War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses
War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses
Israel's warplanes pounded Gaza, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and residents into the streets to flee, as its war against Hamas resumed after talks to extend a week-old truce broke down.
As the deadline lapsed, Reuters journalists in Khan Younis in southern Gaza saw eastern areas come under intensive bombardment, sending columns of smoke rising into the sky. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west.
In the north of the enclave, previously the main war zone, huge plumes of smoke rose above the ruins, seen from across the fence in Israel. The rattle of gunfire and thud of explosions rang out above the sound of barking dogs.
Rocket sirens also blared across southern Israel as militants fired from the coastal enclave into towns.
Within hours of the truce expiring, Gaza health officials reported that 54 people had already been killed and dozens wounded in air strikes that hit at least eight homes.
Medics and witnesses said the bombing was most intensive in Khan Younis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been sheltering from fighting further north. Houses in central and northern areas were also hit.
No where is safe.
The truce allowed them to gather up in southern Gaza which makes it easier for Israel to shoot the fish in a barrel. Seems like Israel may have only wanted the truce for public appearances and to make it easier to exterminate them
what about Egypt?
That's the plan, yeah. Make all of Gaza uninhabitable and forcibly displace the population out of the country.
That's also literally genocide.
I think most of the remaining hostages are dead or in terrible shape so they won’t release them.
A lot of them probably are dead, but Hamas also can’t hand over all their bargaining chips. What is keeping the IDF from completely wiping out Gaza once there are no more hostages there?
No amount of hostages being held will end this ear. Israel's stated purpose is the complete removal of Hamas as a political entity and the war will continue until they feel they have met that goal or international pressure forces a long-term end of hostilities.
Or it's a last desperate bargaining chip.
Early Friday, shortly before the truce was set to end, Israel’s military said on the social media site X that it had intercepted a projectile fired from Gaza. Automated rocket alert systems reported that air-raid sirens had sounded in several areas of southern Israel, indicating rockets or shells had been fired from the territory.
Then, just after the 7 a.m. deadline passed, both the Israeli military and Gaza’s Interior Ministry reported that Israel was carrying out strikes across Gaza. Air-raid sirens sounded in several parts of southern Israel, indicating that Hamas or allied armed groups in Gaza had fired toward Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/30/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news
This is a detail from the New York Times article that people might find relevant. Rockets were fired from Gaza before the ceasefire had expired, and Israel retaliated immediately after the 7am deadline. Make of that what you will.
Israel said that? I believe it 100% then, they've never lied especially on their social media. Oh hey, is that that same official Israel account that posted the fake hamas.com website as if it was real? The one that was cartoonishly evil with Hamas Testimonials, all written in English, and hosted on an Israeli server?
There are plenty of examples of misinformation shared by both Palestinian supporters and the Israeli government so I'll believe this if it can be verified by a third party
It's possible it was hamas, it's also possible it was just some randoms. Equally possible it was mosad.
But regardless of who it was. It was definitely Israel making more unforced errors.