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Hamas blocks foreign nationals from leaving Gaza
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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From the footage at Rafah, feels like hundreds of foreign nationals are gathered waiting an okay from Israel and Egypt. I don't see WHY Hamas would even care to stop Palestinian Americans from leaving to the states.
Hamas intends to use those people as leverage to get their home countries to exert pressure on Israel. Hamas is basically taking them hostage.
Is there any source for that idea, or that this is actually happening? The only source for this article are US officials, who are full-throated allies of Israel, so there likely could be a bias. Telegraph is widely known as biased.
I'm just saying that a group that has taken ACTUAL hostages certainly isn't above using foreign nationals as quasi-hostages to pressure other countries to exert influence on Israel to get them to stop shelling Gaza.
I have failed to find any statement made by Egypt to confirm this.
No evidence for that though
Home counties?
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It's not like that stops Israel from butchering civilians anyway, so again how does this work?
To downvoters: It's a fact that Israel is killing civilians while trying to kill Hamas fighters. After killing nearly 8.5k civilians, they got maybe a couple of dozen of Hamas fighters "dead", but how would they even be able to confirm it when they aren't in Gaza? It's a known indisputable fact that the so-called "human shield" used by Hamas has never stopped and will never stop Israel from shooting or bombing the civlian population.
But again, it's because "proximity shielding" is something countries made up so they can do genocide or accomplish whatever urban warfare goal while at the same time not giving a single fuck about the lives of civilians or hostages in that area.
Their intent is that by their "martyring" Palestinian civilians, they'll be able to use their deaths as PR against Israel.
Yes, that is a cynical take. That's how Hamas operates.
I think there was no intent. I think Israel used proximity shielding like the US did as an excuse to kill civilians.
why do you people think Israel wants to kill civilians? Do you really think the IDF is just hundreds of thousands of monsters who love killing? What is wrong with you people?
Because it keeps doing so, documented by far too many human rights organizations and bodies already for nothing to have changed.
They don't see the Palestinians, they see the Americans, and Americans are hostages and also decadents who deserve being knocked down a peg
Hmmm... Pretty sure the majority of those looked like American Palestinians. They are not bargaining chips since not even their own government cared enough to lift a finger and get them out.
Right now, the Israelis are bombing the Rafah crossing and blaming Hamas for the dead.
Pretty much, yes. In fact they have caused road problems on two occasions that took days of repair.