To be horrified re the 2000+ children killed in Gaza.

[SoShallINever]

The news tonight was unbearable.
I am sickened that the West is not calling for a ceasefire or some restraint.
I found out today that Gaza is almost exactly the same size as the small Hebridean island of Jura. But whereas Jura has a few hundred residents, Gaza has 2.4 million packed in. You couldn't throw a stone into Gaza without it hitting someone, never mind a missile.
The children of Gaza are not terrorists and I wish Israel would stop.

STOP THE GENOCIDE
whichever side you are on can you not see what is happening???

Does Israel have control of the mobile phone network and internet? It means whatever happens there is now hidden from the world, but also that residents can't call an ambulance, check where is safe(r) to go, find the news, check on friends. If Israel has done this - is it legal?

Israel is 'expanding' ground operations tonight. And all comms cut. I feel sick.

I can't believe what is happening
How are our governments quiet
How is the world watching and allowing this to happen

@Parkingt111 I don't know. I don't know what can be done.

Our governments have blood on their hands
Shame on them. Shame on them
There is no hope now

Whatever they do now will be too little and too late
And that's if they even do

Please, please if you can, please go to the protest tomorrow in your city or town. They are happening up and down the country tomorrow. Please turn up and put pressure on this shameful government

Without doubt we will be seeing some of the biggest palestinian protests tomorrow

Unimaginable horror. What will going to a protest achieve? The government doesn't care, it's too late anyway.

I’m not sure that’s right. The government’s been very clear that the unimaginable horror that Hamas committed must be opposed and stopped.

@vestedinterests I think it's slow, but the government does respond to protest. It's because of protest that they have started to call for humanitarian aid and pauses. I think if the whole world had kept quiet they would not even have done that.

@WhileMyDishwasherGentlyWeeps Hamas is responsible for the state that Gaza is in, our government supports the country that is trying to erase an entire population.

Oh please pipe down. You do realise that the hostages, that you clearly value above any Palestinian life, are ALSO being starved, deprived of any clean water, medicine, and are being bombed - does that not bother you at all? They’re being forced to suffer because Israel refuses to let basic humane necessities in.

Netanyahu could not care less about those hostages. Hamas have released 4 hostages on humanitarian grounds, who would have died due to Israel’s inhumanity otherwise: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67201599.amp

What humanity has Israel shown to its own people being held in Gaza?

There’s even a recording of a kibbutz survivor who said that many people at the kibbutz were killed by the IDF in crossfire:
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1716337785789927642

What on Earth are you talking about that they need to be “opposed and stopped”? By bombing children? You do realise that they bomb Gaza horrifically as a matter of routine, and what has it so far achieved in taking out Hamas? It’s utter, utter bollocks. This is ethnic cleansing. This is a massacre.

From the below article:

“Israeli member of Knesset Ariel Kallner on Sunday called for a second ‘Nakba’ to take place in Gaza amid ongoing armed conflict between Hamas and the Israeli army.
“Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join! their Nakba, because like then in 1948, the alternative is clear,” Kallner wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.”

https://english.alarabiya.net/amp/News/middle-east/2023/10/08/Israeli-Knesset-member-calls-for-second-Nakba-amid-ongoing-conflict-with-Hamas

Israel was built on the blood and bones of Palestinian children and the world will never forget.

There might not be a Gaza we recognise when we wake up tomorrow, or at the very least, an unimaginable horror will have been inflicted on them. I want to be able to look my children in the eye decades from now, and say yes, I did stand up the next morning, and I did try and say something. No matter how tiny and inconsequential my voice was, at least my moral compass was intact.

@Milkandhoneybees don't waste your time on people like @WhileMyDishwasherGentlyWeeps. Isreal has the technology to target Hamas with minimal collateral damage, yet they bombed and displaced over 1 million people.

Hamas can not fight with powerful IDF alone so targetted civilians, sadly IDF is no more better than that it seems , Also why do they worry about GaZA civilians??? after all they were all people whom they were treating as prioners!!!

I’m going to find my nearest protest, my 14 year old ds wants to join one too. We have watched the channel 4 news this evening in pure horror.
Cannot imagine the terror in Gaza tonight. 😢

Oh please pipe down.

Are you for real?

@WhileMyDishwasherGentlyWeeps you are so brainwashed that there is no point reasoning with you

They don’t give a shit what is and isn’t legal, war crimes all over the place from them, free pass from all the western world.

No it doesn’t, nobody does. That is bullshit. If you hide behind civilians their deaths are on your hands. And if (the theocratic government of) Iran hides behind proxy terrorists the deaths are on their hands too.

Latest update I found

ok, maybe I put it wrong - not "fighters", but actual Hamas members. Internet says there are 25k in the military wing - but there are also other sectors, intelligence, engineers, government officials, etc etc. As I mentioned previously, Hamas are the ruling party and everyhting in Gaza - education, healthcare, police, etc - are run by them, these people will have to be Hamas party members. So I would say 100k in total is not a bad guess.

@WhileMyDishwasherGentlyWeeps if you believe in the Israel has the right to defend itself line then the deaths of the civilians is on your hands