Despite growing international condemnation, Israel has rejected calls for a ceasefire of its continued assault on Gaza. "Israeli forces carried out indiscriminate attacks, killing and injuring civilians, and in some cases that we documented, … entire families were wiped out," says Amnesty International researcher Budour Hassan, who shares testimonies of Gazans from a new report on Israeli war crimes. Meanwhile, Israel continues to attack civilians in the occupied West Bank, and the number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails since October 7 has doubled. "This level of pressure, of coercion, of oppression that Palestinians have been facing in the West Bank … has received such scant attention because all eyes now are on Gaza," says Hassan.
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Uh… Does anybody need to be told that Hamas committed warcrimes in their attack? Like is that anything less than common knowledge by now?
Look at the comments around yours. The answer is clearly yes.
No. Only to people stupid enough to think Palestine IS Hamas. Fortunately for you, there are fucking idiots on both sides, though unfortunately, mostly on the side of people defending a genocidal powerful regime backed by the US…