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As the deadline lapsed, Reuters journalists in Khan Younis in southern Gaza saw eastern areas come under intensive bombardment, sending columns of smoke rising into the sky. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west.

In the north of the enclave, previously the main war zone, huge plumes of smoke rose above the ruins, seen from across the fence in Israel. The rattle of gunfire and thud of explosions rang out above the sound of barking dogs.

Rocket sirens also blared across southern Israel as militants fired from the coastal enclave into towns.

Within hours of the truce expiring, Gaza health officials reported that 54 people had already been killed and dozens wounded in air strikes that hit at least eight homes.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Medics and witnesses said the bombing was most intensive in Khan Younis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been sheltering from fighting further north. Houses in central and northern areas were also hit.

No where is safe.

[–] FlyingSquid 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Chainweasel 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, this isn't a war, it's an extermination.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you truly believe that if the goal was extermination, IDF would be that ineffective ?

[–] Chainweasel 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The IDF needs to not broaden the conflict to include it's neighbors, which have already shot across the border to Israel as soon as they fired back at Gaza.
The fear was that when Israel sent troops into Gaza, Jordan and Syria would respond with force.
The Israeli land invasion of Gaza was more limited and precise than expected so Israel's neighbors have held off but tensions are still very high.
If the IDF weren't so "ineffective", this conflict has real potential to boil over into WWIII.
So they're slowly whittling away at Gaza at the moment.
But the goal from Israel's perspective is, and always has been, a single state solution.
They're just using the "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" approach, as much as that phrase can be applied to active combat anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So, you list all the reasons not to do extermination and thus suggest that they do not do it, right? You may claim that you can read their mind, but the actions and the statements are not how extermination is done.

[–] Eldritch -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they want plausible deniability, absolutely. And who wouldn't want plausible deniability?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So, they achieve deniability by not doing it and instead fighting Hamas? Ok. So, if their actions contradicts extermination, their statements contradicts extermination, then how is that extermination?

[–] qooqie 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The truce allowed them to gather up in southern Gaza which makes it easier for Israel to shoot the fish in a barrel. Seems like Israel may have only wanted the truce for public appearances and to make it easier to exterminate them

[–] SCB 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If Israel was looking to exterminate Palestinians whole cloth they could very easily already be doing so. They have unchecked military superiority and no nearby countries will accept Gazans.

[–] qooqie -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro I think they are exterminating them whole cloth. They aren’t exactly using discretion when killing the gazans.

[–] SCB 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry if this sounds offensive, but if you think this is what "exterminating whole cloth" is, then I am jealous of your naivete.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

That's the plan, yeah. Make all of Gaza uninhabitable and forcibly displace the population out of the country.

That's also literally genocide.