Hamas launches rocket attack towards Tel Aviv
www.bbc.com
Hours later, an aid agency said dozens of Palestinians had been killed and injured in an Israeli air strike on Rafah.

Hamas says it has launched a rocket attack towards the Tel Aviv area in central Israel for the first time in nearly four months. At least eight rockets were launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza and several were intercepted, the Israeli military says. No injuries have been reported.

  • smnwcj@fedia.io
    18·
    5 months ago

    Is it war when one group is wholly reliant on another for access to food, water, communication, electricity and other forms of aid?

    It’s ridiculous to call this a war when there’s such a dependency. Israel wants Palestinians in gaza over the southern border or dead, an ethnic cleansing and genocide.

    Not to mention the West Bank, which is not controlled by Hamas, being a center of settler violence and concentration camps for Palestinians.

    Some war.

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      Why is Palestine not a country? When Israel was created, Palestine was supposed to have been officially created too, you know why?

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Would you have accepted someone slicing the territory your people lived in as far back as you remember, expelling you from your home and telling you to move someplace else? I wouldn’t have. Perhaps that’s why.

        • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          You mean the 1948 partition resolution (which didn’t expel anyone from anywhere) or the 1967 armistice borders? Or do you mean the illegal settlements in the West Bank?

          • MyEdgyAlt@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
            6·
            5 months ago

            Ah yes, nobody expelled anyone from anywhere in 1948.

            The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, killing at least 107 Palestinian villagers, including women and children. … The massacre was carried out despite the village having agreed to a non-aggression pact. … was a central component of the Nakba and the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight.

            • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              Ok, fine, I read up on it and the Nakba was BEFORE the declaration of war by arab states. I think I saw an explanation that said they were expelled because they supported the arab invaders…which was propaganda I guess.

              I guess it is a sort of “civil war” of independence, but still pretty fucked up any way you look at it :/

              • MyEdgyAlt@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                4·
                5 months ago

                The DW documentary “Israel - Birth of a State” is very informative if you can find a way to watch it. It’s from earlier in 2023, by one of Germany’s major news outlets.

                • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
                  2·
                  5 months ago

                  Man, I usually have no trouble finding these docs all over the internet, but this one was harder than expected for an official public broadcaster like DW. All samples in youtube were made private, even the ones that had been published in other sites, the Internet Archive version is mangled…piped and yewtube can’t show it… I had to stoop down to the level of removedute, but it was there :D thanks for the recommendation. https://www.removedute.com/video/zh8PPsipFwgH/

                  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
                    4·
                    5 months ago

                    That’s weird. I watched it straight on DW’s YouTube channel in October. Well maybe not so weird.