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Gaza has become a moonscape in war. When the battles stop, many fear it will remain uninhabitable
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | November 23, 2023 | AP Staff

Posted on 11/23/2023 7:20:29 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

Israel's military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells.

Nearly 1 million Palestinians have fled the north, including its urban center, Gaza City, as ground combat intensified. When the war ends, any relief will quickly be overshadowed by dread as displaced families come to terms with the scale of the calamity and what it means for their future.

Where would they live? Who would eventually run Gaza and pick up the pieces?

“I want to go home even if I have to sleep on the rubble of my house,” said Yousef Hammash, an aid worker with the Norwegian Refugee Council who fled the ruins of the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya for southern Gaza. “But I don't see a future for my children here.”

The Israeli army’s use of powerful explosives in tightly packed residential areas — which Israel describes as the unavoidable outcome of Hamas using civilian sites as cover for its operations — has killed over 13,000 Palestinians and led to staggering destruction. Hamas denies the claim and accuses Israel of recklessly bombing civilians.

“When I left, I couldn’t tell which street or intersection I was passing,” said Mahmoud Jamal, a 31-year-old taxi driver who fled his northern hometown of Beit Hanoun this month. He described apartment buildings resembling open-air parking garages.

*SNIP*

In the seven weeks since Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, Israel unleashed more munitions than the United States did in any given year of its bombing campaign against the Islamic State group — a barrage the U.N describes as the deadliest urban campaign since World War II.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; War
KEYWORDS: bombsaway; gaza; gazaisrael; hamas; suckstobethem; war
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To: Jim Noble

Ok. Remove your security guarantees from many countries. Withdraw into your comfort zone, and look on whilst the crazies topple one country after another. And then they will turn their attention to you. But you won’t have any pre deployments and countries for staging attacks on your enemies, because they may no longer exist, are bravely fighting off the crazies on their own, or the bases and training areas and local know how you through away,are now in the hands of your enemies.


121 posted on 11/23/2023 3:21:05 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Threw away


122 posted on 11/23/2023 3:22:00 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Boo hoo for Gaza you mess with the bull you get the horns.


123 posted on 11/23/2023 5:01:57 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: TexasM1A

Well said. :)


124 posted on 11/23/2023 6:04:25 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: tomkat

“Apart from its being land the Israelis would otherwise make productive, anyone else not seeing a problem with this?”

I do not. ;)


125 posted on 11/23/2023 6:07:57 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Sertorius

“Just bulldoze it and let the Israelis move in. Watch it prosper.”

Been saying that for years. :)


126 posted on 11/23/2023 6:08:59 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: wjcsux

“Turn the property over to the Trump family and let them build a mega resort.”

It is some amazing ocean-front property, that’s for sure.

And still? In fifty years the ‘Palestinians’ couldn’t make anything of it, other than importing terrorists to the point where Hamas IS THEIR GOVERNMENT?!?!

Some things just boggle the mind...


127 posted on 11/23/2023 6:12:37 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Drew68

Oh, Drew. Only you! ;)


128 posted on 11/23/2023 6:13:12 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Good! Barbarians deserve moonscapes.

(Yeah I know I’m late to the party here...)


129 posted on 11/23/2023 6:13:35 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Drew68

I’m gonna go post that on Facebook. Let’s see how quickly they toss me in FB Jail...yet again. *SMIRK*


130 posted on 11/23/2023 6:14:38 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Amen.


131 posted on 11/23/2023 6:17:29 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: dfwgator; FRiends

“Yeah, but at least we built up Germany after the war with The Marshall Plan.”

Yes, we did. And we’ll have to do it again. German ‘government’ (read: Merkel, that beotch!) has imported so many foreigners (read: Muslims) that at some point we’ll probably have to bail them out all over again. Last I read, German nationals were fleeing. Running for their lives.

But, it’s probably too late this time around. History is repeating - but all over the d@mn GLOBE these days. We ARE the Last Bastion of Freedom. For now. For a while. Maybe for a few more weeks. Definitely OVER if 2024 doesn’t go our way...

Sorry, Germany! This Turnip (Taxpayer) is TAPPED OUT! You are on your own.

And so are any of our ‘allies’ that have been even more STUPID than we have been with the illegal imports and open borders BS.


132 posted on 11/23/2023 6:26:14 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: dagunk

It’s my local TV news station. They’re too lazy or incompetent to do any in-dept reporting of their own so they regurgitate CNN and AP and all the other Socialist Media sites out there.

Always great fun. Sparks LOTS of conversation. Obviously. ;)


133 posted on 11/23/2023 6:30:11 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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