Over 100 Israelis have died and more than 900 were injured after rockets were fired from Gaza by Hamas militants, Israeli officials said Saturday.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 were killed in Gaza and at least 1,610 were injured Saturday in retaliatory attacks from Israel.

“We are at war. We will win,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.

The Israeli Defense Forces earlier declared “a state of alert for war,” according to a statement issued by the IDF.

“Over the past hour, the Hamas terrorist organization launched massive barrages of rockets from Gaza into Israel, and its terrorist operatives have infiltrated into Israel in a number of different locations in the south,” the IDF said early Saturday.

    • @homura1650@lemmy.world
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      402 years ago

      There is only one country whose national religion is Judaism, but it is practiced in plenty of other places.

      More to the point, the fact that there are other Islamic countries is of little comfort to the Palestinians. They do not live in those countries and those countries do not want them.

      Some of those countries do provide varying levels of support for Hamas because they (accurately) see it as an indirect way to attack Israel.

      By the same token, any blame you want to place on Israel for this conflict reflects on Isreal as whole, and not every individual living within it.

      • Anduin1357
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        -62 years ago

        The whole reason why other Islamic (Arab) countries don’t accept Palestinians is so that they retain their “rightful” claim to lands annexed by Israel from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

        The Palestinians did it to themselves that they couldn’t live peacefully with the Israelis back then and should accept the outcome of the war as a failing of the Arab League and their resistance.

        Besides, you can’t deny that the Arab world owes some debt to the Palestinians to accept their refuge since it was the Arab League that lost all those attempts to retake Palestinian lands (amongst other things), and yet they don’t do it.

        The religious aspect of all this is just secondary to the secular reason.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      So they should give up their homes, land, resources, and culture for the last gasp of colonialism?

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              There’s a hundred countries they can both live in without problems. There is no amount of past trauma that justifies ethnic cleansing for literal settlers to move in.

              • @SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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                12 years ago

                As a Jew, no, there is no country in the world I can live in without problems, including Israel. America has been wonderful to us, but I grew up seeing swastikas spray painted on my synagogue and being taunted by the goyim. A far cry from the persecution my ancestors have endured, but I don’t delude myself into thinking I’m safe here if the economic/political situation deteriorates.

                • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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                  12 years ago

                  That level of unsafe is true of anywhere for all religions. If that’s the standard than none of this matters anyways.

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          As somebody else pointed out, reducing the people in Palestine to Muslims and they treating all people who happen to be muslims as if they’re as the same, is pure unadulterated racism of the worst, most disgusting, kind.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      -22 years ago

      How does it feel to be the exact caricature Hamas shows the children of slaughtered families for recruitment?