Israel has not attempted industrialized genocide, but I don't think them doing that would be considered taking off the kiddie gloves. It would be crimes against humanity. I also do not think they'd do that. But the Gaza Strip is effectively a subjugated non-nation by Israel. Name one other country that exists like this: Ihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza West Bank hardly even exists: Israelis are treating the Palestinians like we treated the Native Americans.
Imagine if we pushed all the Native Americans into the city of Philadelphia. That's effectively what Gaza is today. Same size and population. Only difference is that we didn't build a fence around Philly or shoot a missile at the Comcast building.
Hamas have to be the most barbaric people in existence on the planet today (maybe some of the cartels are as bad).
Go enjoy your Astros playoff game today you want to be American then come see me, son of Muhammad and his *** ass
I think it's nice that they are taking all of the young Israeli women off in trucks separately from their families to prevent them from being hurt in the war?
Hamas is absolutely barbaric in intentionally targeting civilians. The worst offender on the planet today in terms of intentionally targeting and killing civilians? Putin takes that cake.
Im not paying close attention because all of this is sad AF all around, but I don't really understand what Hamas' end goal is here, outside of "kill a bunch of Israelis, and then watch them kill even more Palestinians". And after its all over, its just going to make the Israelis more brutal against Palestinians. What is the "upside" supposed to be here? What is the goal?
How is Hamas funded? As a designated terrorist entity, Hamas is cut off from official assistance that the United States and European Union (EU) provide to the PLO in the West Bank. Historically, Palestinian expatriates and private donors in the Persian Gulf provided much of the movement’s funding. In addition, some Islamic charities in the West have channeled money to Hamas-backed social service groups, prompting asset freezes by the U.S. Treasury. Gaza’s economic situation is dire. Egypt and Israel largely closed their borders with it in 2006–07, restricting the movement of goods and people into and out of the territory. The two countries maintain a blockade, cutting off the territory from most of the world and forcing more than one million Gazan Palestinians to rely on international aid. Israel allows Qatar to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance through Hamas. Other foreign aid generally reaches Gaza via the PA and UN agencies. For years after the blockade began, Hamas collected revenue by taxing goods moving through a sophisticated network of tunnels that circumvented the Egyptian crossing into Gaza; this brought staples such as food, medicine, and cheap gas for electricity production into the territory, as well as construction materials, cash, and arms. After Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi took power in 2013, Cairo became hostile toward Hamas, which it saw as an extension of its chief domestic rival, the Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian army shut down most of the tunnels breaching its territory while it waged a counterterrorism campaign against a branch of the self-proclaimed Islamic State on its side of the border, on the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt began to allow some commercial goods to enter Gaza through its Salah al-Din border crossing in 2018. As of 2021, Hamas reportedly collected upward of $12 million per month from taxes on Egyptian goods imported into Gaza. Today, Iran is one of Hamas’s biggest benefactors, contributing funds, weapons, and training. Though Iran and Hamas briefly fell out after backing opposing sides in Syria’s civil war, Iran currently provides some $100 million annually [PDF] to Hamas, PIJ, and other Palestinian groups designated as terrorist organizations by the United States. However, U.S. sanctions imposed after Washington’s 2018 withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal have constrained Tehran’s ability to fund its foreign partners. Turkey has been another stalwart backer of Hamas—and a critic of Israel—following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rise to power in 2002. Though Ankara insists it only backs Hamas politically, it has been accused of funding Hamas’s terrorism, including through aid diverted from the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency.
This why I think they were pushed to do this by a backer. It's one thing to kill Israelis in Palestinian territories. It's another to attempt to occupy Israel proper. Did they think they'd initiate a helter skelter scenario?
