To me that's terrorism and it's very different than collateral damage of killing Palestinians who either cannot or will not eradicate Hamas on their own.
Tell us ajax, is kidnapping children and subjecting them to years of torture and sexual abuse an act of terrorism? How about the IDF bragging on social media about raping or sniping random Arabs walking around minding their own business?
You see, all Hamas is really is a bunch of Palestinians who decided this was the only way they could effectively respond to the decades of torture, murder and rape they have been forced to endure. And you know what, it is actually working. Because now Palestinians are being released from Israeli prisons and global attention has been brought to the plight of the Palestinian people.
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"I am not an American ... In my view premarital sex should be illegal ...(there are) mentally challenged people with special needs like myself- Ajax18
Evidence mounting that Israel has been using white phosphorous, which is a chemical weapon and illegal:
Human Rights Watch also reviewed two videos from October 10 from two locations near the Israel-Lebanon border. Each shows 155mm white phosphorus artillery projectiles being used, apparently as smokescreens, marking, or signaling.
White phosphorus ignites when exposed to atmospheric oxygen and continues to burn until it is deprived of oxygen or exhausted. Its chemical reaction can create intense heat (about 815°C/1,500°F), light, and smoke.
Upon contact, white phosphorus can burn people, thermally and chemically, down to the bone as it is highly soluble in fat and therefore in human flesh. White phosphorus fragments can exacerbate wounds even after treatment and can enter the bloodstream and cause multiple organ failure. Already dressed wounds can reignite when dressings are removed and the wounds are re-exposed to oxygen. Even relatively minor burns are often fatal. For survivors, extensive scarring tightens muscle tissue and creates physical disabilities. The trauma of the attack, the painful treatment that follows, and appearance-changing scars lead to psychological harm and social exclusion.
The use of white phosphorus in densely populated areas of Gaza violates the requirement under international humanitarian law to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian injury and loss of life, Human Rights Watch said. This concern is amplified given the technique evidenced in videos of airbursting white phosphorus projectiles. Airbursting of white phosphorus projectiles spreads 116 burning felt wedges impregnated within the substance over an area between 125 and 250 meters in diameter, depending on the altitude of the burst, thereby exposing more civilians and civilian structures to potential harm than a localized ground burst.
"I am not an American ... In my view premarital sex should be illegal ...(there are) mentally challenged people with special needs like myself- Ajax18
Dozens of pictures and videoclips have emerged over the past week showing IDF soldiers abusing and humiliating Palestinians apprehended in the West Bank, often while they are blindfolded and handcuffed.
In one of the most brutal videos, which has been blurred, IDF soldiers filmed themselves as they abused seven West Bank laborers who were caught as they attempted to enter Israel without a permit, in an area south of the South Hebron hills.
The footage shows the Palestinian men stripped naked or half-naked, blindfolded and handcuffed, and screaming in pain. One of them is being dragged on the ground.
A screenshot from the video shows a soldier stepping with his boot on the head of one of the Palestinians, while another is pointing a weapon at him.
In another scene of violence caught on camera, a soldier kicks a blindfolded Palestinian man in the stomach, then spits on him and insults him in Arabic.
In one instance, a religious Jewish reserve soldier hugs a blindfolded, handcuffed Palestinian on the shoulders, and dances with him in circles while he plays religious music on his phone. He asks him, “Why don’t you dance” as the blindfolded man loses his balance.
Another short clip shows a Palestinian detainee blindfolded, forced to sit on the ground with his legs covered with an Israeli flag.
In response to the evidence, the IDF said that “the [soldiers’] conduct that emerges from these scenes is grave and inconsistent with the values of the IDF. The incidents are under investigation. The IDF commanders will hold talks with all the soldiers on the front. One soldier has been dismissed from reserve service.”
The incidents of abuse have occurred amid escalating tensions in the West Bank between Palestinian and Israeli security forces and settlers. According to Palestinian government sources, 122 West Bank Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel on October 7.
Most of the casualties were caused by IDF fire, while in a handful of cases Palestinian were gunned down by settlers.
On Tuesday, settlers torched an empty Palestinian house in the village of Masafer Yatta, in the southern Hebron Hills, and hurled rocks at homes there and in the nearby hamlet of Tuba.
Palestinian and Israeli activists have also reported that over the course of the week, masked armed settlers attacked Palestinian civilians in the villages of Susiya and Umm al-Khair in the same area. In the first case, armed settlers reportedly stormed the village on Sunday, intimidated local residents and told them that they had 24 hours to leave their homes or else they would be killed.
In the case of Umm al-Khair, settlers reportedly entered the village on Sunday morning and accused the residents of being Hamas supporters, searched them and ordered them to put up Israeli flags on their houses, according to local residents who spoke to public broadcaster Kan.
In response to an inquiry by The Times of Israel, the IDF said that it was not called to intervene in Susiya and therefore has no knowledge of the events. In Umm al-Khair, the army said soldiers entered the village after hearing screams, and searched and interrogated some residents. Inciting photos and videos were found in their phones, according to the IDF, and were transmitted to security forces.
The Israel Police did not respond to a request for comment.
The incidents occurred in the context of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, which erupted after the Palestinian terror group perpetrated a massacre on October 7 , when some 2,500 terrorists burst through the border under cover of a deluge of rockets, and rampaged through more than 20 Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip.
They killed some 1,400 people, the vast majority of them civilians, slaughtering them in their homes and at an outdoor music festival. They also abducted at least 245 people to the Strip as hostages, four of whom have since been released by Hamas and one of whom was rescued by the IDF.
The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip has claimed that over 8,500 people have died as a result of Israeli airstrikes since October 7. However, the figures issued by the group cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza and Israel, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
"I am not an American ... In my view premarital sex should be illegal ...(there are) mentally challenged people with special needs like myself- Ajax18
I think that sniper one is probably fake for so, so many reasons. Do you have any other sources to establish its credibility?
- Doc
You might be right as it is based on social media posts which are easy to manipulate but almost impossible to validate. I deleted that one but here is a similar one:
Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem
Tue 10 Apr 2018 10.24 EDT
Footage has emerged of an Israeli sniper shooting a seemingly unarmed and motionless Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip, followed by exuberant whooping from an onlooker.
Israel’s military said an initial inquiry found the shooting had taken place on 22 December, when one of its soldiers injured the man in his leg during what it called violent riots.
The grainy video comes after almost two weeks of daily protests by Palestinians on the Israel-Gaza border in which the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have fatally shot more than two dozen people and wounded hundreds more, according to Gazan health officials.
The short clip, which was widely shared on social media and shown on Israeli prime-time television, appears to have been filmed through a pair of binoculars. It shows several young men in the distance, metres from the fortified wire perimeter fence, including one in a pink top.
“Do you have a bullet in the barrel?” asks a voice off-camera in Hebrew. A crack is heard and the man falls suddenly. “Wow, what a video. Yes! Son of a whore!” another person says as people are seen running towards the victim to help. “Wow. They hit someone in the head,” says an off-camera voice.
In a statement released on Tuesday afternoon, the IDF said its troops were responding to “a violent riot, which included rock hurling and attempts to sabotage the security fence”. The film, less than a minute-and-a-half long, did not show stone-throwing or people damaging infrastructure.
The Intercept claims Israel admits the above video is authentic.
Discharged members of the Israeli Defense Forces, who served as snipers on the border with the Gaza Strip, have revealed shocking details related to their postings.
One of the six snipers interviewed, identified by the name Eden, discussed his time in the Golani infantry brigade with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and claims to remember exactly how many knees he's hit.
"I kept the casing of every round I fired," he told the newspaper.
"I have them in my room. So I don't have to make an estimate – I know: 52 definite hits."
Eden was instructed to "repel" Palestinian demonstrators who approached the Gaza border fence. Gaza's protesters have taken to the border area every week for months on end as part of the "Great March of Return".
The sniper said he had the most hits in his battalion and that he was referred to as the "killer".
"When I came back from the field, they would ask, 'Well, how many today?'"
"You have to understand that before we showed up, knees were the hardest thing to rack up. There was a story about one sniper who had 11 knees all told, and people thought no one could outdo him. And then I brought in seven-eight knees in one day."
"I am not an American ... In my view premarital sex should be illegal ...(there are) mentally challenged people with special needs like myself- Ajax18
"...is an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. We endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price paid for a reality in which young soldiers face a civilian population on a daily basis, and are engaged in the control of that population’s everyday life. Our work aims to bring an end to the occupation.
Soldiers who serve in the territories witness and participate in military actions that change them immensely. Cases of abuse toward Palestinians, looting and destruction of property have been the norm for years, but these incidents are still described officially as “extreme” and “unique” cases. Our testimonies portray a different – and much grimmer – picture, in which the deterioration of moral standards finds expression in the character of the military orders and rules of engagement that the state considers justified in the name of Israel’s security.
While this reality is well-known to Israeli soldiers and commanders, Israeli society in general continues to turn a blind eye and deny what is being done in its name. Discharged soldiers returning to civilian life discover the gap between the reality they encountered in the territories, and the silence about this reality they find at home. In order to resume civilian life, soldiers have to ignore what they have seen and done. We strive to make heard the voices of these soldiers, pushing Israeli society to face the reality it has created.
We collect and publish testimonies from soldiers who, like us, have served in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem since September 2000. To boost public awareness, we hold lectures, house meetings and other public events that bring to light the reality in the territories through the voices of former soldiers. We also conduct tours in Hebron and the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank, with the aim of giving the public access to the reality that exists only minutes away from their own homes, yet is rarely portrayed in the media.
Founded in March 2004 by a group of soldiers who served in Hebron, Breaking the Silence has since acquired a special standing in the eyes of the Israeli public and in the media because of its unique role in giving voice to the experience of soldiers. To date, the organization has collected testimonies from more than 1,400 soldiers who represent all strata of Israeli society and cover nearly all units that operate in the territories.
All the testimonies we publish are meticulously researched, and all facts are cross-checked with additional eyewitnesses and/or the archives of other human rights organizations that are active in the field. Every soldier who gives a testimony to Breaking the Silence is well-aware of the aims of the organization and the interview. Most soldiers choose to remain anonymous, due to various pressures from military officials and society at large. Our first priority is to safeguard the soldiers who choose to testify to the public about their military service."
"I am not an American ... In my view premarital sex should be illegal ...(there are) mentally challenged people with special needs like myself- Ajax18
From Veritas’ link ^ , it should be noted the Palestinians present were engaged is a “March of Return”:
On 30 March, the “Great March of Return” kicked off, a planned six-week protest in Gaza culminating every Friday and calling for refugees and their descendants to be allowed back to their family homes in Israel.
Tents have been set up to accommodate women and children. Groups of men closer to the perimeter have burned tyres and thrown stones. The Israeli military has stationed sharpshooters to enforce a no-go zone within Gaza that straddles the fence.
So, Israelis are, from the article, trying to knee-cap Palestinians who are just doing a performative act of protest.
Weird that a people who experienced an attempt at genocide are themselves supremacists in attitude and behavior towards Arabs and Palestinians in particular.