Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah
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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More genocidal behaviour
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 🤬
That's so fucked up!
I fucking hate israel.
This reeks of Srebrenica.
Yeah, it's still genocide if a country restricts itself to only killing the men. And Israel very much is not restricting itself.
What does this mean
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.
I don't think the people working in the hospital attacked israel.
Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu bauen.
Found the nazi
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.
Source: https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza
@NoneOfUrBusiness @Linkerbaan @Woozythebear
Seriously, Israel could reduce to famine (the real one, not the restrictions that make you fat western puppies faint) the entire Gaza strip in one day. Doesn't do it. Prepares to attack Rafah? THAT'S WAR, and a war launched by a terrorist movement which killed all its Palestinian opponents (PLO/Fatah) when it SEIZED power, and machiavellianly (or by stupidity, who knows) attacked Israel without any consideration about the inevitable consequences.
If you have a problem the definition of famine used here, take it up with the IPC (preferably after actually reading what it is).
They actually did. There's a reason only Northern Gaza is at stage 5.
Ah! So that’s what makes it okay to treat people like animals
What do you think of that mass grave the Israelis put at a hospital and won't let anyone investigate?
@Visstix
beware of info from the Middle East, I've seen a lot of fakes and disinformation (as much as by putinists about the war in Ukraine, or trumpists about their Führer … and his opponents).
Now let's suppose there is a mass grave. Only one? In a reduced war zone, overpopulated? Man, if they didn't want what a war means (hint: it's always atrocious), WHY they did attack Israel, committed hundreds of assassinations, took hostages and killed some?! Did they really believe they could get free?
The reporters, women, children, and noncombatants, the thousands, didn't do anything on October 7th.
Regardless of whatever pain and hurt you're carrying, are innocent lives worth the cost to you? The Israelis attacked on October 7th were innocent civilians (they live under the rule of a terrorist, just as much as Gazans do with Hamas), do you believe they would want this bloodshed and violence?
"But Israel doesn't." You're right. They slaughter thousands instead. To the tune of around 32k.
@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.
Going full clown mode today, eh?
At this point, Israel is statistically far more of a threat to those hostages than Hamas is.
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
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.
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.
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?
These particular men? Your evidence?