[IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements.

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Most deaths have been civilian casualties. They have not gone out of their way to avoid killing innocent people or members of the press. They’ve also engaged in a variety of war crimes

Israel has choices. I don’t think they are making the correct ones.

Speaking to the “particularly intense” strikes on hospitals and in the vicinity of hospitals in Gaza City, Mr. Türk [UN rights chief] stressed that international humanitarian law extends special protection to medical units and requires that they be protected and respected at all times.

“Any use by Palestinian armed groups of civilians and civilian objects to shield themselves from attack is in contravention of the laws of war. But such conduct by Palestinian armed groups does not absolve Israel of its obligation to ensure that civilians are spared – that the principles of distinction, precautions in attack and proportionality are respected,” he said.

I wouldn’t entirely trust data from either side. Both have a pattern of lying.

According to humanitarian groups on the scene, it would seem as though a lot of people are dying.

Israel has choices. I don’t think they are making the correct ones.

I watched a teve interview by a member of Doctors Without Borders. He was an elderly man from Norway and had been working as a doctor at the al-Shifa hospital for the last couple of years. He was very critical about the way Israel vages war against Gaza. He had never seen any signs of a presence of Hamas at the hospital. And according to him it was obvious that Israel targeted hospitals to kill more people by preventing people injured in the other bombings to get treatment. He asked the UN to step in and start making demands that Israel follow international rules.

Israel have evacuated settlements from Sinai and Gaza before,

Two Democratic lawmakers wrote to President Joe Biden on Thursday to ask him to keep pressing Israel to crack down on violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.

"As your administration tirelessly works to prevent the expansion of this conflict, we write to specifically highlight the threat that violence in the West Bank — especially vigilante violence by Israeli settlers — poses to those efforts, Israel’s near-term security, Palestinian human rights, and long-term regional peace," Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., wrote in a letter first obtained by NBC News.

Goldman and Booker, the only two lawmakers who were in Israel during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, argue that violence by settlers undermines the Palestinian Authority, which they view as a crucial partner in attempting to unify Gaza and the West Bank as part of an eventual peace plan that establishes a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

We strongly believe that a two-state solution remains the only genuine option to achieve a just, secure, and prosperous future for both Israelis and Palestinians,” the lawmakers wrote. “However, settler violence against Palestinian civilians destroys the very seeds of trust and cooperation needed to make progress toward a two-state outcome and an enduring peace in the region."

The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment on the letter.

Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is one of the issues straining the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month that the incidents are "unacceptable," according to the State Department. The lawmakers, both Biden allies with strong ties to Israel, appear to be bolstering the president's position at a delicate moment for his domestic politics and his relationship with Netanyahu.

The letter falls well short of the cease-fire that some Democratic members of Congress and many progressive activists want the U.S. to seek in the Middle East. But the request to pressure Israel to police its own people in the West Bank comes amid pro-Palestinian demonstrations aimed at swaying the Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers.

In addition to their broader call for pressuring Israel on violence in the West Bank, Booker and Goldman specifically ask Biden to ensure that it is not carried out with weapons provided by the U.S. to Israel.

I feel like there's a clear logical fallacy at work here with people who think the Israelis are going out of their way to harm civilians, which is that the Israelis could wipe Gaza off the map in an evening if they really wanted to; that they haven't shows that killing civilians isn't their objective, which also makes them the more moral party in this conflict.

GAZA CITY, Palestine

The Palestinian death toll from an ongoing Israeli onslaught in the Gaza Strip has surged to 11,320 people, the government media office said on Tuesday.

“The victims include 4,650 children and 3,145 women, while 29,200 others are injured,” the office said in a statement.

According to the statement, 3,600 other people remain unaccounted for, including 1,755 children.

“A total of 198 medics, 22 civil defense personnel and 51 journalists were also killed in the assaults,” it added.

“The Israeli aggression has forced 25 hospitals and 52 health care centers out of service, while 55 ambulances were targeted by Israeli forces,” the statement said.

The media office said 40 patients died inside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the past five days amid an Israeli siege and fuel shortage.

“Eighty-two people were buried in a mass grave inside the medical complex because of the intransigence of the occupation, which is still completely besieging the hospital,” it added.

Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7.

Thousands of buildings, including hospitals, mosques and churches, have been damaged or destroyed in the Israeli offensive.

The Israeli death toll, meanwhile, stands 1,200, according to official figures.

I feel like there's a clear logical fallacy at work here with people who think the Israelis are going out of their way to harm civilians, which is that the Israelis could wipe Gaza off the map in an evening if they really wanted to; that they haven't shows that killing civilians isn't their objective, which also makes them the more moral party in this conflict.

Likud is descended from the terrorists who were directly responsible for mass murder of Palestinian civilians during the 40s. It's not that far-fetched to see their current policies as a continuation of those of Irgun, only by different means.

I am NOT onboard with the current massacre.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143632
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143432

The IDF’s “defense strategy” is killing a lot of innocent people whatever their goal may or may not be.