Israel’s military began a heavy aerial bombardment of Gaza after nightfall on Friday and announced that it is “expanding” its ground operations into the territory—but did not declare a full-scale ground invasion that has been expected for weeks.Internet and phone service in Gaza has been mostly, if not entirely, cut off amid the bombing. The International Committee of the Red Cross cannot reach its medical personnel. A Washington Post reporter said the paper cannot reach its colleagues, either.S

Some people, communicating via satellite phones, have described the attack as the “heaviest bombardment yet,” according to independent journalist Sharif Kouddous.

“People can’t call ambulances or civil defense. We are being bombed in an unprecedented manner,” said an unidentified journalist at a Gaza hospital, according to a translation by The Nation’s Palestinian correspondent, Mohammed El-Kurd. “The sky around us just lights up [with explosions], and no one knows what’s going on.”

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    142·
    1 year ago

    I think what we’re learning from this is that ghettos are a step on the path to genocide. That’s the link to Germany here. You put a subset of “your” people into a walled off place, at some point in the future unless you take down that wall and re-integrate those people, you’re gonna massacre them.

    Whether you think you’re capable of genocide or not, you are. We all are. And we need to be paying attention to the things that lead to it. And what this is demonstrating is that ghettos lead to genocide.

    • Guydht@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      subset of “your” people

      No Palestinian, or Gazan ever thought of themselves as Israeli, and neither did Israel think of them as their own. The situation of Gazans is terrible, but again - they’re not part of Israel, and are never intending to be. That’s so different from Nazi Germany that it’s just insane to compare the two.

      Stop thinking of the Holocaust as a genocide. It’s so much more. It’s blatant racism, and a well tuned death machine. Something Israel both aren’t doing now, and didn’t do ever. Israel is only fighting for the good of its own people, and no one in the world can blame them, since every other single nation would’ve done the same. (Btw, same as Egypt who are doing what’s best for their people by not letting Gazans immigrate)

    • time_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s the other way around. Israel put them in a gheto because they literally had no other way to protect their citizens. Now that the Palestinians have found a way around that, they’re back to killing the Israelis. And Israel is responding again.

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        That’s the same reasoning the Nazis used though. They said that Jews caused Germany to lose WW1, Jews caused the pain and suffering and instability of the German people. This was German land, not Jewish land, and so they had no choice but to lock up and exterminate the Jews for the safety and wellbeing of their own.

        It was bullshit then and it’s bullshit now.

        • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Reinhard

          Nazis didn’t even “want” to exterminate the Jews… Gypsies yes, they shot those on sight, just like cripples… but all those Jews, Poles, Gays and similar, they “only” wanted to ship them all to Egypt or wherever in Africa… but those pesky Allies thwarted their plans, so “what were they supposed to do”. 🙄

          And look, Egypt is again refusing to let the “undesirables” in, only this time it’s the Palestinians… and the ones pushing them out are the Israelis. 😒

          Wonder what will the books end up calling this “operation”.