Israeli troops gun down thousands of Palestinians awaiting aid in north Gaza

Brits and Spaniards didn't kill like 50 million people for you to give the crown to an upstart

They try to not be open about it though, at least to its own population, unlike "israel".

It's basically a US colony in Palestine though so ig it's a moot point.

Gonna throw a hat in the ring here for the British Empire as the king of genocide.

Iirc ghenkis khan has everyone else beat.

Hot take, but I think we got a dethronement.

Please, do tell, how is the USA the most genocidal country on this earth?

There's a Twitter link here from the IDF. The comments show exactly what they are thinking "these are ants, look how funny it is that we killed 100 of them".

Literally people cheering for a military shooting at starving people. Christ this is what Nazis look like.

How long before Israel starts ironically selling arab skinned lamps?

They know what they are doing. They want the land, but first they need to kill all of the people living there.

This is not coincidence. This is policy.

Well alright, but i still wouldn't shoot a vunch of animals hanging out.

The latest count on Al-Jazeera was 109 with over 800 wounded, and reports of 40 bodies bulldozed away that no one can reach. They did shoot at a crowd of thousands.

No. Many are still unaccounted for.

No. The article says the number wounded is likely in the hundreds. The headline is exaggerating a tragic event.

They're shooting to kill. If they hit someone, that person has been gunned down whether they die immediately or after bleeding out. They're shooting at a crowd of thousands, and 800 are dead or dying as a result, according to Al Jazeera. So maybe we need to wait a few more hours before the 1000+ number can be confirmed, but it's already obvious Israel was aiming for 'thousands'.

Also is this the same event?

Israeli troops gun down thousands of Palestinians awaiting aid in north Gaza

It says Israeli troops gun down thousands of Palestinians awaiting aid in north Gaza, did you read the fucking article, it’s right in the title.

“gun down thousands”

That does not mean shot at, that means killed.

If it were just an "Assault Rife," like an M16 or Uzi or something, then the casualties wouldn't be nearly as high. But according to the article it was a heavy machine gun, like one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M240_machine_gun

Which is something that is only depicted in Hollywood films when they want to really drive home the war-crime "bad guy" aspect by having the Nazi's fire into a crowd.

If the US cut them off they would just turn to Russia. Putin and Netanyaho are like Putin and Trump. Russia would jump at the chance to broaden their foothold in the Middle East, and it would go perfectly with their narrative of fighting "Nazis" in Ukraine, and it would give the US a black eye.

The US should be doing far more to distance itself from what Israel is doing, but the only way it can actually stop it would be a committed invasion.

Considering the amount of people, no doubt that's true. Starving people have to be handled differently. You can't just show up with a truck full of food.

https://twitter.com/afalkhatib/status/1759750070487142895?t=CuLbFmHI4Aniab2ZUs23og&s=19

Northern Gaza right now is the scene of a true hunger/starvation crisis that is absolutely about to spiral out of control. Israel’s refusal to allow desperately needed food aid into the north is worsening this crisis. However, Hamas’s actions are giving Israeli decision-makers and war planners excuses and pretexts not to take rapid action and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions from worsening. Hamas's irresponsible and damaging actions include continuing to launch rockets from areas where IDF troops withdrew, causing the Israeli military to re-enter those zones and prevent the return of civilians to their neighborhoods.

But here is a particularly egregious example: I and several others behind the scenes are pushing for food airdrops especially in northern Gaza which is unreachable, isolated and receiving virtually no aid from the south. Yesterday, Jordan announced its intention to carry out more airdrops in the north since that is seemingly the only way, for now, to deliver substantial food and humanitarian supplies to the hundreds of thousands of besieged civilians in the north. So, what do the Hamas dark lords in Gaza City do today? They publish videos of a few fighters using shoulder-launched surface to air missiles (SAM-7, Soviet-era Strela-2 IR launchers) to target Israeli helicopters and fixed-wing drones. There is no evidence that these launches successfully downed any aircraft, particularly because the system is ancient and most modern military aircraft are equipped with defensive countermeasures. However, what this does is complicate efforts to conduct food airdrops over northern Gaza either because civilian cargo aircraft lack countermeasures or, more importantly, food airdrops would need to be carried out at a lower altitude, elevating the risk of them being hit by shoulder-launched SAMs. Nevertheless, I maintain that food airdrops can be safely conducted while accounting for the operational risks which can be mitigated

King Abdullah and World Kitchen have both had successful food drops into North Gaza since this was written.

Dudes drunk the koolaid. Probably not worth the effort to get him to think critically

I said it was from a biased source, not that it was wrong, but if you want to see an example of why it's bad compare the death count in the CNN report vs. this one. It's not "thousands" gunned down, even according to Hamas:

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said 104 were killed and more than 700 injured in the incident, one of the deadliest since the war in Gaza began.

It also includes IDF statements which paint a very different picture of events:

In an initial account, Israel said Gaza residents surrounded the aid trucks and looted the supplies. “During the incident, dozens of Gazans were injured as a result of pushing and trampling,” the Israel Defense Forces told CNN.
An Israeli military spokesperson later said in a briefing that there were two separate incidents involving aid trucks.
First, he says trucks went to the north and were swarmed by crowds, with trucks running over people. Subsequently, he says, a group of Palestinians approached Israeli forces, who then opened fire on the Palestinians.
“The truckloads went into the north, then there was the stampede, and then afterwards, there was the event against our forces. That’s how things transpired this morning,” the spokesman said.

I don't believe anything offhand from such a source, especially on matters regarding Israel, nor should you. Stick to credible organizations if you prefer objective reporting to emotionally charged propaganda.

Thanks!