Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed scores of people overnight, as fears grow of the military campaign intensifying in the southern city of Rafah, a tiny pocket of the territory where more than a million people are sheltering.
Amid intensifying divisions in Israel’s government over the war, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was expected to arrive in the region on Sunday, his fifth trip since the militant group attacked Israel on 7 October, killing at least 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage.
Blinken is expected to spend the week visiting Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and the West Bank to discuss a deal to secure the freedom of at least 136 remaining hostages in Gaza and a ceasefire intended to calm regional tensions, particularly in the Red Sea.
Have you ever considered that if people were less naive about the true nature of war, and didn’t lie to themselves about the reality for civilians, and that war inevitably devolves into rape, torture, and infanticide, the world would be a better place?
You be better.
Not if it leads to your excuses and justifications of “war was always like this. No need to change it.”
Absolutely disgusting, down to the very core of my being. I want nothing to do with your beliefs.