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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    Hamas has been firing thousands of rockets at Isreali cities every single year since they came into existence, and Hamas’ stated goal is the eradication of Jews. The only reason Isreali casualties aren’t higher than Palestines is Isreal has the iron dome.

    Hamas is a terrorist organization.

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        Hamas has been firing rockets into Israel since well before the current apartheid.

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          that is the most laughably ignorant statement I’ve seen all day

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                The Arab states. And said Arab states and Palestine have continually attacked Israel since. Hamas is the latest in a long line of Arab aggressors, and have been firing rockets at Israel for decades.

                Ignoring the decades of Arab aggression as a direct cause of the current conflict is idiotic at best.

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                  Portraying the Arabs as aggressors in the genocidal colonial project undertaken in occupied Palestine during the last 8 decades is racist and dishonest at best

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                    The land has changed hands dozens of times throughout history, giving it to the Jewish people is no different from the Ottomans taking it, or the Romans, or the Greeks.

                    It is not Palestine, and has never been Palestine.

                    Meanwhile the surrounding Arab countries have vowed to genocide the Jewish people there. That is far more racist and genocidal.