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Israel has the iron dome to prevent something like this from happening, right? So why does the attack work this time?
It’s not perfect and especially a huge amount of rockets can overwhelm it. Also it’s much more effective on slower homemade rockets, not the faster kind Iran typically sells Hamas.
... Well, this isn't going to end well.
Keyword is "typically". Iran has been sending rockets to Hamas for decades.
And Iran, Iran so far away
OP's headline isn't great, the rockets were only one part of todays events
source
ETA: there's the added factor that it's Saturday and a religious holiday so more people would have been asleep at home at that time, or on their way to pray/celebrate/party.
Saturation attacks are a common tactic to overwhelm air defense zones, but this isn't just that. Hamas and IJ fighters have begun ethnically cleansing border towns, literally gunning down shelters full of civilians, as well as parading the naked bodies of women they've raped and murdered, through the streets.
This is only a fraction of the attacks, and all on video btw, but I don't suggest watching them.
Could you source that?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/07/naked-israeli-woman-paraded-jeering-hamas-fighters/
2 minutes on duckduckgo. Plenty of other horrible stories as well.
No, but only because I don't want to have to look at them again. Go on Twitter, or any combat footage forum/sub, and they'll be there.
There is no shortage of videos of both slain IDF (It's war, so that legitimate), and terrorists attacks on civilians. I'm sure there are hundreds more clips uploaded since I stopped looking at the discussions.
I saw one completely out of context today and the person didn't provide a source even when asked. So I ask you again, can you source these?
I don't care if you don't believe me, but if you took even 2 minutes of your own time searching Twitter, Reddit, or Funker, you'd see all of that, and a lot more. I'm good on watching any of those videos ever again.
They're literally being spammed across all of those feeds, so knock yourself out.
Edit: After looking at your post history, I now understand that you're afraid of even spending 2 minutes searching for the videos of these specific acts of terrorism/ war crimes: because it would directly conflict with your worldview.
What is Funker?
Edit: yeah, I did DuckDuckGo'd it in both English and Arabic when I first saw it. Accessing Twitter isn't exactly easy now. The only place I saw it on was reddit with no source. Chances are it was too early before the Telegraph or whoever wrote on it. So, I'm so fucking sorry for asking you to cite yourself when you are on the internet.
Hmmm, I wanted to ask, when you went through my profile, did you see all those comments about me not agreeing with Hamas, in between all the tech joke comments? Or did you just get a glimpse of me being Palestinian and threw your arms up and were like, of course this terrible person wants a source for this piece of information I claimed, it's because they hate Israel!
Like seriously, could you describe your process? The video of this woman personally horrified me this morning on Reddit like I said. No source, no one writing about it, long before any news of it hit. I wanted to know who she was and what on earth had happened wrong and why she is there and whether she's alive or not and how she is involved (or not). I already dislike Hamas, they drag 'traitors' around on MCs. They aren't exactly doing god's work. So which part of me asking for a source led you to believe I'm somehow okay with this or unable to watch this because it will change my world view. What world view exactly?
I think it's lame to think that people asking for a source somehow are ready to pound on you and disagree.
These videos are powerful and they can be powerful in the wrong way if used as disinformation and aren't relative to the current thing at hand. That's why I asked for a source.
Also listing Hamas' crimes does not in any way justify Israel's actions that they take against civilians. Vice versa.
What are IJ fighters? Civilians from which side?
Islamic Jihad. It's a relatively newer militant faction. All, or most, of the recent IDF military incursions into Gaza lately have been targeting their leadership and fighters.
Because the Iron Dome, like most other products of the US military industrial complex, is more of a profit seeking venture for PMCs than it is a solution to any actual combat problem
Still seems like the first time I've heard of this kind of attack causing double digit casualties isn't it? I'm not super in the loop so I could be wrong.
I think you're right. In 2021 only 14 died on the Israeli side with a number of Hamas missiles landing inside Gaza by accident (according to Israel). In 2022 Hamas fired about 1k rockets and it caused one Israeli death.