By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem


The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He’d heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. “You need to escape,” somebody in the street shouted, “because they will bomb the towers”.

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    1 year ago

    A bit of a sidenote but I think you’ll be very happy about Hamas’ stance on abortion or lgbtq+ rights

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        In a discussion about Hamas vs Israel, they are saying they understand people resorting to terrorism because they sorta understand how it feels to have their human rights oppressed. I don’t think one can’t mention the irony that the main organisation which had to resort to terrorism in this conflict would not hesitate to kill the above poster for demanding exactly the human rights they cited.

        But thanks for keeping the focus!

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      Whatabout what your mom does, down by the docks at night?

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        Getting sucked off by your dad while he’s humming Israel’s national anthem

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        Pretty funnysad that that quote is your only takeaway from that article

        “Israel likes bringing it up to make Hamas look bad so let’s just pretend it doesn’t happen”