Massacre
Words should not be necessary: this image of a grieving Palestinian mother is not following the massacre of October 27 but used for illustrative purposes. Any images following the actual events are likely to be too disturbing for publication.
Israel has intensified its bombardment of civilians in Gaza, and has also claimed to have launched a limited ground invasion of the Palestinian settlement.
Hundreds – if not thousands – of civilians are said to have been killed by this indiscriminate bombing. Israel claims to have eliminated a single Hamas commander.
Was it worth it?
The BBC is reporting that images of the damage are coming from Gaza, but they are mostly too distressing to broadcast.
A report states: “In one image, which is too graphic to show here, a man carries the body of a toddler.”
Elsewhere, reporter Rushdi Abualouf states: “I was listening to a local radio station, and someone said that what happened last night in Gaza was like ‘hell’.”
Hopefully we’ll get better information soon, but what we have now is enough to condemn Israel – a nation that is massacring innocent people, including children, while two-facedly claiming to be defending itself and targeting terrorists. This is demonstrably untrue. Look at the image at the top of this article. Is that a terrorist in a mother’s arms?
The public reaction has been strong:
This is the darkest day we prayed wouldn't come.
The terrifying forces that have now been unleashed on Gaza will mean the slaughter of untold numbers of innocents.
History will judge the perpetrators of these horrific war crimes & all those who abandoned the Palestinian people.
— Andy McDonald MP (@AndyMcDonaldMP) October 27, 2023
— ICJP (@ICJPalestine) October 28, 2023
This meme’s gone viral and I understand why. The situation in Gaza is horrifying & I feel desperately sad for all innocent Palestinians being killed & wounded. But if you refuse to condemn Hamas for the Oct7 terror attacks, you have no right to condemn Israel for its response. pic.twitter.com/T75FYSJe1g
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 28, 2023
Let’s be absolutely honest about something. The intention isn’t just to punish Palestinians collectively for Hamas, though that would bad enough. #GazaUnderAttack (1/3) pic.twitter.com/sj4SHMtFXf
— Ben Sellers (@MrBenSellers) October 27, 2023
…or delivered mealy mouthed statements – while the savage bombing of a civilian population has gone on with absolute impunity. Speak up, ffs. #FreePalestine #GazaUnderAttack (3/3) pic.twitter.com/jKuZE6Cnwn
— Ben Sellers (@MrBenSellers) October 27, 2023
I awoke in the night, panicking about Gaza.
For me (and I suspect millions of others) that was just a nightmare.
In Gaza is it an unimaginable reality.
No one can ignore what Hamas did on 7 October. It was unambiguously wrong.
But we cannot ignore what Israel is doing…
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) October 28, 2023
Channel 4 says Israeli tv reporting start of land invasion of Gaza. Critical time for Labour to be leading the call for a ceasefire. As the casualties tragically mount I don’t think we will be forgiven by many of our supporters for not taking a stand and we won’t deserve to be.
— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) October 27, 2023
I simply do not have the words for what I am seeing in Gaza right now.
But to our government I say this: it is not too late to help save lives, to help reduce the suffering, to help stop the bombing.
Demand a ceasefire now!
— Richard Burgon MP (@RichardBurgon) October 27, 2023
How is it possible that not one single Labour MP has resigned in protest at Keir Starmer's complicity in what we're watching in horror unfold in Gaza?
What the hell is wrong with you lot?
Silence in the face of genocide.
— Damien Willey 🟢 🔴 (@KernowDamo) October 27, 2023
I think if you're a UK voter & you're disgusted with the response of the two largest parties to the events in Gaza then right now you can in good conscience make the firm decision to register to vote, prepare your ID, make sure you are free on election day, & vote them both out.
— Ben Goren (@BanGaoRen) October 28, 2023
I can only speak for myself but I think one reason why people don't call for Hamas to surrender with the same passion & hope that they call for an Israeli ceasefire is because we think Hamas is a murderous death cult immune to humanity, reason & diplomacy, and that Israel is not.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) October 28, 2023
How anyone can look at the scenes of devastation, dead and dying children and tell those who want it to stop that they're Hamas supporters and that they're going on 'hate marches' is utterly beyond me. Are they saying they don't care about genocide? War crimes?
— Dr NonnX 🪣 Blue Bucket (indistinct chatter) (@nayright12) October 28, 2023
But there are several sides to every story. Here’s how Israel and its supporters see these events:
😡Gods chosen people 🙄 https://t.co/v059okzWz7
— John Clarke (@JohnClarke1960) October 28, 2023
Israel is expanding their military campaign against Hamas.
The UK’s top priority remains the safety of British nationals in Gaza and the region.
We support Israel’s right to self defence, in line with IHL, and continue to push for the protection of Palestinian civilians.
— James Cleverly🇬🇧 (@JamesCleverly) October 27, 2023
How does he think that’s going?
What next?
This, it seems:
A doctor in Al Shifa says it would be a war crime if Israel attacks the hospital
Listen to Mark Regevs answer. Israel are preparing the ground to attack the hospital & kill people there (maybe even including that doctor) pic.twitter.com/br6zNP7Fw2
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) October 27, 2023
Al-Shifa Hospital is currently said to be sheltering 12,000 people. Israel’s evidence that a Hamas base lies beneath it is a computer-generated cartoon that was dreamed up by that country’s military.
It seems your government is happy to stand by and watch while Israel uses that piece of fantasy to slaughter those 12,000 people. Are you happy to do the same?
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They will more or less eliminate Hamas. Although not a single leader will be in Gaza, in fact some leading Hamas figures and their families will be safely in the UK.
In Starmer’s constituency I fancy.
What will history say about this?
Ethnic cleansing
Mass murder
War crimes that no-one will answer to
No history will write it up much as it has written up a previous action by an occupying army in the same region 2000 years ago.
Who’s saying the Roman’s were wrong? Those who are doing the same thing again!
The Self Riteous Bloodlust by Benjamin Netanyahu compares only to the Irish Unionists and Dutch Afrikaaners that I’ve had the misfortune to associate with in the past.
Right-Wing Racism is destructive in all it’s forms and has no place in Modern Society.
Fascist tories and the fascist labour boys are all lackeys of the US government. Whatever the US says these boys nod their heads and say ‘yes yes we support the US!’
In UK both fake political parties are complicit with the Israeli terrorist state and nothing will change until the fascist Israeli terrorists murder all Palestinians!
Shame on the so-called ‘tory government’ who still refuse to condemn terrorist Israel! Fascist tories are not my government and they do not speak in my name and neither do they speak for the hundreds of thousands women and men who earlier today engaged in peaceful protest condemning the Israeli terrorist state!
It is now time to bomb Israel into submission…Unless they are stopped,their genocide will not Stop with Palestine..It will be the start of WW3!
Not the answer. That being said, if Israel won’t come to its senses of its own accord, it may require encouragement of some kind. Nudging…
It is time that Israel was given the same treatment they have been given to the Palestinians for 75 years!
That’s not the way. Material reparations might be a good start, though.
You are right of course…but Israel only seems to understand force. It also seems that they want to annihilate all Palestinians and take over the rest of the Palestinian land that they haven’t stolen yet….I cannot see the illegal settlers ever making peace either….
Israel must be the most evil, murderous, inhuman, sub-human ‘country’ in the world today. Why hasn’t the ‘civilised’ world come together and forced Israel to rejoin the human race, and stop their Genocide!
Fear of being labelled anti-Semite?
Anti-zionism is not Anti- Semetism……The Jewish people are a great people….It is the zionists who are the ‘shit in the sugar bowl(so to speak!)……
Replying to Martyn and Mike, it almost makes one wonder if the ‘campaign’ against the supposed anti-semitism in the Labour Party was part of a lead up to this….
Likewise, I still find it difficult to believe that the State of Israel with it’s world leading security systems (and I believe a warning from Egypt) was ‘taken unawares’ by the Hamas attack.
I know, I know it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the government of Israel was handed the opportunity ‘on a plate’ to do what they have always wanted to do – annihilate Palestinians and take all the land for themselves…