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Israel's Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the besieged Strip in the wake of the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance. His comments have drawn criticism for advocating collective punishment of Gaza's entire civilian Palestinian population in breach of international law.


Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant ordered an increase in intensity of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

Gallant said that the war Israel is fighting against Hamas is “a war for our future.”

He added: “Exacting a heavy price from the enemy is a necessary condition for our existence in the region.”

Gallant makes the comments during a visit to the Israeli Air Force’s underground command centre at the Israeli occupation forces headquarters in Tel Aviv.

link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231009-israeli-minister-we-are-fighting-human-animals/

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[–] yaminoEXE@ttrpg.network 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people. Hamas is a terrorist organization. The Israeli government support the genocide of the Palestinian people. Everyone else are just planning to profit from this.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every single liberation group was considered a terrorist organization. Fuck, even Antifa gets called that and they're not even an organization.

[–] KevinDeRodeTovenaar@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you think about hamas killing innocent people, children?

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Which children? Did Hamas target children like Israel does, or were they unfortunately caught in cross fire while they were fighting against their genociders?

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Aren't the governments made of and supported by civilians?

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What definition of "terrorist organization" are we using here?

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel: we literally don't consider the people of Gaza to be humans

You: sheesh, I really I can't tell the difference between these two!

[–] agarorn@feddit.de -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Israel Minister.

And Hamas also thinks jews are no humans, so yes, there is no difference.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel Minister

So... A representative of the Israeli state? The state founded on Zionism? That's not a correction. That is Israel.

Hamas also thinks jews are no humans

Source? Hamas has a history with anti Semitic conspiracy theories and generalizations, but not to the extent of saying Jews aren't human.

Not to mention, even said anti semitism was dropped long ago, when Hamas underwent a radical shift in membership when Israel killed off other PLO groups.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

There are non-combatants in this conflict that are bad people. They cheer on the extermination of others. Sometimes that's Hamas or the PLO (they run a fund that gives stipends to families of terrorists). Other times it's certain Israeli Jews who encourage conflict while not risking their own necks because they can claim a religious exemption from military service. They seek an Israel without Palestinian territories, or for that matter Palestinians at all (aka ethnic cleansing).

I'm not saying that non-combatants should be targeted. At the same time, I am saying that just being a civilian does not mean someone lacks blame.