Inadmissible Israeli violence

Ruthless intolerable Israeli violence

The Israel Defense Forces said Monday that it believes heavy overnight strikes in the northern Gaza Strip caused significant damage to underground and aboveground infrastructure belonging to Hamas, as the military announced that a soldier had been killed in fighting a day earlier.

But at what price do they seem to have done so? Can one legitimately contrast the number of civilian victims with this? I don’t think so.
Surely we will see Israel doing the same thing Russia is doing to Ukraine, targeting innocent people. Last days we could clearly see this by the times they attacked and shot at without really providing any real evidence of their claims. We did see small children shot dead in a car, house or camp, as if those five- or eight-year-olds were Hamas fighters.

Palestinians look for survivors of the Israeli bombardment in the Maghazi neighborhood in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

The military said Sunday it was carrying out

“widespread strikes on terror infrastructure, below ground and above it,”

which are now believed to have killed Hamas field commanders hiding in tunnels.

In case the IDF tells the truth that it has killed already more than a dozen Hamas field commanders — at the battalion and brigade level — since the beginning of the war, and that they noted that the loss of those fighters was disrupting the terror group’s operations, why do they still keep bombarding hospitals and refugee camps, whilst their groundtroops could go into those hospitals looking for Hamas fighters, without having to shoot on doctors and patients.

It can well be that fighter jets struck more than 450 ‘Hamas targets’ in the Gaza Strip, including tunnels, military compounds, observation posts and anti-tank guided missile launch positions, as the military said Monday morning. But when they are so rightly thinking it where Hamas hiding points, why had there to be so much ‘collateral damage’?

One airstrike killed Jamal Musa, the head of Hamas’s special operations. Another killed Wael Asfeh, who had been jailed by Israel between 1992 and 1998 for his involvement in a number of attacks against Israeli communities. Now he acted as the commander of Hamas’s Deir al Balah battalion, along with other commanders of the so-called Central Camps Brigade, who took part in sending terrorists of Hamas’s elite Nukhba forces into Israel during the October 7 onslaught.

It was good to notice that a Jordanian airplane was allowed to fly over Israel to drop medical equipment and food to the Jordanian Hospital in the Gaza Strip. King Abdullah II wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter:

“This is our duty to aid our brothers and sisters injured in the war on Gaza.”

Though many countries asked for “humanitarian pauses” in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to ensure people in the territory get help, stubborn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any truce until all hostages are released.

Today, Tuesday November 7, the Israeli military posts a short clip of what appears to be hundreds of Gazan residents, some with their arms raised and some carrying white flags, moving on foot toward the southern part of the Palestinian enclave via the Strip’s north-to-south Salah a-Din road.

The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted the short clip on X, writing that the IDF was again opening up a humanitarian corridor for Palestinians to evacuate and made another call for Gazans to evacuate the northern part of the Strip and head south.

Adraee announces the Salah a-Din road would be open for Palestinians to evacuate to southern Gaza between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. today.

“If you care about yourself and your loved ones, head south according to our instructions. Rest assured that Hamas leaders have already taken care of themselves,”

he says.