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Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials (www.aljazeera.com)

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Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.

“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.

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[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Let's remember how Nelson Mandela was on a terrorism watch list.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/12/07/why-nelson-mandela-was-on-a-terrorism-watch-list-in-2008/
https://time.com/5338569/nelson-mandela-terror-list/

The first bomb attack in Palestine, the first time the word "terrorist" appeared on the news, was by Zionist a "Jewish right-wing underground movement" organization reference https://www.britannica.com/topic/Irgun-Zvai-Leumi:
https://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/lina-gress/1946-explosion-king-david-hotel-jerusalem-personal-story

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[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why saying "By a jew organization" is being racist? English isn't my first language, so I probably didn't write it properly.

EDIT: Didn't want to offend anyone, sorry for that. Also, Nelson Mandela fought against racism, didn't he? I don't know why I still talk with you.

[–] jackmarxist@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calling it Zionist would be the correct take. There are a lot of anti Zionist Jewish people and just regular folks who have nothing to do with Israel.

[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Okay, I just took the reference from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Irgun-Zvai-Leumi which says it's "Jewish right-wing underground movement". Thanks.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You probably want to say Israeli or zionist not Jewish. There are a large minority of Jewish folks who want Israel to stop existing or at least stop existing as an apartheid state

[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just wanted to point this. As they seem to call terrorist only because of some misinformation on news, Israel and Hamas are both bad but Israel people aren't terrified like Palestine is with the attacks of the other side.

Irgun committed acts of terrorism and assassination against the British, whom it regarded as illegal occupiers, and it was also violently anti-Arab. Irgun participated in the organization of illegal immigration into Palestine after the publication of the British White Paper on Palestine (1939), which severely limited immigration. Irgun’s violent activities led to execution of many of its members by the British; in retaliation, Irgun executed British army hostages. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Irgun-Zvai-Leumi

I’m not racist, being racist is pretty stupid at my point of view. Thanks to clarify.