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 @9KHG9NT from North Carolina  disagreed…1yr1Y

Violence breeds violence. Enough is enough. Israel has been slowly committing genocide since its inception and because there has been no permanent ceasefire/continued US military and political support, and thousands of families have been murdered and wiped out, they are better positioned than ever to carry out their ultimate goal of complete invasion and settlement of Palestinian lands and territories.

 @9LW495KLibertarian from Pennsylvania  agreed…1yr1Y

A ceasefire now would undermine the reason why Israel went into Gaza in the first place. It would not just enable Hamas to remain, making a statement to the entire world that the West is now officially too worried about optics to actually defend its own interests, distant as they may be; it would also guarantee an even larger conflict at a later time. I don't think there is a good solution to this conflict, but I would prefer for common sense and humanity to prevail in protecting innocent civilians while bringing ideologically motivated terrorists to justice. I will add that the only reason the world has a problem with what Israel is doing is because of who Israel is.

 @9LQV6ZSfrom Guam  agreed…1yr1Y

Hamas attacked Israel. Hamas is a TERRORIST organization. We all know if someone attacked the US, UK, France, etc and killed people, war would happen. So why is it that when Israel is attacked, people think it is okay and want the war to stop. No ceasefire unless Hamas is eradicated. Anyone who supports Hamas is supporting terrorists.

 @9LQDZ34Republican from Louisiana  agreed…1yr1Y

We are currently winning, after we won our complete freedom we were able to become one of the most successful countries.

 @Name-IrrelevantConstitution  from West Virginia  agreed…4mos4MO

The Quran commands violence against those who refuse to submit to Islam. Hamas has continued to prove this.

 @B5C9RJ3  from Pennsylvania  agreed…2mos2MO

The military operation in Gaza follows the norm for civilian casualties in modern Middle Eastern urban warfare. That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Hell, there ought to be lessons learned about ways to protect civilians from this conflict.

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Horror in Northern Gaza: U.S. Questions Israel After Civilians Slaughtered in Residential Attack

An Israeli strike on a residential building in northern Gaza killed dozens of people early Tuesday, the territory’s emergency service said, in the latest attack to cause mass casualties in the area since Israel renewed its offensive against Hamas in the north.The Palestinian Civil Defense, the emergency service, said at least 55 people were killed in the strike in the town of Beit Lahia. Gaza’s health ministry said at least 93 people were dead, including 25 children. The Israeli military said in a statement that it was “aware of reports that civilians were harmed” in the town and was looking into the details.Matt Miller, a U.S. State Department spokesman, called the strike “a horrifying incident with a horrifying result” and said the Biden administration had contacted the Israeli government to ask what happened.Israeli forces renewed their offensive in northern Gaza this month, saying they were trying to stem a regrouping of Hamas, the militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, sparking the war in Gaza.The strike comes days after another Israeli attack on a residential block in Beit Lahia that left dozens of people killed or wounded, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense. The Israeli military confirmed the strike on Sunday, saying that the air force had “conducted a precise strike” targeting Hamas fighters.An overnight Israeli airstrike hit another residential building in the town on Oct. 20, killing dozens of people, Palestinian officials and emergency workers said.Roughly 400,000 people remain in northern Gaza, according to the United Nations, and many have been trapped in their ruined neighborhoods.

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Death, Denial, and Silence: Inside China’s Push to Bury Zhuhai’s Devastating SUV Attack

Outside the sports center in the southern city of Zhuhai where a 62-year-old man had plowed an S.U.V. into a crowd, killing at least 35 people, workers on Wednesday quickly removed bouquets of flowers left by grieving residents. Uniformed police officers and officials in plainclothes shooed away bystanders and warned them not to take photos. At hospitals where patients were taken after the attack — at least 43 more people were injured — local officials sat outside the intensive care units, blocking journalists from speaking with family members.On the Chinese internet, censors were mobilized to delete videos, news articles and commentaries about the attack. Almost 24 hours had passed before officials divulged details about the assault, which happened on Monday, including the death toll. Their statement offered limited details, and they have held no news conferences.The response was a precise enactment of the Chinese government’s usual playbook after mass tragedies: Prevent any nonofficial voices, including eyewitnesses and survivors, from speaking about the event. Spread assurances of stability. Minimize public displays of grief.The goal is to stifle potential questions and criticism of the authorities, and force the public to move on as quickly as possible. And to a large degree, it appeared to be working.Though many residents of Zhuhai, the city of 2.4 million where the attack happened, were clearly shaken, they said on Wednesday they had not questioned the delay in information, attributing it to the government’s need to first sort out what had happened. A steady stream of people arrived by foot or taxi to lay flowers at the sports center’s entrance, but when officials took away the flowers and told the people not to linger, they quickly complied.Local governments have also vowed in recent months to spend more time screening for people who have experienced “failures,” after a spate of violent attacks, including several cases in which schoolchildren were stabbed.But officials were also clearly on the lookout for any deeper scrutiny of the Zhuhai killings. Videos and photos of the scene of the attack showed only as grayed-out squares on Weibo, a social media platform. Blog posts urging people not to treat violent attacks as isolated incidents, but rather to look deeper for potential social causes, disappeared.

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