Israel resumes ruthless bombing
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The truce in the Gaza Strip lasted a week. Last weekend, Israel resumed ruthless bombing of the enclave, and now its southern part, where more than a million residents have fled their homes, has been attacked.
“We are picking up where we left off,” said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant. He accused Hamas militants of disrupting the hostage deal and holding another 15 women and two children captive. Representatives of the Palestinian movement insist on responding that they released the 110 people for whom an agreement was reached. “We exchanged all those women and children we had. If there is a case, we don’t know anything about it or we couldn’t contact those people,” said Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of Hamas’s politburo.
Both the Palestinians and the Israelis withdrew their representatives from Qatar, where hostage negotiations were taking place. “There will be no prisoner exchange until the aggression ceases and a complete and definitive ceasefire is achieved,” Hamas leaders said.
But so far the massacre has developed with renewed vigor. The IDF reported that it had carried out “effective strikes against 400 terrorist targets.” According to the British newspaper The Guardian, artificial intelligence is now helping the Israeli army bomb Gaza. “The system, called “Gospel,” writes the publication, “thanks to the rapid extraction of intelligence data, instantly issues recommendations on targets.” But it turns out that the “automatic brains” don’t really know who is down there. The media Arabs reported that in two days, 200 civilians were killed and almost 500 civilians were injured in the sector. In total, during the current conflict, more than 15 thousand Palestinians have already been victims.
This, by the way, greatly worries Western conservatives in Tel Aviv. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Israel “risks replacing a tactical victory with a strategic defeat” due to numerous civilian casualties, referring to growing global outrage over the bombing of Gaza.
International pressure on Israel is clearly increasing. Those who look at things realistically cannot help but realize that Tel Aviv’s stated goal of completely clearing the Gaza Strip of Hamas will actually mean the extermination of tens of thousands of civilians there and the displacement of hundreds of thousands more outside. from the country.
Even French President Emmanuel Macron, who had previously supported the Jewish state in everything, could not stand it and directly disassociated himself from the Israeli plan.
– What is the total destruction of Hamas? Does anyone believe such a thing is possible? If this is so, the war will last ten years. “I think we are at a point where the Israeli authorities need to define more precisely their objective and the desired end state,” Macron said.
The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borel, went even further:
“We must be able to defend the Palestinians’ right to a state without facing accusations of anti-Semitism.” We must be able to criticize the policies of the Israeli government, all governments can be criticized…, stated the head of EU diplomacy.
And American journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman said in his column that “Israel’s persistence means it will drown forever in the Gaza quagmire.”
“My focus is on how to put an end to this terrible tit-for-tat spectacle.” End it before everyone goes blind and toothless,” Friedman writes in his column.
Although it would probably be more correct to say that Israel practices actions of the “skull for eye” and “jaw for tooth” series.
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