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Testimonies from camp residents, which were provided to the Euro-Med Monitor team, confirm that the sound of women screaming and babies crying was heard late at night on both Sunday and Monday. When some of the residents went out to investigate and tried to help, they were shot at by Israeli quadcopter drones. The sounds they had heard were in fact recordings playedby the Israeli drones, with the intent of forcing the camp’s residents out into the streets, where they could be easily targeted by snipers and other weaponry.

According to the testimonies, this tactic also involved broadcasting gunshots, armed conflicts, explosions, military vehicle movements, and occasionally songs in Hebrew and Arabic in order to psychologically intimidate civilians who live amid total darkness at night and total disconnection from the external world.

The Israeli army randomly and systematically targeted anyone in the Nuseirat camp who was simply walking down the street or peering out of windows, and also targeted some civilian residents who were attempting to move between shelter centres and homes or investigate what was going on in the area. The intensity of bombing and shooting operations increases during the course of the night, directly and purposefully targeting populated residential areas, civilian targets, including schools and mosques that house displaced people, as well as the civilian populace with the intention of killing and injuring them.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't how anyone in any country with a single iota of empathy can vote for any politicians that are supporting this shit.

There's literally no excuse for this behavior

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because the american political system is hot garbage, and not voting risks something way worse.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know how old you are, but if I had a kid the first year I voted, they'd be voting too by now.

For all but one of those elections my only motivation has been stopping republicans. 08 Obama I was legitimately voting for someone I wanted to be president. Every other one I was just voting against Republicans.

In that time I've seen the democratic party continue to move to the right.

Just last election I watch the DNC pull some bullshit so now billionaires can give 625k, well over the 2.5k that's already a problem, and allows direct cooperation unlike PACs.

This election I watch the DNC and their favorite cancel an entire states primary for something Dems in that state can't control. That state has been boring progressive over neoliberals fo a couple primaries now, and where one of the first states. That's not even getting i to the genocide support.

I'm sorry, I'm too old now, I've seen to much.

I know exactly what "Blue no matter who" leads to. And I've seen that as long as progressives do that, the DNC will keep moving to the right.

I legitimately wish there was a better way to show the DNC I can't support their direction over the past decades, but nothing else has worked.

The current path doesn't fix anything, it just results in both parties moving to the right. And we can't afford either party moving any further to the right.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That is a lot of words to say “I’m okay with a trump presidency”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

And that's a small amount of words to say you don't plan ahead...

Like, imagine if someone "lived every day like it's their last".

It sounds great if you never think deeper than what it says on an old woman's decorative pillow.

That's what "blue no matter who" is. It might be a valid strategy if you're not planning ahead. But if you're not planning ahead anyways, why not blow all your money on drugs right now?

Meanwhile the rest of us can plan more than 4 year ahead of time.

Because we have literal decades of history to show what happens if the only standard is the letter next to a politicians name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

But hey, maybe THIS time we'll really learn our lesson. Just like we did after W.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Israel existing long enough to become the villain is wild.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It was never not killing Palestinians and taking their land. Now it's just harder to hide

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

It only came into existence with terrorist stacks and ethnic cleansing. Indiscriminately murdering entire villages, poisoning wells, burning olive groves and slaughtering livestock that people depended on. Israel is white ISIS that managed to hold on long enough to gain recognition.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Uh what? It was created with evil intentions, and basically from the get go have been a villain to millions and more recently the entire world. This is not a new thing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

No guys. You don't understand. These sounds are only for Hamas to hear, not for the civilians. The drones weren't meant to kill civilians, but if they heard the sounds specifically made for Hamas of course they are terrorists, right? /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This beggars belief. Why lure the civilians out before killing them, when you can just kill them in their camp without doing so? What could possibly be the point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So many of these kinds of stories lately, its hard to fact check them all. I mean, I guess it's possible, but I find it tough to believe that Israel is on an extermination campaign let alone one that is excessively cruel and outrageously evil. Maybe I'm naive, but if Israel hopes to present themselves as a first world country and a modern civilization, then they can't honestly expect to get away with that kind of thing.