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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.

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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: Diana in Wisconsin

It should be completely bulldozed and salt sown. Those folks could have lived in peace, but made a bad decision. You can flame me all you want.


21 posted on 11/23/2023 7:37:53 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
It should be completely bulldozed and salt sown. Those folks could have lived in peace, but made a bad decision. You can flame me all you want.

Then where do you think they will all go? Hint: It won't be other Arab countries.

22 posted on 11/23/2023 7:39:03 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jimwatx
They let it happen. Netanyahu planned this as an excuse to empty Gaza and to delay his corruption case. That’s the only explanation that makes sense.

I am beginning to wonder, but that gives absolutely no justification for what the terrorists did and for Palestinians not informing on them. If he did, execute him.

23 posted on 11/23/2023 7:39:32 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Gaza has become a moonscape in war. When the battles stop, many fear it will remain uninhabitable”

GOOD!


24 posted on 11/23/2023 7:40:30 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: dfwgator

Then why have so many Israeli NGO’s and other Jews facilitated the import of Muslims into Europe and the US?

Who are the greatest proponents of Open Borders in the United States? Even Jewish “conservatives” are all for open borders.


25 posted on 11/23/2023 7:40:30 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: dfwgator

If we had leadership here, they wouldn’t come here. However, look at all of the pro-Hamas protests that broke out over here. They ALREADY let in thousands they shouldn’t have. What a complete screaming mess.


26 posted on 11/23/2023 7:40:31 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Keep in mind, not all Jews love Israel and Zionists, far from it.


27 posted on 11/23/2023 7:41:37 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Blennos

COUP PLOTTERS!


28 posted on 11/23/2023 7:42:26 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: EEGator

There is some speculation that the left wingers in the intelligence community and upper echelons of Israeli military wanted an attack to hurt Netanyahu but didn’t expect it to be this large.


29 posted on 11/23/2023 7:45:42 AM PST by xionman (Biden Hates Israel)
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To: Blennos

I don’t think they missed Pearl Harbor - the war mongers needed a way to get American citizens angry enough to go to war.


30 posted on 11/23/2023 7:45:49 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Back to 1200 BC when the philistines sacked the Canaanites …eh
Life finds a way


31 posted on 11/23/2023 7:46:18 AM PST by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: dfwgator

“That’s dumb, because it would also make the US/West less pro-Israel.”
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That’s already happening as a result of the numerous war crimes Israel is committing. An now they are attempting to drag us into a regional war with Iran. I guess they figure this is their last chance to get the US to take out Iran before we collapse financially. In any even I no longer support Israel, as they have become too detrimental to US interests. I’m America first, not Israel first unlike some on this forum.


32 posted on 11/23/2023 7:46:30 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Tough shit.


33 posted on 11/23/2023 7:46:54 AM PST by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS)
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To: xionman

This is going to spiral. The idea we have 2 carrier groups in the Med for peace and stability is BS.


34 posted on 11/23/2023 7:49:04 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Now we are getting somewhere.


35 posted on 11/23/2023 7:50:11 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: Westbrook

F’n AP they never disappoint.


36 posted on 11/23/2023 7:51:33 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Westbrook

Don’t forget London


37 posted on 11/23/2023 7:51:45 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Senior Israeli military and intelligence have been obsessed with overthrowing Netanyahu since the last election, even advocating mutiny and violence. FR’s Jew-haters don’t know anything about Israeli politics.

Parliamentary systems depend on ministerial responsibility. Netanyahu is finished. Whether his reputation survives depends on how fake Israel’s Deep State investigation is.


38 posted on 11/23/2023 7:52:03 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jimwatx

“That’s the only explanation that makes sense.”

Which means it’s probably wrong.


39 posted on 11/23/2023 7:52:11 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“...the ruins of the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya...”


How can there still be a ‘camp’ for refugees from a war three quarters of a century ago? Are there ‘camps’ for any other refugees from that time? Why not?

Judging by their track record, I imagine that Gaza will be a ‘moonscape’ a century from now. After all, building materials will be urgently needed for more tunnels.


40 posted on 11/23/2023 7:52:37 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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