Posted on 06/20/2024 8:20:37 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
It began without warning. “Planes were bombing. Tanks were firing. Quadcopter drones were shooting. People were running and screaming. It felt like Judgment Day, as if we were living our last moments.”
This was the scene at around 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 8 in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. Aerial bombardment, as described by a journalist in the camp who preferred to remain anonymous, was accompanied by the entry of dozens of Israeli military and police special forces personnel who emerged from aid trucks. “We couldn’t understand what was happening,” the journalist added.
As later became clear, a major Israeli military operation was underway to retrieve four hostages whom Hamas had kidnapped from the Nova music festival almost exactly eight months prior. In doing so, Israeli forces unleashed devastation on Nuseirat camp, killing at least 276 Palestinians and wounding approximately 700 more.
“The intensity of the bombing felt like an earthquake,” Enas Al-Louh, a 45-year-old from Gaza City who had sought refuge in the camp, recounted. “I thought my life would end right there. I was screaming at my children not to leave my side so that we could die together. For more than an hour, we lived through the horror of nonstop bombing and shelling.”
For Amjad Al-Majdalawi, a 40-year-old who had been staying in Nuseirat camp with his family since the start of the war, the sound of explosions and people screaming in the market jolted him into a state of panic. “My mind stopped, and I ran to check on my family,” he told +972. “While running, I saw the martyrs and the wounded lying on the ground, and the survivors begging for help.
“I arrived home to find my children and my family screaming in fear,” he continued. “We tried to find some relief from the shock of the event, but it continued to become more and more violent. The occupation deceived the camp through the state of calm in which we lived for several days [prior to the operation], without hearing the sound of reconnaissance planes. Then came the attack, with such brutality. Everyone in the camp lost someone from their family.”
‘We are cheap blood in this hypocritical world’
As hundreds of wounded Palestinians began arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in nearby Deir al-Balah, the Israeli army called the hospital staff and ordered them to evacuate, threatening to bomb the hospital. Staff passed on the warning to those it could, but most were too desperate to pay heed. The attack didn’t materialize, and it appears that the threat was intended to sow further chaos and confusion as Israel’s operation unfolded.
“All the photographers and journalists chose to stay,” the journalist recounted. “By covering the events inside the hospital — which continued to receive countless numbers of injured patients — we fulfilled our work. We didn’t care about the evacuation order, because what we experienced was more terrible than any other thought or feeling. The crying of mothers and children was so intense.”
Khalil Al-Dakran, the hospital’s spokesperson, told +972 that most of the wounded who arrived that day were women and children. But due to the Israeli army’s continuous attacks on central Gaza in the previous weeks, he explained, the hospital was unable to receive such large numbers.
“We treated the injured on the floor of the corridors and outside in the tents, because there were no empty beds to receive the wounded,” Al-Dakran continued. “They arrived in ambulances, civilian cars, and animal-drawn vehicles.” The situation was so dire that the hospital was forced to send patients to Al-Awda Maternity Hospital, which was closer to the massacre in Nuseirat, despite it being ill-equipped to accommodate patients with severe injuries.
Al-Aqsa’s dwindling resources further limited the hospital’s ability to admit the influx of patients. “Some medical delegations come to Gaza with supplies that can help our patients, but the Israeli army confiscates these and prevents them from entering Gaza,” Al-Dakran explained. “It inhibits the entry of fuel and medical equipment into hospitals and keeps the wounded from seeking life-saving treatment abroad.”
The Nuseirat operation marked only the third time since October 7 that Israeli forces have freed hostages alive. The second, on Feb. 12, also came at a high cost to Palestinian lives, killing at least 74 in Rafah’s Shaboura refugee camp in order to create a “diversion.”
Al-Louh is still struggling to make sense of what he witnessed. “How is it reasonable to kill over 200 people for the sake of four? We are cheap blood in this hypocritical world that does not know the meaning of humanity, does not speak about the hundreds of martyrs and wounded, and does not express its anger at this massacre.”
“We couldn’t understand what was happening,”
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It’s called getting your a$$ kicked for committing unspeakable war crimes. Understand now?
All Palestinians are guilty, just like all Germans were in WWII.
Saying is still true:
“If you don’t want to do the time, then don’t do the crime.”
Killing noncombatants in Israel while not at war was NOT a good idea, Hamas.
Since it seems that every Palestinian is at least a Hamas supporter....
Don’t want to pay the price, don’t do the crime.
I'm hoping that the IDF is able to help with your current martyrdom deficiency, Enas Al-Louh and Ruwaida Kamal Amer.
‘How is it reasonable to kill over 200 for the sake of four?’
There is me and my team and four hostages, and a man who would help do awful things to me and my companions if I don’t blast him, so I blast him, as is the reasonable thing to do.
Each such shooting decision point has a ~25 to 1 proportionality ratio.
Repeat until me and my companions are safe.
It’s called war. That’s how it makes sense.
276 sounds like a good start now add some zeros to that numver.
They were in a massive, multi-hour firefight inside what amounts to a city center. I heard reports there were .50 cal machine guns firing from inside apartment building along with all kinds of other weapons. The IDF were basically surrounded - they knew it was going to be an ambush - and went in anyway. If Hamas didn’t take the hostages, didn’t hide them inside a densely populated area, or didn’t put up a fight and just released the hostages knowing they were up against a formidable fighting force and that shooting would cause collateral damage as well as their own friendly fire deaths and destruction of these buildings, then these deaths wouldn’t have happened.
If the 200 were terrorists (as they were) why not?
CC
If You Don’t Want To Be Killed, Don’t Take Hostages
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I don’t care what city or country you name. If some group takes hostages, the government will send in the SWAT team or some type of military commando unit. They will try to negotiate their release, but eventually if they are not released the government is going to go in heavy and take out the kidnappers. This is what will happen in practically every country on earth except maybe a few spots where there is civil war and no functioning government.
200 libs or muzz?
It is a start.
Likewise for BoweLMvoe types and liberals here.
“We’ll be over, we’re coming over,
And we won’t come back till it’s over, over there.”
George M. Cohan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_There
إن شاء الله inshallah... right???
And the end of the 7-year Tribulation, the 7-years of (so-called) “Peace and Security”, Satan’s Antichrist and Satan’s False Prophet, along with Satan himself, will deceive the world’s armies into battle - making war with Him that sat on the horse, Jesus Christ.
There will be major war against Jerusalem - especially in the middle of the 7-year Tribulation - when the Abomination that Causes Desolation is set up in the Third Temple - when Satan’s Antichrist declares himself to be “god” - THIS is when the Mark of the Beast is actually deployed by Satan’s False Prophet.
This is Armageddon. This is the Battle of Armageddon.
And it is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to Earth.
Let those with ears to hear, hear.
That’s right.
You are correct.
Obviously.
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