Water is Gold for Gazans. Call for revenge to kill entire Gazans can be a natural reaction for some people. But revenge is not a policy.

revenge is not policy, but genocidal Netanyahu and his allies still unstoppable, even Biden gave up.

Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv 11.33am / DC 4.33am

ICC prosecutor in Rafah Border, same timing White House push Israel to allowed 100 humanitarian truck daily to Gaza

Richard N. Haass is former President of Council of Foreign Relation or CFR

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed ‘mighty vengeance’ as he stepped up air strikes on the Gaza Strip. What is happening over the past few hours is not being reflected in this media. There is a growing number of prominent personalities, many from the security & intelligence communities, calling Netanyahu not only unfit and unworthy, but mentally incompetent. He will not resign. While Joe Biden publicly backs Israel, privately there is growing discontent among some U.S. officials over the impact of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, with concerns being raised in multiple departments.

Israeli are messed up in all sorts of ways, but we don't do coups. If at all, it will likely be protest resignations leading to five coalition members of Knesset joining the opposition in a vote of no confidence. In real life, the greatest threat to Israel from international law is due to Justice Minister Yariv Levin's continued wartime efforts to dismantle Israel's judiciary, including his failure to allow a Chief Justice to take his seat.

Yotam Kipnis's parents were killed at the kibbutz of Be’eri CREDIT: JULIAN SIMMONDS

Families of the victims of Hamas attacks have warned Israel’s government that “revenge is not a policy”, amid mounting concerns about civilian casualties in Gaza.

Israel has launched an expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip, three weeks after Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, vowed “mighty vengeance” against the terror group.

But many of the 1,400 victims of Hamas’s onslaught on Oct 7 lived in kibbutzim with strong socialist roots and traditions of peace activism, and support for Palestinians living in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Yotam Kipnis, 29, whose parents were killed at the kibbutz of Be’eri, said: “The call for revenge can be a natural reaction for some people. But revenge is not a policy.”

Lilach Kipnis, he said “the goal of any military action should be to save lives”.

He added: “That includes lives in Gaza and lives of the soldiers.”

Navad Kipnis holds a family tree showing how the Hamas invasion impacted his relatives CREDIT: REMO CASILLI/REUTERS

Be’eri has become a byword for Hamas’s atrocities, but the kibbutz is a hometown for Mr Kipnis who spoke fondly of the western Negev desert and a nearby valley covered in wildflowers in spring.

Yet, life in the kibbutz a few miles from Gaza, which his grandparents helped to establish, was always about “95 per cent paradise, five per cent hell,” he said.

The Kipnis family, which protested against Israel’s 38-year military occupation of Gaza, had front-row seats to Israel’s air strikes on the Strip and Hamas’s rockets landing nearby.

Toddler living in Northern Gaza and they evacuated to Southern Gaza. Since Friday, Oct 13, when Israel announced to every Gazans from northern move to southern, more than 5,000 killed in southern, not counting barbaric bombing in northern Gaza. Northern Gaza is being depopulated, while even residents in the south are ordered to evacuate as the israelis implement their ethnic cleansing. Refugee literally fulfilled Israel warning, and still killed with barbaric bombing by Israel. Documentation by Plestia Alaqad

Such violence, he said, has only hardened his opposition to the use of force in the territory, which is home to two million people.

The life of Yaakob Godo, 74, changed forever on the morning of Oct 7 when he called to check on his son Tom and his family living on the kibbutz of Kisufim, after air raid sirens went off across the country.

The streets are filled with gaunt faces, fearful and trembling. The bread lines seem to be most squalid in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, as everyone queues with the worry of being bombed while waiting for bread. Israel has done this several times already, targeting bakeries right after receiving flour shipments from UNRWA.

Temperatures are unusually hot.

WATER IS GOLD

It’s because of the excess concentration of explosives, fire, and gunpowder that has burned through the Strip. Rockets and airstrikes don’t stop. Every hour, every minute, missiles rip through Gaza’s now disfigured urban landscape.

All those who have stayed in Gaza’s northern half — Gaza City, Beit Hanoun, Jabaliya, and Beit Lahiya — are now being bombed. They are being targeted because they have the audacity to remain in their homes. By targeting these families, Israel is sending a message to all those who have not evacuated northern Gaza to flee or suffer the same fate.

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Gazans people is normal people. Love puppy too like Caucasian and other people, other human. Via Plestia Alaqad / AlAqad, Gazans journo. 22 Palestinian journo killed. Plestia Alaqad beg to you to speak up for Palestine. Plestia, Yara Eid, Hind Khoudary are journo. Your engagement and or posting about Palestine helps Palestinian, currently not only very weak signal and electricity but also shadow banned.

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