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The Israeli rescue service Zaka says its paramedics removed more than 260 bodies from a music festival that came under attack by Hamas militants.

The total figure of bodies found is expected to be higher, as other paramedic teams were also working in the area and Zaka added that the bodies “haven’t all been collected yet”.

Early on Saturday morning, Hamas targeted Nova music festival, a techno rave in the desert near the border with Gaza.

Videos shared on social media and by Israeli news outlets showed dozens of festival-goers running through an open field as gunshots rang out. Many hid in nearby fruit orchards or were gunned down as they fled.

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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Netanyahu is entering the "find out" part of his plan of "fuck around and find out." Maybe having a music festival minutes away from a genocide wasn't the best idea?

[–] thoro@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"I used to have support for the Native Americans, but then a tribe massacred an outpost on the land that was slowly being carved from them by colonizers. Now I've lost all goodwill for their struggle"

The indigenous, oppressed peoples proceed to get wiped out and the colonizing states take over the entire land mass

This type of violence does not need to celebrated. It should be mourned as tragic. Its perpetrators condemned.

But so many are applying fairness or rules to a conflict that has neither.

If you create the conditions for war and terrorism, do not be surprised when war and terrorism come.

[–] sederx@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

well put.

oppress a population until they fight back and then yell terrorism

[–] Farnswirth@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

indigenous, oppressed peoples

Uh... you're gonna have to clarify which side you mean here.

While it's pretty clear Native Americans were in America first- not so much with the current belligerents.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Palestine was already a country in 1947. Not so much for Israel.

[–] ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

*British Mandate

[–] Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

If you decide to START history in 1947 you might miss out on over a thousand years of Muslim aggression towards Jews.

I'm no Quran expert but people seem to talk about numerous passages where Muhammad went on one rant or another about how awful they were.

https://www.answering-islam.org/authors/roark/hate_jews.html

Also the regional conflict goes way farther than the 20th century.

https://www.profolus.com/topics/origin-causes-israeli-palestinian-conflict-explained/

[–] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

Both Arabs and Proto-Jews originate from the area now called Isreal.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago

This type of violence does not need to celebrated. It should be mourned as tragic. Its perpetrators condemned.

So... then how about you simply condemn the perpetrators instead of making excuses for them and blaming the victims.

People that have been conditioned to hate Israel really can't help themselves can they? You must know how terrible it looks that you're trying to hamasplain this shit, but you literally can't stop yourself from doing it can you?

[–] nbafantest@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

If you create the conditions for war and terrorism, do not be surprised when war and terrorism come.d

What do you think raping and massacring people at a music festival is going to do?

That clearly isn't "fighting back". It's not war, its not even terrorism. They aren't achieving any sort of win, or working towards independence.

This is honestly a disgusting comment.

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You know I read these threads and they remind me so much of Reddit. And now I don't know if reddit really got shittier or if the shittiness was always there it was just ignorable. These comments are definitely reddit tier and that's sad for the fediverse.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

People need to realize reddit and social media is shitty because people are inherently shitty. The people on lemmy are no different.

[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's crazy - I wonder if there is some commonality we aren't considering here?

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

It's almost as if people use the internet to share their opinions.

[–] BB69@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wholesale slaughter of innocents? What a way to show Palestinians are the ones we should support.

[–] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had been pretty much on the Palestinian side of the conflict for some time.

This attack has absolutely burnt any goodwill I had for the Palestinian cause. If Mexico attacked America in this manner, we would likely own everything south of the Gulf of California.

I cannot fathom what Hamas thought would come of this.

[–] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Palestine" is not the one that did this. Hamas is a terrorist group, and their actions do not justify the fact that the Israeli government operates an apartheid state where people are given rights, status, and property on the basis of race, and also participates in the slaughter of innocent people.

This isn't a "whoever's worse should lose" situation. Israel commits human rights violations and Hamas is a terrorist group.

[–] BB69@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hamas is the governing body of Palestine.

It was Palestine who did this.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do you support everything your government does?