Disturbing visuals of Hamas parading a naked and battered body of a woman on the streets of Israel have emerged. Another woman confirmed that it was her sister, a German citizen, seen in the video.
As the Israel-Gaza conflict rages, disturbing visuals of fighters of the Palestinian armed group Hamas parading a naked and battered body of a woman through the streets of Israel in the back of a pickup truck have emerged.
According to videos that surfaced on social media, a screaming crowd surrounds the Hamas’ vehicle, echoing their cries and spitting on the woman’s body.
Hamas initially claimed that the body belonged to a female Israeli soldier, according to news.com.au. However, Adi Louk confirmed on X that the woman seen in the video was her sister, Shani Louk, a German citizen and a tattoo artist, reported the New York Post.
Shani Louk’s mother, in a video message posted by Visegrad 24 on X, confirmed her daughter’s identity and appealed to people for more information regarding her whereabouts.
So I recently went to the effort to actually read some books on the situation there.
This event, and any like it, are inexcusable war crimes. Atrocious acts that cannot be justified. There have been countless war crimes on both sides of this war, unfortunately for not just the two countries involved but all the other people and countries that have been in the way (Lebanon, for one).
But these actions ARE the direct result of the oppression and genocides the Palestinian people have endured for the last century. Hamas actually had many members who advocated against such methods and well-connected members who made many attempts to negotiate through diplomatic channels, but thanks in large part to concerted propaganda efforts in the US by Israel, the war crimes committed by Israel are rarely reported as war crimes, at least in sources that most Americans would read. The Zionist movement from the start was well-funded and well-connected, and took advantage of that and their US propaganda to shut any Palestinian groups out of democratic/diplomatic channels.
Again, I’m not trying to excuse or be dismissive of the situation at hand - this is a completely inhumane, unforgivable act that makes me sick to my stomach to read about.
But I also KNOW that Israel committed war crimes last night just based on the retaliatory statements they were making - it echoes EERILY statements made by Israeli leaders prior to some of the most horrific war crimes of this war. And I know that many of those war crimes will probably go undocumented/unreported.
And again, not to justify anything, but to bring perspective: nearly 11,000 Palestinians have died in the war since 2000, to about 1,500 Israelis, and that doesn’t consider the Palestinians jailed or the many ways they are oppressed in their own land.
“You can only kick a dog so much before it snaps” - doesn’t mean a dog biting a kid that didn’t kick it is okay, but it biting the kid is still attributable to the abuse it endured which caused it to go feral.
Kino no Tabi (2003 version) episode 12 “A Peaceful Land” shows exactly the cycle of violence that goes from oppression to dragging a (mostly) uninvolved civilian through the streets.
Well put. People have been fighting over this land since 3000bc. The only thing that’s going to stop the violence between all the factions is each stopping the violence themselves. No more settlements. Roll back the illegal settlements. No more bombings, rockets, etc. Stop letting the religious fundamentalists IN BOTH SIDES run the show.
Do I think this is feasible? Historically… no. But I hope.
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Didn’t they end up more or less completely wiped out?
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Killing civilians is terrorism!
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Palestinians really seem to have no real way to win this conflict. I’m not sure why they continue to try fighting. Is what happened to them, just losing their lands like that, unjust? Yes. But that was like 100 years ago. Isrealis are not going to go away, and they are far more powerful and organized. At this point, the Palestinian militants are just making it harder for everyone to move on, causing more pain and suffering in an endless conflict that always costs them more than their enemies.
Oppression breeds resistance.
More people will die until they stop resisting. More oppression will happen when they do more barbaric things in the name of resistance.
The Palestinians are on the losing end. The Israelis aren’t any closer to defeat.
More people will die until they stop oppressing. More resistance will happen when they do more barbaric things in the name of defense.
The Zionists are on the wrong side of history. The Palestinians aren’t any closer to giving up.
You do know that each time, the Palestinians are the ones with the larger death toll and the disadvantage in technology and equipment, right?
The “Zionists” are on the right side of history in no other means than the fact that they are surely going to outlast whatever the Palestinians has in store.
Yeah congratulations on completely missing the point of my last comment. I was making fun of how absurd and pointless your comment was.
WOW, REAAALLLYYYY? After reading multiple books on the history of the conflict, I HAD NO CLUE! Thank you for enlightening me, oh educated one!
Typical Reddit exchange recreated on Lemmy.
Next time I’ll play the part of the jester and say idiotic shit and you can play the part of the person who is actually educated on the topic at hand.
“Why won’t they simply give up and let us oppress them? Strange.”
Hamas literally wants to exterminate all of Israel, so I guess thanks for justifying Israel actions
Israel’s actions are unjustifiable, and for you to say otherwise shows your complete and utter lack of education on the topic at hand.
Don’t comment any more on this thread please, you’re too ignorant and will only be contributing to misinformation.
deconstruction of the state of israel is not mass genocide, it is decolonialism
Population of Gaza is growing 3% a year. If the Israelis are committing genocide they’re not doing a very good job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
Well they fucked around and found out. Start a war and lose and your people get displaced, boo hoo.
Indigenous people cannot start a war defending their homeland from a settler-colonial project that seeks to destroy them as a people.
Try and use that brain of yours for more than being a headass, mkay?
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If the British owned the land in that time how are Palestinians claim to the land valid?
If the British owned the colonies how are American claims to the land valid?
??? Lovely analogy except Americans were British people so the colonies went from British owned to British owned under a different government lol.
The more apt analogy would be the Indians and Manifest Destiny Or still different but pretty similar Texas and Mexico. But what can I expect from someone like you.
Britain didn’t own it, they “controlled” it as a result of the fallout of WW1 (Palestine was previously part of the Ottoman Empire).