on January 30, 2023, 4:03 pm, in reply to "BBC and ITV coverage of killings in Israel"
https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2023/jan/30/what-is-going-on-in-israel-and-palestine
What has occurred over the past few days?
Israel launched one of its deadliest operations in years in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, sending soldiers on an unusually fierce raid to kill militants stationed in the Jenin refugee camp. Ten Palestinians, mostly gunmen, but also two civilians, including a 61-year-old woman, were killed.
The attack sparked back-and-forth violence, including the exchange of rocket fire between the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and Israel. On Friday evening, a Palestinian gunman killed seven Israelis outside a synagogue in East Jerusalem. It was the deadliest Palestinian attack in the city in years.
Over the weekend, violent incidents were reported in Jerusalem and the West Bank, including fights between Israeli settlers and Palestinians.
Why is this happening now?
Attempting to mark the beginning of a flare-up in a crisis that stretches back over generations is a near-impossible task. Still, current tensions have risen since last spring, when the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) launched Operation Breakwater – one of its most extensive campaigns outside wartime – after a surge in Palestinian knife and gun attacks.
Breakwater, which focuses on Palestinian armed groups in Jenin and Nablus, has so far contributed to the highest death toll in Israel and the West Bank since the second intifada ended in 2005, with about 150 Palestinians and 30 Israelis killed in 2022.
Conveniently the fraud pick the Jenin raid as the starting point so they can ignore the 25 or so Palestinians killed by Israel in January.
Then there is a "surge in Palestinian knife and gun attacks" and yet 150 Palestinians have been killed v. 30 Israelis. Seems more like a surge in Israeli attacks no?
All the other pro-Israel framing is present as always.
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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