Israel warns 1.1 million people to flee north Gaza within 24 hours. The UN warned this will have "devestating humanitarian consequences" and calls Israel to revoke it
While I also hold this suspicion, there is fairly little evidence of this.
However, I'd say the biggest evidence is that it was literally the 50th anniversary, down to the same holy day, of the last time Palestine forces attacked Israel. The fact that Israel didn't at least have some sort of elevated defense last Saturday is absolutely unforgivable. This is not quite a smoking gun, but definitely at least gun smoke.
There are two possibilities I see. Either Israel knew it was going to happen, and let it, or they didnt know. Both are unfathomably irresponsible, and unforgivable.
Israelis should be tearing their own government apart for their ineptitude and/or treason, and likewise, Palestinians should be tearing Hamas apart for being so stupid and impotent.
I think calling their lack of preparation for something that hasn't happened in 50 years suspicious is a stretch, regardless of whether or not there was an anniversary.
Egypt warned them days before, the USA has confirmed the warning by Egypt. Hamas has released training videos showing the paratroopers training with flying gliders. Yair Lapid released a video in September warning the government was ignoring intelligence signals.
You often see reports after a successful attack that "so-and-so warned such-and-such about this-and-that days before attack", but they almost certainly get dozens of warnings a day from lots of sources. Some are right, some are wrong. The attacker only has to be lucky once. The defender has to be lucky every time.
That's not to say that Israel won't capitalise on the chance to flatten Gaza, because I browsed /r/combatfootage and have eyes, but I think they'd rather not have hundreds of Israelis held captive and over a thousand dead.
I’m not gonna allege specific knowledge of this attack, but there is plenty of evidence that Netanyahu and his cabinet saw continued provocations by Hamas as a key to retaining their power.
Whether he did anything to make it happen, an attack like this was very much on his wish list.
a columnist at Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper unearthed evidence that Netanyahu has intentionally propped up Hamas rule in Gaza — seeing Palestinian extremism as a bulwark against a two-state solution to the conflict.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” the prime minister reportedly said at a 2019 meeting of his Likud party. “This is part of our strategy — to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
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This is why Netanyahu reportedly saw Hamas rule in Gaza as something of an asset. So long as the Palestinians remain divided among themselves — Hamas in charge of Gaza and the moderate Fatah faction in power in the West Bank — then a peace agreement is likely impossible: You can’t come to a negotiated settlement without a unified negotiating partner. The terrorist threat Hamas poses, on this thinking, can be managed; the endless blockade and periodic military operations, euphemistically called “mowing the grass,” can keep the danger posed by Hamas within acceptable parameters.
Yeah, my country, Germany, historically doesn't even have much choice but to support Israel. Protests in favour of Palestine are banned in various cities, we will be sending arms to Israel. Our media are drumming that now is not the time to remind Israel of human rights and that that the democracy would surely work it out afterwards.
Jews should feel safe in Germany. We should condemn Hamas. But there is no need to cheer on the extermination of non-Hamas Palestinians in Gaza at the same time.
Not like they have a lot of reasons to stay, after their land has been stolen, houses bombed, electricity cut off (killing all critical patients including premature babies), water and food supplies stopped, and 100's of children already killed.
Edit: and now getting rained on by white phosphorus (a war crime chemical weapon).
Gaza is in the find out part of fucking around. I hope Israel puts them into a tiny little box of land with fences and automated turrets, so that they can never, ever behead babies again for as long as they live.
Yes I'm sure those 1 million Gaza children deserve to die in the most awful ways, with heir limbs torn to pieces, so that we can stop them from "beheading babies" (which apparently has now been debunked).
Their parents are terrorists who murder babies. They're using their own children as shields. I would support forcible removal but I doubt terrorist sympathisers like you would.
If you've at ever at any point thought you were too smart to fall for the Invading Iraq/Afghanistan shit show of the 00s, this comment is evidence that you would have been 100% on board and calling them freedom fries to boot.