Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into the small southern Gaza border city of Rafah are being forced to contemplate being displaced once more as an Israeli offensive looms.
Those who fled to the border city, almost half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, face a terrifying choice: stay in overcrowded Rafah – once home to 280,000 people – and wait for the attack, or risk moving north through an area of continued fighting.
Large areas are occupied by tented encampments, which have encroached even on some of Rafah’s cemeteries. Aid officials have described the city as a “pressure cooker of despair”, warning that a full-scale Israeli offensive on an area so overcrowded could cause large-scale loss of civilian life, and could be a war crime.
Based on what I’ve been told on Lemmy so far is if the IDF rolls thru a town and there is a large-scale loss of civilian life like this is called “acceptable collateral damage”. And when that happens it’s because they or their houses were in the way of: bombs, tunnels, Hamas, someone whose skin color is the same as someone in Hamas, the business side of a rifle, or a bullet.
l’m no expert tho.
Your skin color comment clearly illustrates that you are no expert. You can not tell most Israelis and Palestinians apart based on their skin color or general appearance. If you think that Western notions of race apply here, then you know less than nothing.
But but……skin color is an easy attack even if it doesn’t apply! You’re ruining my cheap shot, you must be a NAZI!!! (/s just in case)
You’re hanging out in the wrong part of Lemmy if that’s what you’re being told.
This isn’t journalism. it’s a horrific hit piece meant to stir shit and pull at the heartstrings of the pro-Palestinian crowd. The actual news is there will be a joint evacuation that is currently being planned between Egypt and Israel’s military.
The guardian’s coverage of the war in a nutshell.
