As a former military man, you know all to well
how ugly urban warfare is and its unfortunate that.innocent lives are lost.
WW2 and AFGANISTAN are proof of that.
Probably a good investment.
The US sat in Afghanistan for 20 years and lost everything.
Refresh my memory. 20 years is a long time. Were there urban wars?
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If the villages qualify as urban warfare then yes.
A good investment for who? Not for you and me!
Not really! If getting ambushed on routine patrols in Mountain valleys where soldiers were frequently easy targets counts, then such losses can be defined with the flip of a coin.
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Sociopaths do not care what others think of them, they continue wearing their masks
How many Hillaries are there?
There was one sick and fat Hillary, one very short Hillary (maybe because she was next to a tall Bill), while this Hillary is slim, of medium height, seems like.
One very evil Hillary. OMG, you donât want to be near her.
Hillary (And Bill) The Murder Volume: Part Three of the Clinton Trilogy by Victor Thorn by Victor Thorn | Goodreads
This one ought to be on drugs or somethin
Hillary (and Bill) Part Two of the Clinton Trilogy: the Drugs Volume by Victor Thorn | Goodreads
There are many actors in Hollywood who know the art of mask wearing so anything is possible
An interesting turn of events.
âIsraelâs invincible armyâ of 1960s is long gone.
In the meanwhile, Israelâs genocide continues.
Yep! Turkey already is making threats to getting involved if Israel crosses their red line which they already did, and they are a NATO country!
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The bombing of al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza has pushed countries and organisations around the world to label Israelâs recent aggressions as a âwar crimeâ, a âmassacreâ, and a âviolation of international humanitarian lawâ.
The strike on Tuesday killed over 500 people in a place where civilians were taking shelter, overworked medical staff were treating patients, and the sick and injured had gathered in the hope of rescue or recovery.
Israel placed blame on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, something viewed by many as part of a pattern where officials falsely attribute responsibility for attacks to other parties, often Palestinians themselves.
However, threats from Israeli officials indicate a disregard for civilians and international humanitarian law. Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari admitted that hundreds of tonnes of bombs had been dropped on Gaza with an emphasis âon damage and not accuracyâ.
Article 14 states that hospital and safety zones must in fact be established for groups such as the injured, sick and pregnant women; Article 18 states civilian hospitals and their staff must be protected.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Basel Sourani, an international advocacy officer for the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), said Israeli strikes have already hit tens of Palestinian hospitals, ambulances and health workers.
âTargeting of protected places is not something new; all evidence and our conversations with witnesses point to it being an attack by Israel,â
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across the Middle East and North Africa on Tuesday to show their outrage in the aftermath of a deadly Israeli air attack on the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza.
Spontaneous protests have erupted in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, as well as in West Bank cities like Ramallah.
In 1999, Israelâs High Court of Justice rendered a ruling which was hailed as putting an end to the use of torture in Israel. Yet, according to data collected by Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and other human rights organizations, Israel still regularly subjects Palestinian detainees to interrogation methods that constitute torture and inhumane and degrading treatment, in clear violation of international law.
Complaints submitted by Palestinians who were interrogated by the Shabak, Israelâs general security service, to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel since 2000 show the persistence of methods that were explicitly forbidden by the High Court in 1999.
An analysis we have conducted of more than 1,500 of these complains, which was funded by the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council, shows that physical violence â such as beating, violent shaking, and strangling â is still regularly used in interrogations. Other frequently used interrogation techniques include forcing people into painful stress positions, tight handcuffing, severe sleep deprivation, incommunicado detention, use of family members, threats, humiliations, and prolonged exposure to extreme temperatures.
We donât need the Israeli army to tell us that it is not particularly interested in a ceasefire (Israel-Gaza violence: death toll rises as UN envoy warns over escalation, 12 May) to recognise that these fresh UN warnings against escalating violence will not be heeded. For years the UN has been clear on Israelâs crimes against international law, yet the settler colonial project of successive Israeli governments has expanded unabated. Perhaps this is why the United Nations is referred to as the United Nothing by Palestinians across the West Bank.
The balance of power in the occupied Palestinian territories is one of coloniser against the colonised, of the oppressor against the oppressed, and of perpetrator against victims. Only widespread solidarity from the international community, rooted in sustained strategies of digital and direct action, will force Israel to face the consequences of its crimes. To end the occupation, people around the world must mobilise together to draw a line in the sand. Mirroring strategies that built pressure against South Africaâs regime will do far more than diplomatic statements of condemnation that have so far failed to restrain Israel.
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It goes to show Israel is a terrorist state.
Israel has an appearance of a âdemocraticâ state with the parliament and all that, but there is NO separation of religion and politics. (Separation of church and state in American speak)
The religious party in Israel is a minority party and yet it enjoys a tremendous power and influence by virtue of its coalition in Benjamin Netanyahuâs government.
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Israel as we know it is ending. So says Scott Ritter.
The Israeli attacks against Gaza, by air, land and sea, at least 2,100 Palestinians have been killed, including older persons and 590 children, and more than 8,500 injured. The airstrikes appear to have targeted densely populated areas, including markets, two hospitals, destroyed residential buildings and damaged 30 United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency (UNRWA) facilities, including schools sheltering displaced civilians. As of 11 October, the UN estimated that at least 440,000 people have been displaced within Gaza, and nearly 318,600 people are sheltering in 92 UNRWA schools across the Gaza Strip.
âIndiscriminately killing civilians in the context of hostilities, with no regard for the principles of distinction, precaution and proportionality, is a war crime,â the experts said.
They also stressed that indiscriminate rocket attacks, bombing of civilian infrastructure and shelling densely populated areas constitute grave breaches of international humanitarian law, whether committed by Palestinian armed groups or by Israeli Defence Forces.
âBesides this appalling language that dehumanises the Palestinian people, especially those who have been unlawfully âimprisonedâ in Gaza for 16 years, we condemn the withholding of essential supplies such as food, water, electricity and medicines. Such actions will precipitate a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where its population is now at inescapable risk of starvation. Intentional starvation is a crime against humanity,â the experts said. The CHOSEN ONES refer to the Palestinians as HUMAN ANIMALS !
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Dozens of aid workers, journalists killed
Israelâs bombardment of Gaza has killed at least 8,260 people, mostly civilians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, which draws the information from the Hamas-controlled enclave. More than 70% those killed are from vulnerable populations, including children, women and elderly individuals, the ministry said Monday.
Among the dead are 64 UN aid workers, the highest number of UN aid workers killed in a conflict anywhere in the world in such a short period of time, according to UNRWAâs Lazzarini.
The most recent death was a man called Samir who was killed alongside his wife and eight children, Lazzarini told the UN Security Council.
Hospitals bear the brunt / WHY ISâNT THIS BEING REPORTED IN THE USA ??
Numerous hospitals in Gaza have borne the brunt of airstrikes and shelling, according to aid groups and health workers.
In a social media post early Tuesday morning, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said the Tal Al Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, in which the Al-Quds hospital is located, was under heavy âartillery and airstrikes.â
âThe building is trembling,â and those sheltering inside the hospital are âexperiencing fear and panic,â the PRCS said.
The organization said over the weekend that Israeli airstrikes have âcaused extensive damage to hospital departments and exposed residents and patients to suffocationâ at Al-Quds and accused Israel of âdeliberatelyâ launching airstrikes âdirectly next toâ the facility in order to force an evacuation of the hospital, the second-largest in Gaza City.
The facility is treating hundreds of patients, while some 12,000 internally displaced civilians are also sheltering there, the agency said.
Gazaâs leading cancer hospital was also damaged in an Israeli attack, hospital director Sobhi Skaik told CNN on Monday, with its third floor suffering a direct hit causing damage to oxygen and water supplies. He said that no one was injured in the attack.
CNN has asked the Israeli military for comment. Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of operating from bunkers and tunnels underneath hospitals and of stockpiling weaponry near medical facilities.
Israel claims the hospitals were used as command centers of sorts by Hamas.
BULLSHIT!
A Norwegian doctor who has been working there for years denies this Israeli claim.
(Even if Hamas used the hospitals for whatever purpose, is there any justification to bomb them, killing and further injuring hundreds of innocent people hospitalized there?)
Israel is a barbaric country and enemy of humanity. End of the story.
OR, if their great religion justifies such actions, could it be defied as satanism? Isnât it what Jesus said about them 2,000 years ago?
(You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your fatherâs desires. He was a murderer from the beginning â John 8:44)
Further proof that their religious book, the Talmud, teaches that non-Joos are animals and that their lives of donât matter.
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Moronic Christians who support Israel no matter what should know that Israelâs next target will be them.
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