Gaza has gone dark ... and I am very afraid!

[HeidiInTheBigCity]

Tonight, as Gaza has gone dark, tonight, as Gazan civilians have lost that lifeline that used to be "publishing their cries for help to the Internet, as they were literally dying", tonight, as even that option has ceased to exist!

I STAND WITH CIVILIANS!

Not with Hamas!
NOT with the ultra-far-right Israeli government - out for revenge!

Tonight, I STAND WITH CIVILIANS, as innocent men, women and children are dying, collectively punished, for the crime of having been born in the wrong place, at the wrong time!

Tonight, I STAND WITH CIVILIANS, as the families of Israeli hostages watch helplessly, as their missing loved ones are bombed into oblivion, and their own PM has not even bothered to meet with them! Because, once again, revenge has won! Violence has won! Barbarism has won! Death has won!

Tonight, I stand with my friend, a Palestinian-born [what he does for a living] currently getting drunk at a bar in [not where you'd expect] - because he cannot stand watching anymore! We cried together on the phone - it felt nice to know there was someone else out there - but it also felt supremely disempowered and helpless! Tonight, I stand with men, women, boys, girls ... just people, people who want to live!

Tonight, as I recall how utterly terrified I used to be when I, myself, became an accidental witness to the assault on [Palestinian city], some 20 years ago now! I also recall the good times: I recall standing on the rooftop of the [name] family's home, watching flares in the sky, deliberately pretending they were just very bright stars, kissing, and dancing with my fiancé. Snuggling up to him under the wide open sky, as we ignored the sound of shooting in the background, as we just wanted to ... live a little! ... under circumstances that didn't leave much room for living. For life! Knowing we would learn about names of people we knew and the fact that they had been killed while we had been trying to ... just live a little ... as the following day would break!

Tonight, I stand with civilians, realising that this particular, comparatively "fluffy" version of war - a version, make no mistake, that has left me deeply traumatised for life, bittersweet memories aside! - this is just NOT AN OPTION for Gazans tonight!

Tonight, I CRY FOR CIVILIANS! Especially, but not only, for civilians in Gaza!

We have GOT TO DO better!

Note: yes, I have censored a number of data points - because that is how afraid I am! I am not willing to potentially expose people I consider friends, family even, unnecessarily as I, frankly helplessly, post to the so-called Internet, pleading for their lives or, at the very least: sympathy!

Hope you get banned from this site. Fucking vile.

I think the hostage taking did happen but the real mystery is how did the country with the ‘worlds best intel’ and one of the best security systems not notice the border fence being cut or people parachuting over... They are even reported to have had warnings…

It’s not a conspiracy, complacency & arrogance 🙄 They didn’t have warnings or not how you are implying…

Mossad is the best in the world.

They train others.

So Hamas just parachuted over the border?

None of it makes sense.

Another Iraq = Weapons of mass destruction = 1 million people dead.

Years later - oops sorry.

It’s disgusting and inhumane.

I honestly don’t think the Israeli authorities (and I am very much talking about the government here - not Israeli civilians) give any thought to the hostages here. They have said that they won’t negotiate with Hamas. They don’t care about the hostages and they are using the carnage as an excuse to flatten Gaza.

How can anyone in their right mind, any human being with an ounce of humanity, think the intentional and premeditated barbaric treatment of Palestinian civilians like this is acceptable?

America had absolute proof that the axis of evil had weapons of mass destruction. They killed a million Iraqis and destroyed a country. Oh, but oops, it was a mistake, but hey we got the oil we wanted and took down someone we didn't like so yay!

They have said that they won’t negotiate with Hamas.

Its not unusual to not negotiate with terrorists.

Please just stop
You are going to get the whole thread deleted
Hamas most certainly did take hostages which they should release immediately
These are innocent people who deserve just as much of our empathy as the innocent palestinian civilians

What the IDF are doing in Gaza is absolutely atrocious. That said how fucking dare people deny the attack on the 7th October when other genuine innocents were massacred horrifically. Have some decency.

Whether it was allowed by the IDF or was just them being entirely incompetent, well, that's another matter.

Yeah, I’m out of this thread now. It’s clear where it’s going.

This was to @ButterfliesnWaterfalls

Sometimes intelligence fails and Israel has been going through an incredible period of upheavel when their focus would likely have been internal so mistakes do happen.

Truth hurts?

Journalists will get killed.

No water, aid, electricity, fuel.

Thousands of babies/children already killed.
Families wiped out.

They said go south then they bombed the south.

They said Hamas is in Gaza yet they’re killing and imprisoning Palestinians in West Bank.

Hospitals, churches, homes bombed.

And I’m vile - lol - okay.

None of these things mean that what happened on 7th Oct was in any way acceptable. ‘lol’ - grow up.

There is no war crimes or carpet bombing. Lying doesn’t help anyone. It’s a war, which is awful of course, but Israeli is defending itself which it is entitled to do like every other country.

I can't believe the world just stands aside watching this massacre and no one is able to do anything. This is pure evil.

https://www.globalr2p.org/publications/atrocities-present-past-and-future-escalating-crimes-and-consequences-in-israel-and-occupied-palestine/#:~:text=Israel%20has%20carried%20out%20indiscriminate,likely%20amount%20to%20war%20crimes.

Are you actually joking???
They are committing countless war crimes. Indiscriminately murdering civilians including thousands of children is not self defence.
Despicable.

The shifra hospital in Gaza city is known and acknowledged as being a major centre of Hamas operations. I saw this reported on over a year ago.

are you talking about that hospital or the hospital that was hit by a rocket a few days ago? You need to stick to facts and get away from hate and misinformation

@Wolfen what exactly do you think the “world” should do?

Please explain how the Israeli authorities are targeting Hamas right now? How are you justifying this? How is it not collective punishment? It wouldn’t be ok for any country in the world to do this. Honestly, I grew up in Northern Ireland and to me this seems like the equivalent of Britain bombing catholic areas because the IRA committed atrocities in Britain.

Heelenahandbasket thats not war !!!!
even wars have protocols, this is a genocide , a total massacre ,
and how is Israel protecting itself?? , who in their right mind would want to live in a country that refused to negotiate the safe return of their own hostages and opted for mass destruction.