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The death toll means around ten percent of the kibbutz's population was wiped out

The bodies of more than 100 people were discovered by volunteers in a single, small Israeli village Monday — including those of children — believed to have been killed by Hamas militants caught on camera.

The remains were discovered in Be'eri, or Bari, a kibbutz in southern Israel close to Gaza. It's one of the villages Hamas militants invaded on Saturday as they began their attack on the country.

"Today the volunteers entered Kibbutz Bari and it is impossible to explain in words the terrible sights - some were adults, some were children. These are horrors that cannot be grasped in the mind or soul," a spokesperson for Zaka search and rescue told IDF radio.

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[-] jcit878@lemmy.world 77 points 11 months ago

Hamas thought this operation would change everything.

They were right, but not in the way they expected. All they've done is turn soft sympathisers like myself away from their cause. They deserve everything they get and it's not going to be pretty. The Palestinian who will be killed during crossfire are on Hamas hands this time and the rest of the world will see it that way. absolute own goal, so they could... massacre a bunch of civilians. Hamas showing military genius of the likes of Russia

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No, the Gaza residents don't deserve collective punishment, and that is what Hamas wants. They want Israel to overreact and clamp down. They want videos of their dead children and women across all media. This is part of the tried and true strategy of big guy vs little guy conflicts, and guess what it NEVER WORKS... for the big guy.

How did 9/11 work out for Osama Bin Laden? Better then he could have ever even dreamed of.

You can't kill your way out of this kind of conflict. The only ways out are A) complete genocide or B) political resolutions and bringing them to the table.

Neither Bibi, nor Hamas, want option B, and they're both hoping that eventually option A will work out in their favor.

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[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Israel at least shows an attempt to target military and government buildings, where as Hamas always aims for civilians. And they use their own people as human shields. It's gotten harder and harder to sympathize, and keep seeing their point of view.

[-] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago

Lmao what? They cut off water to civilians. It's over. Palestinian women and children are going to be dying in massive numbers over the next week.

That doesn't even begin to include the number of Palestinian civilians being shelled to oblivion in the supposed "safe areas" designated by the authorities.

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 35 points 11 months ago

Israel at least shows an attempt to target military and government buildings,

They're not doing that right now, that's for sure.

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[-] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 28 points 11 months ago

Israel routinely bombs news buildings, wtf are you talking about?

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Far be it for me to defend the IDF, but Hamas does go out of its way to create civilian death delimeas for Israel, such as using news buildings and hospitals for critical operations centers. It's a win/win, either Israel won't destroy that Hamas infrastructure, or they literally blow up journalists and hospitals.

I'm not even saying this to cast judgement one way, or another, it's just an objective statement of fact and these tactics are incredibly effective for the type of conflict they're engaged in.

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[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Bro they're been demolishing civilian infrastructure for decades, most of the time Palestinian Gaza does not have power because Israel bombs the power station.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 11 months ago

Hamas is shit but no yeah Israel kills thousands of civilians every year. They've killed 22 journalists in 20 years. They have hit news buildings with rockets, once calling for an evacuation first, for whatever fucking reason they had to hit those buildings I guess. Israel is an apartheid state. No, Hamas isn't giving a proper response.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 14 points 11 months ago

It's for this human shield behaviour that this could be the beginning of the end for the whole of Palestine. Israel doesn't care anymore, so any civilians are going to be in the firing line too. All Hamas needs to do to bring about the end of Palestine is to keep using Palestinians as meat shields.

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Literally the opposite. Like in black and white, in the data on death tolls since 1948 or whenever you want to start counting. Palestine doesn't have a military, Israel doesn't allow them to. How would they be targeted if they don't exist? Every. Single. Time. Someone from

Hamas does something stupid out of desperation, takes out a couple Israeli soldiers, and Israel responds by slaughtering hundreds to thousands of Palestinian civilians. Completely disproportionate in every way.

Like it's kind of wild how much gall it takes to straight up REVERSE a statistic like that, and state it as fact. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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[-] turnleftist@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Palestinians using violent means might think they're succeeding because they are actually getting landback for the first time in decades, but they fail to consider how bad it looks to me, a guy on the internet who thinks it would be better for their PR if they kept dying instead.

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[-] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

No, the Palestinians who are killed are on the hands of Israel, who killed them. The "they did it first" argument didn't work with your mom when you and your siblings were fighting as kids, what the fuck kind of mental gymnastics makes you think it works when we're talking about genocide of an entire people? You're out of your damn mind.

And don't get gleeful watching Palestinians die, because Israel is about to invade Gaza. That's house-to-house and room-to-room fighting. Ask the Russians how that went in WW2, or the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Israelis haven't done all their dying, they're just signing up for the slaughter now.

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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Have you seen the air raids in the Gaza strip? They fucked up big time. They're getting carpet bombed, I can't believe they didn't see this coming

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

They did I'm sure. This will turn more people against Israel. Israel has all the power, and they continuously kill civilians, sometimes because Hamas is using them but often for no reason. As bad as it is, this is how you fight when you don't have equal power. You cause an overreaction and capitalize on it. It also shows that Bibi isn't actually "Mr. Security" like he says.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

It was always unclear who was worse because it as always a tit for tat that has been going on for so long. It is such a complex issue.

What is not complex is this terror attack was totally one-sided and came at a time when tensions had been dropping and things seemingly improving. It is clear Hamas has gone too far, and it was just brutal to witness.

Isreal government leadership needs to change, and Hamas needs to be eliminated. Netanyahu has been in power for far too long and its dangerous, and unlikely to resolve and issues they have.

Once he is gone and Hamas is gone, they can perhaps come back to the bargaining table.

[-] ReverseThePolarity@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Tensions were rising not dropping.

[-] gastationsushi@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Hamas has always supported genocide against Jewish Israelis, they have always been extreme. You had sympathy for that? WTF bro!?

[-] jcit878@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

sympathy for the plight of the poor bastards being used as pawns by their genocidal terrorist leaders? yeah of course I do. Why would I be in favour of wiping the people out?

[-] gastationsushi@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You shouldn't, but you phrased in a way that made it sound like the Palestinian masses are responsible for Hamas.

The masses aren't interested in instigating war or conflict. Muslims and Jews both could live in peace like they did before the West took over, but that would disrupt the western hegemony. I think people should blame leaders, including leaders outside the Middle East when we are looking for reasons for this never ending and bloody conflict.

[-] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Hamas could probably extrapolate what came next, it's not exactly new ground. As for your sympathy, it didnt change a damn thing for them in the first place what did they lose?

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