Testimonies from camp residents, which were provided to the Euro-Med Monitor team, confirm that the sound of women screaming and babies crying was heard late at night on both Sunday and Monday. When some of the residents went out to investigate and tried to help, they were shot at by Israeli quadcopter drones. The sounds they had heard were in fact recordings playedby the Israeli drones, with the intent of forcing the camp’s residents out into the streets, where they could be easily targeted by snipers and other weaponry.

According to the testimonies, this tactic also involved broadcasting gunshots, armed conflicts, explosions, military vehicle movements, and occasionally songs in Hebrew and Arabic in order to psychologically intimidate civilians who live amid total darkness at night and total disconnection from the external world.

The Israeli army randomly and systematically targeted anyone in the Nuseirat camp who was simply walking down the street or peering out of windows, and also targeted some civilian residents who were attempting to move between shelter centres and homes or investigate what was going on in the area. The intensity of bombing and shooting operations increases during the course of the night, directly and purposefully targeting populated residential areas, civilian targets, including schools and mosques that house displaced people, as well as the civilian populace with the intention of killing and injuring them.

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    7 months ago

    It is a western nation surrounded by non Westerners. The great majority of Jewish people that created the colony of Israel were all European to begin with.

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      7 months ago

      Were

      The most dominant political faction in Israel in the present day are Orthodox Jews who are mostly descendant from Jews that came from Russia, not Western Europe and they have a lot more children than those with a Western mindset, so they keep increasing as a proportion of the population, which is why Israel politics has kept getting more and more extreme rightwing as time went by.

      Further, whilst Europe has in the last half a century actually evolved away from things like the State being tightly coupled with Religion, etnocentrism, militarism and ultra-nationalism, Israel has not only preserved the early XX century mindset, but even in some ways gone in the opposite direction of Europe in social and ideological terms.

      Israel is more akin to of a Jewish and not-yet-quite-as-theocratic Iran, than to any modern Western European country.