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Israel thought to be preparing to send troops into Rafah (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Israel appears to be readying to send troops into Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, the only corner of the strip that has not seen fierce ground fighting and where more than half of the Palestinian territory’s population of 2.3 million has sought shelter.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that two reservist brigades had been mobilised for missions in Gaza, while video that circulated online appeared to show rows of square white tents going up in Khan Younis, 3 miles (5km) north of Rafah, which was decimated in a months-long Israeli air and ground campaign. A spokesperson for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government said Israel was “moving ahead” with a ground operation, but gave no timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Is Hamas in Rafah? Are the hostages in Rafah?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If this was about the hostages, Israel would have ended hostilities and do a full exchange for all the hostages. That offer has been on the table for months. This is a continuation of genocide.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hamas have repeatedly demanded security guarantees for their leadership, not just a prisoner to hostage exchange. Hamas have demanded that captured October 7 terrorists be returned. It should be pretty obvious that Israel can not do either of those things. Hamas have also admitted that they don't even know the whereabouts of all of their hostages. Survivors have described routine sexual abuse of female hostages in particular, which Hamas is particularly hesitant to release. Hamas have continuously made smaller proposals, which were then accepted by Israel, only for Hamas to then suddenly refuse to agree.

But continue blaming Israel on this war that Hamas started and continues to escalate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You mean the tens of thousands Palestinian civilians that Israel captures, tries in a military court with no civil rights or representation, tortures into false confessions, and incarcerates with routine torture, sexual abuse, and denial of basic medical care? That includes hundreds if not thousands of children.

Palestinians denied civil rights (HRW) including Military Court (B'TSelem)

Children in the Israeli military detention system face inhumane treatment such as beatings, strip searches, psychological abuse, weeks in solitary confinement, and being denied access to a lawyer during interrogations, new research by Save the Children found.

Save the Children consulted more than 470 children from across the West Bank who have been detained over the past ten years. The organisation found that the majority of children were taken from their homes at night, blindfolded, with their hands painfully bound behind their backs. Many of the respondents said were not told why they were being arrested or where they were going.

Palestinian Prisoners in Israel including Child abuse - Save The Children

According to the accounts of Palestinians who have undergone ISA interrogation, they are held in inhuman conditions, including narrow, windowless cells that are sometimes moldy and foul-smelling and are constantly lit with artificial lighting that is painful to the eyes. Some detainees reported being held in solitary confinement, completely cut off from their surroundings. Some reported exposure to extremes of heat and cold, as well as sleep deprivation. Many described abominable hygienic conditions; among other things, they stated that the prison authorities do not allow them to shower, change clothes, brush their teeth or even use toilet paper. The food is intentionally poor in quality and quantity, and detainees lose weight while in custody. In the interrogation room, they are forced to sit bound to a chair, without moving, for hours and even days on end. Interrogators threaten the detainees, including threats to harm their relatives, as well as shouting and employing violence against them.

Torture and Abuse in Interrogations - B'TSelem

Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy - NPR

Urgently investigate inhumane treatment and enforced disappearance of Palestinians detainees from Gaza - Amnesty

Amnesty International has for decades documented widespread torture by Israeli authorities in places of detention across the West Bank. However, over the past four weeks, videos and images have been shared widely online showing gruesome scenes of Israeli soldiers beating and humiliating Palestinians while detaining them blind-folded, stripped, with their hands tied, in a particularly chilling public display of torture and humiliation of Palestinian detainees.

Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

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

Hamas recently took over northern Gaza but we conveniently ignore that and pretend Rafah is the last stronghold so israel can go Genocide there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Who knows, but there are certainly lots of civilians!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A spokesperson for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government said Israel was “moving ahead” with a ground operation, but gave no timeline.

But the long-threatened plan to attack Rafah has drawn intense opposition from Israel’s allies, including the US, which said it would cause thousands of civilian casualties and further disrupt aid deliveries.

“We’ve had very detailed discussions … to talk through not just our concerns, but our view that there is a different way to go about dealing with the Hamas threat in Rafah,” US national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters in Washington.

Cairo had warned Israel against moving on Rafah, which “would lead to massive human massacres, losses [and] widespread destruction”, its State Information Service said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said last week it was acquiring 40,000 tents to prepare for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians, and there were unconfirmed reports that extra artillery and armoured personnel carriers had been deployed to the Gaza Strip periphery.

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