Israel's Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel...

Israel's Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the besieged Strip in the wake of the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance. His comments have drawn criticism for advocating collective punishment of Gaza's entire civilian Palestinian population in breach of international law.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant ordered an increase in intensity of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

Gallant said that the war Israel is fighting against Hamas is “a war for our future.”

He added: “Exacting a heavy price from the enemy is a necessary condition for our existence in the region.”

Gallant makes the comments during a visit to the Israeli Air Force’s underground command centre at the Israeli occupation forces headquarters in Tel Aviv.

link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231009-israeli-minister-we-are-fighting-human-animals/

    • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It's a meaningless label. Who decided they were terrorists? You?

      If killing civilians is the requirement to be terrorists, every single military on Earth is a terrorist organization. That's what war IS.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        The US has the largest system of prison slavery on earth, highly militarized police who kill with impunity, and world historical levels of wealth inequality, it's definitely not a good place for human rights.

      • Microw@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Better than gaza maybe, but I seriously hope that the US isn't your best example for a country with good human rights.

      • ZenFriedRice@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        You have a point. Though the US white supremesists haven't launched such organized and open assaults. So maybe it just scales with human rights abuses.

        • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          The USA has some of the worst human rights on earth, as evidenced by their massive prison population.

        • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          You have a point. Though the US white supremesists haven't launched such organized and open assaults. So maybe it just scales with human rights abuses.

          US white supremacists genocided countless Indian tribes. They also rounded them up in reservations and then enforced policies designed to kill them. Look up the Trail of Tears sometime.

          There's also the terror campaigns waged by the various Ku Klux Klans and other organizations against African-Americans.

          If you want something more recent there's also the Tulsa race massacre. There's also the many, many deputy gangs in the US. Those launch organized and open assaults against other Americans all the time but they're also very distributed so we don't have one big incident to point to.