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Beastly Boy

(11,076 posts)
10. The fanatics certainly did. Settlers? I don't think you would call them settlers.
Sat Aug 17, 2024, 12:31 AM
Aug 17

Last edited Sat Aug 17, 2024, 08:02 AM - Edit history (1)

""Everybody knows that 75% of the people in the Gaza Strip are refugees, and it is the responsibility of the United Nations to protect them," - Abu Marzouk, Hamas senior official
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-770918#:~:text=Hamas%20official%20Mousa%20Abu%20Marzouk%20said%20that%20the,ourselves%20from%20being%20targeted%20and%20killed%2C%22%20he%20claimed.

"Egypt Lost The Gaza Strip And Signed Peace Treaty With Israel, So It Has A Special Responsibility Towards Gaza" - Also Abu Marzouk https://www.memri.org/tv/snr-hamas-official-mousa-abou-marzouk-egypt-special-responsibility-gaza-enforce-ceasefire

"[The attacks are] just the first time … Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.” -Ghazi Hamad, Hamas leader.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/watch-hamas-leader-vows-to-sacrifice-martyrs-in-another-oct-7-style-attack/ar-AA1jenHn

""Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country, because it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation, and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this, with full force."- Ghazi Hamad, Hamas leader

"These are necessary sacrifices”.- Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-leader-believes-civilian-deaths-125855400.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

“We make the headlines only with blood. No blood, no news.” - Aso Yahya Sinwar
https://foreigndesknews.com/top-story/gaza-chiefs-brutal-calculation-civilian-bloodshed-will-help-hamas/

""The high number of civilian casualties would create worldwide pressure on Israel," - Also Yahya Sinwar
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyyd1dssa

"“The blood of the women, children and elderly […] we are the ones who need this blood, so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit, so it awakens with us resolve,” - Ismail Haniyeh, dead Hamas leader
https://www.jns.org/hamas-leader-we-need-the-blood-of-women-children-and-the-elderly-of-gaza/

"The Palestinian people are just like any other nation. No nation is liberated without sacrifices." - Khaled mashaal, Hamas leader
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379867

The real masters of Gaza's fate, in their own words. And none of them asked Gazan civilians what they think about being martyred to create pressure on Israel, or how they feel about becoming necessary sacrifices. But feel free to point away from the villains. God forbid that they should ever be held accountable.

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