Translation: that, in a nutshell, is the whole problem.

You are posting every message about houses attacked, tents destroyed, crying children, number of innocent dead people, etc. (None of these numbers have ever been corrobated. As morbid as it sounds, satellite imaging of graveyards/burial sites would tell you to a certain extent the true death toll inflicted by Israeli bombardments. No neutral number has ever been put to the test, only Hamas numbers (which obviously has no interest in telling them).

Usually days after the event, we hear from Hamas that "x martyrs have died in a recent attack".

So my conclusion is:

1. Israel is precisely attacking places of Hamas "martyrs". The number of dead "important people" is telling. Alongside it, people, including children, die. That is never an acceptable thing. Hoever, it is well known that Hamas operates out of schools, hospitals, mosques, civilian quarters. So these people that die in the attacks, they were either:

a) willingly collaborating with Hamas

b) used as civilian shields, likely against their wills.

c) actually innocent folks who were unable to flee.

It is obvious that Hamas never considered that Israel would dare do what they are currently doing: Bombing Hamas out of command leadership despite the world-wide outcry. Of course Israel will now be elevated to "Parias of the World" (a position they have solidly held in the Arab world, ever).

There are first signs that Hamas is willing to talk about some kind of truce. It is a sign that they are absolutely bewildered by Israels reaction to the massacre that started all.

How many people do you think have died? And how many is enough?



Israel is following Lavender AI, disproportionate air strikes across the board. When the AI suspects there is someone affiliated with Hamas in the area, fighter or civil worker, it gets considered for an air strike.

People are not being used as Human shields, they have nowhere to go. There are zero stories from aid workers returning from Gaza about Hamas using schools and hospitals or using human shields or hindering people to flee. The contrary, doctors keep telling the media there are no signs of Hamas operating in hospitals. It's only Israel and the IDF claiming this without ever providing any evidence. Even when the IDF gives a list of suspects they clain were in a school that was bombed it gets quickly debunked. In one such school bombing they listed names of people that had already died months earlier, some that weren't in Gaza anymore (fled to Egypt) and some that had nothing to do with Hamas.

Conclusion: IDF can not be trusted. They have been caught in lies almost daily.

Hamas already wanted a ceasefire in May, actually December they came with the framework for a ceasefire that Biden later adopted and presented as his ceasefire proposal. Of course Hamas wants the war to end, but they're not willing to give up the only leverage they have, the hostages, for a short pause without any guarantees. Remember the people freed from Israeli prisons in the November exchange have largely been rounded up again, along with many more.



2,000 pound bombs are also not precise, nor the smaller ones as has been shown over and over.



Do you disregard The Lancet as well?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.¹ The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services,² the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry,³ which found claims of data fabrication implausible.⁴

All the aid agencies, the UN they all accept the death toll as accurate or more likely an under estimate. Only the bodies collected at hospitals end up in the death tally. Of which over 15,000 are children.


Is the Guardian posting disinformation as well?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/gaza-publishes-identities-of-34344-palestinians-killed-in-war-with-israel

Gaza’s health ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, ages, gender and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of Palestinians killed in the war so far.

The remaining 7,613 people included in its death toll, which is now above 41,000, are Palestinians whose bodies have been received by hospitals and morgues, but whose identities have not yet been confirmed.

The identified people include 169 babies born after the Hamas attacks of 7 October that began the war, and a man born in 1922 who had survived more than a century of war and upheaval.

The document runs to 649 pages, with the dead listed largely by age. Gaza’s population is youthful, and the register underlines the high toll of Israeli attacks on Palestinian children.

More than 100 pages are filled with the names of victims under 10 years old, and the first adult names do not appear until page 215.

Israeli officials question the death toll given by the authorities in Gaza, arguing that because Hamas controls the government there, Gaza’s health officials cannot provide reliable figures.

However, doctors and civil servants in the territory have a credible record from past wars. After several conflicts between 2009 and 2021, United Nations investigators drew up their own lists of the dead and found they closely matched ones from Gaza.

“Unfortunately, we have the sad experience of coordinating with the ministry of health on casualty figures every few years,” Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for the UN secretary general, has said. “Their figures have proven to be generally accurate.”

Yes, all these numbers are corroborated. Bodies get identified, names registered. The initial numbers are not always accurate as body parts literally have to be matched together to prevent double counting. But also many can't be recovered and are buried under rubble or eaten by wild dogs in the streets.


No, it's the IDF that's intentionally vague and throwing up numbers that can't be trusted

Israel Gaza: Checking Israel's claim to have killed 10,000 Hamas fighters
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68387864

Acled says this about Israel's numbers

https://acleddata.com/2024/10/06/after-a-year-of-war-hamas-is-militarily-weakened-but-far-from-eliminated/

While Israel’s operations in the Gaza Strip have significantly reduced Hamas’ military manpower,² the exact number of fighters it has lost remains uncertain. Israel claims to have killed around 17,000 gunmen,³ dismantling most of Hamas’ 24 battalions,⁴ along with killing dozens of commanders and key leaders.⁵ However, more detailed IDF reports on the killing of militants containing specifics on timeframes, locations, or operations, recorded by ACLED, account for approximately 8,500 fatalities.⁶ This figure also includes militants from other armed groups and possibly other non-combatant Hamas members.



Sorry but your conclusion is based on propaganda, not on facts corroborated with independent international organizations across the board.

‘Final victory will be ours’, declares new Hezbollah leader

Naim Qassem has delivered his first speech as the secretary-general of Hezbollah, sending a message of defiance and resistance to Israel.

“Final victory will be ours,” he said in a nearly hour-long pre-recorded video, with the flags of Lebanon and Hezbollah and an image of his assassinated predecessor Hassan Nasrallah behind him.

Qassem said Nasrallah was like a brother to him, and assassinated leader Hashem Safieddine was a man upon whom Nasrallah could heavily rely on. He described killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar as “an icon of heroism and Palestinian resistance and the free people of the world”.

Qassem vowed that under his leadership, Hezbollah will continue the work of Nasrallah and keep fighting a war with Israel while following the same political path.

“Helping Gaza is our duty and we will defend it to counter the Israeli threat for the entire region.”

Here are some other main messages delivered by the new Hezbollah chief:

Israeli fighter jets raid across Lebanon as Baalbek hit

The series of Israeli air strikes that we earlier reported hitting Lebanon’s eastern Baalbek targeted the al-Asira area, along with the town of Iaat and its surroundings within the past hour, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA).

Israeli attack and surveillance drones were reported flying over the area shortly before the strikes.

Here is a series of other attacks launched by Israel across Lebanon in short proximity to the strikes on Baalbek, as reported by the NNA:

ما زال الطيران المعادي يشنّ هجومًا على بلدات في محيط #بعلبك pic.twitter.com/Ytgdtl0UKg

— Altatemma (@altatemma) October 30, 2024

Baalbek air strikes look ‘to be far wider than we thought’

There are several air strikes taking place along the roads people are using to flee after Israel gave that evacuation order.

People are still trying to get out of those very densely populated areas. The governor of Baalbek has also been urging residents to leave.

Israel does have, under humanitarian international law, a responsibility to any civilians that are left there. It has to protect them. But we do know that Israel doesn’t take stock in international humanitarian law.

These air strikes look like they’re going to be far wider than perhaps we thought. They look like they are still coming in along the roads – where Israel has said people need to evacuate. It’s very densely populated, and very densely packed places have been placed under evacuation orders.

غارة اسرائيلية استهدفت خزانات المازوت في سهل بلدة دورس pic.twitter.com/3sAFqShvQQ

— Lebanon 24 (@Lebanon24) October 30, 2024

Translation: An Israeli raid targeted diesel tanks in the plain of the town of Douris (southwest of Baalbek)

Drone that crashed in Nahariya came from Iraq undetected: Report

Earlier, we reported how an explosives-laden drone crashed in an industrial area in northern Israel’s Nahariya, hitting a factory producing aircraft components.

The Israeli military confirmed the attack but did not give any origin for it. The army now believes the drone came from Iraq, rather than Lebanon, and managed to evade radar and air defences, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 12.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has been regularly launching drones at Israel during the war on Gaza. This month, the umbrella group of Iran-aligned forces killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded 24 when one of its drones hit a military base in the occupied Golan Heights.

Non-stop drone sirens sound in northern Israel: Reports

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that sirens are still sounding. The Israeli military says the sirens were triggered following the “identification of a number of suspicious aerial targets that crossed from Lebanon”. It says the targets are being “monitored” by the Israeli Air Force, and the incident is still “developing”.

Israeli military says it intercepted a drone, incident ongoing

Following the sirens that have been sounding in northern Israel, the military says the air force intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle and received reports of two “fallen targets”.

Hezbollah drone attack on northern Israel ‘a show of force'

The Israeli army says the incident has now been concluded and it intercepted three drones that were launched from Lebanon. Two others were not intercepted and that’s why there were reports of a huge explosion in the area of Hedera near Haifa. Israeli army sources say two people were injured while they were running to a shelter.

There was this recognition that some of those drones were not successfully intercepted, and the Israeli army has even described them, saying the speed with which they were flying was unprecedented. It was a show of force by Hezbollah at a time when Lebanon had been pounded by Israeli bombardment for several weeks.

This is a strong message that claims by Israel that it has weakened Hezbollah and destroyed it in a major way are false. Hezbollah is still resisting.

Lebanon says 11 killed in Israeli strikes on eastern town

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says 11 people were killed and 15 others wounded in Israeli air strikes on a town in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

“The successive raids by the Israeli enemy on the town of Sohmor in west Bekaa … resulted in the martyrdom of 11 people and the injury of 15 others,” it said in a statement.

In Lebanon, at least 2,787 people have been killed and 12,772 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began in October 2023.

Israeli military says it struck Hezbollah fuel sites in Lebanon

The Israeli military says it attacked fuel reservoirs located in military complexes of Hezbollah’s logistical empowerment unit in Lebanon’s Bekaa region.

Hezbollah has not commented on the claim yet.

_{Smoke and flames rise in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Sohmor, in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, on Wednesday}

Hezbollah says it targeted three Israeli bases with rockets, drones

Hezbollah says “fighters launched a complex attack” at 5pm (15:00 GMT) “with high-quality rockets and a swarm of drones”. In a statement, it said it targeted the Ein Shemer Airfield, east of Hadera, as well as soldiers at the Eliakim camp south of Haifa and the Shraga base north of Acre.

The group says it hit its targets “accurately after the enemy failed to intercept” the rockets and drones.

Fires rage in a village near Tyre after Israeli strike


_{First responders work amid the fire following an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh near Tyre on Wednesday}

_{Israeli strikes killed 19 people, including eight women, in two towns in Lebanon’s Baalbek region}

CIA director, other officials to visit Middle East for talks

The United States CIA Director William Burns and US envoys Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein will visit Egypt and Israel, a US official has said. The official said they plan to discuss issues involving Iran, Lebanon and the release of captives in Gaza.

CENTCOM Commander General Michael Erik Kurilla also is in the region and will visit Israel, the official said.

Saudi hosts meeting of new group pushing for Palestinian state

Saudi Arabia has hosted the first meeting of a new “international alliance” to press for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Unveiled last month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the “International Alliance to Implement the Two-State Solution” brings together nations from the Middle East, Europe and beyond.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said nearly 90 “states and international organisations” were taking part in the two-day meeting in Riyadh.

“A genocide is happening with the goal of evicting the Palestinian people from their land, which Saudi Arabia rejects,” he said, describing the humanitarian situation as “catastrophic” and denouncing the “complete blockade” of northern Gaza.

The Riyadh meeting was expected to focus on humanitarian access, UNRWA and measures to advance a two-state solution, diplomats said.

Qatar, Iran top officials discuss regional de-escalation

Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has discussed regional developments with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi.

A readout by the Qatari Foreign Ministry said during a call Sheikh Mohammed and Araghchi discussed ways to de-escalate, especially in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

Qatar has been a main mediator in negotiations aimed at bringing about a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli captives since October 2023.

Israel cabinet discusses Lebanon truce framework: Minister

Israel’s security cabinet is discussing the terms of a truce with Hezbollah in south Lebanon, where Israeli troops are conducting a ground offensive, Energy Minister Eli Cohen has said. “There are discussions, I think it will still take time,” Cohen told Israeli public radio.

Israel’s demands in return for a 60-day truce include a Hezbollah pullback to north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the Israeli frontier; the Lebanese army’s deployment along the border; an international intervention mechanism to enforce the truce, and a guarantee that Israel will maintain freedom of action in case of threats.

According to Israeli media, US President Joe Biden’s Middle East adviser Brett McGurk and special envoy Amos Hochstein will head to the region Wednesday to meet Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials to discuss conditions for a ceasefire with Hezbollah.

Their goal is to implement the deal prepared by Hochstein, which is based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

According to the resolution, which brought an end to Israel’s last war with Hezbollah in 2006, only the Lebanese army and UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL would be deployed in areas south of Lebanon’s Litani River near the Israeli border.

UNRWA ‘backbone of humanitarian response in Gaza’: UN Security Council

The UN Security Council has underscored that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees “remains the backbone of all humanitarian response” in the besieged coastal enclave.

In a statement adopted by consensus, the 15-member council also:

Rapporteur urges Israel’s UN membership suspension

A UN special rapporteur urged the suspension of Israel’s UN membership citing repeated violations of international law and the occupation of Palestinian territory.

“I do believe that the impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law,” Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said at a news conference.

Albanese said she recommends the General Assembly consider the suspension of Israel’s credentials as a member of the UN until it ends violating international law and withdraws the “clearly unlawful” occupation.

“Israel, in the pursuit of realising Greater Israel, is attempting to reduce physically or spiritually … the presence of the Palestinian identity in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

‘Impunity remains high’ as Israel keeps killing journalists

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released its latest Global Impunity Index measuring which countries kill the most journalists.

“Israel is not committed to investigating or punishing those who kill journalists and, in fact, has been responsible for a record number of journalists’ killings,” Chief Executive Jodie Ginsberg told Al Jazeera.

CPJ measures unsolved murders of journalists where they can conclusively determine the reporters were deliberately killed because of their work. That means the real number of slain journalists since the start of the war on Gaza is likely much higher than the 123 recorded so far, said Ginsberg.

She said that in some cases, Israel announced the killings, claiming without evidence the reporters were “terrorists”. In others, like the killing of three Lebanese journalists last week, it was clear they were targeted since nothing else was in the area.

“But the key thing is that it’s extremely difficult, particularly during an active war and particularly during this war – the deadliest conflict for journalists that CPJ has ever documented – to document because so many journalists have been killed along with families and colleagues and no international observers are allowed in,” Ginsberg said.

Israel must apply ‘military pressure’ in Gaza to ensure captives return: Gallant

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has told troops that they must apply “military pressure” to guarantee the return of captives held in the besieged coastal enclave for over a year.

“The central issue here is to continue exerting as much pressure on Hamas as possible, in order to create the conditions necessary to ensure the return of the hostages. Your duty is to exert military pressure, and eliminate and imprison terrorists,” Gallant’s office reported him saying.

‘No significant improvement’ in Gaza aid since US letter to Israel

The US Department of State says it has not seen a “significant improvement” in aid reaching Palestinians in Gaza.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote to Israeli officials earlier this month demanding concrete measures to address the worsening situation in the Palestinian enclave.

They told Israel it must take steps in 30 days to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on US military aid.

The letter outlined specific steps Israel must take including enabling a minimum of 350 trucks to enter Gaza per day, instituting pauses in fighting to allow aid delivery, and rescinding evacuation orders to Palestinian civilians when there is no operational need.

German court asked to block explosives shipment to Israeli firm

Human rights lawyers have filed a court appeal in Berlin seeking to block a shipment of military-grade explosives aboard a German cargo ship, which they say is to be delivered to Israel’s biggest defence contractor.

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) said the action was filed on behalf of three Palestinians from Gaza, arguing that the shipment of primarily RDX explosives could be used in munitions for Israel’s war in Gaza, potentially contributing to alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The ELSC said the RDX shipment was destined for Israeli Military Industries, a division of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest defence contractor.