More video and eyewitness info on Al Jazeera so far

Also reported on Common Dreams and Middle East Eye.

I haven’t found any reports of any independent investigations yet, hopefully they are underway

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    No, again, Israel has COMPLETELY blockaded Gaza.

    The Palestinians don’t have anything with which to even attempt to throw out Hamas.

    So what would you have them do? What do you think Israel’s reaction would be if they tried to smuggle weapons in through the blockade?

    Again, this is all Israel’s design. They could lift the blockade today. They could normalize relations with the Palestinians today. They won’t, because what they really want is to choke them out and steal their land. They won’t be satisfied with less.

    https://newrepublic.com/post/178243/benjamin-netanyahu-literally-says-from-the-river-to-the-sea

    “According to other translations, Netanyahu said that Israel “must have security control over the entire territory west of the Jordan River,””

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        No, I’m saying Israel is to blame for the Palestinians inability to do anything about Hamas.

        If you want Hamas gone, stop treating Palestinians like terrorists.

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            I’m not saying that at all. I’m saying they are incapable of dealing with Hamas on their own because Israel does not allow them the supplies and support they need to be able to deal with them.

            If Israel lifted the blockade and allowed the Palestinian Authority to act on their own, as an independent government, Hamas would be gone.

            Israel will never do that, because they see all Palestinians as the enemy.

            https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-gaza-world-leaders-un-genocide-palestinians

            “Israel’s former chief military advocate general and the country’s former attorney general no less, who declared that to destroy Hamas “then you have to destroy Gaza, because everything in Gaza, almost every building there, is a stronghold of Hamas”.”

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                Gaza has been blockaded by Israel since 2005.

                Did you even BOTHER reading the links?

                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

                "Israel blockaded the Gaza Strip at various levels of intensity in 2005–2006, with Israeli imposed closures having a history going back to 1991.[7][8][9][10][11] In 2007, after Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, Israel imposed an indefinite blockade of Gaza that is ongoing to present day, on the grounds that Fatah and Palestinian Authority forces had fled the Strip and were no longer able to provide security on the Palestinian side.[12] "

                Here’s another good one:

                https://www.oxfam.org/en/timeline-humanitarian-impact-gaza-blockade

                “Less than 16% of items needed to construct vital water infrastructure are reaching Gaza”

                You: “bUt why Don’T theY dO sOMetHiNg ABout HAMaS?”

                They can’t. They literally can’t, and the reason they can’t is Israel’s blockade.