world/2024/04/08/gaza-aid-truck-investigation-polglase-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn CNN finds new information contradicting IDF's account of night over 100 died in Gaza
Zionism is predicated on ethnic cleansing of Palestinians’ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/live...gaza-kills-14-in-nuseirat-camp?update=2828395 Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says Israel’s war on Gaza and its US backing highlights the total breakdown of international law. Elmasry said the recent UN Security Council resolution demanding Israel to immediately stop its attacks – which has been completely ignored – was just a “public relations” exercise. “It’s looking like the rules-based international order is more or less a myth. International law only counts for powerful nations. The United States doesn’t look like it’s interested in following international law, or that its closest ally Israel does. And that’s just the reality,” he said. While Western nations talk about a “two-state solution”, he said the priority should be stopping the “genocide” being carried out by Israel in Gaza. “Zionism is predicated on the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. The whole idea is for there to be a ‘greater’ Israel. The land is supposed to be purified of the Arab presence. Zionism is inherently expansionist. Until this is addressed, we’re not going to have a viable Palestinian state,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera.
Not a single word from this clown in Al Jazerra that the Hamas charter states very directly its entire intent is to wipe out Israel and kill every Jew.
As expected, a genocidal terrorist group Hamas has murdered the majority of its remaining hostages and does not have 40 available to release for a ceasefire agreement. Hamas says it doesn't have 40 living hostages required for ceasefire deal Eight Americans were also kidnapped, but at least two of them have been confirmed dead. https://justthenews.com/world/middl...ve-40-living-hostages-required-ceasefire-deal Hamas tells negotiators it doesn’t have 40 Israeli hostages needed for first round of ceasefire https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/middleeast/hamas-israel-hostages-ceasefire-talks-intl/index.html
IDF trigger happy lying bastards murderous bloodthirsty revengeful unprofessional goons shoot at anything which moves including hostages or anyone waving a white flag. After the killings they call them 'mistakes'. How 3 Israeli hostages tried to save themselves, only to be killed by their own military Israeli troops were primed for an ambush, not the possibility of hostages walking around behind enemy lines in Gaza City. Samer Al-Talalka, Alon Shamriz, and Yotam Haim.Courtesy of the Al-Talalka, Shamriz and Haim families via AP Dec. 23, 2023 By Anna Schecter The three Israeli hostages had been in captivity for 65 days when they received a glimmer of hope. A group of Israeli soldiers arrived at the building in Gaza where they were holed up with their captors. The soldiers released a combat dog into the building equipped with a GoPro camera. The Hamas militants killed the canine, setting off a firefight with the soldiers. The hostages’ captors died in the gunbattle, but the soldiers moved off, unaware that their compatriots were inside, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Five days after that missed opportunity, the three hostages were mistakenly killed by Israeli soldiers, an incident that has thrown Israel into a new phase of mourning and sparked public outrage. The hostages, Alon Shamriz, 26, Yotam Haim, 28, and Samar Talalka, 24, had emerged from a different building bare-chested and holding a makeshift white flag Dec. 15, but they were shot dead by soldiers who thought they were walking into an ambush and hadn’t accounted for the possibility that escaped hostages could be moving around Gaza City, according to a preliminary IDF investigation. Israel: Mistakenly killed hostages had escaped Hamas 5 days earlier The three had been held captive in the Shejaiya neighborhood, a longtime Hamas stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the war. It was the site of a Hamas ambush two days before, in which nine Israeli soldiers, including a battalion commander, were killed, according to the IDF. “There is a direct link between the sad and very unfortunate mistake in killing those Israeli former hostages and the other ambush incidents,” Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, international spokesperson for the IDF, said in a telephone interview Thursday. It’s not clear where exactly the hostages went during the five days after their captors were killed, but they did take extraordinary steps to make contact with the Israeli military. They used food to stain a cloth with the words “help 3 hostages” written in Hebrew, as well as “SOS,” to alert the IDF to their location. An Israeli drone captured video of the signs hanging from a building, but the battalion that was there at the time marked the building as a potential trap, according to the preliminary IDF review. A sniper positioned more than 100 yards away fired the shots that killed Shamriz and Telalka — and wounded Haim, the IDF said. Haim then ran back inside the building and called out for help in Hebrew. The battalion commander held fire. But when Haim re-emerged in the doorway, another soldier, against the orders of the commander to not fire, shot him dead, according to a preliminary assessment. The soldiersreportedlysaid they had not fully understood their commands. The IDF publicly acknowledged the mistake as soon as the families of the three men were notified. “It’s super important to understand the psyche and the combat environment these soldiers are in,” Conricus said, citing instances of units encountering Hebrew messages believed to be traps, and incidents of women and children approaching IDF soldiers with white flags when Hamas snipers were lying in wait. NBC News has not independently verified the accounts. Around the same time that the hostages were mistakenly shot, a different battalion came upon a suspected trap several miles north of Shejaiya, this one involving booby-trapped children’s dolls and a Bluetooth speaker playing songs and voices of children in Hebrew. No soldiers were hurt but multiple explosive devices were found in the area, according to the IDF. “Of course this doesn’t justify this mistake,” Conricus said. “According to the rules of engagement, soldiers are not supposed to fire when someone has a white flag.” The IDF released a video of the chief of the general staff, Herzi Halevi, lecturing commanders and soldiers in Gaza. “You see two people, they are with hands up and without shirts. Take two seconds,” he said. “I want to tell you something just as important: If it’s two Gazans with a white flag coming out to surrender — would we shoot at them? Absolutely not. That’s not the IDF.” Halevi said arresting Hamas fighters who have surrendered is valuable to the IDF’s mission because of the intelligence they can provide. The IDF has arrested and is in the process of questioning more than 1,000 enemy fighters, according to Halevi. In the wake of the incident, the IDF issued new guidelines about how to handle a potential situation in which troops encounter hostages in a combat zone, something that was not done prior to the incident. “Hopefully we will have another opportunity where hostages will come to us or we will reach a house [with hostages] and do the right thing,” Halevi said. More than 100 hostages remain in captivity, including seven Americans. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack that Israeli officials say killed 1,200 people, more than 20,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israeli attacks, according to Gaza health officials. More than 130 Israeli soldiers have died in battles with Hamas in Gaza, according to the IDF. On Dec. 19, four days after the hostages were killed, Israeli soldiers returned to the building where the militants had killed the IDF combat dog. The military personnel that reviewed the dog’s GoPro camera made a shocking discovery. The camera had captured the voices of the hostages calling for help during the firefight. The GoPro continued recording after the dog’s death, and it also recorded the men talking to one another before they fled the building, according to the IDF. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his condolences in a post on the social media platform X the day of the shooting. “The entire state of Israel will mourn this evening,” he said in the post, adding that “this is a combat zone where there have been many incidents in recent days. Immediate lessons from the event are now being passed on to all the fighting forces in the field.” The families of the three hostages responded differently. “I’m going to say this [to] the government. You murdered my son twice,” Avi Shamriz told NBC News’ Hallie Jackson on Monday. “You let Hamas take my son on Oct. 7, and you killed my son on Dec. 14.” Leila Talalka, mother of Samer Talalka who is a Bedouin Israeli, said the government’s apology was too little too late. “No one helped bring my son back,” she told NBC News. But the mother of Yotam Haim released an audio recording comforting the soldiers who were responsible for her son’s death. “I am Yotam’s mother. I wanted to tell you that I love you very much, and I hug you here from afar,” Iris Yotam said in the recorded message Wednesday. “I know that everything that happened is absolutely not your fault, and nobody’s fault except that of Hamas.”
Netanyahu: "Hamas are responsible for keeping hostages alive after we have flattened Gaza". "Thank you Joe for bunkerbusters, they're the ideal weapon for keeping innocent people safe in this situation".
The prevailing mentality of America and guns...... 5 Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in less than one minute after Dexter Reed a young black man who appeared to have shot first during a traffic stop in Humboldt Park last month, according to police oversight officials. Apparently pulled over for not wearing a seat belt. Sorry, but ya just gotta laugh at the out of control craziness of 'law enforcement'.
I can't get over the gall..... Biden calls Netanyahu's handling of Israel-Hamas war "a mistake," says "I don't agree with his approach" By Ed O'Keefe, Tucker Reals April 10, 2024 / CBS News President Biden has sharpened his criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Mr. Biden described Netanyahu's war policy as "a mistake" and called on his Israeli counterpart to agree to a cease-fire of up to two months, during which he said humanitarian organizations should have "total access" to deliver food and medicine to Gaza. "What he's doing is a mistake," Mr. Biden told Spanish language broadcaster Univision when he was asked whether he believed Netanyahu was "more concerned about his political survival" than he was about the Israeli people's security.......
Yawn.......Go for it Joe!!! Biden vows 'ironclad' support for Israel amid Iran attack fears 23 minutes ago By Max Matza & Will Vernon, BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68786054 Getty Images President Joe Biden has promised Israel "ironclad" US support amid fears that Tehran could launch reprisals for an attack that killed senior Iranians. Mr Biden warned that Iran is threatening to launch a "significant attack" after Israel struck the Iranian consulate in Syria 10 days ago. "We're going to do all we can to protect Israel's security," he added. Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's leader said the Israeli attack in Damascus was equivalent to an attack on Iran itself. "When they attacked our consulate area, it was like they attacked our territory," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech. "The evil regime must be punished, and it will be punished." It is unclear what form any reprisal attack would take. For Iran to strike Israel directly would risk an even greater escalation in the conflict, and analysts have said Iran does not have the military capability for a significant confrontation. A possible alternative is an attack via an Iranian proxy like Hezbollah, which has traded fire with Israel across the border from Lebanon almost daily since 8 October. Those exchanges have intensified in recent weeks. "Hezbollah is very capable, hundreds of thousands of rockets and missiles there, on the border that can reach all the way into southern Israel," Joe Buccino, former Communications Director at the US military's Central Command, told the BBC. "Hezbollah is much more capable than Hamas. So they'd have the capability to do significant damage into Israel." On Sunday an Iranian official warned Israel's embassies were "no longer safe", suggesting a consulate building could be a possible target. Experts have also suggested Iran could target Israel with a cyberattack. Thirteen people were killed in the 1 April attack on the Iranian consulate building, including senior Iranian military leaders. Among them was Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of Iran's elite Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, but is widely considered to have been behind it. US and Israeli forces in the region have been put on high alert in the days since. Last week the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) cancelled leave for soldiers serving with combat units and called up reservists to bolster air defence units. Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz responded on social media to Ayatollah Khamenei's comments by saying if Tehran attacked from its territory, Israel would react and "attack in Iran". Meanwhile the head of US forces in the region, Gen Michael Kurilla, is to discuss the threat of a possible Iranian attack in talks with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and army Chief of Staff Lt Gen Herzi Halevi in Israel on Thursday, according to Israeli media reports. Mr Biden's remarks came as he was speaking to journalists at the White House on Wednesday alongside Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. "As I told Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel's security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad - let me say it again, ironclad," Mr Biden said. His comments come one day after an interview, recorded a week ago, was aired in which Mr Biden urged Mr Netanyahu to "just call for a ceasefire" in Gaza and in which he said he disagreed with the prime minister's war strategy. "I think what he's doing is a mistake. I don't agree with his approach," he said in the interview with US network Univision. Mr Biden has sharpened his rhetoric over Israel's conduct in the nearly six-month-old war sparked by Hamas's 7 October attack, and voiced his growing frustration with Mr Netanyahu. Iran backs Hamas and Iranian officials have praised the attack in which about 1,200 people were killed and 253 taken to Gaza as hostages. US officials have been attempting to send a message to the Iranians that, despite differences of opinion between Mr Biden and Mr Netanyahu, any attack on Israel will met with an aggressive US response. In an effort to ease tensions, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Iraq spoke to their Iranian counterpart this week, according to Axios. The ministers were asked to convey a message from Mr Biden's senior Middle East advisor, Brett McGurk, about the need to de-escalate. According to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, more than 33,000 people - mostly women and children - have been killed in the Israeli offensive, which was triggered by Hamas's attack. Additional reporting by Raffi Berg