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55071
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Fucking Israel strikes Gaza school used as shelter, kills at least 80
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with criminal, unfettered & enduring US support... Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school used as a shelter kills at least 80, Palestinian officials say BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND SAMY MAGDY August 10, 2024 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned- shelter in Gaza early Saturday, killing at least 80 people and wounding nearly 50 others, Palestinian health authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. A witness said it struck during prayers at a mosque in the building. It was the latest in what the U.N. human rights office called “systematic attacks on schools” by Israel, with at least 21 since July 4, leaving hundreds dead, including women and children. “For many, schools are the last resort to find some shelter and possible access to food and water,” it said shortly after Saturday’s attack. The Israeli military acknowledged it targeted the Tabeen school in central Gaza City, saying it hit a Hamas command center in the school. Hamas denied that. Video from the scene showed walls blown out on the ground level of a large building. Concrete chunks and twisted metal lay on the blood-soaked floor, along with clothing, furniture and other debris. Bodies, some in bloodstained shrouds, were placed shoulder to shoulder in makeshift graves, making room for more. ADVERTISEMENT Fadel Naeem, director of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, told The Associated Press that the facility received 70 bodies along with the body parts of at least 10 others. Gaza’s Health Ministry said another 47 people were wounded. RELATED COVERAGE Image US will keep aid flowing to an Israeli unit accused of rights abuses, citing remediation efforts Image International Criminal Court judges mulling arrest warrants consider legal arguments on jurisdiction Image Israel-Hamas war latest: Palestinians flee parts of south Gaza as Israel launches a new assault Naeem said some of the wounded had severe burns and many had limbs amputated. “We received some of the most serious injuries we encountered during the war,” he said. The strike hit without warning before sunrise as people prayed at a mosque inside the school, according to Abu Anas, a witness who worked to rescue people. “There were people praying, there were people washing and there were people upstairs sleeping, including children, women and old people,” he said, prayer beads in his hand. “The missile fell on them without warning. The first missile, and the second. We recovered them as body parts.” ADVERTISEMENT Three missiles ripped through the two-story building — the first floor housing the mosque and the second the school — where about 6,000 displaced people were taking shelter from the war, said Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesperson for the Civil Defense first responders, who operate under the Hamas-run local government. Many of the dead were unrecognizable, and many of the casualties were women and children, he said. The U.N. previously said that as of July 6, 477 out of 564 schools in Gaza had been directly hit or damaged in the war, adding that Israel has a duty under international law to provide safe shelter for the displaced. “There’s no justification for these massacres,” European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement posted on X, in reference to strikes on schools. U.K. Foreign Minister David Lammy said that he was “appalled.” Israeli intelligence indicated that about 20 militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, including senior commanders, were using the Tabeen school compound to plan attacks on Israeli forces, Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman, said in a statement on X. Shoshani also questioned the casualty numbers issued by the Health Ministry. Izzat al-Rishq, a top Hamas official, denied that there were militants in the school. Israel has blamed civilian deaths in Gaza on Hamas, saying the group endangers noncombatants by using schools and residential neighborhoods as bases for operations. The U.N. human rights office acknowledged that colocating combatants with civilians is a violation of international humanitarian law, but that Israel must also comply with the law’s principles of precaution and proportionality. Israel also said the school was located next to a mosque serving as a shelter. A camera operator working for the AP said, however, that the mosque and classrooms were in one building, with the prayer hall on the ground floor and the school above it. A missile appeared to have penetrated the floor of the classrooms to the mosque below and exploded, according to the camera operator. ADVERTISEMENT The strike came as U.S., Qatari and Egyptian mediators renewed their push for Israel and Hamas to achieve a cease-fire agreement that could help calm soaring tensions in the region following the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut. Egypt, which borders Gaza, said that the strike on the school showed that Israel had no intention of reaching a cease-fire deal and ending the war. Neighboring Jordan condemned the attack as a “blatant violation” of international law. Qatar demanded an international investigation, calling it a “heinous crime” against civilians. Late Friday, two separate airstrikes in central Gaza killed at least 13 people, including three children and seven women, hospital authorities said. An AP journalist counted the bodies at the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah. One strike hit a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing seven people, all but one of them women, hospital officials said. Another hit a house in Deir al- Balah, killing six, including a woman and her three children, the hospital said. Israel’s campaign in Gaza has killed more than 39,790 Palestinians and wounded more than 92,000 others, according to the Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians in its tally. The war was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in which militants from Gaza stormed into southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and abducting 250 others. More than 1.9 million of Gaza’s prewar population of 2.3 million have been driven from their homes, fleeing repeatedly across the territory to escape offensives. Most are now crowded into tent camps in an area of about 50 square kilometers (19 square miles) on the Gaza coast with few basic services or supplies. In the occupied West Bank, dozens of people gathered in Ramallah to protest the latest Israeli strike on a school. “The message that must be sent to the world, a numb world, a world that is not moving, is ‘how long will the war continue?’” asked one, Muin Barghouti. ___ |
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55078
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: & Biden releases another $3.5 billion to Israel to spend on US weapons
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Biden administration releases $3.5 billion to Israel to spend on US weapons — CNN |
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55088
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: now 400,000 people need to vacate south gaza
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and where do they go? usa is complicit in gaza suffering. God will do justice and we must pay the piper. |
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55075
From: AKIRA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: with 2,000 lb bomb... 100 killed during prayers... THIS IS GENOCIDE
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Gaza live: Israel bombs Gaza school with '2,000-pound missile' Around 100 killed as displaced Palestinians targeted during dawn prayers KEY POINTS Israeli army says it conducted 30 strikes on Khan Younis in 24 hours UK, EU, France, and Belgium among countries condemning Israeli attack on Gaza school Gaza death toll nears 40,000 |
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55076
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Israeli attack on Gaza school renews calls for US to end support ...
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Israeli attack on Gaza school renews calls for US to end support for Israel Advocates urge Washington to stop sending weapons to Israel after attack kills more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza City. By Al Jazeera Staff 10 Aug 2024 A deadly Israeli attack on a school in Gaza has renewed calls for the United States to stop providing staunch support for Israel, including weapons transfers that rights advocates say are fuelling atrocities in the Palestinian enclave. The Gaza civil defence agency said more than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens more were injured on Saturday when Israel launched an attack on al-Tabin school in Gaza City. KEEP READING US to provide $3.5bn more in military aid to Israel amid war on Gaza Israeli strike on Gaza school kills more than 100 people Harris tells pro-Palestine protesters ‘now is time for ceasefire’ in Gaza |
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55077
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
URL: 'Children torn apart': Israel strike rains hell on Gaza dawn prayers
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White body bags littered the floor and mourning filled the air after a school housing displaced Palestinians was struck with Israeli missiles Saturday -- a horrific and increasingly common sight in the Gaza war. Dawn prayers were shattered by the early morning triple air strike from Israeli warplanes, which gutted Al-Tabieen religious school and mosque in Gaza City. In the hellish aftermath, body parts were strewn around the rubble and charred, bloodied bodies slumped in the wreckage of the two-storey complex. Grim-faced volunteers piled corpses in blood-stained blankets into an ambulance, as seriously wounded men lay groaning on the ground. Gaza's civil defence agency said at least 93 people were killed, 17 of them women and children, making it one of the war's deadliest strikes. Israel's military disputed the death toll, saying the school was targeted with "precision munitions" because it "served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility". Such incidents have become a pattern in recent weeks. According to an AFP tally, at least 14 schools sheltering Gaza's displaced have been hit since July 6, killing more than 280 people. "Peaceful people -- women, children, and youths -- were performing the Fajr prayer as usual when suddenly a missile hit them," said Abu Wassim, who lives nearby and came to survey the scene. "They were reduced to remains. Children were torn apart, and women were burned. What can we say or do? What is in our power?" - 'They were just praying' - As the sun climbed and mourners gathered, one man stroked the face of a dead child shrouded in a plastic body bag. "They dropped a missile on them while they were just praying. Fear God, people! Fear God, Arabs!" a woman wailed over the body. Another man looked lost as he held a small corpse wrapped in a blanket. Nearby, six body bags lay on the ground, three of them children. Tattered Korans were piled on a window ledge. "We woke up before dawn to the sound of a strike," said Sakr, a resident from the neighbourhood who gave just one name. "We headed to the site and found body remains of civilians who were peacefully performing prayers. We found bodies of children scattered in the street." Another man said: "You can't even recognise the bodies, there were scattered remains. "The ones who were struck are displaced people taking shelter in a school. What's their fault? What have they done wrong?" Mohammad Al-Mughayyir, director of the supply and equipment department of Gaza's civil defence service, told AFP that six schools in Gaza City had been targeted in the past week alone. Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Nadav Shoshani said that about 20 Hamas and Islamic militants were operating from the Al-Tabieen complex. "The compound, and the mosque that was struck within it, served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility," he posted on X. Later on Saturday, Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told journalists that the strike "directly targeted" two floors of the school. The strike hit "the upper floor housing women and children and the ground floor that was used for prayers by the displaced people," he said. The Gaza war was triggered by Hamas's October 7 attack that resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures. Palestinian militants seized 251 hostages, 111 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 39 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel's retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 39,790 people, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths. bur-th/jd/dr |
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55092
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
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remember the poem i wrote in 2004 Bring 'em On Bring ‘em on, said he And another soldier died. Bring ‘em on, said he, And another mother cried. Bring ‘em on, said he A nation cast aside, Bring ‘em on, said he, This is the end of the ride. Cast aways, foreign lands, Another cries, torn off hands. When are we going home, I don’t know when, Or how, or if we can….. ever again. --------------------- and this one in 1999 The Tears of the Children Brave, trusting souls.. daring to be born..again, brashly perhaps, but taking a chance on love. Cautiously, setting foot on foreign soil, most dangerous, unaware of delicate life. Tiny, innocent eyes peer, looking for guidance, for care.. finding instead, a world of pain, of heartbreak. A multitude of sins.. doubling the tears of the children, distorting their world into chaos. ---------------------- and this one in 1999 Ah, The Pain The pain of it all burrows deep within me I weep uncontrollably for lovers that will never be for children who will never heal. I weep for young mothers not knowing their children will die, ....and not knowing why. I cry for the beauty of the world, soon to be taken away, for great artists, musicians, poets whose creations won't see another day. I moan in the present... for I see the future. Ah, I feel the pain which wrenches my soul from its' moorings and casts it out onto a sea of sorrows ...adrift and alone. I feel the pain. somehow, my muse seemed to tell me what the future looked like |
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55080
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
| she is still vice prez and can't say much because joe is still top dog...not sure what you expect her to say... |
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55086
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
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she better say something soon. From what I'm seeing a whole lot of folks are pretty unhappy with our pro-genocide policy. |
55096
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: meanwhile "holocaust Harris" is trending on X
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55087
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
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and publicly accusing anti-genocide, pro-Palestinian protestors they're just helping Trump isn't going to win a lot of hearts & minds (but might appease the heartless & mindless) |
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From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
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vi wish trump had a heart and stuck on his view that he gets more votes with pro israel policy. if trump turns around and is fair on palestine-israel policy it would be wonderful. |
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From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
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there is plenty she could say about it. she could say she supports an arms embargo but her campaign made clear this week she doesn’t support that. she could voice criticism about the slaughter of so many women and children. she could raise her voice against the destruction of hospitals, schools and refugee camps which is why so many women and children have died, but she doesn’t this sounds a lot like your weak excuses for biden never speaking up. are you against people speaking up about the wrongs in this world? |
55084
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
| i speak up against you all the time...lol... |
55090
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
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yes you do, you set a shitty atmosphere here by doing that. you also go nuts over petty ass politicians if they are republicans. but my question was are you against people speaking up about the wrongs in this world? i’m not talking about petty politics and personal insults but issues such as our country supplying weapons that are being used to kill large numbers of women and children in gaza |
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55091
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
| dumbass... |
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55081
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
URL: https://thehill.com/policy/international/4822139-white-house-deadly-strike-gaza-school-cease-fire/
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White House: Deadly strike on Gaza school ‘underscores urgency’ for cease-fire by Yash Roy - 08/10/24 2:38 PM ET The White House is “deeply concerned” about reports of civilian deaths in Gaza related to Israel striking a school in Gaza City that killed at least 80 people, saying the strike “underscores the urgency of a ceasefire.” “We are deeply concerned about reports of civilian casualties in Gaza following a strike by the Israel Defense Forces on a compound that included a school,” NSC spokesperson Sean Savett wrote in a statement to The Hill. “We are in touch with our Israeli counterparts, who have said they targeted senior Hamas officials, and we are asking for further details. “This underscores the urgency of a ceasefire and hostage deal, which we continue to work tirelessly to achieve,” Savett added. Israel has claimed that the school was a command center for Hamas and that the strike killed Hamas and Islamic Jihad senior militants. “Based on Israeli intelligence, approx. 20 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, including senior commanders, were operating from the compound struck at the Al-Tabaeen school, using it to carry out terrorist attacks,” Nadav Shoshani, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) wrote. The U.S. is aware that Hamas has used schools in the past, but Israel must still work to minimize civilian harm, Savett added. “We know Hamas has been using schools as locations to gather and operate out of, but we have also said repeatedly and consistently that Israel must take measures to minimize civilian harm,” he wrote. At least 11 women and children are among those killed by Israel’s strike on the school, according to a statement provided by the Gaza Civil Defense Force to the Washington Post. A spokesperson for the Civil Defense first responders, who operate under the Hamas-run government, told the AP that three missiles hit the school and mosque in the early hours of Saturday morning. The school is also holding about 6,000 displaced people seeking shelter. Israel struck the school days after agreeing to a push by the U.S., Egypt and Qatar for Israel and Hamas to continue negotiations to secure a cease-fire and the release of hostages. The U.S. insists that the deal is “as close” as it’s ever been. “There is a good proposal before both sides, and they need to both accept that proposal so we can get this in place,” White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters. “We are as close as we think we have ever been.” Both Egypt and Qatar, the two other mediators, also condemned the Israeli strike, with Egypt saying the strike was “clear evidence of the Israeli’s side’s lack of political will to end this brutal war.” “The Arab Republic of Egypt condemned in the strongest terms the bombing by Israel of the “Al-Tabi’in” School, which was sheltering displaced persons in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, resulting in the killing of more than 100 Palestinian citizens and injured dozens more,” the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. “Egypt considered the continued perpetration of these large-scale crimes, and the deliberate killing of such large numbers of unarmed civilians whenever mediators intensify efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as clear evidence of the Israeli side’s lack of political will to end this brutal war,” the ministry continued. Qatar called the strike a “horrific massacre” and a “flagrant infringement of the fundamental precepts of international humanitarian law.” “The State of Qatar reiterates its call for conducting an urgent international investigation by dispatching independent UN investigators to probe the ongoing targeting by Israeli occupation forces of schools and shelters for displaced people,” the statement continues. On Friday, Kirby also forcefully denounced Israel’s polarizing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, for a lengthy statement calling the new calls for negotiations a “surrender to Hamas.” Kirby’s statement reflects a growing frustration with Israel as President Biden seeks to broker a cease-fire. The administration has said significant concessions are required from Hamas and Israel. |
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55083
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Children torn apart'... does Kamala have anything to say?
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so the white house is deeply concerned about israel slaughtering large number of civilians but they still aren’t willing to condemn israel for this needless slaughter of civilians |
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55072
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Fucking Israel strikes Gaza school used as shelter, kills at...
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Horrific |
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