40 Killed In Hamas Attacks In Israel

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eq9lq7xr1o

It's genocide.

Simple as.

Anyone defending these cuunts needs to have a word with themselves.

I hope Netanyahu when dies in pain.

He's moderate compared to some of his party ��

[jon1959]

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/may/25/gaza-city-israeli-offensive-despair-hunger

[jon1959]

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https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?e=27fbccdbd9&u=d3bceadb340d6af4daf1de00d&id=52a653bb38

Capt. Ron Feiner (res.) started his 20-day prison sentence after refusing to serve in the IDF's offensive in Gaza. Feiner, 26, an infantry platoon commander who has completed 270 days of reserve duty since October 7, 2023, said that he is "appalled by the unending war in Gaza, the abandonment of the hostages and the non-stop death of innocents. I cannot ethically continue to serve unless there is a change. Prison will not silence nor deter me or my brothers-in-arms."

[jon1959]

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From the Jewish Voice for Labour:

Dehumanisation and the morality of starving children to death.

While increasing numbers of Israelis are beginning to protest against the slaughter in Gaza, they remain nevertheless a minority. The large majority continue either to turn their eyes away from the images of horror that are so distressing the rest of the world, or applaud them in an utterly unashamed abdication of any remnants of their own humanity.

Here are two recent articles from Ha’aretz, published in the past three weeks. The stories recounted illustrate in a particularly stark, indeed shocking, way the abyss of inhumanity and also self-delusion into which Israel is sinking ever more deeply, and they reveal clearly what we are really confronting, or abetting – for those of us (our Government for a start) who continue so egregiously to abet.

We owe it to those already murdered, and to the hundreds of thousands today facing the annihilation so blatantly promised them, to be fully aware of the lethal narrative of their dehumanisation as exemplified so chillingly in these two reports.

(The second piece follows the first)

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/dehumanisation-and-the-morality-of-starving-children-to-death/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=today-on-the-jvl-blog-newsletter-total-articles-for-you_1

Israel’s Knesset held a first-of-its-kind discussion on the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. During a meeting last Thursday (May 8th Ed), Dr. Sharon Shaul from NATAN, an Israeli-based organization that provides humanitarian aid around the world, made a seemingly trivial remark: “I think that even everyone sitting around this table doesn’t want a suffering child to be unable to receive painkillers or minimal medical treatment.”

Israeli lawmaker Amit Halevi (Likud) angrily interrupted her: “I’m not sure you’re speaking for us when you say we want to treat every child and every woman. I hope you don’t stand behind that statement either. When fighting a group like this, the distinctions that exist in a normal world don’t exist.”

Shaul didn’t back down: “I hope that you too don’t want a 4-year-old whose arm has been amputated to go without painkillers. I hope you have that empathy too.” Lawmaker Limor Son Har-Melech (Religious Zionism) couldn’t hold back: “The only treatment needed here is for you,” she said, pointing at Shaul. Another participant remarked: “You are the sickest doctor I’ve ever seen.”

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https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?e...&id=52a653bb38

Capt. Ron Feiner (res.) started his 20-day prison sentence after refusing to serve in the IDF's offensive in Gaza. Feiner, 26, an infantry platoon commander who has completed 270 days of reserve duty since October 7, 2023, said that he is "appalled by the unending war in Gaza, the abandonment of the hostages and the non-stop death of innocents. I cannot ethically continue to serve unless there is a change. Prison will not silence nor deter me or my brothers-in-arms."

It begs the question why so many IDF soldiers are happy to continue doing what they’re being asked to.

[jon1959]

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One of the best commentators in the UK print media, in my opinion. Gets it right again on western politicians and Gaza:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/26/israel-gaza-war-turning-point-uk-eu-changed

The marked change in tone this past week from leaders in the UK and EU is a clear break from the pabulum of “concerns” and reiterations of Israel’s right to defend itself. Now the rhetoric is that Israel’s actions are “morally unjustifiable” and “wholly disproportionate”, and the threats of its leaders “abhorrent”. Some of this is future-proofing. The war has amounted to genocide and ethnic cleansing in ways that are increasingly undeniable, indefensible and unspinnable. Some had a good go at it for a year and a half, but now cannot stand at a lectern or sit at a dinner table and argue that, yes, actually, there is an argument for killing 100 people a day, as was the case last week. Or that Israel has any plan other than what its leaders have consistently declared to be one of displacement and settlement. Long gone is the argument that this is simply about wiping out Hamas. Israel, as one British media ally lamented, has hung its friends out to dry.

But there is a disconnect between condemnation and outrage, and what happens on the ground. When it comes to Israel, the levers of international censure are broken. Throughout the war, international organisations, humanitarian missions and courts of justice have been rendered powerless by their inability to translate their findings into action. Words alone mean nothing. They simply bounce off Israel’s iron dome of impunity. Every day, the world wakes up and is confronted with an Israeli leadership that violates every law of morality and logic. Victims are aggressors, humanitarians are biased, an army that kills unarmed medics is the most moral army in the world. Up is down.

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If this new attitude taken by western leaders is designed to fend off a reckoning, then it’s too little, too late: the record has already been taken....

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And even then, all this would only be a start, and a colossally, tragically late one at that. One can break down why none of these things have yet happened: the hopes that keeping Israel on side preserves some modicum of leverage; concerns that strong measures will embolden Iran; loyalty to the notion of historic debt; fears of the uncertain world that a break with Israel would usher in. But that world is already here, and cowardice has only accelerated its arrival, rather than prevented its emergence.

Palestinians, from Gaza to the West Bank, are paying the highest price for inaction, but an acute wound has been inflicted on the rest of the world. If nothing happens, its moral and political morbidity will encompass all.

[jon1959]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/26/israel-palestinians-jerusalem-nationalist-march-ben-gvir/eae46aae-3a1d-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html

JERUSALEM — Chanting “Death to Arabs” and singing “May your village burn,” groups of young Israeli Jews made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday ahead of an annual march marking Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/gazas-youngest-influencer-aged-11-among-children-killed-by-israeli-strikes

Eleven-year-old Yaqeen Hammad, Gaza’s youngest influencer, is among the dozens of children killed by Israel in recent strikes, as its forces intensify their military offensive across the Palestinian territory.

Known for her bright smile and volunteering efforts, Yaqeen was killed on Friday night after Israeli forces shelled the al-Baraka area of Deir al-Balah in northern Gaza, amid intense fighting in the region.

Yaqeen and her older brother, Mohamed Hammad, delivered food, toys and clothing to displaced families, Al Jazeera has reported.

She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.

In one social media post, Yaqeen wrote: “I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war.”

She played an active role in the Ouena collective, a Gaza-based non-profit organisation dedicated to humanitarian relief.

She often accompanied her older brother, Mohamed, a humanitarian worker, and together they distributed aid – food, toys and clothing. They often visited camps and makeshift shelters for displaced families. In each place they went, she tried to spread cheer and comfort to the children.

[jon1959]

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/thousands-join-israeli-flag-march-through-muslim-quarter-of-old-city-in-jerusalem

[jon1959]

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https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/157796

LONDON, May 27, 2025 (WAFA) – The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said.

In a letter to the prime minister, they welcomed Keir Starmer’s joint statement last week with the leaders of France and Canada warning that they were prepared to take “concrete actions” against Israel. But they urged him to act without delay as “urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/uk-must-impose-sanctions-on-israel-to-meet-legal-obligations-say-more-than-800-lawyers

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https://businessday.ng/world/article/careless-uncontrolled-brutal-former-israeli-pm-calls-gaza-attack-war-crimes/

Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he now believes his country’s constant attack on the Palestinian people amounts to “war crimes” and must stop.

According to Reuters, Olmert, who served from 2006 to 2009, spoke to the people of Israel in an article written in Hebrew that Haaretz published on Thursday. He condemned current prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government for “waging a pointless war, without a clear goal or plan, and with no chance of success,” according to Google’s translation of the piece.

Olmert wrote that he had previously defended his country against “accusations of genocide and war crimes.” However, the Israeli politician said he can no longer see the widespread killing of civilians, including women, children and the elderly, or the campaign to starve Gaza as just collateral damage in “a brutal war.”

“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” he said.

“We are doing this not because of an accidental loss of control in a particular sector, not because of a disproportionate outburst of fighters in some unit — but as a result of a policy dictated by the government, knowingly, intentionally, viciously, maliciously, recklessly,” Olmert’s op-ed continued. “Yes, we are committing war crimes.”

[stevo]

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Wow. Fair play.

[jon1959]

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/chased-beaten-and-robbed-survivors-describe-israeli-settler-violence-in-west-bank

Survivors of an attack by violent Israeli settlers have described being “hunted” across a West Bank valley by men armed with pistols, rifles and batons, who beat them so badly that all 10 had to be taken to hospital for their injuries.

They included a 14-year-old Palestinian boy, eight other Palestinians and an Israeli activist, who had three cameras, his phone, car keys and wallet stolen.

Moments before the attackers reached the activist, Avishay Mohar, he managed to remove and hide memory cards with photos documenting the early stages of the attack.

The assailants, some of them masked, descended on Palestinians dismantling the last homes in the village of Mughayyir al-Deir, east of Ramallah. Its residents had all been forced out by Israeli settlers in an aggressive campaign that lasted less than a week.

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/28/member-of-uk-jewish-board-of-deputies-resigns-over-failure-to-call-out-israel-on-gaza

An elected representative on the UK’s largest Jewish body has resigned, saying it had “failed to act morally and failed to represent the increasing diversity of opinion within the British Jewish community” amid growing horror at Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza.

Daniel Grossman, one of 36 elected members of the Board of Deputies facing disciplinary proceedings over their criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza, told a meeting called by the board last weekend that he had “no confidence in the leadership”.

Grossman, 21, a final-year student at Bristol University, was one of three dozen deputies who signed an open letter last month that said “Israel’s soul is being ripped out” by the war in Gaza and that their “Jewish values compel us to stand up and to speak out”.

In response, the board, which consists of more than 300 deputies, opened a disciplinary procedure against all 36 and suspended two deputies. The board’s efforts to shut down debate over the Israeli government’s actions has prompted criticism and discomfort among a significant and growing proportion of British Jews.

Grossman told the Guardian: “It’s very simple: they are refusing to explicitly and publicly condemn Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza and to criticise the [Israeli] government for abandoning the hostages, who have been in captivity for far too long.

“Increasing numbers of people are recognising that Israel’s actions in Gaza cannot be justified as purely self-defence. They seemingly want to declare a perpetual war against Palestinian civilians with the goal of ethnically cleansing them from the Gaza Strip.”

[jon1959]

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/28/uk-trade-envoy-lord-austin-visit-israel-talks-suspended-sparks-criticism

The coherence of the UK government’s policy towards Israel is under question after Labour permitted its trade envoy to boost commercial links one week after the foreign secretary suspended talks on a further trade deal.

The trade envoy, Lord Austin, was pictured on a visit to Haifa in a post on X shared by the UK’s embassy in Israel. The post welcomed Austin to the country as he visited a hi-tech “customs scanning centre”, a port and a light rail project that the embassy said showed UK and Israeli “cooperation at every stop”.

David Lammy last week had described Israel’s behaviour in Gaza as “monstrous and extremist”. In an indication of his disapproval, welcomed by most Labour MPs, the foreign secretary suspended new trade talks and launched a review into a pre-existing high-level strategic cooperation roadmap with Israel.

One mainstream Labour MP said: “There is a large group of Labour MPs who are furious this has been allowed to happen after the progress made last week. Austin needs to be fired immediately; the department of business and trade response is completely unacceptable.”

Another MP said “this is not about mixed, but garbled messaging”.