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1. 

   @oracleofottawa

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   It appears that the annual IDF Hammas recruitment drive was a real success this year…

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2. 

   @fcfcsoftware6473

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   IsraHELL

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3. 

   @gilgerstel1

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   As an Israeli who has previosly written about the current situation, I feel like people are missing facts and context before they write opinions. Here we go:
   When the British left Israel, the UN voted on deviding the country to Israel and Palestine. Of course Palestinians wanted all of it, and immediately declared war on Israel ( in alliance with other Arab countries) trying to conquer the whole country. They failed. Since then Arabs have started many wars against Israel, including some which involved every country surrounding Israel attacking it. Throughout those wars Palestine has lost almost all of its land to Israel.
   Skip ahead to 2005. Being the only real democracy in the Middle East, Israel votes in favor of leaving Gaza and evacuating all Israelis. That was in exchange for a peace treaty, that Palestinians never actually signed. At this point, Israel is willing to give up land in exchange for peace, knowing that if the peace fails Gaza might become an attack source. Israel leaves behind green houses and factories, in order for Palestinians to build a strong settlement in Gaza. Palestinians immediately destroy everything Israel left behind, despite their weak and poor community. Gaza also immediately elects Hamas as the authorities in the area.
   Skip ahead to today. After constant rocket firing, the kidnapping and killing of 3 Israeli teens 'breaks the camels back' and Israel starts to attack Gaza. Many civilian casualties are reported. That is happening although at almost every attack target Israel is performing something, that from a military standpoint is considered incredibly dumb, and warning, sometimes days ahead, of the attack. Most civilian casualties happen because of the use of human shields and civilians not evacuating places used by Hamas as shelters. And as sick as this sounds, I believe that If a place is known to be a bomb/ terrorist shelter that will eventually threaten your country's citizens lives, and you do as much as you can warning civilians, it is acceptable to bomb places without it being considered war crimes. Yes, even hospitals and schools.
   And to finish this off, assuming many of the readers of this are Americans, or might support the american anti- Israel view claiming Israel is to violent and should work harder to minimize civilian casualties, that opinion is coming from a country that 69 years ago today dropped 2 atomic bombs on residential cities in Japan.
   I hope that those who were patient enough to read through this learned something today about middle eastern history and current events.

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4. 

   @e21big

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   Wrong answer, only Hamas can help them… … by stop using rocket and terror to achieve their political end.

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5. 

   @shahbaztalpur3862

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   Darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante Italian poet

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6. 

   @AnotherAllegedHuman

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   I see Israel has "defended themselves" against enough innocent civilians that even the spineless idiots in Washington finally decided to take stern action and waggle their fingers at them disappointingly.

   Which means that, as usual, the Palestinians will not have justice over this latest atrocity. This shames me as an American.

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7. 

   @wailongyeung1

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   This is what the Palests want. This is the reason they elect  Hamas to power. This is what they deserved.

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8. 

   @globalcitizen952

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   bye bye gaza till we come back in may-2017 and destroy again for no specific reason and gains…hahah just coz we are bored of playing video games, time to shoooot real kids hahahah : IDF 

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9. 

   @99RMD9

   January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

   'This is a humanitarian catastrophe': Former president Jimmy Carter says 'there is no humane or legal justification' for the way Israel has attacked Gaza.

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    @FootyTop10

    January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

    To say Israel is not targeting innocent people is absurd….For a state to claim to have the most sophisticated army and weapons, and still manages to kill 85-90% innocent Children, Woman and elderly does not show Israel is indeliberately targeting innocent……….The truth is that Israel is targeting Innocent in order to make the Palestinians bow down to their demand and to put pressure on the Palestinan leadership!

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    @tonymichaud8683

    January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

    So Hamas wants peace?  Great!!   All they have to do is live quietly and stop shooting rockets into Israel.  Start living like humans instead of demons.

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    @noagir

    January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

    wanna  guarantee that it won't happen again? Stop Hamas. That'd bring peace to the Palestinians, and Israelis. Everyone, basically.

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    @bernardoduran9783

    January 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

    A very sad story indeed. Thank you BBC.

    1:32 If only USA didn't subsidize Israel $3.5bills/year in weapons.

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