididivfama · 19/10/2023 07:43

IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost · 19/10/2023 07:37

I am neither Jewish nor Muslim but I have done a lot of research over the last few days. Hamas came to power in 2006. Both sides, yes both sides have a terrible history in this conflict however if you look at the facts the Palestinians have historically been oppressed more by Israel than the other way round (the treatment of Palestinians over the years has been heavily criticized in writing internationally including by Amnesty and the UN Human Rights Council) and there have also been many more Palestinians that have died in the last 50 years than Israelis. Saying these things doesn't mean I support Hamas or condone what they did. There has also been no independent verification of where the rocket came from that destroyed the hospital. Both sides say it wasn't them and Israel has provided what they say is legitimate video evidence. Of course you can choose to believe which side you want without independent verification but i for one would prefer to hold my opinion on it for now. I also wouldn’t listen to anything Biden say as I think he is a total plonker.

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FreeCoathangers · 19/10/2023 07:47

immigrant002 · 19/10/2023 07:30

@FreeCoathangers do you actually believe that a person from Brooklyn with no ties to that land whatsoever has the right to go there kick palestinians out of a home they owned for many years to live there ?

There are several videos of this a quite famous one with one settler saying if i don't do this someone else will !

How is this excused in the israeli community ? I am not hostile i am really trying to understand how can u justify that ?

Did you know that before the start of the Zionist movement there were dozens of Jewish settlements in the area? and that during that 19th century there were more Jewish people living in Jerusalem than muslims.

Jews have always lived in the area.

IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost · 19/10/2023 07:49

@FreeCoathangers Correct me if I am wrong but you seem to be saying that because the Jews went through a genocide they should not be held to account for anything they have done since then? My opinion is based on the research I have done online and it includes reports from international reporters over the last 50 years, facts about the number of deaths of Palestinians versus Israelis, the unbiased history of what happened in the 1980s, the opinion of a lot of Jewish people outside of Israel, who have condemned Israel for their behavior towards Palestinians not to mention numerous international charitable organization who have condemned Israel over the last 50 years.

FreeCoathangers · 19/10/2023 07:49

No offence, but what you mean by Research is actually "goggling" and it's difficult to get a balanced view on the situation.

FreeCoathangers · 19/10/2023 07:51

IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost · 19/10/2023 07:49

@FreeCoathangers Correct me if I am wrong but you seem to be saying that because the Jews went through a genocide they should not be held to account for anything they have done since then? My opinion is based on the research I have done online and it includes reports from international reporters over the last 50 years, facts about the number of deaths of Palestinians versus Israelis, the unbiased history of what happened in the 1980s, the opinion of a lot of Jewish people outside of Israel, who have condemned Israel for their behavior towards Palestinians not to mention numerous international charitable organization who have condemned Israel over the last 50 years.

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I'm correcting you, you're wrong. When I see an actual genocide, I will be the first to call it out. Where did I say they should not be held account? I'm talking about people willfully using a word in the wrong context just for the purpose of creating pain.

RoyalImpatience · 19/10/2023 07:51

@IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost
. I look forward to your thoughts on hammas and it's impact on the region when you get to it.

FreeCoathangers · 19/10/2023 07:53

Did any of the research you've done include the 6 times Israel have been attacked by actual Nation State Arab armies?

IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost · 19/10/2023 08:02

It’s interesting. You are dismissing opinions that don’t align with your own having no merit. That seems pretty disingenuous. Of course people do their research online, I’m able to read articles and look at facts rather than opinions before I form my own opinion. If you actually read my first post I said both sides have a terrible history but at the end of the day more Palestinians have and continue to suffer (and have been killed) over the years than Israelis.

immigrant002 · 19/10/2023 08:04

@FreeCoathangers that is not what i am asking you at all you are avoiding to answer
I did not say no jewish person was lovong therr before Confused
I know that before the state of israel they were plenty of jewish christian and muslim There

Does that mean that any jewish person in europe or US has the right to go and settle there ? But not the palestinians who have been forced out of their homes in 1948 ? They have no right to return ! So why does someone with no ties to the land has

immigrant002 · 19/10/2023 08:05

@IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost every time someone mentions research or links to @FreeCoathangers they say is rubbish

Gruntsandgroans · 19/10/2023 08:09

RoyalImpatience · 19/10/2023 07:38

Grunts we are talking at cross purposes. I'm talking about the evil strangle hold hammas has on gaza.
Hammas who steal aid, deny the people rights, torture people who speak out agaisnt them and kill them, keep the people in a state of poverty because it suits their narrative and who didn't like the new visa offered to palestinian to come into Israel.
If they can help to rid themselves of hammas that will be more helpful than anything else.

Ah OK. I didn't mention Hamas at all. My post wasn't about Hamas. My post was about Israel and how I don't think they've been solid and reasonable throughout the past 75yrs like lots of posters here want us to think. My post was picking up on the point that the Palestinians turned down a 'reasonable offer' to annex their land in return for nothing at all and how I don't actually think it was reasonable or that they deserved the treatment given to them when they pointed out that it wasn't in fact reasonable at all. Maybe you missed that?

IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost · 19/10/2023 08:09

FreeCoathangers · 19/10/2023 07:51

I'm correcting you, you're wrong. When I see an actual genocide, I will be the first to call it out. Where did I say they should not be held account? I'm talking about people willfully using a word in the wrong context just for the purpose of creating pain.

So you are the only person qualified to decide if something is genocide or not. You are the only person with the knowledge to have an opinion. Anyone who doesn’t agree with your stance has been radicalised. Come on!

Totalblindnessofthesoul · 19/10/2023 08:12

FreeCoathangers · 19/10/2023 07:14

After sleeping on it, what I find sick is some people who wish to use the word genocide against a people who suffered an actual genocide.

They use it because they know how hurtful it is and the power of the word against Jews

If you think it's true, that Israel are committing a genocide, then you've been radicalised and you should think from where you're getting your info.

Damn that Geneva convention and their inconvenient definitions eh...

Totalblindnessofthesoul · 19/10/2023 08:16

FreeCoathangers · 18/10/2023 22:46

Why aren't Hamas releasing hostages then? It would help the people of Gaza massively.

In the hours after the hospital bombing Hamas did offer to return an hostages if Israel stopped firing at them.

Israel continued it's carpet bombing.

IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost · 19/10/2023 08:23

@RoyalImpatience Hamas have been around since 1987 and yes they are what I would call a terrorist group that have their claws into the Palestinian people who unfortunately voted them into power in 2006. Why they got into power no doubt stems from years of oppression and death.

swirlingabyss · 19/10/2023 08:24

Calling out supposed "radicalisation" on anyone who dares to highlight Israel's repressive and murderous regime is a distraction technique. It's clear to see who has been radicalised here LOL.

RoyalImpatience · 19/10/2023 08:26

They got unto power in the back of the previous corrupt government.

IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost · 19/10/2023 08:33

@RoyalImpatience so why did the Palestinians vote for Hamas then?

Ratsoffasinkingsauage · 19/10/2023 08:36

@Totalblindnessofthesoul

Where did you hear that? Hamas are continually bombarding Israel. I haven’t seen anything about a proposed ceasefire or exchange of hostages anywhere.

RoyalImpatience · 19/10/2023 08:41

Because they presenter themselves as the party of hope and change

IOnlycreatedaccountforthispost · 19/10/2023 08:44

@RoyalImpatience so why would they need that if their lives were already ok and they were not oppressed?

tigerlily0 · 19/10/2023 09:02

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Totalblindnessofthesoul · 19/10/2023 09:07

Ratsoffasinkingsauage · 19/10/2023 08:36

@Totalblindnessofthesoul

Where did you hear that? Hamas are continually bombarding Israel. I haven’t seen anything about a proposed ceasefire or exchange of hostages anywhere.

Its hard to find much about it now as it was very much in the aftermath of the hospital bombing but here is an article (at the time I saw it in the guardian and al Jazeera live feeds). The heading it's misleading so I've screenshotted the important bit. A spokesperson from Iran made the same 'offer'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna120776

Whether it would have materialisesd, who knows, but surely stopping the bombardment for a few hours to see if they made good on their offer would have been the 'right' thing to do?

[Its also with remembering that Israel is holding large number of Palestinians (about 8x the number of hostages) in 'administrative detention'. Ie they have been seized without charge, without usual, without any planned trial. Effectively kidnapped by the government. Including children. One train of thought is that they could be exchanged for the hostages.]

Do we actually know who bombed the hospital in Gaza yet?
tigerlily0 · 19/10/2023 09:08

I also don't get what ppl don't understand. Israel was only formed by America on stolen land. They then made A LITERAL OPEN AIR PRISON. For Palestinians of Gaza. It's a literally prison with netting above and military checkpoints. They have food water aid and everything restricted on a daily, they had education restricted, they have their homes stolen from under their feet by israeli Jews who believe they are entitled to it. Israel is backed by America, paid for by America. Palestinians have literally nothing so when they fight for freedom why is that a problem, would you not do the same if you were being oppressed? I have seen children with stones trying to fight big Israeli fighter tanks. I wish ppl would research the history and the lives of the Palestinians.

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