Palestinian death toll rises to 1500.

This in a few days of bombs and missiles into civilian areas. This is before the ground offensive starts and before or the health system collapses. Two things that are about to happen.

This is likely to result in tens of thousands of deaths and many more due to starvation and disease. This is before we get to life changing injuries, which will be tens of thousands again.

I'm not shedding a tear for the Hama's fighters who targeted civilians but I am for everyone else. If a whole population must be made collectively responsible for the actions of their government then, well I deserve to die. By logical extension, I must be responsible for the Iraq war, Brexit and all the poverty caused by Tory austerity policies.

Do we value all lives equally? If we do, then we should be all be condemning the actions of the Israeli state.

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JSul3 · 70-79

JERUSALEM (AP) — In Israel’s call for the evacuation of half of Gaza’s population, many Palestinians fear a repeat of the most traumatic event in their tortured history, their mass exodus from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation.

Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, or “catastrophe.” An estimated 700,000 Palestinians, a majority of the prewar population, fled or were expelled from what is now Israel in the months before and during the war, in which Jewish fighters fended off an attack by several Arab states.

The Palestinians packed their belongings, piling into cars, trucks and donkey carts. Many locked their doors and took their keys with them, expecting to return when the war ended.

Seventy-five years later, they have not been allowed back. Emptied towns were renamed, villages were demolished, homes reclaimed by forests in Israeli nature reserves.

Israel refused to allow the Palestinians to return, because it would threaten the Jewish majority within the country’s borders. So the refugees and their descendants, who now number nearly 6 million, settled in camps in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Those camps eventually grew into built-up neighborhoods.

In Gaza, the vast majority of the population are Palestinian refugees, many of whose relatives fled from the same areas that Hamas attacked last weekend.

The Palestinians insist they have the right to return, something Israel still adamantly rejects. Their fate was among the thorniest issues in the peace process, which ground to a halt more than a decade ago.

Now, Palestinians fear the most painful moment from their history is repeating itself.

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I do not support the radical Sunni terrorist group Hamas. I do not support Netanyahu and his terrible policies and land grabbing corruption.

I do stand with the Palestinian people in their desire to have their own free state, just as Israel does. I stand with the innocent people on both sides, who are the victims of terror and war from Hamas and Netanyahu.

Who is going to step forward and demand a cease fire and stop this carnage?

I truly believe that the vast majority of Palestinians and Israelis want to live in peace and simply live their lives.

calicuz · 51-55, M

@JSul3

Well said!!!

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@JSul3 [quote]The Palestinians insist they have the right to return, something Israel still adamantly rejects. Their fate was among the thorniest issues in the peace process, which ground to a halt more than a decade ago.[/quote]

The Jewish Israeli doctrine is to never, ever, give up any land that they grab.

JSul3 · 70-79

@Diotrephes After Bibi levels Gaza, he will likely take it.....sounds like Putin.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@JSul3 That is netandyahoo's objective and then he will purge the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and possibly Jordan. And unless America gets its collective head out of its ass, it will aid and abet the ethnic cleansing and genocides like it is now doing to the people in Gaza.