Fighting Flares Anew in Gaza as Hamas Reconstitutes
Source: The New York Times
As the Israeli military stepped up pressure on what it calls Hamass last stronghold in Gaza, fighting elsewhere in the Palestinian enclave on Sunday led to warnings that the militants might remain a force for a long time to come.
Close-quarters ground combat between Hamas fighters and Israeli troops raged in parts of northern Gaza over the weekend, both sides said on Sunday, even as the worlds attention was largely focused on the southern city of Rafah, where Israel escalated military operations last week.
It has become a familiar scenario in the Gaza Strip over the course of the seven-month war: After pitched battles, Israel declares an area clear of Hamas, only to return after the militants reconstitute their forces.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said he was concerned that Israels failure to lay down a template for the governance of Gaza meant that its victories might not be sustainable and would be followed by chaos, by anarchy and ultimately by Hamas again.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza.html
Sweep and clear, search and destroy. "And if in the months following that operation incidences of enemy activity in the larger area of War Zone C had increased 'significantly' and American losses had doubled and then doubled again, none of it was happening in any damn Ho Bo Woods, you'd better believe it..."
(with apologies to Michael Herr).
Eko
(7,485 posts)The shame will be at how much death and destruction of civilians it will take for them to come to that conclusion.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,887 posts)Last edited Mon May 13, 2024, 02:26 AM - Edit history (1)
Government that gives quarter and sanctuary to terrorists.
We didn't negotiate with Al-Qaeda. . .why should Israel be forced to do so with Hamas?
Prairie Gates
(1,186 posts)What does "that" mean in "do that?"
AZLD4Candidate
(5,887 posts)Hamas has no interest in peace. It uses peace to regroup, then breaks peace every time.
Can't have peace with terrorists hell bent on destroying you.
Prairie Gates
(1,186 posts)Confusing discussion.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,887 posts)IronLionZion
(45,747 posts)What does this mean?
AZLD4Candidate
(5,887 posts)Must come with the destruction of gaza government. Hamas controls it and it must be destroyed.
Lonestarblue
(10,303 posts)That seems to be Bibis ultimate goal so Gaza can be developed for his right-wing settlers.
IronLionZion
(45,747 posts)that's the goal. For Palestinians to leave. Bibi don't care where they go, he just wants them gone. He figures if it gets bad enough, other countries will take them.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,887 posts)You might want to clarify this comment.
SoFlaBro
(2,126 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,887 posts)themselves.
I don't think they need an unwanted, official PR person on DU doing it for them.
SoFlaBro
(2,126 posts)LeftInTX
(26,012 posts)The unit, known as the General Security Service, relied on a network of Gaza informants, some of whom reported their own neighbors to police. People landed in security files for attending protests or publicly criticizing Hamas. In some cases, the records suggest that authorities followed people to determine if they were carrying on romantic relationships outside marriage
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Early in the war, he said he took images of (Hamas) security forces hitting people who fought over spots in line outside a bakery. Authorities confiscated his camera.
Fasfous complained to a government official in Khan Younis, who told him to stop reporting and destabilizing the internal front, Fasfous recalled.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/secret-hamas-files-show-spied-115810329.html?guccounter=1
PSPS
(13,666 posts)Netanyahu is reviled by everyone including a vast majority of Israelis. But, to keep his Frankenstein coalition of lunatics in power (and, thus, his own self out of prison for his corruption,) he'll keep this going until someone puts a stop to it. The US is in the best position to do this, since Israel wouldn't even exist today without US taxpayers' funding. Reagan had to do this twice with Menachem Begin to bring him to heel.
Mawspam2
(756 posts)...to win is to drop nukes on all of Palestine.
Works for me.
Happy Hoosier
(7,527 posts)That dude has more than a few screws loose.
Happy Hoosier
(7,527 posts)IMO, Israel cannot and should not control Gaza after the fighting. And the international force MUST be empowered to engage Hamas if necessary. Hamas cannot be permitted to develop in the absence of an immediate conflict.
maxsolomon
(33,516 posts)I doubt any Arab nation will participate in an international force, though it is likely the best scenario. It would legitimize Israel's strategy and they can't be associated with that.
Happy Hoosier
(7,527 posts)Which is why they must be actively suppressed. Ultimately, if there is a strong international presence that allows a Palestinian government to actually economically develop the region, I think the Palestinian people will support stability and economic improvements over a never-ending cycle of desctruction.
Igel
(35,425 posts)Then destroy them.
Let those who survive group together again. And destroy them.
Let them pull in reserves and fellow travelers. Destroy them.
They set up target enriched areas, grant them their earnest desire to fight.
Those that are suffering must ultimately turn on their defenders and oppressors or volunteer as wannabe genocides and racist oppressors should fight in battle, not against drunk and high partiers or against families at peace on a day like Simchat Torah or Eid al-Adha, for their unjust cause--"From the river to the sea, Palestine! Judenrein! This will surely come to pass, certitude in Judenhass! Of course I know who I am--I'm all in for Al-Qassam!"
Not what they say, but it's what I translate a lot of protestors' cheers and jeers to mean. Authorial intent is soooo overrated, or so I was told in (some of) my literature courses.