There was little shelter and barely any services in al-Mawasi when the Abu Hatab family arrived seeking sanctuary from the intensifying bombardment around their homes in Khan Yunis.
But al-Mawasi was the one place they had been told they would be safe. From early November Israel urged the civilian population of Gaza evacuate to the narrow, sandy coastal strip the size of Heathrow airport.
On Wednesday night, the bombardment followed them to the so-called safe zone, when shelling rained down on their flimsy tents as they slept.
“They dropped leaflets and told us to come here, that this was truly the one safe place,” Bahaa Abu Hatab, one of the survivors said. “My brother took his children to protect them from the occupation’s missiles, but here they were martyred anyway, in this ‘safe’ place, in the tent that my brother set up in this field.”
At least 14 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed in strikes on al-Mawasi early on Thursday, according to the Hamas-run ministry of health in Gaza.
This is why I don’t understand why Hamas doesn’t just release the hostages and surrender their leaders. It would be the best strategic move. If Israel continues to attack then they lose all pretence of fighting terrorism. If Israel stops then it saves Palestinian lives.
Does Hamas still think that they’ll win?
They lost that pretence fairly fucking quickly saying they want to “eliminate everything”, " reduce Gaza to a city of tents", referencing Amalek, calling for Palestinians to be buried alive.
If Hamas released all the hostages, Israel wouldn’t stop.
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So is the IDF Amalek in this case, killing all the women, children, and elderly by targeting the civilian safe areas?
The next generation will be even worse than hamas. And they will be called terrorists too. And then the next generation of israelis will ask themselves how they became the way they are. Point at today just like we point at history while everyone plays ignorant.
The leaders of Hamas aren’t in Gaza and they never have been, so they really don’t care or have any intention of surrendering. Furthermore, Hamas wasn’t the only one involved in the kidnappings. A dozen other unrelated groups also kidnapped people on October 7th and Hamas has no control or knowledge of the whereabouts of those individuals.
Surrender and just continue living under the Israeli boot? Surrender and become like the West Bank that’s slowly getting genocided?
Take a look at what’s happening in IDF-occupied parts of Gaza, then say that again.
Also Israel won’t continue if Hamas surrenders… simply because they won’t need to. There’ll be nobody to prevent them from turning Gaza into Lebensraum.