cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28662179
Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza’s territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently remain in Gaza and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of its people.
Rafah survived Genghis Khan, but Benjamin Netanyahu destroyed it.
Thousands of years of history erased by zionism
I’d like to see more sources about the complete destruction of Rafah. I haven’t seen e.g. Al Jazeera report on it. Or satellite imagery. Does anyone have links?
Satellite Imagery from the end of August 2024 already shows Rafah being completely destroyed. Here you go: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/27/satellite-imagery-shows-vast-destruction-in-rafah/
This is not exactly what you asked for, but it’s the closest thing I can think of. The Forensic Architecture site has some accurate info for Gaza, Palestine but they date back to 2024. Still, I think it’s worth keeping an eye out for any new investigation they might do.
The most recent article about this is from 17 days ago.
That’s exactly what they announced the day they started the invasion. Bibi said they will put an Israeli flag on top of Gaza rubbles.
I’m always amazed how all the democratic world never believes autocrats when they say what they just about to do.
The so-called “democratic world” just acts like it doesn’t believe fascists. They actually quite love them and don’t give a shit at all. Like seriously, do you even believe that some of the richest states on the planet with administrations filled with consultants and experts on all of these issues to the brim don’t know what’s happening? They do. They just don’t give a shit. Because there are no morals in this so-called “democratic world”.
The ‘democratic’ world actually support this genocide, not fail to believe israel will carry it out…just so the west keep a toe hold in the Middle East. It’s despicable. All our governments are totally complicit in this horrendous crime.
Our governments are bought and paid. We’re fighting to get them back, but it’s not going to be easy.
This is happening in all developed nations.
It’s an international crisis.
And an entirely predictable one given the power of capital.
Ethnic cleansing.
Disgusting. The whole world watches this genocide being carried out in full view by the depraved, shameless, Zionists.
The West has no morality. Gaza is a damning indictment of its rotten hypocritical core.
It’s not a genocide anymore. We should start calling it what it is, a holocaust. The entire systematic destruction/eradication of a people, not just the murder of them, but the entire structural destruction of one.
This is nothing close to the Holocaust.
Many Gazans died, more than 50 thousand, but millions are still alive. The number of dead has only been slowly increasing for many months now. Killing as many people as possible is not the goal or there would have been half a million dead already more than a year ago.
Even the article you write this comment under is about the destruction of houses, not people. According to the article the destruction of houses has a clear goal, enabling tighter control and permanent occupation of the area. Clearing corridors and building infrastructure for control would not be necessary, if they didn’t expect a (hostile) population in the area for years to come.
Holocaust ≠ THE Holocaust
Instead of arguing and hair-splitting over exactly how evil this is, how about we just agree on the simple answer of “Yep, that’s some evil shit” and focus the discussion more on what to do about it?
Trump is the one with the biggest influence, but he won’t do anything. Resistance against Trump in the is weak.
Israelis might be able to replace Netanyahu. The protests in the streets and the rifts in government, see head of Shin Bet, are getting stronger. So supporting those Israelis opposed to him is sensible.
Supporting Palestinians opposed to Hamas makes sense as well. If Hamas let the hostages go and lay down their arms, the war would end. That’s what PA President Abbas demands for example. There are protests in Gaza as well.
Cheering on the armed resistance only gets more Palestinians killed.
Yeah, nobody’s buying this bullshit.
Absolutely! I live in the UK, and I’m ashamed tbh. The UK government is awash with israeli hasbara cash - here’s their reward for ridding the labour party of anti zionists with the accusation of anti semitism:
https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/
That money is to facilitate israel’s lobbying of individual ministers and garner support for the zionist killers…to ‘explain’, which is the closest english translation to ‘hasbara’.
It’s the Lebensraum part of their Crimes Against Humanity package.
Mosdoweiss? Really?
Is what it says untrue? How about the linked Haaretz article?
Who knows? No one else is reporting that. I also don’t give established low-cred, highly sensationalized, highly-biased sources the time of day. Mondoweiss is Fox News’s counterpart on the other end of the spectrum – i.e. it’s Fox News for lefties. Just as bad, just different flavor.
Let’s admit it, mondoweiss is hamas, let’s throw a bomb on them and be done with those terrorists!
For real tho, Israel has been throwing 2,000 pound bombs on Gaza for more than 1.5 years, why wouldn’t Rafah be rubble? What else should it be?
Some people I’ll never understand…
