Nov 2, 2023
IDF Bombs Gaza Refugee Camp AGAIN, Killing 80 And Injuring Hundreds
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has killed over 9,000 people and injured over 22,000, most of whom are women, children and the elderly, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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They then go on to talk about
how they've been urging Gazans
to flee northern Gaza and head south.
That's similar to what we heard
yesterday in their statement.
They don't really acknowledge
the civilian casualties here,
but reiterate their position and their
call for civilians to head south.
So this is the second strike
on the Jabalya refugee camp
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in less than 24 hours.
Israel has now officially confirmed
that the Israeli Defense Forces
have bombed the Jabalya refugee camp
in northern Gaza for the second time.
So I just want to back up for a second
and remind you all that after they
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bombed that refugee camp,
I should say refugee camp the first time,
killing at least 50 civilians,
they got a lot of backlash for it.
But when you have the country with
the most powerful military to back you up
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in everything and anything you want to do,
you're not really going to care
about that international backlash.
You're not going to care
about what the UN has to say
about the high civilian death toll.
You're going to go ahead
and bomb it the second time.
Israeli airstrikes also hit the vicinity
of the Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City,
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where doctors say up to 14,000
displaced people are sheltering,
according to the director of the hospital.
The strikes that began Wednesday evening
continued into Thursday morning
and we're getting closer to the hospital.
According to Dr. Bashir Murad,
the civil defense in Hamas run Gaza
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described the strike as a second massacre.
The airstrike killed at least 80 people
and injured hundreds more, according
to a doctor, Dr. Atif Al-kahlout, the
director of Gaza's Indonesian hospital.
He told CNN more bodies were being dug
out of the rubble and the majority
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of casualties were women and children.
In fact, if you look at the numbers, if
you look at the names of the individuals
who have died as a result of these
airstrikes and the bombardment by the IDF
in Gaza, you'll notice that somewhere
between 65 to 70% of the civilians killed
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are women, children and elderly people.
So I don't know.
I mean, that's a lot of civilian death.
About 9000 civilians have died already.
The number is actually
likely higher than that.
And I don't know, was do you think
that Israelis are finally feeling safe?
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Are there enough deaths in the Gaza Strip
to make them feel safe enough?
Refugee camps bombed.
Enough. Hospitals bombed.
I don't know, tell me this.
It's hard to talk about because this isn't
again, they're not going
to get some military victory out of this.
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Essentially, what they're doing right now
is collecting scalps is,
you know, they they put
a certain amount of dead bodies on us.
We're going to inflict this,
you know, more dead bodies on them.
That's what seems to be the animating
logic, because, again, they don't have
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Intel on Hamas or their whereabouts.
If they did, the attack would have never
been able to be planned and executed
in the way that it was in the first place.
Like the reason
why Hamas was able to do this,
because they they forgot about these guys.
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They, they they they forgot about
the the crisis that was happening in Gaza.
And so these guys were able to do this.
So this idea that these attacks
are aimed at, quote unquote,
destroying Hamas is absurd.
There's nothing targeted about this.
They have no information or Intel.
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They're just bombing stuff
indiscriminately.
That's just obviously what's happening.
They're committing war crimes.
These are atrocities.
Of course, it's being compounded
by the lack of, you know, humanitarian aid
that's being allowed to be sent into Gaza.
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And so, yeah, I mean, I, I would hope
that people in Israel feel safer, feel
like they're being made safer by this.
At least that could be something
that was justifying this stuff.
But, I mean, if you think about this
and even a kind of logical way,
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you can't think the outcome of this
is going to be that the people of Gaza
are going to become less radicalized,
that they're going to become.
That is a great point.
And look, I mean, listen,
I want to be very clear that this is not
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Palestinians are in no way distinct
from other human beings.
Okay. So I'm going to put it in my context.
I'm going to put it in my context
so people understand what I'm saying.
If any government,
if any government entity, if any
military killed every member of my family,
what do I have to live for at that point?
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I don't care if I live or die, but I
know I'm angry and I know I want revenge.
And so what the IDF is currently doing
in Gaza
is basically manufacturing more extremism.
I mean, they're getting their retaliation.
You know, they want their pound of flesh.
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They're getting that pound of flesh.
But if they think that this is somehow
going to root out extremism,
they would be mistaken.
Especially when you consider
the leadership of Hamas
is not in the Gaza Strip.
The leadership of Hamas is in Qatar.
So rather than, hey, making a deal
with cutter to get those disgusting Hamas
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terrorists out of there and bring them
to justice, they're just carrying
out retaliation against ordinary people.
And I got to say one other thing, okay.
There have been some people who have
responded to my reporting on this story
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to say that Palestinian civilians and
Hamas militants are 1 in 1 of the same.
They're the same.
Okay. Yeah.
The people who believe that are barbaric
and they carry out barbaric actions.
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And I have absolutely no interest
in hearing anything they have to say.
That kind of justification
of the brutality and the murders
that are currently taking place.
I mean, really, you want to talk?
Let's talk about little children.
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Little children who should be in school,
little children who don't even understand
what this war is about.
Those little children are
the same as Hamas terrorist militants.
No, I mean, like the effort,
the very aggressive effort to dehumanize
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these people is so disgusting and
so difficult in regard to, like, avoiding
being blackmailed by all of this, really.
Like, you see a side of humanity
that is so cruel and so vicious.
I try to put it out of my mind
and pretend like it doesn't exist.
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It exists.
And it's the same feeling I got was when I
saw some of the justifications toward what
Hamas did to innocent Israeli civilians.
What the hell is wrong with people?
I don't understand,
I just don't I don't understand any of it.
I don't.
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And it gets worse every day. It gets worse.
Look, an hour or so before we came on air,
CNN was reporting
that in the north of the Gaza Strip,
the IDF had actually intensified.
Their airstrikes intensified them.
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Now, keep in mind, a lot of Palestinians
can't just evacuate and flee.
Where are they going to go?
Do you want them to go to the south?
They're bombing the south to.
There is no part of the Gaza Strip
where civilians are safe.
And then they turn around.
They point to, oh, look, look, polls
show that. 80% of Palestinian civilians
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favor Hamas while acknowledging
that Hamas is a terrorist group.
So let me understand something.
If you are living under terrorist rule
and you know that these individuals
have no problem murdering you.
If you say or do anything
they disagree with, are you really going
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to respond to that poll
by saying that, no, I do not favor Hamas?
By the way, I'm wondering
what happened to the 20% of people
who had the courage to say that they
were against Hamas in that poll?
No, it's just any excuse to dehumanize,
any excuse to justify
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what very clearly what very obviously
is happening in the Gaza Strip.
It is ethnic cleansing.
There is documentation proving it.
Okay.
The IDF, the Israeli government,
I should say, confirmed documents showing
that one of their plans,
one of their strategies was to essentially
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push the remaining Palestinian civilians,
likely millions of people.
I mean, who knows when the air
raids are going to be done?
Who knows how many people will be left.
But after that's over.
They were planning
on pushing them into Egypt.
Get them out of the land. Get them out.
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Just completely displacing
millions of people.
And we're supposed to sit back and say,
that's totally fine, we cosine.
In fact, here's our hard earned
taxpayer money to fund it.
Here are our weapons
to carry out this brutality.
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I just don't understand how anyone can
justify what is happening right now.
You have to have a certain level of just,
reckless disregard for human life
to look at what's happening
in the Gaza Strip right now,
look at the number of literal children
dying and say, no, this is totally fine.
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This is totally fine.
I mean, it's definitely not going
to lead to peace.
It's definitely going to lead
to more extremism in the long run.
It's not going to keep
Israeli civilians safe.
But we really wanted retaliation.
So we're going to justify this and we're
going to watch all these babies get killed
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because it makes us feel good.
Sorry. I know that was a bit of a rant.
I blacked out a little bit, I just,
I can't, I mean, day after day, day after
day, the the barbarism, the brutality,
the deaths, like I'm supposed to come here
and be hushed tones like,
let me speak as if I'm on NPR, as if this
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isn't the most unjust military action I've
witnessed in my lifetime. 9000 people.
Gone. Gone.
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Mohammed Al Aswad, who's a Palestinian,
told CNN the following.
This is after the second bombing
of the refugee camp.
Children were carrying
other injured children and running
with gray dust filling the air.
Bodies were hanging on the rubble.
Many of them unrecognizable.
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Some were bleeding and others were burnt.
There's all sorts of pro-Israel conspiracy
theories floating around on Twitter.
I'm sure some of you have noticed them
alleging that Palestinians
are faking their deaths.
What is it you don't want to accept
what you're cosigning on to?
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You don't want to accept the fact that
you're totally fine with these deaths.
So you're going to pretend
like these deaths are faked.
No, no. They're real.
They're definitely real.
And you enjoy it.
So just tell the world who you really are.
Why are you trying to hide it?
Why are you trying to conceal it?
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What I'm not okay with is that as an
American, because of our government
and how they will greenlight
anything Israel wants to do.
These people are dying in our name,
with our money, with our weapons.
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And I'm supposed to sit here
and be okay with it.
I mean, think just for context for people
at home to get an understanding.
In the first week of the aerial
bombardment, I think Israel dropped about
6000 tonnage of bombs on the Gaza Strip.
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Just for context, folks,
not one single year of the American war
in Afghanistan did we do that, right?
So in one week, they dropped more bombs
on Gaza than in any single year,
the US military did on Afghanistan, which,
you know, ostensibly, allegedly was in
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response to nine over 11. You've heard the
rhetoric that this is Israel's nine over
11 just for context of the brutality here.
And you know, another point I would
like people for people to understand
is this concept that Israel has to,
quote unquote, defend itself.
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Essentially, this is a retaliatory act.
And so it's justified.
And what I would say to that is that if
you talk to any single member of Hamas,
I would venture a guess, I wouldn't know.
But if you talk to any Palestinian
about what Hamas did on October 7th,
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they would say that's in retaliation
to the occupation, that's in retaliation
to the suffering, the hunger,
the brutality of the occupation.
And they would say that it was justified
because of that idea that.
- It wasn't and.
- It wasn't.
And that's the point.
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So this idea that if you're retaliating
when you're in retaliation
of something you don't have, you can be
indiscriminate in the people who you harm
and kill and maim, be they babies,
elderly people, women, you name it.
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It just that doesn't make any sense.
And another thing, again,
that folks should take into consideration
because again, I think the, the,
the reason why we got this propaganda
about Hamas beheading newborn babies
on the internet and stuff like that, it's
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so that this behavior could be justified.
Right.
Just I just want people
to understand that.
These people.
Who are being harmed right now.
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They don't have a voice. Right.
This idea that they used to,
they should have, they should
have voted Hamas out there was.
Yes, there was a democratic election
that was held.
And six. 2006 and Hamas stopped letting
them conduct elections like they're
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not like this isn't some situation
where they nominated these guys.
There was a party platform that Hamas had,
and they said, yo, we're going to go out
and indiscriminately kill a bunch
of civilians and, you know, vote for us
and we'll go out and implement that.
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That's that's not what happened here.
And and another thing is that it's not
as if, again, how does somebody,
an organization like Hamas
even gain prominence?
They were propped up by the Israeli
government years ago because back
in those days, they wanted to the Israelis
wanted to undermine a way less militant,
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way less jihadist organization.
They propped these dudes up,
and now we came back to bite them
and most importantly, the like.
What I would want everybody
to understand, most importantly.
Palestinian people have tried in the past
different organizations
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to go about getting gaining
their freedom by peaceful means.
Protest.
Reaching out to other people in the world,
other countries, human rights people,
all of that stuff.
The UN, the.
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UN reached out to all of these people,
these protesters,
a lot of them got killed.
A lot of them got jailed. They got crushed.
So it's not like the behaviors of peace
have ever been rewarded.
They've never been incentivized
when they went about other means
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of trying to, you know,
strike a blow against the occupation,
against the, you know, the the oppression.
They got utterly crushed.
And so we're talking about some of
the most desperate people on planet Earth.
You know, some crazies arise out of that
and they do something completely heinous.
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And the idea is like, all right,
this is what we're going to do.
This will tell.
This will make people happy.
Like, I just don't I don't
understand the logic here.
I'm about to show you the kinds of
regurgitated talking points that are doled
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out on corporate news, day in and day out,
meant to justify the brutality that
we're seeing in Gaza. 9000 people dead
want you to think about how many people
that is with no end in sight.
Tomorrow will come on the show and we'll
tell you the number is now 10,000.
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And the next week, after the weekend,
we'll come back.
And who knows, maybe it'll be 15,000.
How much does the Israeli government want?
How many people need to die
for Netanyahu to feel good about himself?
I'm very curious about that,
because this is more than just
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a pound of flesh at this point.
So Erin Burnett has an IDF spokesperson.
You may have seen him before.
We've definitely shown some of his videos
on the show, asks him about the
high civilian death toll, and you're about
to hear the same boring nonsense talking
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points regurgitated to you once again.
Let's go.
You should have evacuated
you and your family.
You shouldn't have been there.
That doesn't mean
that we wanted to kill anybody.
It just means that when we warned
Palestinians two weeks ago to evacuate
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that specific area because there
was going to be major combat operations,
they should have heeded the warning
and they should have left.
They should have left. Where exactly?
They should have left to the south,
where you guys are also doing
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bombardments and airstrikes.
Is that where you want them to go? The.
He have confirmed to the media that
they're doing airstrikes in the South.
So this ridiculous notion, by the way,
even like, logistically speaking,
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displacing a million people from half
of the strip is just it's untenable.
They can't do it.
And the IDF knows that it's untenable.
They know you think they're stupid.
They know.
Thanks for watching the video guys.
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