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LIVE: Palestinians seek refuge in UN schools
The Associated Press ^ | October 8, 2023

Posted on 10/08/2023 8:18:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, said over 20,000 people were sheltering in 44 of its schools around Gaza by Saturday evening.

“The number (of displaced) is rapidly increasing, “ said Inas Hamdan, acting public information officer in Gaza.

The agency said three of its schools suffered “collateral” damage from Israeli airstrikes. The agency also said its operations of nine water wells around the Gaza Strip were stopped early Saturday.

In an UNRWA school in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood northwest of Gaza city center, residents described overnight Israeli strikes that hit the school’s courtyard causing panic and light injuries among those sheltering there.

At another school serving as a shelter in central Gaza city, people were piling blankets and food stuff in the three-story building. New arrivals brought in mattresses, packing their children into small and crowded classrooms.

“We didn’t know where to go,” said Umm Mohammad, or mother of Mohammad, a resident of a district on the eastern borders of Gaza. She described waking up in the middle of the night to screams, strikes and calls for evacuation. “We arrived at the schools miraculously because there was no transport.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; islam
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1 posted on 10/08/2023 8:18:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The UN is an enemy of America.


2 posted on 10/08/2023 8:18:56 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many of them are combatants.


3 posted on 10/08/2023 8:19:35 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

how is hiding in a communist grammar school supposed to protect terrorist murder gangsters?


4 posted on 10/08/2023 8:21:01 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I would not care. Just get them.


5 posted on 10/08/2023 8:24:30 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Israel let the Palis civilians know to get out before Israel attacks.
Hamas brutally attacked and killed innocent civilians with no warning.
Hard to feel sympathy with ALIVE Palis safe in shelters.


6 posted on 10/08/2023 8:35:31 AM PDT by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AKA Target rich environment.


7 posted on 10/08/2023 8:36:38 AM PDT by Colo9250 ( All Republican moderates need to go, all 200+ of them in 24)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Same place they are holding the hostages.


8 posted on 10/08/2023 8:43:28 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“The UN is an enemy of America.”

That’s been an understatement for about seventy years.


9 posted on 10/08/2023 9:02:54 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

United Abominations


10 posted on 10/08/2023 9:03:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RWGinger
I posted on another thread the following: Modern people have forgotten the fundamental rule of war, namely that only two ways to win exist: (1) kill all of the enemy or (2) break the enemy’s will to fight. That is it. No third way exists. Period.

Another rule of war is the following:

You cannot care more for the enemy's civilians than they care for their own and more than you care for your own. That means if you their civilians get killed in a fight to protect your civilians, you cannot let that stop you.

11 posted on 10/08/2023 9:11:19 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: piytar
Typo fixed:

I posted on another thread the following:

Modern people have forgotten the fundamental rule of war, namely that only two ways to win exist: (1) kill all of the enemy or (2) break the enemy’s will to fight. That is it. No third way exists. Period.

Another rule of war is the following:

You cannot care more for the enemy's civilians than they care for their own and more than you care for your own. That means if you kill their civilians in a fight to protect your civilians, you cannot let that stop you.

13 posted on 10/08/2023 9:13:31 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fortunately for her the IDF does not rape, sodomize and drags Palestinian women through the streets.


14 posted on 10/08/2023 9:14:22 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: faithhopecharity

Drag them out by their throats!


15 posted on 10/08/2023 9:19:01 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: piytar
BTW, these rules only but absolutely apply if you want to win the war.
16 posted on 10/08/2023 9:19:30 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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17 posted on 10/08/2023 9:21:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA

Big part of the whacko paleo-stin

ian problem right there.

Why the heck does the UN have a special agency just for a terrorist culture? And why is the USA, Germany and many other countries financing the entire population of Palestine?

The men have the time all day every day sit around building bombs and fomenting plans to kill Jews and Christians because their families are being fed and housed on the backs of American taxpayers and others.

How does the USA and so many other civilized western countries end up with such stupid political leaders?

18 posted on 10/08/2023 9:42:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (<blockquote> <p> Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
4th Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Part 3, Article 1, Section 28:

"The presence of a protected person (aka civilian noncombatant) may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations."

19 posted on 10/08/2023 9:48:56 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)
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To: piytar

Great post
But I do think Israel was right, from a world opinion standpoint, to let Pali civilians know to flee


20 posted on 10/08/2023 9:57:49 AM PDT by RWGinger (FJB)
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