Largest graveyard? Mass murder in Palestine

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Largest graveyard?  Mass murder in Palestine

By

Priyambda Samanta Roy (Sem 1, 2023)



On 7th October when we were peacefully doing our morning rituals. Somewhere at one end of the world, 5,000 rockets were launched massacring more than 300 Israeli soldiers and 1,100 civilians over a period of about 8 hours. I am talking about the war between Israel and  Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups. By the end of October, more than 1,500 Israelis and more than 8,000 Palestinians had been killed, including more than 3,000 children, while over 230 Israelis and foreign nationals remained captured or taken hostage.

The Hamas attack began with a barrage of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip against Israel, while some 3,000 Palestinian militants breached the Gaza–Israel barrier, killing civilians in over a dozen massacres setting fire to their homes, and attacking Israel Defence Forces (IDF) military bases near the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Hamas declared that its attack was a retaliation to the "desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque," the Gaza Strip blockade, Israeli settlements, and settler violence.

Israel is being supported by the US and Hamas is being supported by Iran (Israel’s arch-enemy) and Hezbollah.

The latest update given by the media is that an attack on an ambulance convoy in Gaza City on Friday killed at least 15 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Israel confirmed that it hit an ambulance, but said that Hamas fighters had been the target, without providing evidence.

People massacre is now shooting up. It is terrifying how leaders see common people’s lives as invaluable as dirt. People are just fighting and killing others for something that can be an utter nuisance for society but in their perspective, it is something to be worth dying for.


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