The death toll means around ten percent of the kibbutz’s population was wiped out

The bodies of more than 100 people were discovered by volunteers in a single, small Israeli village Monday — including those of children — believed to have been killed by Hamas militants caught on camera.

The remains were discovered in Be’eri, or Bari, a kibbutz in southern Israel close to Gaza. It’s one of the villages Hamas militants invaded on Saturday as they began their attack on the country.

“Today the volunteers entered Kibbutz Bari and it is impossible to explain in words the terrible sights - some were adults, some were children. These are horrors that cannot be grasped in the mind or soul,” a spokesperson for Zaka search and rescue told IDF radio.

  • circuscritic
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    No, the Gaza residents don’t deserve collective punishment, and that is what Hamas wants. They want Israel to overreact and clamp down. They want videos of their dead children and women across all media. This is part of the tried and true strategy of big guy vs little guy conflicts, and guess what it NEVER WORKS… for the big guy.

    How did 9/11 work out for Osama Bin Laden? Better then he could have ever even dreamed of.

    You can’t kill your way out of this kind of conflict. The only ways out are A) complete genocide or B) political resolutions and bringing them to the table.

    Neither Bibi, nor Hamas, want option B, and they’re both hoping that eventually option A will work out in their favor.

    • @Pasta4u@lemmy.world
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      You just contradict yourself. You can’t kill your way out of this kind of conflict. Then you say you can complete genocide. So you can kill your way out of this.

      That is likely what they are going to do. Starve out and destroy Gaza so everyone leaves. Then enter it and take it over and build another wall woth even more guns and keep pushing new walls further back to make the balstics Hamas use less effective.

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        42 years ago

        This conflict is Israel vs Hamas, at least on paper. So even if Israel ramps up strikes without care of civilian death, that is still different then an actual intentional and systemic genocide.

        So no, Israel cannot kill it’s way out of this current conflict.

        • @Pasta4u@lemmy.world
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          Of course they can and they are doing it. They are going to destroy Gaza block by block until everyone has fled or is killed and there is nothing but rubble to go back too. Then Isreal will just take over the land and move in.

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            I understand that is ultimate dream of Bibi, Ben-Gvir, and a disturbingly large number of genocidal zealots that support them, but no, that is not going to be what happens with this specific conflict at this time.

            Eventually, they will withdraw from Gaza and leave the millions of Palestinians left to starve and suffer in the rubble.

            Let’s say, hypothetically, that Hamas was actually somehow destroyed, every leader killed, and 200k fighters dead. What kind of organization do you think would rise up to replace it?

            • @Pasta4u@lemmy.world
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              Looks like they are doing a pretty good job if leveling Gaza right now and don’t appear to be stopping anytime soon

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      Option A won’t work out for them if they and their buddies cease existing and the strip is radioactive glass. Same with their buddies Hezbollah. And Israel, regardless of strategic ambiguity, almost certainly has the capability to pull it off.

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        Setting aside your own genocidal fantasies, which are beyond fucked up, I think you should pick up a map of the region and look at it. Like really look at it.

        And if, within 10 secs, you don’t understand just how incredibly dumb your idea is, I think you should immediately get a vasectomy, because that would mean you’re way way way too stupid to ever be allowed to reproduce.

        Please, for the sake of the world, snip snip.

        • wanderingmagus
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          I am a member of the United States Navy SSBN force, trained to set condition 1SQ for Strategic Launch of thermonuclear warheads if and when called upon to do so without hesitation. Each missile is capable of carrying in excess of ten multiple independent reentry vehicles, and each warhead is capable of at least ten times the power of Hiroshima.

          What do you do for a living?

          • circuscritic
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            32 years ago

            Yep, you definitely should snip snip. Please, for the sake of world’s gene pool.

            • wanderingmagus
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              Nah, my shipmates already have dozens of children, all slated to enlist or commission in the most powerful nuclear navy in the world when they are eligible. You should’ve seen Family Day on the pier. Our next generation of recruits are already on their way and lining up, our next strategic weapons platforms are already being built and slated for DASO in the next few years. Just earlier this year, we surfaced SSBNs in both Faslane, Scotland and Busan, South Korea, and an SSGN in Perth, Australia. Our SSNs are everywhere lurking beneath the waves, and our Seawolves are listening and stalking wherever they’re needed.

              So stand down, civilian. There’s no stopping this war machine.

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                Holy shit. You’re easily one of the dumbest and most delusional people I’ve ever come across on Lemmy, or even Reddit.

                Or, you’re a very committed and very bored troll.

                Either way, there’s definitely something special about you. So… congrats?

                • wanderingmagus
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                  -52 years ago

                  Ooo, a civilian is calling me dumb and delusional, guess I better take off these crows and fish. Oh wait, your opinion doesn’t matter. You keep on keepin’ on, and I’ll keep y’all safe and comfortable enough to speak your mind the way you do. You’re welcome.

              • Kitty Jynx
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                32 years ago

                Shut up boot, you are either new to the fleet or everyone else in your shop hates you. It’s probably both.

                • circuscritic
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                  Sorry, but your wrong. He’s neither. He’s just delusional, watches too many miltubers, and spends all his time and money playing all the freemium war sims.

                • wanderingmagus
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                  02 years ago

                  ETV1 and my division shares my views, thank you very much. Come on down to King’s Bay, Georgia, and have a chat with some MTs, ETVs and STSs. Before I made rank my first CO constantly reiterated that our motto was to “Kill the Bear” and do it in as timely a fashion as possible in accordance with SWS procedures and governing documentation.