The Associated Press reports that dozens more civilians were killed in last night’s airstrikes in northern Gaza:
“It was another night of killing and massacres,” said Saeed Moustafa, a resident of the Nuseirat camp. He said people were still crying out from the rubble of a house hit by an airstrike on Wednesday.
“We are unable to get them out. We hear their screams but we don’t have equipment,” he said.
Among those killed in these strikes were 12 members of a journalist’s family. Entire families are being annihilated one airstrike at a time. In one such strike over the weekend, a UN Development Program staff member and over 70 members of his extended family were all killed. Many extended families have suffered comparable losses. The Financial Times reported earlier this month:
The tradition of extended families living together in multistorey buildings, compounded by relatives moving in together for safety in wartime, has meant that hundreds of multigenerational families have suffered the same fate as the Aghas, all but wiped out in single or multiple strikes.
About 1,550 families have lost multiple members, according to health officials in the Hamas-controlled territory. At least 312 families had each lost more than 10 people by November 23, the officials said.
Those numbers keep growing every day that this war is allowed to continue.
Israel’s military campaign has only intensified in the last few weeks. The Netanyahu government continues to ignore the Biden administration’s empty warnings about complying with international law because they know that they face no consequences for anything that they do in this war. Biden sends one top official after another to Israel to make it look as if he is doing something, and each time the official reaffirms unwavering U.S. support for a campaign of mass killing that Washington pretends is something else.
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Daniel Larison is a contributing editor for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.
Israel is not going to stop, they know the USA are cowards and afraid to stand up to them, as are the UK, EU. The question is when do the Arab/Muslim Nations say we have seen enough, form a plan and attack Israel? Doing nothing to STOP a Genocide is NOT acceptable! If Israel is not punished, we can expect other Nations to do the same and expect no interference.
Touché……
Most Arab/Muslim Nations are ruled by dictators who do what the US tells them to do or not to do and can’t say anything to receive the wrath of the US government. They are the bedrock assets that Israel has. That’s why the US will never allow these nations people to have any say in their affairs. Spreading democracy is the biggest farce.
There is an election next year. The millions from AIPAC (created by a man from the AZC) is too good to pass up. So who cares about a few thousand more dead women and children. By the way, AIPAC and as its predecessor, AZC, needs to be registered as a foreign agent.
Most civilian muslims if allowed by their government, are willing to do war to help their brothers in Palestine.
Not the Muslim states’ government, they are also subservient to the rogue state and don’t expect the Arab head of states to do anything. They’re comfortable burying their heads in the desert sand, butts in the air for the zios to screw. Popping their heads out once in a while to offer more lip service. At the rate and magnitude of evil happening now, only Divine intervention can make a change.
If they’re willing to do war to liberate Palestine, why aren’t they willing to do war to liberate themselves from those governments?
“ An Israeli military official has said that the high death toll from an attack on Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza was the result of the use of improper munitions, showing a spotlight on Israel’s military tactics that have created high numbers of civilian casualties.
Speaking to the Israeli public broadcaster Kan, a military official on Thursday said that the raid on Maghazi, which killed at least 70 people, used munitions that were not appropriate for a packed refugee camp..
The type of munition did not match the nature of the attack, causing extensive collateral damage which could have been avoided,” the official told the Israeli Kan public broadcaster.
“The [Israeli army] regrets the harm to those who were uninvolved and is working to learn lessons from the incident,” the official added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/28/israel-says-improper-munitions-cause-of-high-death-toll-in-maghazi-attack
Makes one wonder what proper munition should be used on a packed REFUGEE camp.
Apartheid genocidal liars doing what they do best.
It’s a genocide pure and simple. Land theft by bombs. What is the ICC going not do in response to this blatant genocider……….?????????????
Israel is threatening Iran:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/2023-12-30/live-updates-780072