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With these demands, Hamas aren't going to be standing down anytime soon.
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With these demands, Hamas aren't going to be standing down anytime soon.
Good, now they should ban any Australia citizens or residents from joining the IDF.Australia imposes sanctions on seven Israeli settlers in West Bank
Australia has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israeli settlers and a religious group occupying parts of the West Bank.
This follows the International Court of Justice's confirmation that Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory were illegal under international law.
Israel's government dismissed that finding as "blatantly one-sided" and not legally binding.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-25/australia-sanctions-israeli-settlers-west-bank/104139604
With these demands, Hamas aren't going to be standing down anytime soon.
And with reports like this, the Israeli government won't be either. Israel's goal has been the annexation and settlement of Gaza and the West Bank and they are well on their way to achieving this while the world sits idly by watching the ongoing massacre.
While I am sure there are settlers who want to return to Gaza I don't see any evidence the govt does. Wouldn't have withdrawn in 2005.
West Bank is a different story. Israel should be punished & sanctioned heavily for settler activity in West Bank territory.
The IDF has taken control of 26% of the Gaza Strip, building bases and paving roads. Israel's religious right is already advancing towards its target.
A senior IDF officer discussing the territory under full IDF control in the heart of Gaza called it "an effort at prolonged occupation." But the military's activity also provides a tailwind for supporters of the reestablishment of settlements which were evacuated in 2005. Conditions for the emergence of a new reality are being created: an indefinite Israeli presence in Gaza.
Anyone have any idea what the rationale for destroying Rafah's water infrastructure is?
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Act of genocide and war crime.
Hamas doesn't need a reservoir. Palestinians do.As a guess .. to create conditions for a surrender.
Could be as simple as to weaken the enemy. Something along those lines.
As a guess .. to create conditions for a surrender.
Could be as simple as to weaken the enemy. Something along those lines.
It's deliberate destruction of vital civilian infrastructure. Collective punishment is frowned upon post WWII.
Hamas doesn't need a reservoir. Palestinians do.
While fighting a war …being frowned upon or not is probably something that wouldn’t affect too many decisions.
What do you think their rationale behind their action was ?
On what are you basing this assertion? They've sat on their hands while 30,000 women and children are slaughtered by the IDF, can only guess at 100,000+ injured, and you think they give a shit if more Palestinians die?But Hamas would surrender if everyone was dying of thirst. They aren’t animals.
US confirms Hezbollah responsible for the strike that killed at least 12 Israeli Druze children on a soccer field. There will probably be a big response from Israel soon.
Why would Hezbollah attack civilans in Syria? Interesting that the Syrian Druze residents expelled Smotrich and other Likud from the funeral calling them murderers.
Regardless of whose munitions hit the area, it was an accident either way, no gain to be had by anyone.
It wasn't an accident.
"An Iranian-backed campaign by Hezbollah to incite inter-Druze violence in Lebanon has curtailed this unity, laying the groundwork for Hezbollah to expand into Syria’s Suwayda province with impunity.
Hezbollah’s push to create inter-sect strife has extended from Beirut to the occupied Golan Heights to Suwayda, placing the region’s Druze in a greatly weakened position."
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Divide and Conquer: The Growing Hezbollah Threat to the Druze
Deep political, familial, and religious ties have allowed Druze communities across the Levant to remain largely unified against external threats, but eight years of violence in Syria and a coordinated campaign by the regime and its allies now threaten to destabilize regional Druze politics and...www.mei.edu
lol - Hezbollah have claimed responsibility for every strike they've made, even when civilians are impacted, justifying it by citing IDF activity.
This one they have denied emphatically. There is no reason for them to kill syrian civilians. This does give Israel handy justification to escalate things though.
The US confirming anything is less than worthless. Lets wait and see.
Hezbollah hate the Druze.
Of course they fired this missile.
Who else is firing missiles from Lebanon into Israel?
The Druze? The Maronites?
Add to the fact that there are Druze who are part of the IDF.
The view that there's no reason for Hezbollah to bomb them is ignorant.