Palestinian officials are accusing Israeli forces of carrying out “execution-style” killings in Gaza after the discovery of a mass grave containing at least 30 decomposing bodies. Some of the victims were blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs with zip ties. The bodies were found on the grounds of a school in Beit Lahia. Al Jazeera spoke to one man who helped discover the bodies. Palestinian man: “Inside the schoolyard, we were shocked to find the dead bodies. Those are Palestinian civilians, blindfolded and handcuffed at the back. The dead bodies were kept inside black plastic bags.” The discovery of the mass grave comes as the death toll in Gaza has topped 27,000. At least another 66,000 have been injured. The group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is now estimating that more than 25,000 Palestinian children have lost one or both parents in Gaza over the past four months.

More video and eyewitness info on Al Jazeera so far

Also reported on Common Dreams and Middle East Eye.

I haven’t found any reports of any independent investigations yet, hopefully they are underway

  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    11 months ago

    So it’ll be easy for you to draw meaningful distinctions between current Israel and Novemberpogrome-era Nazi Germany, right?

        • Potatofish@lemmy.worldEnglish
          36·
          11 months ago

          A Nazi is a nazi; an Israeli is not a nazi. I don’t think they are currently equivalent. There are undoubtedly horrible ones, though. I watched a PBS report on an old Israeli woman who has made it her mission in life to force Palestinians out of Gaza. She is bats*ht crazy.

          • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            43·
            11 months ago

            You don’t understand what a comparison is, do you? If you’re comparing 2 things, they’re definitionally not the same single thing - I asked for meaningful differences between the two.

            If there’s no meaningful difference, I think it would be sensible to respond as though they’re dealing with the rise of the Nazis.

            Some similarities - they’re far-right authoritarians that have pivoted their leadership around the creation and subjugation of a ethno-religious “other”, while spouting openly genocidal rhetoric, and beginning the early steps of the genocide they’ve laid the plans for. They’re hostile to their neighbours, and will undoubtedly move on to annexing them given the opportunity once the Palestinian annexation is complete.

            Some differences would be that Israel is less homophobic than the Nazis were at that point, and that Israel established an apartheid state and (open air) concentration camp as a preparatory step, which the Nazis didn’t. Israel also funded Hamas’s rise to power over the secular moderates to manufacture pretext, which I didn’t see from the Nazis (who had less need, as they were less reliant on external support) - I’d argue all that makes Israel worse on balance.

            Feel free to take another run at it if you like.