330 reported killed so far in today's airstrikes

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czje23jd779t

New evacuation orders have been issued. Israeli government reported as saying they will fight until their war aims are achieved.

Oh how convenient for him.

Do you have similar sympathy for the Germans in ww2 and hatred for particularly the British who systematically bombed civillian areas more than any other nation during ww2? After oppressing the German people leading up to ww2.
People seem blind to the fact this is a common theme in war. We can dislike it, but let's not act like plenty of other nations haven't done the same when under threat.

That would be one of those rhetorical questions I guess?

No. A lot of people seem to have tunnel vision on this one war.

What is your opinion on how Britain acted in WW2?

Awful comment. 'Bleating about hostages'

Innocent people caught up in this terrible conflict on both sides. You can show support for gazan casualties without demeaning those innocent on the other side.

We have the terrible double act of Trump and Netanyahu murdering scum.

There has been a distinct lack of sympathy for the victims here.

I absolutely feel for the hostages families today after torture for 18 months (I have condemned Hamas many times here) to know how absolutely close they were to having them home and it might all be scuppered now by megalomaniac actions of evil men.

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They were bombed before the pre dawn meal.

I saw one mother crying her children had died hungry as they had only a few beans to eat. She lost all her children plus her husband.

I've seen babies lying dead on the cold hospital floor... A dead little boy who had visibly wet himself.

I saw a dead baby lying on top of his dead mother.

How can anyone justify this? It's ethnic cleansing, nothing else.

Palestinians have been resorting to terrorism and violence in support of their political goals for many decades. And their stated political goal has always been the destruction of Israel. Not their own state- but just the destruction of Israel. Before Hamas, PLO, Black September and numerous others. Israeli citizens have been constantly attacked.

Painting such a complex situation as purely Israeli aggression is ignorant. But that's what the terrorists would have you believe so...

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For Netanyahu and his equally evil cronies this was only ever about power and land. The hostages lives were never even a consideration.

Netanyahu will be over the moon today, he managed to kill and injure hundreds of Palestinians and Ben Gvir is now returning to government with his party.

Which is my point. In this war people seem unable to objectively look at both sides. Where did I say I do not feel it?
I'm pointing out that this is unfortunately standard in wars and people seem to be forgetting that and unable to look objectively at the situation in a way most people can with other situations (eg ww2).

I don't justify this. I'd say it's unjustified to restart at this point. I'm so sad to hear of yet more death and destruction. I'm worried for the hostages aswell, I'm worried they'll hear the bombing and reasonably conclude they are not an priority for Netanyahu. The whole thing is an unending fucking tragedy. Sorry if my posts suggested otherwise today.

The hostages forum are protesting right now because of the danger their loved ones are in right now.

I'm pleased that you are happy to condemn Hamas as see too many people on these threads unwilling to condemn them and not wishing to dwell on the barbaric things that happened on October 7th.

Like you, I have no connection with either side & I'm definitely not shrugging my shoulders about 400 people getting killed. I don't think this latest killing is justified so there is no reason to question my psychology.

It just stood out for me when @BelleHathor said Fuck Trump, Netanyahu, Fuck the IDF and referred to pure evil that they left Hamas out of the list. As I said in response to that post, two wrongs don't make a right but surely it's Fuck Hamas too.

The violence last night came from Israel's side.

But if people on this thread are going to talk about evil actions, Hamas are culpable too.

I saw those too. The poor little boy who must have died in terror. The small baby laying dead in their little rainbow covered babygrow. It's beyond words. I feel so angry and sad that this is happening again.

It would be great if people could stop the bickering and the justification and just allow these children and their families to be thought of today.

The thread is specifically about the actions that Israel chose to take last night, the actions that have ended the lives of many children. Maybe you can start a thread to talk about Hamas elsewhere if it is important to you? Or you could at least acknowledge how awful and unjustifiable Israels actions last night were?

My opinion, knowing people who lived through it, that war is hell on earth for everyone involved and you'd better be damn sure why you're starting the fight.That Britain and the allied countries would be terrible places if we lost.
That some people seem keen on perpetuating conflict but would change their tune if they had to live in it.

And the little boy staring at the wall for an hour. He lost his entire family.

And there are still people who think little children are terrorists.