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 ...
Maybe the so-called “palestinians” shouldn’t have VOTED support for hamas to run their government. Maybe they shouldn’t support terrorism. Maybe...
If you don’t like Israel’s peaches don’t shake Israel’s trees.
The threat from Hamas to Israel is greater than I had anticipated in the initial aftermath of 10/7. Bibi should declare martial law until the war ends.
there’s a price to pay for starting a genocidal war of annihilation against a significantly more powerful neighbor ....
“...Unrecognizable bodies piled on a donkey cart....”
Otherwise known as war porn. Only democrats are more deserving. /spit
Well i guess Gaza had better lay down their weapons for good and promise never to attack Israel again then huh?
Don’t start wars you can’t afford to lose.
Even today, a vast majority of palestinians polled want war.
Give it to ‘em good and hard.
And yet, civilians are willing to be human shields.
There is no contemporary record of Sherman having said that exact thing. Close, but no seegar.
Weren’t they given ample warning to leave?
Boo Hoo
This sounds like genocide—how true is it? Its not cool—Jesus never talked about killing folks. The longer this goes on the worse the problem will get.
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