{"id":29471,"date":"2023-10-29T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T20:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29471"},"modified":"2023-10-29T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T20:09:14","slug":"with-7300-gazans-dead-israeli-pm-adviser-says-tonight-we-are-starting-payback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/with-7300-gazans-dead-israeli-pm-adviser-says-tonight-we-are-starting-payback\/","title":{"rendered":"With 7,300+ Gazans Dead, Israeli PM Adviser Says ‘Tonight We Are Starting Payback’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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People mourn victims of Israeli airstrikes at the morgue of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 27, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Abed Zagout\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One critic declared that “a horrific slaughter is happening in plain sight, while the world watches and the U.S. shamelessly aids and abets it!”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JESSICA CORBETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct 27, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly undeterred by the mounting civilian death toll and global calls for a cease-fire<\/a> three weeks into Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Friday that “tonight we are starting payback.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked by MSNBC<\/em>‘s Katy Tur what Israeli forces are targeting and why the operation is intensifying, Netanyahu adviser Mark Regev said: “You can be sure that if you’re in a Hamas bunker somewhere, if you’re in a Hamas tunnel, if you’re in a Hamas stronghold, then we’re gonna come and find you and we’re gonna eliminate that target. Hamas will pay for its crimes against humanity. Hamas will pay for slaughtering our people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This… ISIS-taught group that the German chancellor, when he was visiting Israel last week, he said they acted like Nazis, we are bringing justice to this terrible, despicable, disgusting terrorist group, and they will pay for their crimes,” he continued. “And once again, not just Israel will be better off afterwards but the people of Gaza will be better off without them as well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video link: https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/embedded-video\/mmvo196571205915<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regev’s interview came after Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari said<\/a> earlier Friday that in addition to ramping up its airstrikes, the Israeli military is “expanding ground operations” in Gaza ahead of an expected full-scale invasion as part of the war launched in response to a Hamas-led attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis, with around 200 others taken hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, a year after winning local elections, the strip’s 2.3 million residents\u2014half of them children\u2014have endured an Israeli blockade and four previous military offensives. Legal scholars have said the ongoing Israeli assault enabled by billions of dollars in U.S. military support<\/a> could amount to genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of Friday, the Israeli war has killed<\/a> more than 7,300 Palestinians, including over 3,000 children, and wounded about 19,000 others, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. It has also damaged or destroyed around half of the strip’s homes, displaced a majority of the population, and as of Friday cut off<\/a> internet and communication services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some powerful figures have cast doubt on that death toll\u2014including<\/a> U.S. President Joe Biden, who recently affirmed<\/a> his “rock-solid and unwavering” support for Israel\u2014the ministry has released<\/a> a document detailing the names, ages, genders, and civil identification numbers of most people killed, and its figures are generally considered reliable by human rights groups, international and Israeli mainstream media, United Nations agencies, and the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel is raining death & destruction on Gaza, including by reportedly bombing the al Shifa hospital, the only lifeline for thousands of wounded & sick civilians.

A horrific slaughter is happening in plain sight, while the world watches & the US shamelessly aids & abets it! pic.twitter.com\/NRUE0vv7WQ<\/a><\/p>— Sina Toossi \u0633\u06cc\u0646\u0627 \u0637\u0648\u0633\u06cc (@SinaToossi) October 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>