Israel kills dozens in Gaza as Palestinians mark 77 years since the Nakba
New attacks kill at least 74 in Gaza as Israeli far right urges occupied West Bank assault on Nakba anniversary.
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More than 74 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, deepening an already catastrophic toll after 19 months of unrelenting bombardment.
At least 57 people were killed overnight and into Thursday in a barrage of strikes on residential areas in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to local health officials. Medical staff at Nasser Medical Complex reported an influx of casualties, many of them children.
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Speaking to Al Jazeera, displaced Palestinian Hasan Moqbel described the continuing assault as a war on civilians. “They have been bombing Gaza for 19 months. What’s left in Gaza? Innocent children are dying. There is no armed activity here. Most of them are elderly people who are dying,” he said.
Among those killed was Palestinian journalist Hassan Samour. He and several members of his family were killed when an Israeli strike targeted their home in Bani Suheila, a town east of Khan Younis.
Earlier this week, another Palestinian journalist, Hassan Aslih, was killed in an Israeli drone attack on the emergency wing of Nasser Hospital. He had been receiving treatment for injuries sustained in a previous Israeli strike.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 170 journalists and media workers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), making Gaza one of the deadliest places in the world for the press.
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The latest killings have triggered new waves of forced displacement. Thousands fled Gaza City on Thursday after the Israeli military issued sudden forced evacuation orders.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported scenes of panic and fear as residents packed their belongings and tried to escape the expected onslaught.
“We’re seeing families carrying their belongings and taking to the streets,” Mahmoud said. “The children and elderly are carrying whatever they’re able to carry … They don’t know where to go. There is no safe place for these people – the so-called shelters have already been destroyed by Israeli bombs.”
‘We have to flatten the West Bank’
Meanwhile, the Israeli government appears to be laying the groundwork for a parallel escalation in the occupied West Bank.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a key figure in Israel’s far-right coalition, has openly called for military forces to destroy Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, echoing the destruction witnessed in Gaza.
“Just as we are flattening Rafah, Khan Younis and Gaza, we have to flatten the terror hubs,” Smotrich said, referring specifically to the Palestinian village of Bruqin, where an Israeli settler was killed on Wednesday evening.
Israeli forces launched new raids across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Thursday, storming cities and refugee camps including Tubas, Nablus, Bethlehem and Dura. Residents in Qalandia, Ya’bad, Fawwar and Askar camps also reported house raids, arrests and what rights groups describe as systematic abuse.
Palestinians remember the Nakba
The calls to escalate violence in the West Bank come as Palestinians mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, when more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled by Zionist militias during the creation of Israel in 1948.
More than 530 villages and towns were razed, and the majority of the Palestinian population was either killed or exiled. The newly created state of Israel seized 78 percent of historic Palestine. The remaining 22 percent – the West Bank and Gaza Strip – were occupied by Israel following the 1967 war and remain under military control.
Since October 2023, the Israeli army’s brutal offensive in Gaza has killed nearly 53,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
As the bombing continues and the death toll rises, rights groups, media freedom advocates and Palestinian civilians are warning of a campaign of deliberate annihilation.
With both Gaza and the West Bank under assault, Palestinians are increasingly questioning whether any part of their homeland will be left intact.
No mercy for terrorists.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is annihilating Palestinian children. Amer Rabea was one of them
DeleteAhmad Ibsais
This US citizen was shot by Israeli forces in April. There was no warning, no investigation but worst of all – no outcry from the west
Wed 14 May 2025 20.00 AEST
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Amer Mohammed Rabea was 14 years old. He was a US citizen. On 7 April 2025, he was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Turmus Ayya. There was no warning. No investigation. Just a bullet, a body and a silence so deep it threatens to swallow justice whole.
The killing of a child should rupture the world. Instead, Amer’s death joined a growing ledger of erased Palestinian lives, tallied but never mourned by those in power. There was no state department briefing. No congressional statement. No public grieving for a child born under two flags, killed under a third. Even in death, Amer was made stateless.
Since October 2023, at least 17,000 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza. The UN now confirms that at least 100 children have been killed or injured every single day since Israel resumed its offensive in March 2025. In 36 verified airstrikes, only women and children were found beneath the rubble. Not fighters. Not military targets. Just families.
Neither should there be any mercy for those Europe rejected zionists in the land of Palestine!
DeleteHere is the Real Nakba....for Isaacs...and it happened before 1948.
ReplyDeleteAmin al Husseini was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 1922-1937. On Nov.5 1941 he arrived in Berlin. On 20 November he met Joachim Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister. On Nov.28 he met with Adolf Hitler. Here is the proof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1987-004-09A,_Amin_al_Husseini_und_Adolf_Hitler.jpg
A wise person once said: "context is everything". So what is the context of this meeting with Hitler on 28.11.1941? At this moment in history....
1. Operation Barbarossa was nearly complete. Nazi Armies lay siege on Leningrad and was within artillery range of the Kremlin in Moscow.
2. France, the Low Countries, Central Europe, Austria-Hungary, Greece, Balkans....were all German colonies
3. Mussolini was giving full sapot to Hitler
4. Erwin Rommel the Desert Fox had swept nearly all of North Africa and at the doorstep of Egypt and the Suez Canal
5. Young Bullyland would not enter WW2 for another 10 days or so, after the Day of Infamy Dec 7, 1941.
6. Brittania was all alone on the island, barely withstanding daily Luftwaffe bombing
7. D-Day was not even a distant possibility
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ReplyDeleteThe Grand Mufti was firmly convinced Nazi Germany would win the war, reach the Levant and Jerusalem, and when that happened the Arab cause to get rid of all Ishmaels would be realised.
THIS IS THE REAL NAKBA
The Grand Mufti stayed in Berlin from 1941 to 1945 where he felt at home, not because he enjoyed the winter weather or pork knuckles. He moved around the German Empire with Himmler, the mastermind of The Final Solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101III-Alber-164-18A,_Gro%C3%9Fmufti_Amin_al_Husseini,_Heinrich_Himmler.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-036-05,_Amin_al_Husseini_bei_bosnischen_SS-Freiwilligen.jpg
Here is the Full Official Record (translated from German) of what the Mufti said to Hitler. In summary:
"The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends, Haj Amin al-Husseini told the Nazi leader in 1941, because they had the same enemies — namely the English, the Jews and the Communists"
https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/
Al-Husseini has been described by the American Jewish Congress as "Hitler's henchman" and some scholars, such as Schwanitz and Rubin, have argued that Husseini made the Final Solution inevitable by shutting out the possibility of Jews escaping to Palestine.
Husseini reports that Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ... told him in summer 1943 that the Germans had "already exterminated more than three million" Jews: "I was astonished by this figure, as I had known nothing about the matter until then." ... Thus, in 1943, Husseini knew about the genocide...
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz doubts the sincerity of his surprise since, he argues, Husseini had publicly declared that Muslims should follow the example Germans set for a "definitive solution to the Jewish problem"
Himmler asked me (al-Husseini) on the occasion: "How do you propose to settle the Jewish question in your country?" I replied: "All we want from them is that they return to their countries of origin." He (Himmler) replied: "We shall never authorize their return to Germany."
Subsequently, al-Husseini declared in November 1943:
It is the duty of Muhammadans [Muslims] in general and Arabs in particular to ... drive all Jews from Arab and Muhammadan countries... . Germany is also struggling against the common foe who oppressed Arabs and Muhammadans in their different countries. It has very clearly recognized the Jews for what they are and resolved to find a definitive solution [endgültige Lösung] for the Jewish danger that will eliminate the scourge that Jews represent in the world
At the Nuremberg trials, one of Adolf Eichmann's deputies, Dieter Wisliceny, stated that al-Husseini had actively encouraged the extermination of European Jews, and that al-Husseini had a meeting with Eichmann at his office, during which Eichmann gave him a view of the current state of the "Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe" by the Third Reich.
So the REAL NAKBA was started in 1941, long before the birth of Isaacland, in Nazi Germany, by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
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DeleteWhy don't the Europe rejected zionists broadcasting this fart for the world to see?
Why those mfering zionists keep reserving Holocaust as the game of the Nazis Germany & not putting that tag on the then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem as u do?
U ain't the only zionist asslicker repeating this trashy take based on a single person, al-Husseini, relationship then with Nazis Germany.
Using yr f*cked argument of association, then the USofA for been the financer & military HW merchant of the Nazis Germany right from the beginning of WWII & in many of an occasion had met with many high officers who were Hitler's closed confidants, was also the participants of the Jewish final solution!
Those zionist elites have more sense than a mfering u. They know that story would back fire & destroy their hard built Holocaust fart!