Israel presses ground offensive in southern Gaza, air strikes intensify
www.reuters.com
Intense Israeli air strikes hit the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including in areas where Israel had told people to seek shelter, residents and journalists on the ground said.
  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    It came as Gaza’s health ministry said that at least 15,899 Palestinians, 70% of them women or under 18s, have now been killed in Israeli air and artillery strikes on the enclave since Oct. 7. Thousands more are missing and feared buried in rubble.

    Whatever this is, it’s kind of walking like a genocide and quacking like a genocide.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      Wasn’t the plan to send all 2 million Gaza residents to refugee camps on the Sinai, where Israel would have to control and reeducate them for at least a generation?

      Now, I’m no expert in genocides…

  • ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
    6·
    1 year ago

    Desperate Gazans in Khan Younis packed their belongings and headed towards Rafah. Most were on foot, walking past ruined buildings in a solemn and silent procession. But the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza (UNRWA), Thomas White, said people in Rafah were themselves being forced to flee.

    Desperation and confusion pressing in from all sides, blanketed in unavoidable fear. Throw in the video that auto-plays in the article of the hospitalized two month old, my stomach is turning upside down again.