Israel strikes Hamas launchers embedded in Khan Yunis humanitarian area
Source: Jerusalem Post
The Israel Air Force (IAF) fighter jets conducted multiple strikes over the last few days on three Hamas rocket launch posts, the IDF said on Monday.
The posts were discovered using direct operational identifications in a designated humanitarian area in western Khan Yunis. Allegedly, they were used to carry out attacks towards southern Israel throughout the recent months of fighting.
Prior to the attack, the IDF verified the evacuation of civilians and accurately targeted the launchers.
The strikes harmed no innocent civilians.
The military added that Hamas's use of rocket launchers embedded in a humanitarian area was further proof of the terror organization's exploitation of civilian populations and humanitarian compounds and areas.
On Sunday, three rocket launches were identified from the area of Khan Yunis, targeting communities near the Gaza Strip. Luckily, the launches fell in open areas.
Read more: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-795924
PSPS
(13,604 posts)Beastly Boy
(9,378 posts)A guess that it's time to hold Islamic Jihad responsible for the lies it spreads never occurred to you, did it?
PSPS
(13,604 posts)Uh oh. Islamic Jihad is spreading lies!! I guess it's time to starve more random civilians to death. That'll teach 'em!!!1111!!!
SunSeeker
(51,578 posts)You don't suppose Hamas is stealing the random civilians' food, do you?
Beastly Boy
(9,378 posts)Uh oh, it's 11:50 pm Eastern time. I guess it's time to starve more random civilians to death.
How difficult is it to stay on subject without resorting to gratuitous deflections anyway?
Igel
(35,323 posts)Resistance is futile.
AnrothElf
(573 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,343 posts)WTF are you thinking? You're fine with Hamas deliberately embedding military assets in humanitarian zones?
SlimJimmy
(3,180 posts)by stealing 60% of the aid that Israel and other countries send to Gaza. I have just about had it with this, Israel is the bad guy BS. Israel has done nearly everything it can to avoid civilian casualties, and sent literally tons of aid to Gaza. Yes, mistakes are made. But have you heard of Hamas ever conducting an investigation into their actions? Of course not. There certainly is a genocide happening, but it's not Israel who's attempting it, it's Hamas (on its own people).
agingdem
(7,850 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 10, 2024, 07:04 AM - Edit history (5)
they overwhelmingly support Hamas, willingly act as human shields, and condone Hamas stockpiling weapons in tunnels under schools/mosques/hospitals...Hamas diverts humanitarian aid (money, medical supplies, food) into their own pockets and then blames Israel because Gazans are poor, without medicine, and starving...
and yes, in war innocents die..children/aid workers...buildings are leveled/towns decimated but what seems to be forgotten is this is a war Israel did not start..
I give Hamas "credit"...they have harnessed global hatred for Jews and for the State of Israel...beheading babies, torturing and dismembering children, gang raping women, setting the elderly and disabled on fire, turning a music festival into a killing field, and capturing/holding hostage Israeli citizens is somehow a horror Israel brought on itself..and Hamas and the Palestinians are the real victims...give me a fucking break!!
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)after reading your post I feel like giving you a hug.
I think I am where youre at, completely disheartened.
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)SunSeeker
(51,578 posts)Glad no civilians were hurt.
Behind the Aegis
(53,963 posts)It is disgusting.
SunSeeker
(51,578 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,829 posts)TeamProg
(6,160 posts)Just asking for a friend.
Oh , I see, recent months as in 5 months ago? 6?
How nice.
SunSeeker
(51,578 posts)https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-795924
Beastly Boy
(9,378 posts)Used on school grounds, in a hospital, at a mosque or in humanitarian relief areas?
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)could be as distant as 4, 5 or six months ago.
Freethinker65
(10,027 posts)If the article is true, I can understand wanting to do a clean sweep of Gaza, ridding it of weapon launchers and ammo within striking distance of Israeli communities, before any permanent pull out.
However, this is no excuse for denying/delaying humanitarian aid.
Beastly Boy
(9,378 posts)You were asking for a friend, and I wouldn't want you to disappoint your friend with a non-specific response.
You got a generic answer to your question here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3222798
If you want a more precise answer, I would like to know whether your question relates to rockets being fired from school grounds, a hospital, a mosque or a humanitarian relief areas.
Please elaborate. For your friend's sake.
NickB79
(19,257 posts)Seeing as they're a murdering, raping terrorist group, I'm hoping the number is between 0 and.....0.
Anything over than number requires......rapid disassembly.
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,419 posts)You?
Or would it be HAMAS or Islamic Jihad?
Or maybe Iran?
You've become very transparent here.
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,419 posts)I ask because polls have proven to be highly inaccurate, so, again, I ask, according to who?
You?
HAMAS?
Islamic Jihad?
As I said, you're being very transparent here and you're not even attempting to hide it.
Yep, the masks are completely off now.
NickB79
(19,257 posts)I don't want to be on the side that's cool with letting terrorists own and operate rocket launchers.
Igel
(35,323 posts)Those against anti-semitism will write one version.
Those allowing or in favor of anti-semitism will write another.
You seem to have decided on the side that's "correct, according to our lord, History."
I'm of a different faith.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,419 posts)you're not asking for a friend, you're trying your best to deflect or hijack the thread, which isn't cool at all.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,419 posts)in an attempt to excuse HAMAS and or Islamic Jihad.
What a surprise.
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)of Israeli deaths by Hamas rocket launchers, it makes sense to ask when those rocket launchers were last used.
See how that works?
Happy Hoosier
(7,343 posts)... they are trying to reason why Israel should not be targetting military assets that are obviously legitimate targets.
SlimJimmy
(3,180 posts)creating a situation where nearly half of the Palestinians are starving to death? Was that recently of five or six months ago? See how that works?
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)IDF as being the reason aid is not getting to starving victims of this genocide.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Dec 27, 2023 Israel says some 12000 rockets have been fired from Gaza starting on Oct. 7. They have killed 15 people in Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-rockets.html
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)Re: Hamas. This is what needs to be focused on.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.
The idea was to prevent Abbas or anyone else in the Palestinian Authoritys West Bank government from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,419 posts)which seems to be your go to when anything Israel is reflected in a positive light.
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)if that makes me a "defender of Hamas" then we can all have a good laugh at the utter ridiculousness of that statement.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Bombs that only hit active Hamas combatants, but only if they weren't in a school or hospital and no civilians were nearby? Munitions aren't that precise, and you know Hamas positioned themselves in schools, in hospitals, in apartment blocks.
How was the IDF to conduct this war and keep your support? Small arms only?
Coventina
(27,129 posts)sarisataka
(18,684 posts)Just sayin'
Beastly Boy
(9,378 posts)By all means, do share the link!
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)happening, it's not just me.
So, you're in full support of Netanyahu, then? Everything is fine for you with this massacre?
Beastly Boy
(9,378 posts)I realize that you couldn't have an opinion on Israel before 1948, let alone before genocide happened.
But there is no reason you couldn't find any of your posts in support of Israel after January 26, 2021.
Unless there are none.
But by all means, do tell me all about who I support and what is fine for me! Because I practically begged you to deflect to just that, right?
Igel
(35,323 posts)One can be pro "Hamas must die" and still not sport a "I < heart > Netanyahu" sticker on one's forehead.
Just as a rep in opposition to Netanyahu, long pre 7/10, said that the Israeli SC was the most powerful SC in any "western" democracy and seriously needed reigning in. She just didn't agree with what Netanyahu wanted--but agreed that "we judges, most appointed by colleagues and comrades, think X reasonable, so just screw the law and precedent and so what we think the law should be." Far worse than anything SCOTUS has done to date. Including Roe. Or Oberlander. And yet we support the Israeli SC because we think it's pro-us. It's pro part of us. On DU, maybe a majority, but among (D) still a minority. And we're suddenly majoritarianist.
That Israeli Knesset member was less partial than so many people I know, (R) and (D). And she was somebody that was reasonable. Netanyahu and the Hasidim are less so.
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)Square peg through a round hole? Kind of like that?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.
The idea was to prevent Abbas or anyone else in the Palestinian Authoritys West Bank government from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)As in each won a local election, never had another one and Hamas actively hunted down the PA in gaza
TeamProg
(6,160 posts)to support those who bring home the bread for them.
THAT is what Netanyahu did for Hamas.
I'm done here. Obviously I've struck a nerve.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)You just seem uninformed on the matter.
Hamas & the PA were going to hold on to their power and territory irregardless of what Israel did
The FatahHamas conflict (Arabic: النزاع بين فتح وحماس, romanized: an-Nizāʿ bayna Fataḥ wa-Ḥamās) is an ongoing political and strategic conflict between Fatah and Hamas,[a] the two main Palestinian political parties in the Palestinian territories, leading to the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007. The reconciliation process and unification of Hamas and Fatah administrations remains unfinalized and the situation is deemed a frozen conflict.
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights has found that over 600 Palestinians were killed in the fighting from January 2006 to May 2007.[14] Dozens more were killed or executed in the following years as part of the conflict.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)TeamProg
(6,160 posts)https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.
The idea was to prevent Abbas or anyone else in the Palestinian Authoritys West Bank government from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.
Beastly Boy
(9,378 posts)What needs to be focused on is your statement that you are attempting to deflect away from because you can't back it up with any evidence.
Once you quit deflecting, feel free to raise any subject you need to focus on in a separate thread.
Igel
(35,323 posts)Then it wasn't.
It wasn't Israeli.
Then it wasn't something I was reading about.
Why? Because it wasn't Israeli.
I read about how the Battle for As-Shifa II is ongoing. For nearly two weeks. Which is weird--how long should it take for the IDF to assault an undefended hospital from which no defense is mounted? Nearly two weeks?
Oh. Wait. It means non-civilians were defending it. Having regrouped.
"There's no resistance. How are 'battles ongoing?'" I see asked on DU. And two weeks later, the four-month battle in Khan Younis ends and IDF draws down its forces. But wait ... The four-month battle was a non-battle?
No bias in the media. Nope. None at all.
Okay, that's wrong. There are biases in the media. One could call them "silos." If you're silage, in a silo, you only get what's chucked into the silo. So Khan Younis had no on-going battles. As-Shifa wasn't a regrouped Hamas stronghold. Wander on over to the next silo and you get more of the story. Wander to the next silo, more of the story.
9/11 taught us that silos let us get blindsided ... No, that's mis-stated. The proper vocable is "self-blindsided."
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)No non-combatant deaths.
Bayard
(22,111 posts)Just how do they determine if a body was a non-combatant or Hamas?
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)that were hit.
But maybe they called Hamas after and checked?
republianmushroom
(13,623 posts)sarisataka
(18,684 posts)Not at all, it is kind of their MO to violate the laws of war then cry foul when Israel strikes them.