Israel’s military began a heavy aerial bombardment of Gaza after nightfall on Friday and announced that it is “expanding” its ground operations into the territory—but did not declare a full-scale ground invasion that has been expected for weeks.Internet and phone service in Gaza has been mostly, if not entirely, cut off amid the bombing. The International Committee of the Red Cross cannot reach its medical personnel. A Washington Post reporter said the paper cannot reach its colleagues, either.S

Some people, communicating via satellite phones, have described the attack as the “heaviest bombardment yet,” according to independent journalist Sharif Kouddous.

“People can’t call ambulances or civil defense. We are being bombed in an unprecedented manner,” said an unidentified journalist at a Gaza hospital, according to a translation by The Nation’s Palestinian correspondent, Mohammed El-Kurd. “The sky around us just lights up [with explosions], and no one knows what’s going on.”

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
        104·
        1 year ago

        So America will topple, when??

        What you said has no basis in reality at all. the USA was founded on violence. Canada was founded on violence. Mexico was founded on violence. All of south america was founded on violence. India fought a war against British occupation and won. Etc. etc. etc.

        You seem to be conflating all violence with political violence and that’s not a mistake you should be making.

        Hell, the Magna Carta, the foundation on which all common law resides, was founded on violence.

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well there’s violence and there’s the capacity for violence. The most effective thing is the capacity for violence. The actual violence isn’t useful; except as a means to prove one’s capacity.

        The best is to achieve that without having to actually hurt anyone.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
        74·
        1 year ago

        Tell what to Gandhi?

        During World War I (1914–1918), nearing the age of 50, Gandhi supported the British and its allied forces by recruiting Indians to join the British army, expanding the Indian contingent from about 100,000 to over 1.1 million.[39][37] He encouraged Indian people to fight on one side of the war in Europe and Africa at the cost of their lives.[37] Pacifists criticised and questioned Gandhi, who defended these practices by stating, according to Sankar Ghose, “it would be madness for me to sever my connection with the society to which I belong”

        ALL rights are won through VIOLENCE

        • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Nope, they are not

          Unless you consider voting full engage civilian violence

          • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            Name one that wasn’t won through violence. Hell, even the Civil Rights Act was written in blood.

            • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              1 year ago

              All of the civil rights in my country were slowly incorporated by democratic means through the last century.

              Edit, this includes paid vacations, paid maternity leaves for both mother and father, female vote, abolishing slavery, public health, free secular public education (12 years obligatory + university), unemployment insurance, universal income*, abortion

              Edit2: that doesn’t mean that all rights are won without violence and my country had a lot of violence, but it was about who was holding the power. Rights were voted through the decades almost independently of who was in power.