• Cianalas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hamas launched a bunch of rockets from Gaza in a surprise attack on a holy day and then put ground fores in. This attack killed at least 100 Israeli civilians (Israel is also claiming near 1000 more injured) and has captured more.

    Israel is of course going to retaliate and try and destroy the sites (surrounded by civilians since Hamas is known to try and use sensitive civilian locations as shields) and probably occupy Gaza in an effort to keep these rocket attacks from happening. Which will cause more Palestinian casualties, thus the cycle continues.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair, they were very open about intentions to bomb Gazza from the first moment war was declared. PM called for civilians to evacuate to city.

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          1 year ago

          PM called for civilians to evacuate to city.

          Yeah that is utter bullshit from him! He knows very well that the people have nowhere to go! The Gaza strip is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Israel controls the majority of the border and all of the sea. So those routes are closed. And you can bet your ass that Egypt won’t allow 2 million Refugees passing their small part of the border.

          Anyone who states that the civilians of the Gaza strip can just “leave the city” are either very uninformed or lying.

          I mean seriously, just open Google maps and look at it. The area is very thin, 5-12km from the border to the sea and pretty much all city. And you can also bet that Israel for certain won’t allow refugees to hide in the open area in front of the border.

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            Egypt won’t allow 2 million Refugees passing their small part of the border.

            Turkey hosts 10+ million, what’s stopping Egypt here? They also openly support Palestine afaik.

            Expecting Egypt to act is more realistic than expecting Israel to return fire.

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              1 year ago

              Egypt and a lot of neighbouring countries talk a lot how they “support” Palestine but all of them really don’t come through.

              Egypt certainly doesn’t want them self to get into the same problem Lebanon is facing with just half a million Palestinian refugees.