Starker on 6/4/2025 at 09:06
Israeli soldiers murdered 15 emergency workers in ambulances, tried to hide their crime by burying the bodies and the vehicles in the desert, then tried to claim that the vehicles had been approaching in a suspicious manner, without their sirens and emergency lights on. The sole survivor was tortured for hours:
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“I was completely stripped, left only in my underwear, and my hands were bound behind my back,” Abed recalled. “They threw me to the ground, and the interrogation began. I endured severe torture, including beatings, insults, threats of death, and suffocation when one soldier pressed a rifle against my neck. Another soldier held a dagger to my left shoulder. After a while, an officer arrived and ordered the soldiers to stop, calling them ‘crazy people' who didn't know how to communicate.”
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Turns out the IDF's claims were utter bullshit, as the survivor gave testimony, and now a video has emerged that directly contradicts the official story:
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A video has emerged showing the final moments of more than a dozen Palestinian emergency workers shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza last month, casting doubt on Israeli claims that soldiers opened fire on vehicles “advancing suspiciously.”
The video is filmed from the front of a vehicle and shows a convoy of clearly marked ambulances moving along a road at dawn, with headlights and flashing emergency lights on.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says the video was found on the phone of one of the 15 ambulance and relief team members killed by the Israeli military.
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Israel also tried to claim these were Hamas terrorists but now all the people have been identified and not one of them was even a Hamas fighter, let alone a terrorist.
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Their bodies were found in a mass grave more than a week after they were reported as missing. Eight of the 14 bodies recovered from the site in the southern Rafah area were identified as members of the PRCS, five as civil defense, and one as a UN agency employee, PRCS said in a statement.
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Hospitals, ambulances, and other medical units, convoys, and transports (‘medical units') enjoy special protection under international humanitarian law. Medical units exclusively assigned to medical purposes shall not be attacked, and must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They lose their special protection only if they are currently being used, outside their humanitarian function, to commit acts harmful to the enemy. Prior to attack, a warning must be issued setting a reasonable time-limit for the adversary to cease its use of the unit, and an attack can only take place after such warning remains unheeded. Even if this special legal protection is lost, general rules of distinction, precautions, and proportionality continue to apply. These rules protect civilians and civilian objects (including medical equipment) in or near the medical unit.
Subjective Effect on 8/4/2025 at 11:22
Looks like a war crime doesn't it? Remember that being a member of any of those groups or organiza.tions doesn't stop you also being a Hamas member
Nicker on 13/5/2025 at 18:44
Just a reminder. The disproportionate killing continues. The collective punishment of civilians continues. The US funding for Likud continues. The genocide continues.
And innocent people on both sides continue to be the victims of a religious war between two fascist factions of Abrahamism.
Subjective Effect on 20/5/2025 at 10:35
And the imprisonment of kidnap victims continues.
Don't forget the hostages. Or was that a deliberate omission?
Nicker on 21/5/2025 at 12:15
Yes indeed they are. Hostages everywhere. Reread my last line please.
But if you are talking laundry lists, perhaps you should check your own for inclusivity and completeness. You know, lead by example.
Starker on 6/6/2025 at 08:48
Israel has found a new, novel, never before tried solution to get rid of Hamas that has definitely not even once backfired in history:
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Israel has been arming a criminal gang in the Gaza Strip as part of an effort to strengthen opposition to Hamas in the enclave, defense sources confirmed on Thursday following remarks on the matter by former defense minister Avigdor Liberman.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later confirmed the report, saying the move helped save Israeli soldiers' lives.
Liberman, who heads the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, told the Kan public broadcaster on Thursday morning that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had unilaterally approved the transfer of weapons to the Abu Shabab clan, an armed gang or militia that is opposed to Hamas's rule in the Gaza Strip.
“The Israeli government is giving weapons to a group of criminals and felons, identified with Islamic State, at the direction of the prime minister,” Liberman charged. “To my knowledge, this did not go through approval by the cabinet.
He claimed that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar was aware of the decision to arm the group, “but I don't know how much the IDF chief of staff was in on it.”
The group in question, which is sometimes described as a militia and sometimes as a criminal gang, is led by Yasser Abu Shabab, a member of a large clan in southern Gaza. It has been linked in the past to smuggling operations with Egyptian Jihadist groups, but it was not immediately clear why Liberman branded it as linked to the Islamic State.
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demagogue on 6/6/2025 at 16:38
That's the actions of someone that, far from wanting to end the crisis, wants to exacerbate it to continue to squeeze the population out one way or another. There are increasing numbers of protestors marching against the treatment of Palestinians while the cognitive dissonance of people supporting what's happening is way past the point of delusion, which may be a bad sign of possible conflict within Israel itself.
Well I was watching an interview with some of the IDF dissenters who are saying that officials are so openly using the language of ethnic cleansing, and of course they see what's happening on the ground first hand, that they can't in good conscience serve in Gaza anymore. These are people that have already done like 3 tours, so it's not like they're radical antisemitic or anti-Israel ideologues.
Nicker on 6/6/2025 at 17:24
This is not unlike the tacit understanding/conspiracy between the Military Industrial Complexes in the USA and the Soviet Union, post WW2. The threat of war on the home front and the presence of actual war in foreign countries, is good for business. Endle$$ War.
In this case it's good for religio-political business. The conflict can never be resolved through bloodshed but the continuation of the bloodshed serves the ambitions of the people in charge, on both sides.
Subjective Effect on 7/6/2025 at 12:13
Why don't Hamas surrender?
And why aren't dema and Greta asking for their surrender?
Subjective Effect on 7/6/2025 at 12:14
Why don't Hamas surrender?
And why aren't dema and Greta asking for their surrender?
