Before and after satellite images show destruction in Gaza

The images show war crimes CNN. War crimes.

They're straight up razing the region into the ground. How the fuck are governments okay with this wanton destruction of people's lives and homes.

Because speaking out against Israel is very frequently (and maliciously) intentionally misconstrued as antisemitism to allow them to get away with crimes against humanity. It's been this way for decades, it's just a lot more open and obvious currently.
- It's actually worse than that. For decades the media, politicians, and the Israeli government have deliberately conflated Israel, the country, with the Israeli government/leadership, the Israeli population, Judaism, the religion, and the Jewish community more broadly (including the diaspora).
  So now any criticism of the Israeli government is a criticism of the country, the people, and the religion simultaneously, depending on what's most convenient.
  And there's a few rather alarming types of political movements that deliberately blur the lines between the people, the state, and the leadership (and in this case the dominant religion) in order to minimize criticism and maximize loyalty...
- The Nazi regime was both the worst and the best thing that could happen to the Jews. It was absolutely horrific, but it's given them a seemingly infinite get out of jail card.
It's not okay, but their reasoning is:
We have to rescue out citizens who have been taken hostage.
To do that we will send in troops.
To make it safe for the troops we will level all existing structures.
Dead civilians aren't our responsibility because they are not our people.
It's ghoulish, if someone kidnapped a family and hid in the basement of my apartment, no one reasonable would support demolishing the building with people inside their homes to get at them.
- Really weird to carpet bomb a country BEFORE doing anything about hostages that were taken there especially when the country is smaller than the state of Rhode Island by almost a factor of 10. Other countries have already gotten people freed, Israel was busy putting the hostages in danger.
What they're doing is criminal, but I was actually a little surprised that the destruction isn't as complete as I expected. It's harder to tell though because many of the before pictures are directly top down, so you can't easily tell how tall buildings were in the before photos.
- At first glance it doesn't seem that bad but the more you look the worse it gets. Almost every area of the photo is affected.
it's a lot more complicated than that. You and I, and some governments care for civilian structures, but terrorists do not. That's why they make their bases in the middle of populous areas.
- It's not complicated at all. Bombing a residential building is a terrorist act.
  It doesn't matter what you claim is hiding underneath.
- The IDF has its headquarters next to the largest hospital in Tel Aviv. Are they not also using civilians as hostages?

But "Israel has a right to defend itself".

I love that statement has no limits.
- I love how nobody ever provides viable alternatives.

It amazes me how accurate the IDF's intelligence seems to be, they seem to know every weapon stash and tunnel entrance in the whole of gaza /s

Oh no, uh, yea, they were all stashes. That house? Jihadi radio, yea. That garden? A fiendish cache of ~~turnips~~ um, bullets?
Hamas is a sack of shit org for using human shields and storing their shit in civilian residences, but the IDF is absolutely meting out collective punishment to civilians using that excuse. It has happened, sure, but fuck me, this wholesale destruction is horrific. And when Guterres alludes to that fact, the screams of objection are hideous.

The rebel incursions are a direct challenge to the authority and stability of the Empire. It's crucial to respond decisively to such threats.

I think it's a star wars quote from tarkin.
Can you elaborate on this please?
- This is not the explanation you're looking for

Things have gotten so out of hand. It is sad to see.

I fucking hate Israel. They're an abhorant infestation.

I would have said, "settler colonial state". What that state is doing to the Palestinians will, in the lense of history, be seen as equivalent to what the United States did to the indigenous peoples.
"Infestation" is too close to fascist antisemitic tropes and while criticism of Israel is NOT automatically antisemitic, it can be.
- Yeah, fair enough. I just didn't want to call them a country. They're invaders committing a slow genocide of the Palestinian people.

Is it just me or does Gaza look like an extremely ancient abandoned since forever civilization now?

I blame both Hamas AND the Israeli Defence Force for this. The former for turning civilian infrastructure into bases, and the latter for bombing all of it. Seriously you guys?

Let the Israeli children destroy their sand castles. I'm sure they'll learn that it costs money to build more, eventually

Tough pill to swallow: Don't make tunnels under your house.

Tough pill to swallow: don't use proximity shielding as an excuse to kill civilians in one of the most dense areas in the world.
- After Hamas broke through and started murdering people, I swear people just expected Israel to take it? Not react? Not retaliate? Leave? I don't understand what anyone expected here. Hamas wanted this and knew it would happen.
- Since the Gazans are using their own children as human shields, what do you suggest the Israelis do instead?