Touring a wasteland in Gaza

After the Israel-Hamas war broke out nine months ago, more than a million people sought shelter in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. In May, Israel launched a ground offensive in Rafah and says it has since killed more than 900 Hamas fighters there. But the cost has been a shattered, unlivable city. Correspondent Holly Williams reports.
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[@LoneStar62]

Wasteland? More like a Hellscape. All war is a human failure.

[@thetetrisgodx]

1:56 Words you could use here. Genocide, Holocaust, Erasure, Crimes against God and Humanity, Hatred, Apocalyptic, Evil. Idk those are just some off the top of my head.

[@samuelross9884]

It's completely dishonest to consider only 2% of history. Frustrated by confusing & contradictory information, I researched the history of the land we call Israel and Palestine today. Who lived on it first? Israelites lived in this land 1,658 years before the ancestors of Palestinians. Palestinian ancestral land is the Arabian Peninsula. ‘Palestinian’ is a modern word from the 20th century. "Syria Palaestina” was the name given by the Romans to Judea after the Bar Kochba revolt, although the name's origins go back even further, being based on the term 'Philistine', the name for a land that at the time belonged to a people who were no longer extant, not as a people nor a political entity Only the Canaanites and Philistine predate the Israelites. The descendants of Canaanites and Philistine is complex and not entirely resolved The Israelites arrived C1300 BCE and established the Israelite Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The Kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 722 BC, while the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Next the land changed hands many times, until Arab Muslims conquered it in 638 CE and established an Islamic Caliphate. The Arab population, increasingly identifying as Palestinian particularly in the 20th century, has been a significant part of the social and cultural fabric of the area, especially during the periods of Islamic rule and the Ottoman Empire. A timeline: Canaanite Period (c. 3000 - 1200 BCE): The earliest known inhabitants were Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people. Philistine Period (c. 1175 - 604 BCE): Philistines settled along the coastal areas, mostly in the Gaza Strip. Israelite Kingdoms (c. 1020 - 586 BCE): The Israelites, also a Semitic-speaking people, established the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Assyrian and Babylonian Periods (722 - 539 BCE): Assyrians and Babylonians conquered the region. Persian Period (539 - 332 BCE): Persia conquered the Babylonian empire, including this area. The Persians later reinstated Israel as a country. Hellenistic Period (332 - 167 BCE): Conquest by Alexander the Great, followed by the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rules. Hasmonean Kingdom (167 - 37 BCE): Jewish rule restored after the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids. Roman Period (63 BCE - 324 CE): The area became a part of the Roman Empire, with Israel remaining a kingdom within that empire, with Rome appointing the king, until AD 44. Bar Kochba Period (132 CE - 136 CE): Simon bar Kochba let a Jewish revolt and for a short time revived Jewish sovereignty over land, until it was brutally crushed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina to remove any trace of Jewish connection to the land. Byzantine Period (324 - 638 CE): Christian rule under the Byzantine Empire. Islamic Caliphate Era (638 CE - 1099 CE): Arab Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE, introducing Arab rule and Islamic culture to the region. Arabic gradually replaced Aramaic and Greek as the dominant language. Crusader Period (1099 - 1187 CE): European Christians captured Jerusalem and established the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods (1187 - 1516 CE): Saladin, a Kurdish Muslim leader, defeated the Crusaders. The Mamluks, who were of various ethnicities including Turkic and Circassian, succeeded the Ayyubids. Ottoman Period (1516 - 1917 CE): The Ottoman Turks controlled the region, and the Arab populace lived under Ottoman rule. British Mandate (1917 - 1948 CE): British control after World War I. Increased Jewish immigration leads to tensions between Jews and Arabs. State of Israel (1948 - Present): Established in 1948, leading to ongoing conflicts with Arab Palestinians. The ‘West Bank' is in fact ancient Judea, the land of the Jews. The 'Philistines' lived along the southwest coastline, nowhere near the Judean hills. But with all this, there has never been a Palestinian state.

[@andrewcruz7595]

​@samuelross9884 sorry but that's still no excuse for committing acts of genocide in today's world ..

[@samuelross9884]

@@andrewcruz7595 But that does not compute! 🤖

[@stickmen7117]

You guys Never go down the tunnels and see anything

[@yacinegannouni860]

🔴 That's pure terrorism

[@ericab845]

the reason you didn't see Hamas is they're in the tunnels

[@kevinbates3575]

Speak for yourself lady ! i know many americans back Israel, don't let the journalist and protesters fool you!

[@trollingpcgames]

Well done Israel, i feel a bit bad for the civilians but at the end of the day it was their government that they elected that started this fight and brought this destruction upon them.

[@leonidaspetsakos9690]

Blame Hamas.

[@shipwreck8847]

I blame israel and hamas. Both sides are to blame. And it's not just that you can freely decimate a population.

[@slayer_roblox165]

Free plestine!

[@slayer_roblox165]

Free palestine

[@CALL_LID]

HUUUUK TOOOOF 😗💦 🇮🇱

[@michael85225]

Both sides refuse to live in peace. Do you think that the Israelis opened up their arms to the Palestinian Muslims that were living in Palestine in 1948? No, they forced them out of their homes and declared they were the chosen ones and have been oppressing them ever since and have pushed the Palestinians into a tiny portion of land. This whole mess could have been avoided if the UN would have given half the land to the Jews and the other half to the Palestinians and made two nations instead of just giving the Jews free power to do whatever they wanted.

[@mineolahome5243]

Maybe Oct. 7th wasn't such a good idea, ya think??

[@plagues3124]

Maybe October 7th was planned by Israeli Mossad, ya think 😂

[@hero__xz6708]

Maybe collective punishment is absolute war crime and you still try to throw the blame on a 10 months event? Ya think? Oh also, tell me what did the idf achieve without the genocide or attacking buildings and flattening them? Hostages? Leaders? Defeat of hamas that always shows the best footages in roasting their tanks? I bet israelis think that going into the lions game wasn’t a good idea either. Ya think?

[@0413deborah]

No, it wasn't planned by them, but it's been known the intelligence knew. There isn't anything they don't know about. They have so many ways of gathering info. Netanyahu needed this to happen! Please learn the truth... I can't write out all the facts that have been exposed. Start with the Israeli military doing the most damage on 7 October. They brought in tanks and fired on the Israeli homes!! 3:06@plagues3124

[@clintonrichardson7865]

This is what happens when you lose a war.

[@ago7212]

This is what happens when the US arm terrorists who justify their cause by religion and birthright. Disguisting..

[@slayer_roblox165]

Free palestine!

[@thetruths7389]

Free Palestine from Hamas!

[@H12sS1]

​@@thetruths7389raeli has occupied Palestine land then refused to allow them even 22% to establish their own independent country. What oppression! In addition when Palestine 🇵🇸 resistant for freedom i$rail violencely committed war crimes with complicated some western states as US ..When Palestine take 120 hostage all world talk. While i$rail torture 20 thousands Palestine most of them before 7 Oct. Although more 150 states in world via un assembly admit Palestine 🇵🇸 independent country. Us use veto power. Where is justice?. Where is humanitarian.?

[@slayer_roblox165]

Free 🇵🇸Palestine 🇵🇸

[@notavailable-24]

Wouldn't it be safe to say that if the leader of Hamas would turn himself in, Hamas would lay their weapons down and return the hostages.. the Palestinian people would be free

[@makeroftoys]

Palestine would have been free if it accepted any one of the 5 offers of land and autonomy….Over decades. They don’t want freedom. They want the Jews to leave their ancestral home.

[@primitiveaccommodation]

​@@notavailable-24 I don't think anyone fighting for their land will put arms down and make the invaders happy

[@notavailable-24]

@@primitiveaccommodation Hamas wants Palestinian civilians killed that's the whole point you see that's why the world will turn against Israel.. some people are truly uneducated

[@Fastt708]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@voidMainReturnZero]

Martin Luther King Mandela Gandhi All three achieved what they set out to do. And they did it without violence. Hamas used violence, and Gazans are paying the price. May be its not in their nature to do it peacefully. May be its fashionable to blame the jews.

[@roostertheastronaut4513]

Izzy sniped children at peaceful protests when they tried. Tell me, were the Germans justified burning down Warsaw to quash the uprising in ww2? Mayve the Poles should've tried nonviolence hmm?

[@oliverswenson2470]

Mandela condemned Israel

[@voidMainReturnZero]

@@oliverswenson2470 does that make him a war mongrel like Hamas boss Sin-War? If not does Hamas have something to learn from these leaders?

[@AlexAlex-gh6uu]

Free Palestine

[@arie.theresa]

I highly encourage folks to check out the video recommended at the end. Also, anyone else getting sketchy vibes from the IOF?

[@samuelross9884]

What is IOF?

[@greenarmy1982]

9 month what a joke.. israel still hopeless..

[@essieessie5399]

C BS Sunday Morning, Stay out of politics and just go back to featuring cute little stories about pets and kids. Your L E F T i s t Agenda is showing!

[@JP-ob8sx]

Does it hurt your head to see everything overly black and white? Also calling any media company leftist is absolutely hilarious and shows your intelligence

[@oliverswenson2470]

​@@JP-ob8sxit shows us the US propaganda is working