Hadas Kalderon, a resident of the Nir Oz kibbutz whose children were taken hostage and whose mother and niece were killed, breaks down in tears while looking through her mother’s burnt-out home, 30 October 2023
v Reuters - quotes from the speech of Israel PM Netanyahu :
ONGOING GROUND OPERATION IN #GAZA IS THE SECOND STAGE OF THE #WAR
WE WILL EXERT EVERY EFFORT TO RETURN #HOSTAGES
THOSE ACCUSING US OF WAR CRIMES ARE HYPOCRITS
THE WAR INSIDE THE GAZA STRIP WILL BE DIFFICULT AND LONG
CAN'T SAY #IRAN WAS INVOLVED IN PLANNING OF OCT. 7 ATTACK BUT THEY FUND #HAMAS
Meanwhile #Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said Israel will sever all ties with the #Gaza Strip once its war with #Hamas is over -- it would, as he put it, end its "responsibility" for life there.
The #Hamas authorities say #Israeli attacks have now killed more than 4100 people.
Over 1400 Israelis were killed in Hamas' unprecedented extremist attacks within Israel earlier this month
I've seen lots of posts on here claim that #Hamas "beheaded 40 babies" in #KfarAza, the #kibbutz near Gaza where Hamas attacked the #IDF. But journalists who visited the site are refuting such claims, and those hostages who have been freed are reporting that they were treated with humanely by the militants who captured them.
In the video linked below the captive says that she was with her kids, they were not abused, the militants were friendly and even asked whether they could have a banana. Doesn't sound like the kind of people so evil that they cut the heads off infants and flail their entrails all over the place as the Western media is claiming.
If you are one of the people who has spread such malicious, racist lies you should either make the effort to post a correction and apology, or be honest that you are a genocidal racist participating in an effort to justify the cutting off of all water, fuel and electricity to #Gaza in an escalation of the 17 year long seige to levels of depravity not seen since the Nazi blockade on Stalingrad.
If you are a #Jew and spreading such horrid propaganda, you need to think about what it means that you are employing the same tactics of defamation used to justify a millenia of #antisemitic violence in #Europe.
#X/ #Twitter stopped it's participation in the voluntary code of practice ways ago. No loopholes available now 🤷♂️
"In its briefings to press on the #DigitalServicesAct, the #EU has explained that those who are not participating in the voluntary code of practice will not be eligible to argue 'mitigating' factors if it comes to punitive measures taken in #Brussels." #Israel#Gaza
The #kibbutzim go back to the time of the founding of #Israel, when small groups of people set up communities based on the idea of #CommunalLiving. About 125,000 people live across approximately 250 kibbutzim in Israel, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel. For many, they were symbols of good life and safety.
VERY GRAPHIC AND TRIGGERING
'So the World Knows What Happened': The Scene of Slaughter at #Kibbutz#Kfar#Azza
By Anshel Pfeffer
800 Israelis lived in Kfar Azza, a kibbutz within sight of #Gaza City. Now many of them are just numbers: Dead, wounded, missing, captured. A visit to the site of the biggest massacre of #Jews since the #Holocaust
Some 70 Hamas terrorists wielding #guns and #grenades stormed the usually quiet Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel, killing anyone — men, women and children — they saw.
If you had a decent amount of 'fuck you' money... what would you do with it?
I want to make an intentional community on lots of land thats both wooded and able to be farmed... hopefully with a river.
I want to have a bunch of year-round yurts in the woods... all connected by wood planks. Some bigger, some smaller.
I'd want people to be able to live in some of the yurts... whether as couples, families, coliving... whatever-- and then I'd want the other yurts to be 'community room' type things. A kitchen, a dining room (maybe together), a rec room or a few, things like that.
On the farmable land, we would do just that-- animals and fruits and vegetables. We would use as much of all of our bounty as possible. The rest could be donated, preserved, composted... etc etc.
I still want an intentional community, and I want to make as much of this come true as possible. I guess I just need the fuck you money.
‘The first startups’: Kibbutzim repurposed through embrace of new industries
Communities founded as models of socialist society have since largely shed collectivist past, with residents touting their ‘innovative approach’ to contemporary challenges
Hunted by Hamas: reconstructing the attack on Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri (www.reuters.com)
Survivors recount their life-and-death struggle at Be’eri, a main target in the Hamas assault on Oct. 7 that has set off a major war.