The Israeli army controls over 77% of the Gaza Strip, local authorities said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.

“Field data and verified analysis indicate that the Israeli occupation forces now effectively control approximately 77% of Gaza’s total geographic area,” Gaza’s government media office said in a statement.

The Israeli army gained control through “direct ground offensives, the deployment of its forces in residential and civilian areas, or preventing Palestinians from accessing their areas, lands, and properties via intensified fire, or forced evacuation,” it added.

The office strongly condemned the Israeli plans of mass displacement, ethnic cleansing, systematic genocide, and settler colonialism by force, “under the cover of a siege and an open war targeting both people and infrastructure.”

It held Israel and its supporters, including the US, UK, Germany, and France, fully responsible for the crime of genocide in Gaza.

  • Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.caEnglish
    326·
    13 days ago

    So no better than Hamas, or Nazis, or the Taliban, or any other organisation that uses violence as a means of political expression.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      233·
      13 days ago

      Wtf? Stop comparing the violence of Colonialism to the anti-colonial violence that exists only as a resistance to that occupation and Colonialism.

      The violence of the anti-colonialism is done as a last resort to resist the unimaginable amount of violence the occupiers do on a daily fucking basis.

      How fucking gross to compare Hamas, which only exists because of the Israeli Apartheid, with the fucking Nazis. While Israel is litterally doing a fucking genocide in Gaza as we speak, and has been for over 18 fucking months. Not to mention the blockade and ‘mowing the lawn’ which are some of the most brutal aspects of the apartheid that’s been happening in the occupied territories since 1967.

      JFC, what your doing is akin to both-sidesing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Have a shred of humanity. Anti-colonialist doesn’t come out of fucking nowhere and is completely fucking different than the fascism of Colonialism.

      • Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.caEnglish
        127·
        13 days ago

        Who started the war on October 7th? Hamas the terrorists, and now the Israeli terrorist government is acting even more atrociously. There is no difference between them, they’re both violent despotic parties.

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          13 days ago

          The existence of Hamas, and any armed resistance movement, is directly due to the decades of violence experienced daily under the permanent occupation, the Apartheid State, of Israel. It’s impossible to understand their existence if you don’t understand the lived experience and material conditions they are forced to live under. There is no such thing as a perfect victim when it comes to anti-Colonialist resistance, not for the Vietcong, the IRA, or the ANC either. Can you condemn the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the same way as the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto?

          In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video

          Adi Callai has also done a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history, as well as an analysis of Franz Fanon and Identity Politics in the context of Colonialism and Anti-colonialism.

        • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldEnglish
          91·
          12 days ago

          Who came from europe to force a state on local population? Who mass diplaced hundred of thousands of paleatinian? Who occupied who?

          Would you say the british empire and indian resistance was equally bad when nana sahib promised safety to british soldiers and civilians and ended up massacring them?

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
      151·
      12 days ago

      The Nazis are the only apt comparison in your list. Like Israel they invaded foreign lands to ethnically cleanse and colonize them.

      Both Hamas and the Taliban only defended their homeland against a foreign invaders and did not invade foreign lands.