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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: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Yep.


41 posted on 11/23/2023 7:53:18 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: EEGator

Maybe he did. Maybe not. But the army, naval and air forces on the ground in Hawaii had no advance warning.


42 posted on 11/23/2023 7:53:45 AM PST by Blennos ( Bya)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Upside is Gaza would be a great place to film the next Terminator movie!


43 posted on 11/23/2023 7:53:56 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: dfwgator

Both the Israeli right wing and left wing are insisting the US take in Gazan refugees. These refugees are not pro Israel, but Israel wants them in the United States.

Jews who aren’t for open borders for this country or any European country are incredibly rare.

Their goal is to destroy white majority demographics and the destruction of any nationalism.


44 posted on 11/23/2023 7:54:13 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Right Wing Jews destabilize Muslim countries, Left Wing Jews bring the Refugees to the West)
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To: faucetman

Bulldoze the rubble into the Mediterranean. Make the former Gaza a part of Israel.


45 posted on 11/23/2023 7:54:29 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
.. many fear it will remain uninhabitable

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

46 posted on 11/23/2023 7:54:33 AM PST by tomkat
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To: dfwgator

“pressure the US to take in Gazan refugees”

Jews - sheep

Gazans - wolves

If you’ve given asylum to sheep you don’t put wolves in the same place.


47 posted on 11/23/2023 7:54:59 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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


48 posted on 11/23/2023 7:55:11 AM PST by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh well. Maybe the Palestinians should have thought of that before they supported Hamas and joined in in its attacks on Israeli civilians.


49 posted on 11/23/2023 7:55:23 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: jimwatx

“That’s already happening as a result of the numerous war crimes Israel is committing.”

???


50 posted on 11/23/2023 7:55:36 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: dfwgator; MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“Then where do you think they will all go?”

Drive them into the sea. That’s one of their proposals for the Jews so it’s perfect justice.


51 posted on 11/23/2023 7:57:33 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Once the war is over, clear out the debris and remaining Muzzies. Turn the property over to the Trump family and let them build a mega resort.


52 posted on 11/23/2023 7:57:34 AM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: MeganC
Drive them into the sea. That’s one of their proposals for the Jews so it’s perfect justice.

Never happen. The West is too nice.

53 posted on 11/23/2023 7:58:20 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

the Israelis are completely remiss if they haven’t salted the earth yet ...


54 posted on 11/23/2023 7:58:22 AM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: SaxxonWoods

The Israelis themselves suspect the same thing. It was watching their interviews that caused me to come to this conclusion.


55 posted on 11/23/2023 7:59:35 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

56 posted on 11/23/2023 7:59:59 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

After the Israeli soldiers pass through, a group should follow them, round up the survivors, put them on a bus, and deport them to the west bank.
Behind them should come bulldozers.
Flatten everything.
Never let another so called “palestinian” back there.
Ever.


57 posted on 11/23/2023 8:00:55 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Drew68

LMAO!


58 posted on 11/23/2023 8:01:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: clashfan

“Who was it who said “Elections have consequences?””

so do sneak attacks ... just ask the Japanese about that ...


59 posted on 11/23/2023 8:01:25 AM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: sjmjax

Joshua 15
45 The territory of the tribe of Judah also included all the towns and villages of Ekron.

46 From Ekron the boundary extended to the Mediterranean and included the cities along the borders of Ashdod with their nearby villages;

47 also the city of Ashdod with its villages, and Gaza with its villages as far as the brook of Egypt; also the entire Mediterranean coast from the mouth of the brook of Egypt on the south to Tyre on the north.


60 posted on 11/23/2023 8:02:19 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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