Gaza

I honestly don’t know what it will take 😔

How they’ve been allowed to continue unchallenged as long as they have is unbelievable.

I feel all those years we said "never again" is all for naught. Yes, it's not exact, but it's just the beginning I feel.

It really is heartbreaking. I don't have answers. I sure wish governments could be charged with crimes against humanity. It's inhumane what they are doing. And for the record, it was horrific what happened to the innocent Israelis who were kidnapped and tortured. But what Israel is doing to innocent people in Gaza are equally as horrific.

As long as Hamas is in charge nothing but looting and fighting is going to continue.

That said, are the other Arab nations worried if they take in Palestinians they will get Hamas people in their country trying to stir up trouble and that’s why they don’t want them.

Gaza still uses donkey pulled carts. It’s like they never had an Industrial Revolution. I have no idea how to fix this myself. I follow CNN and what is going ok. I should include Jordan because their king doesn’t want Palestinian refugees either. If the Arab states cared they would be helping Palestine and they just aren’t.

@imkristin I agree Hamas has to go but the other Arab states who they have the most in common with could go after Israel and yet they are sitting complacently watching this play out. They could help the Palestinians but aren’t. Why?

I honestly do not know. I think someone needs to do something but Israel is getting weapons and Hamas is getting weapons. I don’t know how to fix this. Canada isn’t doing anything. Trump and Bibi are buddies. I honestly don’t know. Maybe if Germany joined France they could convince the US and Canada to take a stand against Israel. I don’t know. If you have a solution I’d be interested.

Its disgusting.

I am not going to be quiet about this. It feels like it needs to be said in this political climate, that its entirely possible to be critical of the actions of the current Israeli government, and not be antisemitic.

We announced a £60m aid package at the start of the week and there are plans to airlift children to bring them to Britain for urgent medical care. The awful thing is that it's possibly too little, too late.

www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-pledges-lifesaving-aid-for-gaza

I fear you are right. The trouble is, it is numerically impossible with the sheer amount of people impacted needing food, to provide enough food to feed them by mass airlift alone. (

And then you have Israel violating maritime law to board and detain aid ships headed for Gaza. Just awful. 😞

www.msn.com/en-us/new

Sadly no guarantees Isreal would truly allow it, they may shoot the planes down.

A 10 hr ceasefire has supposedly begun and aid drops are happening but for how long? 


BBC

Im not going to pretend I have any of the answers here, I recognize and understand its complex historically. I just believe the Palestinian people deserve their own nation and the right to self rule and self determination (they currently don’t have this) just like Israel does. I don’t know how the world gets to that kind of place though.

As someone who opposed the US invasion of Iraq, and seeing the number of Jewish diaspora who oppose whats happening in Gaza, I am absolutely sure there are many “not in my name” Israelis where your total opposition to something, changes nothing about the actions your government is taking. We have people here on this board who believe things, despite all evidence to the contrary. So I do think it’s important to acknowledge that Israelis speaking out exist, no matter the number. Have they been silent so much as not widely platformed in the mainstream here? I am not sure.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/world/middleeast/israel-dissent-war-gaza.html

Its like being held responsible for the far-reaching global madness of Trump as an American. I am heartsick about the nations where children especially will again die from malnutrition, and treatable and preventable diseases, because USAID was decimated. I didn’t vote for him, nor do i support anything he’s done so far, but he’s still president of my country and people have still blamed me for it, regardless of my attending protests publicly and my otherwise opposition to all of it.

Believe me when I say, that any Arabs feel betrayed by SOME of their own “brother countries”, most notably, Saudi Arabia. At the same time, many of you (general) are not aware just how much some of these countries ARE helping. Egypt for example has set up a high level trauma field hospital 30 miles from the Rafa border. This is where many severely wounded people are first evacuated to. Many of those patients are then transported to other hospitals within Egypt depending on the level of their wounds. Patients are outfitted with prosthetics and wheel chairs. There are thousands of Palestinians missing limbs from the bombing. There are thousands of children without parents and thousands of parents without children trying to find their way in a different country in which they have no belongings.


Qatar is another country that is doing even more. They have flown thousands of wounded to be cared for in their hospitals. They have established a compound that has apartments for families to live in. It is guarded not to keep them in, but to keep the public out in order to respect their privacy and healing. They have provided schooling, medical care, trauma therapist and all sorts of needs. Specifically for my nephew, they have provided him with a motorized wheelchair. They have given him 2 leg prosthetics at a cost of $15,000 each! He will soon be provided with a titanium arm with moveable fingers. My nephew lost both legs and his right arm. His remaining arm lost two fingers and has had to have countless surgeries as he suffered a compound fracture. He laid under the rubble for at least an hour before they got to him. He was standing 500 feet (a football field is 360 feet) from where the bomb hit…that is the level of damage from ONE bomb.


Qatar has provided him with a FULL scholarship to university. Before the war, he was heading into his 2nd year of nursing in Gaza. The university has waived any requirements for previous transcripts because…ALL of that no longer exists. Think about how difficult it would be for YOU to manage without your birth certificate, SS card…your drivers license. ALL of these records no longer exist nor are they replaceable. The government buildings and homes have been destroyed.


We visited my nephew in Qatar. We were allowed in the compound where he and my SIL are staying. We had to wait just inside of the gate for security to login and check our credentials. While we waited, you could hear this group of children playing that were coming towards us, laughing and chasing each other. As I looked up, the breath went out of my chest and my heart stopped. Not ONE of those children didn’t have a limb missing. They were playing and running with canes or crutches or were hopping around on one leg. For the rest of my breathing life, I will NEVER forget this image.

But at the heart of this, you (again general) are advocating for the forced displacement of roughly 2 million people. This is like asking the ENTIRE city of Houston to walk out of their homes and take nothing to move to North Dakota, in which there is no housing, no job, no way to even begin to start a new life. I would simply ask that you take that into consideration.


These people have ALWAYS lived there. So many homes have (up until this point) the old keys hanging on the wall that represents homes or land that they no longer have. Palestinians have NEVER been compensated for any of the lands that have been lost. The land is simply taken under military order.


Palestinians are also taxed by Israel. Often times, this money is held for months at a time until it is deemed time to give back. Since the start of the war, Smotrich has directed that only 36% of this money, which are wages for Palestinians, be given back. The rest is given to settlers to establish new communities (settlements). They are effectively stealing the land AND the money.