At least 40 dead in Israel, more than 700 injured as Hamas militants launch thousands of rockets
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Rockets have been fired from Gaza "across southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the infiltration of Hamas militants."

Over 100 Israelis have died and more than 900 were injured after rockets were fired from Gaza by Hamas militants, Israeli officials said Saturday.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 were killed in Gaza and at least 1,610 were injured Saturday in retaliatory attacks from Israel.

“We are at war. We will win,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.

The Israeli Defense Forces earlier declared “a state of alert for war,” according to a statement issued by the IDF.

“Over the past hour, the Hamas terrorist organization launched massive barrages of rockets from Gaza into Israel, and its terrorist operatives have infiltrated into Israel in a number of different locations in the south,” the IDF said early Saturday.

  • Anduin1357@lemmy.worldEnglish
    512·
    1 year ago

    The whole reason why other Islamic (Arab) countries don’t accept Palestinians is so that they retain their “rightful” claim to lands annexed by Israel from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

    The Palestinians did it to themselves that they couldn’t live peacefully with the Israelis back then and should accept the outcome of the war as a failing of the Arab League and their resistance.

    Besides, you can’t deny that the Arab world owes some debt to the Palestinians to accept their refuge since it was the Arab League that lost all those attempts to retake Palestinian lands (amongst other things), and yet they don’t do it.

    The religious aspect of all this is just secondary to the secular reason.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      Dude. The Palestinians only ever reacted in that time frame. It was the Jewish settlers that attacked the British soldiers and then turned on the Palestinians. Go ask a British military historian.

      • V H@lemmy.stad.socialEnglish
        82·
        1 year ago

        You realise just how racist it sounds when you’re blaming the Palestinian people as a whole for the actions of a subset?

          • V H@lemmy.stad.socialEnglish
            42·
            1 year ago

            Do you have evidence that a huge majority wants to take over states if they are invited in, which was the claim you were making?

            To quote you:

            The whole reason they don’t take Palestinians in is because Palestinians try to take their country over.

            It happened in Jordan, it happened in Lebanon. It will happen anywhere they are allowed to congregate.

            This is full on far-right “if you let those immigrants in they’ll take over” rhetoric.

            EDIT: I’d also like to point out, that in fact this notion of a people coming in and trying to “take over” ironically given the context here has a long-standing history as an anti-semitic trope when used against Jewish people. It’s no less of a racist trope when employed against other groups, though.