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Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 8 months ago by Linkerbaan to c/[email protected]

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Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.

The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago

More genocidal behaviour

[–] Viking_Hippie 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not that this wouldn't be a grotesque crime against humanity either way, but I'd be very interested to know what they consider "military age".

US "anti-terrorism" forces in the middle east set it as low as 14 and I wouldn't expect the IDF to be LESS monstrous than the US military..

One former Mossad official even said that all Gazan children older than 4 are "involved" and "Hamas supporters" and therefore deserve to be starved to death 🤬

[–] andy_wijaya_med 5 points 7 months ago

That's so fucked up!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I fucking hate israel.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This reeks of Srebrenica.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's still genocide if a country restricts itself to only killing the men. And Israel very much is not restricting itself.

[–] Larry 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What does this mean

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It is a reference to the Srebrenica massacre. The perpetrators there precisely first picked out men and boys from a refugee population as the first step towards genocidal violence, which they carried out a few days later.

[–] Visstix 11 points 8 months ago

I don't think the people working in the hospital attacked israel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu bauen.

[+] [email protected] -57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] Woozythebear 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Found the nazi

[+] [email protected] -48 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Uh... You do realize Northern Gaza is in famine and Israel intends to attack Rafah where 1.4 million people are taking shelter right? The Holocaust was also a multi-year project.

Today, Gaza’s entire population, about 2.2 million people, is classified in IPC 3 (Crisis), IPC 4 (Emergency), or IPC 5 (Catastrophe/Famine). This represents, according to IPC, “the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country.” As early as December 2023, according to the IPC, data showed that nearly all households were skipping meals every day. People went entire days and nights without eating in four out of five households in the northern governorates and among displaced populations in the southern governorates.

The crisis in Gaza is also exceptional for the number of people in IPC 5 levels of food insecurity. From February 15 to March 15, the IPC classified 677,000 people in IPC 5, and from March 16 to July 15, 2024, the IPC projects 1,107,000 people, a full half of the Gazan population, to be in IPC 5 (Catastrophe/Famine). At the time of declaration of famine in Somalia in 2011, approximately 490,000 people were classified in IPC 5, while 80,000 people were classified in IPC 5 when famine was declared in South Sudan.

Source: https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah! So that’s what makes it okay to treat people like animals

[+] [email protected] -36 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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[–] Visstix 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do you think of that mass grave the Israelis put at a hospital and won't let anyone investigate?

[–] Nutteman 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"But Israel doesn't." You're right. They slaughter thousands instead. To the tune of around 32k.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@Nutteman
who's to blame, the attacker or the counter-attacker? Israel could wipe out the entire population of Gaza, as muslim countries wanted to exterminate all the Jews in re-born Israel in 1948 (still the official position for PLO, Hamas, Iran, etc.). Only some tens of thousands deads? In a small urbanised battlezone? I call that restraint!
Israel would never have attacked the Gaza strip. Hamas was stupid enough to launch a war it is losing miserably … still keeping hostages in captivity.

[–] Nutteman 4 points 8 months ago

Going full clown mode today, eh?

[–] Sandman89 3 points 8 months ago

At this point, Israel is statistically far more of a threat to those hostages than Hamas is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

See that’s the difference between us.

You think that would justify it and I don’t think that justifies killing 10,s of thousands of people that had nothing to do with it.

It is unjustifiable, the same as what hummus did

[–] filister 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh well, who's radicalized now?

Damn, I hope one day you realise how wrong it is to generalise people.

How would you feel if someone says that you are a scumbag just because your neighbour is a scumbag?

Now question yourself if you want to be that type of person.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Those half-naked men made another face on October 7th

You do know that only 3k dudes attacked Israel on the 7th, right? The people responsible for the attack are almost assured to be part of the 13k "militants" already killed in action.

there are still hostages in captivity.

You mean the people who's family are literally begging the Israeli government to negotiate a safe return for? The people Benny has been ignoring to satiate his lust for Palestinian blood?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

These particular men? Your evidence?