2023 Israel-Palestine Armed Conflict

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/citin...-israels-security-scholz-offers-military-aid/

Citing German responsibility for Israel’s security, Scholz offers military aid


Chancellor says due to Holocaust, Berlin has ‘perpetual task’ to stand up for Israel; questions ‘shameful’ lack of condemnation of terror attacks from PA, will ban Hamas activities

Germany has offered military help to Israel and promised to crack down on support for the Hamas terror organization at home following the group’s devastating attack on Israel that killed over a thousand civilians, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday underlining Germany’s historical responsibility for Israel’s security.

War erupted after Hamas’s Saturday massacre, which saw at least 1,500 terrorists cross the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing about 1,000 people and seizing 150 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.

The vast majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were civilians — men, women and children. Entire families were executed in their homes and in some locations, the Palestinian terrorists reportedly mutilated their victims.As of Thursday, the death toll in Israel had swelled to more than 1,300.

Israel has retaliated with artillery and airstrikes, and officials from the Hamas-controlled health ministry estimate more than 1,100 Palestinian have been killed in the ferocious fighting. Israel says it is targeting terrorist infrastructure and all areas where Hamas operates or hide out, while issuing evacuation warnings to civilians in regions it plans to attack. The German Defense Ministry said it agreed to an Israeli request to use up to two of five Heron TP combat drones that are currently leased by the German military and were already in Israel for the training of German service people. And Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in Brussels that Israel has requested ammunition for warships, a request that will now be discussed.

Scholz told the German parliament that he has asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to inform Germany of any needs, “for example the treatment of wounded.”

“At this moment, there is only one place for Germany — the place at Israel’s side,” he told lawmakers. “Our own history, our responsibility arising from the Holocaust, makes it a perpetual task for us to stand up for the security of the State of Israel.” Scholz noted that thousands of people have demonstrated in support of Israel in recent days, but said that “there were also other, shameful pictures from Germany last weekend.”

On Saturday, a small group handed out pastries in a Berlin street and dozens of people later demonstrated in celebration of the Hamas attack.Scholz said that Germany will issue a formal ban on activity by or in support of Hamas, which is already listed by the European Union as a terror group. He said groups such as Samidoun, which was behind the weekend pastry action, will be banned.

Scholz said there will be “zero tolerance for antisemitism.” The chancellor also questioned the lack of a clear condemnation of the Hamas attack by the Palestinian Authority and its President Mahmoud Abbas, saying that “their silence is shameful.”

Germany has suspended development aid for the Palestinian areas, though it is keeping up humanitarian help.

Scholz also assailed Iran’s role in the region.

“We have no tangible evidence that Iran gave concrete and operative support to this cowardly attack by Hamas,” he said. “But it is clear to us all that without Iranian support in recent years, Hamas would not have been capable of these unprecedented attacks on Israeli territory.”

Several German citizens were among those kidnapped in Saturday’s attack.
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so what's the deal with Sderot on the cams?
looks like it's near the border, on the cams I see some cops and troop movements in jeeps?
 
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01169 said:
So it begins. That's a step above the usual new year's eve riots in Berlin that kinda look like a warzone too.
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If, like me, you thought "why did they start throwing Molotovs at the police and also why did they have the stuff to make Molotovs in the first place", it's because the Berlin Police have banned all pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Berlin after people were celebrating and giving out sweets on Sonnenallee (sometimes referred to as Arabstrasse for the amount of Arabs on it) directly after news first broke of the attacks, and then at a couple of demos people were Sieg Heil'ing (which is banned in Germany) and so no demos allowed anywhere in Berlin; they cited threats to public order and emergency services (and also a risk of anti-semitisim).

The Berlin police broke one up yesterday and specifically told people not to attend the planned one today in Potsdamer Platz (which this park is next to), so the gathering met specifically knowing the police would try to break them up, planning to attack the police for not letting them have an Anti-Israel party anywhere in the city.
 
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Breadbassket said:
Hamas militants released a video showing analog rockets made from water pipes.

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Another example of how resourceful Gazans are when it comes to killing civilians, while devoting 0 brain cells to improving their own quality of life.

AltisticRight said:
Brief translation of the official's response to the Jewish Chinese hapa that was taken by Hamas terrorists.
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CHARizard said:
The Hotel Association Pokhara Nepal (???) has expressed sorrow over the tragic death of ten Nepalis in Israel as due to of a Hamas attack.
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Some 20 Thais were killed, are there any Thai farmers that can give some insight into what the feelings in Thailand are about the war?
 
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DumbDude43 said:
the hui, which are basically ethnic han chinese whose religion is islam. those are left alone by the state, they get to live in peace because they are not deemed a threat to the state.
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It's very complicated, they're not Han Chinese per se. Their likely origin were Mongolian and Persian nomads settling in China and then spreading Islam, so it's safe to assume a lot of Han Chinese back then converted from whatever weird local folk religion to Islam.

CHARizard said:
Israel decided to post a dead baby.



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Great, there's an infant snuff pics proxy war on X now.

Kiwi Andy said:
Still more engineering prowess than the African content has ever shown.
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If only these freaks put their "ingenuity" to developing local olive farms and other infrastructure.
 
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