Israel-Palestine War: Hamas Breaks Out of Gaza, Israel Responds With Genocide

I don't know about this 972 magazine and whether the sources they cite are what they say, but found this summary of one of their articles:
WOW, this might be THE most important piece of journalism on the war on Gaza since it began, by Israeli newspaper
.https://972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/
Essentially they confirm, with unimpeachable sourcing, that the killing of civilians was all calculated and intentional.Their investigation is "based on conversations with seven current and former members of Israel’s intelligence community — including military intelligence and air force personnel who were involved in Israeli operations in the besieged Strip — in addition to Palestinian testimonies, data, and documentation from the Gaza Strip, and official statements by the IDF Spokesperson and other Israeli state institutions."What the investigation reveals is that "the Israeli army has files on the vast majority of potential targets in Gaza — including homes — which stipulate the number of civilians who are likely to be killed in an attack on a particular target. This number is calculated and known in advance to the army’s intelligence units, who also know shortly before carrying out an attack roughly how many civilians are certain to be killed."One source told them: "Nothing happens by accident. When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home."Even more dystopian - and this might be a first in the history of warfare - a lot of the targets are identified by AI: for instance they "use of a system called 'Habsora' ('The Gospel'), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can 'generate' targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a 'mass assassination factory.' According to the sources, the increasing use of AI-based systems like Habsora allows the army to carry out strikes on residential homes where a single Hamas member lives on a massive scale, even those who are junior Hamas operatives."I'm not going to copy the whole article here, you have to read this for yourself. IT IS INSANE. They've essentially been running, as the sources say, a "mass assassination factory" at a terrifying scale with massive and intended "collateral damage" (often the targets' entire families, or even sometimes much of their neighborhood), alongside an objective to destroy much of Gaza to “create a shock”, all on a population that had nowhere to escape. It'll likely remain in history books as one of the most depraved massacres in modern history.
With a grain of salt of course, but there's a possibility there.
 
An interesting perspective by a Jewish PHD student... Some Jewish people do see the truth about Israel.

I am sure, yes. Like us, living under a totalitarian system, some of us see the truth. Hopefully in every country, under every system there are groups of people that are in the same position as us. Seeing and suffering and fighting. Like this girl.
 
Not wonder they have to come up with the 40 beheaded babies, in order to divert the attention from the Hannibal Directive applied to the unsuspect citizens not just soldiers.

Israeli drone pilots targeted own settlements, bases, civilians on 7 October: Report
The pilots never imagined they would have to carry out air strikes on their own territory, and on such an 'undreamt-of scale'
The IAF’s 161st Squadron’s fleet of Hermes 450 drones at the Palmachim airbase. (Photo credit: Barak Shalev, Tomer Matzkin/Israeli Air Force)
Israel’s fleet of Hermes 450 “Zik” armed drones carried out attacks on Israeli military bases, settlements, and civilians during the Hamas attack on 7 October, according to a 14 November report from Mishpacha Magazine.

Previous reports have emerged showing that Israeli forces used tanks to kill Israeli civilians barricaded inside homes with their Hamas captors, and Apache helicopters to fire on Hamas fighters and their Israeli captives while returning back to Gaza.
During the fighting, some 1,200 Israelis were killed, with some killed by Hamas, and others by Israeli forces. Hamas took some 240 Israeli soldiers, civilians, and foreign workers captive.

Israel’s armed drone program was initiated in 1993 by Ehud Barak, then Chief of Staff of the army under Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon later approved the use of offensive drones for assassinations in the Gaza Strip. The best known of these attacks was the killing of paraplegic Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin in 2004.
Since that time, armed drones have slowly been replacing Israel’s previous use of warplanes, including US-made F-16s.

In its 14 November report, Mishpacha interviewed members of Squadron 161, which operates Israel’s Zik drone fleet, for details of the role they played on 7 October, including in Kibbutz Be’eri.

The orthodox Jewish-focused magazine noted that Zik drones were the first aircraft to respond to the Hamas attack, and that “for the first time in history, they had to carry out strikes within Israeli territory, even on IDF [Israeli army] bases.”
“The squadron was facing a scenario they had never imagined, on an undreamt-of scale, and above all, having to carry out strikes inside Israeli territory, inside bases, inside kibbutzim, something they had never prepared for,” the magazine added.

“Who ever thought we would have to carry out strikes inside Israeli territory, and on that scale? That was a scenario we had never imagined,” stated First Lieutenant A.

He explained that there were initially no Israeli forces on the ground, and so he and other drone operators were using their cell phones to communicate with civilians in the settlements, or kibbutzim, for the locations of Hamas fighters to hit with airstrikes. “We eliminated dozens of terrorists this way. You talk to a civilian, receive a location, release your payload, and return to base. Again and again, like a movie,” he said.
Crucially, the drone operators targeted not only Hamas fighters but also their Israeli captives. “On each flight, they killed dozens of terrorists, prevented them from advancing further into Israel or returning to the Strip with captives, and helped stop the attack,” Mishpacha wrote.

The airstrikes would therefore have killed both Hamas fighters and their Israeli captives as they crossed the border into Gaza.

First Lieutenant A explained further that, “There were images we had never seen before. One of the advantages of our aircraft is the high quality of the cameras. Now they served us well. We saw everything. The massacre, the horrors.
When asked why they did not send aircraft to the border fence to attack every cell trying to enter Israel or return to Gaza with captives, First Lieutenant A, explained, “I can’t go into the way the air force works and what exactly we did, for understandable reasons, but I can tell you that we worked on that front too.”

He continued by saying, “At the end of the day, there are certain prioritizations that the public is not aware of, and there are things we can’t do for a variety of reasons. But believe me that we did do that as well.”
The first lieutenant’s mention of “certain prioritizations that the public is not aware of” appears to be a reference to the Hannibal Directive.

In 2016, the Times of Israel described how the “directive allows soldiers to use potentially massive amounts of force to prevent a soldier from falling into the hands of the enemy. This includes the possibility of endangering the life of the soldier in question in order to prevent his capture.”

“Some officers, however, understand the order to mean that soldiers ought to deliberately kill their comrade to stop him from being taken prisoner,”
the paper added.
Once the army did arrive in kibbutz Be’eri, the soldiers were apparently quick to call in airstrikes, despite the danger this would pose to the kibbutz residents, in particular those held captive in homes, in order to avoid endangering themselves by confronting the Hamas fighters directly.

When we were on the ground in Be’eri and directed air force aircraft to strike terrorists, there was no way we could divert aircraft elsewhere,” says one soldier who spoke with Mishpacha.
“You should realize that the very few soldiers on the ground in Be’eri were almost entirely on their own, and if they had not had air support at that point, not only would nothing have been left of Be’eri, nothing would have been left of us, either,” he added.

According to one member of the local security detail who battled Hamas fighters at a dental clinic in Be’eri, many soldiers remained outside the kibbutz and did to join the fight.

Yair Avital told Israel’s Channel 12 that when he was evacuated at 6:30 pm on 7 October, “The thing I remember the most, and the most traumatizing thing for me from this ordeal, was [being evacuated after hours of fighting and] arriving at the entrance to the kibbutz and seeing 500 soldiers stationed in an organized and orderly manner, standing and looking at us.”
He said he and his team received help from a Special Forces unit known as Sayeret Matkal, but the 500 soldiers, who had dogs, equipment, weapons, and armored vehicles, did not come to their aid.

“I remember shouting at them from the stretcher, ‘They’re slaughtering us! Go in! Save us!’ and none of them looked at me, none of them said anything,” he explained.
 

+At least two killed and seven injured in Jerusalem shooting

At least two people were killed and seven injured in a shooting attack near the entrance to the city of Jerusalem, according to Israeli media reports. A 24 year old women and a 73-year-old man were killed in the shooting, Israel's ambulance service said. At least seven people were injured.
Israeli police said two shooters had been “neutralised on the spot.”
The shooting took place along Weizman Boulevard and
opened fire on people waiting for buses and rides along the main highway at the entrance to Jerusalem.
When I saw the news this morning about the shootings. It almost felt right on que. Something happens that will enable some support for the Israeli's murder of innocents.
I'm not saying it's definitely a false flag as I'm sure there are many who want to fight back in any way possible. It felt like the timing for the shootings was right in line with imminent resumption of hostilities.
 
Kirby at its best:


US: "We do not support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza"
According to White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, Washington advocates an extension of the humanitarian truce agreed upon between Israel and Hamas.

The United States does not support the idea of a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, said John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, on Thursday.

"We do not support a permanent ceasefire at this time. We support the idea of humanitarian pauses," he said at a press conference, responding to a journalist's question.

According to Kirby, Washington would "love" to see the truce between Israel and Hamas extended for many more days. However, he emphasizes that this requires both parties "to agree on the parameters to expand that agreement."

"In the United States they will continue to find a defender of extensions," the spokesperson stressed.

Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have agreed to extend the humanitarian truce in fighting for a seventh day.

Not sure if he realizes what he said... "We do not support an end to war, just brief pauses here and there."
 
Insomnia is a drag, but one positive is I can catch up on Jake Morphonio's latest vid on the Gazan crisis. It's a long one so is not for everyone, but if you listen in small chunks there's a lot of intelligent, humane analysis here. For those with limited time, it gets very interesting from around the 1hr 45m mark, he's no fan of Trump, in fact he deplores the entire political establishment. A nice breakdown on the subject of BDS follows on from that. Well worth watching, it's been great having him return to the fray after a fair few years of exile from direct engagement.

 
The United States does not support the idea of a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, said John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, on Thursday.
This statement came right on time...
Just a little puff on the ember and the fire get started again and again.

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1 Dec, 07:43

Truce ends as Hamas fails to provide list of hostages to be released — Israeli army​

Hamas also launched several rockets at Israel

PARIS, December 1. /TASS/. The Palestinian movement Hamas failed to provide a list of hostages it was willing to release on Friday and launched rockets at Israeli territory, forcing Israel to respond, so the truce is over, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson Colonel Olivier Rafowicz said.
"Hamas failed to abide by the terms of the truce and provide a list of hostages to be released today. Hamas also launched several rockets at Israel," he told France’s CNews TV channel. "The truce is over and the IDF has resumed combat," Rafowicz added.
According to him, the Israeli military has resumed strikes on targets in Gaza.
The Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV channel reported earlier that at least four people had been killed and several more suffered wounds in an Israeli strike on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.


1 Dec, 07:12

Israeli fighter jets carrying out strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza, army says​

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Israël savait depuis un an que le Hamas avait un plan d’attaque sans précédent, révèle le New York Times. Documents secrets à l’appui. Une lire. Ci-dessous la dépêche AFP.

Israel knew for a year that Hamas had an unprecedented attack plan, reveals the New York Times. Supporting secret documents. To read. Below is the AFP dispatch.

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Summary

+War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses

Israel renewed its bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip on Friday morning after talks to extend a truce had failed.
Israeli warplanes resumed pounding Gaza, Palestinian civilians fled for shelter and rocket sirens blared in southern Israel on Friday as war resumed after a week-old truce ran out with no deal to extend it.
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 streets fleeing for shelter further west.

In the north of the enclave, the main war zone for weeks, 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.
Barely two hours after the truce expired, Gaza health officials reported that 35 people had already been killed and dozens wounded in air strikes that hit at least eight homes.
Israel says it intercepted rocket launched from Gaza, while explosions heard in northern Gaza

+Israel drops leaflets telling Palestinians in Gaza to move further south

Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets on Palestinians in Gaza and told them to move further south, away from Khan Yunis to the Rafah area, which borders Egypt.
Text from the Israeli leaflet said: "To the residents of Al-Qarara, Kuza'a, Abasan and Bani Suhaila, you must evacuate immediately and go to the shelters in Rafah. The city of Khan Yunis is a dangerous combat zone."

+"This is a war on children"


UNICEF spokesperson describes the scenes at a hospital in Gaza as the ceasefire came to an end on Friday.

James Elder in his video said "Inaction by those with influence is allowing the killing of children". The Palestine Heath Ministry said there… pic.twitter.com/zqB0IgM8bl



 
It's about time this psycho finally passed away. Good riddence...

Fully agree with you Obi, it was high time for that reptile to go. Unfortunately he left a devastating "legacy".

After visiting Cambodia, Anthony Bourdain famously had some choice words about Kissinger:

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Henry Kissinger’s bombing campaign likely killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians − and set path for the ravages of the Khmer Rouge
 
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