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The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more
The Associated Press | Hamas ^ | June 17, 2024 | BY SARAH EL DEEB

Posted on 06/17/2024 4:02:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

BEIRUT (AP) — He is among the very last survivors of his Gaza family, a clan so close they knew without thinking how blood and marriage bound them across generations and city blocks.

Then, branch by branch, 173 of Youssef Salem’s relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in a matter of days in December. By spring that toll had risen to 270.

Bones and flesh strewn over the ruins of family homes. Blond curls of a young cousin peeking through bricks. Unrecognizable bodies piled on a donkey cart. Lines of burial shrouds.

These images are what survivors are left with from hundreds of families in Gaza like the al-Aghas, Salems and Abu Najas.

To a degree never seen before, Israel is killing entire Palestinian families, a loss even more devastating than the physical destruction and the massive displacement.

An Associated Press investigation identified at least 60 Palestinian families where at least 25 people were killed — sometimes four generations from the same bloodline — in bombings between October and December, the deadliest and most destructive period of the war.

Nearly a quarter of those families lost more than 50 family members in those weeks. Several families have almost no one left to document the toll, especially as documenting and sharing information became harder.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; americanpravda; antisemitic; ap; consanguineous; gaza; hamas; hamaspropaganda; islam; israel; journalism; press; prohamas; terrorism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more

And the problem is???? Sounds like a win for the rest of the world.

41 posted on 06/17/2024 4:53:34 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes this type of massacre always happens when the enemy drops leaflets warning you a week in advance to leave. 🙄


42 posted on 06/17/2024 4:55:28 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: bert; PghBaldy

See post #34.....


43 posted on 06/17/2024 4:59:10 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No worries, they still have one of the fastest growing populations around:

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/HRV/palestine/population-growth-rate


44 posted on 06/17/2024 5:00:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bert

No, The IDF is eradicating Hamas.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Good, and the sooner the better for all civilized people on the planet!


45 posted on 06/17/2024 5:01:13 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: Nateman

No, you have got it wrong.

The enemy is Iran. Hamas is the surrogate detailed to war with Israel.


46 posted on 06/17/2024 5:03:55 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well gee, I guess they should have thought about that before poking the bear and wiping out thousands of Jews. Oh that’s right....there are no other thoughts in their heads except “kill da jooz”. From birth.

These people are an extra sickening specimen of humans.


47 posted on 06/17/2024 5:05:00 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: marktwain

And how many families were destroyed by the Nazis in their death camps? Many more than that, I’ll wager.


48 posted on 06/17/2024 5:06:21 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Don’t start a war!
49 posted on 06/17/2024 5:06:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>> Then, branch by branch, 173 of Youssef Salem’s relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in a matter of days in December. By spring that toll had risen to 270.

This just might be the Feel Good Story Of The Day! But it’s still early...


50 posted on 06/17/2024 5:13:13 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many of those families were complicit in holding Israeli hostages?


51 posted on 06/17/2024 5:13:52 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: bert; Nateman

>> No, you have got it wrong. The enemy is Iran. Hamas is the surrogate...

Simply put: Islam is the problem!

“Kill ‘em all and let GOD sort ‘em out.”


52 posted on 06/17/2024 5:22:02 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hypocrites! Is it not the primary goal of Hamas to wipe out every Jewish family in Israel?


53 posted on 06/17/2024 5:26:11 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: JBW1949

Well, that would explain a lot.


54 posted on 06/17/2024 5:31:28 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That why happens when you attack and kill,innocent people and take hostages.


55 posted on 06/17/2024 5:32:39 AM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock them )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FAFO.


56 posted on 06/17/2024 5:37:23 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Mark17

Hah! More like a lot of BS all the time. But then I just remembered how many of them have the same last name.


57 posted on 06/17/2024 5:39:41 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: JBW1949

Reminds me of Larry the cable guy’s joke...”Went to a family reunion to find a date.”.


58 posted on 06/17/2024 5:40:43 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
T S! Don't kill Jews with more orgiastic pleasure than the Nazis do and you won't get killed. Besides, don't these guys say they want to die as the Joos want to live? These savages are getting their wish.

Enjoy your 72 Helen Thomases buckos.

59 posted on 06/17/2024 5:42:23 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Enrique Tarrio? “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrew)
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To: Omnivore-Dan

LOL...


60 posted on 06/17/2024 5:45:46 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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