For two days, Shaymaa Ziara has been seeing messages in WhatsApp group chats from family and friends in Gaza about how to keep themselves safe from white phosphorous bombs that are allegedly part of Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza.
Ziara, who lives in Markham, Ont., said her father, three siblings and pregnant sister-in-law are currently in Gaza, moving from building to building in an effort to avoid the constant bombardments from Israel since hostilities began after Hamas militants launched a stunning and brutal attack in Israel on Saturday.
Videos of white phosphorus munitions allegedly deployed in Gaza have been circulating online for several days.
On Thursday, Human Rights Watch said it has confirmed that these munitions are being used over the Gaza City port using videos posted on Oct. 10 and 11, and interviewing two people from the al-Mina area in Gaza City who described the strikes.
They know the West will support them no matter what. This is actually not the first time they use white phosphorus in Gaza, and nobody did anything about it.
True all of the whinging about possible civilian deaths while hitting the military targets in Gaza but you just aren’t going to convince anyone that is backing Israel to stop. Hamas murdered and took hostage of plenty of other nations that are friendly to Israel. Releasing hostages would probably be the start of some form of talks but we’re nowhere near that even if Hamas is capable of mercy that we are expecting Israel to have.
“Possible” bruh we’re past that point already.
Some civilians will die in a war in such a densely populated area. No one has figured out how to completely eliminate that. War sucks.
Not actively trying to raise civilian casualties would be a good start.
I don’t think killing civilians is the goal of Israel but it definitely is the goal of Hamas. The civilians could reject Hamas but they actually support them pretty strongly It seems.
Bro have you heard of Israel giving evacuation locations then bombing those locations? Bombing hospitals? Giving an evacuation order that, even if carried successfully, would cause untold amounts of death and suffering?
Well they kinda fucked themselves in accepting Hamas as the legitimate government which means they are in fact bound by international human rights and war crime laws.
Absolutely. Biden has been a Zionist for longer than I’ve been alive. The western powers can’t be convinced, not because of Hamas recent actions - but because it took a lot less to convince them, and they’ve held those beliefs before through and after Hamas’ most recent attack.