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An Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza, killed at least 73 Palestinians on Saturday evening, according to the enclave's government media office.

More than 100 others were wounded and several people missing.

Israeli air strikes targeted a multi-floor building and damaged a number of nearby houses, medics in the Gaza Strip reported.

The government media office said that Israeli forces had bombed overcrowded residential areas in Beit Lahiya, adding that women and children were amongst the casualties.

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I've lost faith at this point.

Canada's Prime Minister just posted something about the October 7th incident like it's the most horrible thing to happen in the Middle East, when there's a literal Holocaust happening in all of Palestine.

It's fucking tone deaf.

But he's got the anti defamation league and B'nai B'rith breathing down his neck at the same time. So it doesn't matter what we do or say or how much we write to them or protest, they still won't fucking listen.

And somehow, the conservatives are high in the polls for the next election somehow.

It make zero sense.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I don't think its a good idea to compare it to the holocaust.

Genocide takes many different forms. Its still a genocide even if the people aren't being exterminated by toxic gas and their remains burned in ovens.

Gaza is still a concentration camp even if they're not wearing prison clothes and forced to work for the Israeli State.

Genocides take many different forms, but if you call this a Holocaust then you're just falling into a Hasbara trap that's very easy to prove you wrong.

Call it a genocide, not a Holocaust.

[–] Naryn@lemmy.world -4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Gaza is still a concentration camp even if they're not wearing prison clothes and forced to work for the Israeli State.

It's not a concentration camp, it's a hostile foreign territory that carries on launching hundreds of rockets into Israel.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 8 hours ago

Gaza has a right to defend itself

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