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Bye bye job. Good riddance.

It's published in their opinion section by an author who has only published this one article on MEE, with this disclaimer:

The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.

Opinion articles tend to rely on sources that have not been formally verified in the journalistic sense. That's why they're disallowed by Rule 3 in the sidebar.

I did skip over the first paragraph - janky formatting on my phone.

Looking at the report linked in the first paragraph - it's published by DCI-P, a nonjournalistic organization. They've been accused of being connected to terrorist funding in the past (apparently with sufficient evidence to make their banks close their accounts), but I don't see them on the OFAC lists so it's not a smoking gun to not trust them. Haaretz covered it, and it does seem to be a legitimate account of using a human shield with no followup prosecution coverage of the forces involved.

The second link is a tweet by an Iranian news station. Iran is not an unbiased source for news about Israel/Palestine.

The embedded tweets (now that they actually load) are referring to the same incident in May 2022. Are you perhaps referring to the May 2002 incident mentioned a few paragraphs later?

Your comment looks blank. Is that a federation issue? Or is that a kbin/lemmy thing?

From the reports I've seen which are far from comprehensive, it's closer to 99%.

Almost certainly - Israeli military censorship of the media is fairly comprehensive. They are famously overzealous to the point of refusing to release information even if it would be beneficial to Israel's image - just to protect opsec.

With the release of the doctrinal document, indicating the depopulation plan of the Gaza strip, move the civilian south, keep the pressure up, then somehow move them into Egypt.

Yeah, that document is incredibly worrying. But it's not an official planning document, and the rest of the government seems against it at the moment. From what I can tell, it was authored in part by Kohelet, the same thinktank that put together the judicial reform plan that caused mass protests in Israel earlier this year.

...guarantee that they would be allowed to return to their homes...

Very good point. I doubt they trust the IDF much, but perhaps if it were backed up by the US/Egypt some might accept that.

Hamas is a terrorist organization currently engaged in a war with Israel. They are the defacto rulers of the Gaza strip, and most of their members are in Gaza. However, many Hamas leaders live outside of Gaza.

They are listed as a terrorist organization by the US, Canada, UK, the EU, and more.

Their charter declares their goals to be the violent destruction of Israel, the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the land of Palestine, and killing all Jews worldwide.

right to smuggle them

They were told by the US and the UN what types of aid will be allowed in. Smuggling only hurts Gaza from getting the aid it needs.

Also trying to smuggle in military supplies in humanitarian aid:

Meanwhile, two senior Israeli officials told The Times of Israel that Israeli inspectors earlier this week uncovered several oxygen concentrators meant to aerate the tunnels operated by terror organizations in Gaza.

“These weren’t for use in the hospitals, but below them. That’s why they were smuggled among boxes of cookies,” one of the senior Israeli officials said, adding that the entire truck in which the oxygen concentrators were found was barred from entering Gaza.

Indian digit grouping

This particular source is India based

How many rockets has Israel fired at Gaza? How many millions of Gazans have been driven from their homes?

6000+ air strikes targeting military infrastructure and around 1m displaced.

But this article is about the ongoing rocket attacks on civilians inside Israel, and the displaced Israelis, not Gaza.

It's wonderful to see you agree that Arab Jews also have a right of return, and deserve reparations for their stolen assets during the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Muslim countries

EDIT: I'm trolling you with this comment, but I feel a little bad about it. Let's just agree to disagree and take the rest of the day to cool off

The people living in that camp were done dirty by the 1949 armistice, don't get me wrong. But it's been 75 years; they need to move on.

Palestinians are literally the only refugees on the planet who pass down refugee status to their children. That's based on the definition that the UN made up because the Arab countries didn't want to take in Palestinians.

They've had 75 years to move out of that camp and make their own lives better. At some point, they need wipe the snot off their noses and stop crying. The Jews who were ethnically cleansed from the Arab countries faced adversity when they moved to Israel, but they've moved on and made their lives much better.