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Hamas tells Gaza residents to stay put as Israel ground offensive looms
REUTERS ^ | October 13, 2023

Posted on 10/13/2023 7:58:20 AM PDT by McGruff

Mosques broadcast messages telling Gaza Strip residents to stay put on Friday, in defiance of an Israeli military call for more than a million civilians to move south within 24 hours in the build-up to its expected ground offensive.

Leaders of the enclave's governing militant group Hamas also urged Palestinians to ignore the call, and by Friday afternoon there were no signs of any mass exodus from the north of the enclave.

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Gaza analyst Talal Okal described the Israeli relocation order as an “attempt to push the Palestinian people of Gaza into Nakba".

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; hamaswar
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To: McGruff

Ironic when the victims and so-called enemy (Israel) try yo protect Fakestinian lives while the Fakestinian terrorists urge them to stay in the war zone to get killed. Israel will have to end the Fakestinian Occupation now


21 posted on 10/13/2023 8:19:15 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: McGruff

Devils.


22 posted on 10/13/2023 8:19:19 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: chuckee

“The big problem is either Hamas will imbed themselves with the southbound crowd...”

For this, I think it won’t matter. They can embed in the South, but Israel will have the run of the North and can clean up that place once and for all.

THEN, they can offer the civilians safe passage back to North Gaza, while sifting out Hamas, with the definition of Hamas being any male between ages 10 and 75.


23 posted on 10/13/2023 8:24:50 AM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: McGruff

How do you tell the difference between residents and Hamas?


24 posted on 10/13/2023 8:25:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: McGruff

Yes, the sign of cowards. Hiding behind others.

Typical of leftists, too.


25 posted on 10/13/2023 8:28:40 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: McGruff
Human shields

I do not think so. You have to understand the evil logic behind the tactic of terrorism. Its purpose is not to defeat or intimidate the opponent directly. Rather, the purpose is to provoke an overreaction which would cause public opinion to turn against the original targets of terrorism. I think that the goal of Hamas is to provoke the Israelis to launch an attack on Gaza. They would then want the civilian population to stay, not as shields but as deliberate victims in order to turn public opinion against Israel: pure evil.

26 posted on 10/13/2023 8:31:36 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: McGruff

Stay and die, well, okay.


27 posted on 10/13/2023 8:31:43 AM PDT by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Hamas.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Just like Vietnam—kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out...


28 posted on 10/13/2023 8:34:56 AM PDT by W. (Hillary should have married OJ, someone here said yesterday...)
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To: 1Old Pro

If they are shooting at you, they become dead Hamas. Anyone unarmed is a civilian, even if they are Hamas. Everyone there is likely Hamas.


29 posted on 10/13/2023 8:35:46 AM PDT by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Hamas.)
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To: McGruff

If they stay they can get it too
Free choice


30 posted on 10/13/2023 8:39:30 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: jcon40

“No doubt families trying to leave will be shot then used as props to make the Israelis look bad”

Absolutely right


31 posted on 10/13/2023 8:54:11 AM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Reno89519
...Anyone unarmed is a civilian, even if they are Hamas...

Any "civilians" still in the north are Hamas. That makes target identification so much easier.

Eight-year-old girls can still carry small boxes of ammunition for their older brothers to use. They can also pull a trigger to detonate IED's. That makes them legitimate targets of war. Our guys saw children used as combatants in Iraq. The Israelis will see this in Gaza. It leaves an indelible mark.

Some true horrors of war have yet to be displayed for us. And we are not prepared for them.

32 posted on 10/13/2023 8:55:53 AM PDT by flamberge (The most dangerous threat comes from people who live within a five-mile radius of you.)
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To: McGruff

That right there is all that anybody needs to know in order to differentiate Hamas and its fellow Arab terrorists on the one hand, from Israel and the west on the other. The terrorists worship death, and don’t give a rat’s ass about their own people. Israel, on the other hand, warns the people from whom the murderers of its own people come, to get out of the way because war is coming to their territory - it doesn’t want innocent deaths, even on the side of its enemies. That the Israelis care deeply about their own people, every single one of them, is beyond question. It’s not even a new story, everybody knows it.

What we are dealing with is a thoroughly evil death cult. As much as it pains us morally (because of the innocents who will die), we must back Israel and its efforts to destroy these monsters, because to fail to do so is to invite more acts like what happened to Israel on Saturday.


33 posted on 10/13/2023 9:09:18 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: McGruff

With water, food, and electricity shut off, a little patience might be warranted. Shell any generators.


34 posted on 10/13/2023 9:10:56 AM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: McGruff

They want Gaza casualties so they can boo hoo over them and blame Israel. Civilian casualties will be THEIR fault, NOT Israel’s, who is begging Gaza residents to get out of the way.


35 posted on 10/13/2023 9:17:33 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: The Louiswu

the jihadis will be right below them

in the tunnels


36 posted on 10/13/2023 9:35:09 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: BobL
I really don't care about people who VOTED FOR Hamas as their government. Ask any of them, they'd be proud to have their kids martyred blowing up innocent Israelis. They teach them from birth to hate Jews and Israel. They fit them for suicide vests. I'm supposed to feel anything for them except revulsion?


37 posted on 10/13/2023 10:03:58 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: McGruff

Forbid the media access to Gaza.


38 posted on 10/13/2023 10:17:55 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: McGruff

Stay, get shot. Attempt to leave, get shot.


39 posted on 10/13/2023 10:28:58 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: BobL
THEN, they can offer the civilians safe passage back to North Gaza, while sifting out Hamas, with the definition of Hamas being any male between ages 10 and 75.

NOPE! DO NOT LET THE COME BACK! DEPOPULATE the entire Gaza Strip. Problem solved. Let Egypt ship them to Turkey on boats.

40 posted on 10/13/2023 10:38:31 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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