Hamas militant group has started a war that 'Israel will win,' defense minister says
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Israel’s defense minister has announced that the Hamas militant group has started a war against Israel and pledged that “Israel will win.”

Israel’s defense minister announced that the Hamas militant group has started a war against Israel and pledged that "Israel will win.”

Following a security cabinet meeting at the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that Hamas “made a grave mistake” in launching barrages of rockets into southern and central Israel in its surprise morning attack.

In one of the most serious escalations in years between Israel and the militant group that rules Gaza, Hamas gunmen crossed the border fence at several places and infiltrated Israeli communities.

  • sivalente@lemm.ee
    4813·
    1 year ago

    This isn’t just rocket attacks. There are technicals driving throughout streets shooting civilians, hostages and houses burnt down. Reports of hundreds of people ariving at hospitals. Over 500 reported injured and 20 dead so far.

    Not military targets. Not government facilities. People’s homes and communities.

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
        397·
        1 year ago

        Those are horrific as well, but it’s simply not true that the IDF roams around Palestinian villages murdering every Palestinian they find, and you know that.

        For starters, if they did, there wouldn’t be very many left.

        This childish need to see one side as unequivocally good and the other bad must be discarded or people find themselves cheering for citizens to murdered while waiting for the bus, and if you’ve gotten to that point, something has gone deeply wrong.

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
        2010·
        1 year ago

        Are you really doing a whataboutism while there are literal terrorists shooting up households right now?

        Holy shit dude you have no fucking soul.

      • Landrin201@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1216·
        1 year ago

        Hamas mutilated a woman’s corpse then paraded it through the streets this morning. I’ve never even heard of Israel doing something remotely close.

        Bust sure keep doing antisemitic whataboutism.

      • Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1620·
        1 year ago

        Israel doesn’t target civilians, nor fires indiscriminately. These are like the crazies that shoot up schools and concerts in the USA.

        • saraabi@lemmy.world
          186·
          1 year ago

          This is demonstrably, objectively false. There are literally dozens of UN reports with clear evidence that Israel routinely targets civilians. They literally just bombed a five story apartment building an hour ago. Look up “mowing the grass”

        • randon31415@lemmy.world
          1718·
          1 year ago

          Yes, the IDF doesn’t target civilians just like how American police don’t target African americans.

  • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
    27·
    1 year ago

    I think we can all agree that this is a bad thing and a lot of people will die, regardless of ideology or affiliation. Let’s all start there.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
    2321·
    1 year ago

    The (world) news lemmy communities being true to their reddit influences by only posting about Israel and Palestine when it can be skewed as an unprovoked attack against the poor oppressed racist settlers civilian pariahs

    • mholiv@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      The important part is that you feel morally superior to both sides.

      Edit: the person above me edited their comment. The original version was them rambling on about supporting any side being the equivalent of being excited for WW3.

  • S_204@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    I keep hearing from the River to the Sea on this site… looks like Hamas is going to get their wish.

    Netanyahu is going to use this attack as excuse to level the strip, wonder if Haifa will expand or if they’ll bother to rebuild Hebron?

    The Saudis are abandoning the Palestinians and joining the Abraham accord. Hamas has condemned the people of that region to death. This is terrible.

  • Praise Idleness@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2231·
    1 year ago

    I try not to pick a side as I have no connections to either sides whatsoever but one is a homophobic misogynistic religion nut terrorists and the other is secular(somewhat), democratic country.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      2711·
      1 year ago

      the other is secular(somewhat), democratic country.

      That practices ethnic cleansing (this one is kinda dubious) and apartheid.

    • PugJesus@kbin.social
      132·
      1 year ago

      Both sides are really shitty, unfortunately. Hamas isn’t Fatah - Hamas is a bunch of far-right theocratic loons who maintain an iron grip on the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. Israel has, since the 1980s, become increasingly right-wing and ethnonationalist, putting Palestinians under a regime that treats them as second-class, at best, and treating them as nuisances to be removed for Israeli settlements.

  • sugarfree@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2852·
    1 year ago

    It’s clear from the footage coming out of southern Israel right now that the goal of Hamas is to simply kill as many Jews as possible. Either you stand with Israel right now or you stand with genocide. You can no longer claim ignorance of the crimes of Hamas if you associate yourself with the “#freepalestine” cause.