Public sentiment is markedly polarized regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with strong condemnation of Hamas for its role in initiating violence, coupled with considerable empathy for the suffering citizens and destruction of cultural heritage sites. Many comments express frustration and anger, feeling that political agendas overshadow the plight of both the Palestinians and their historical heritage.

Hamas

Israel

Palestinian Leadership

They didn't choose or want Hamas.  They are forced to Hamas due to the constant hatred towards them. 

Imagine you're just living your life.  Working, wife and kids.  And the IDF storms in and murders your family.  You didn't do anything.  You were just trying to protect your family but the IDF kills them.  THEN, when it's reported to the world, Israel claims you shot your own family or Hamas did it.  Or that you were a terrorist planning a strike on Jews.  

Wouldn't you be radicalized and turn to Hamas for vengeance?

It's not hard to figure this shit out.

clezuck

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Isn't that nice, and convenient. 

How about stop killing children and committing genocide?

Impossible-Disk6101

I believe for many of them (except a tiny few) their sense of morality is that of a reptile. They will avoid painful stimulus and eat, but they don’t have an advanced and developed understanding of happiness or right or wrong.

No-Theory6270

Now ask “would you prefer the Palestinians in Gaza to be removed from the land to another “Arab” country?” And you’re gonna hit that 80%+ 

STIONIST_ZOMPER

More of this nonsense.


When you ask the question this way, of course they'll say no. Nobody will say in front of a camera yes, I take pleasure in people's pain. 


It's always the same. "Buuuuuut we have no other choice. Buuuuuut we suffer too and they started it"



Ask if they support shutting food and water, if they think it's genocide, if there's a famine, if Palestinians should be expelled from Gaza, if they feel sympathy for Gazan civilians, etc.

OdielSax

Nice cuts tho, but israelis are mostly genocidal fascist who dont care that the people they kicked out their homes are in concentration camps and drink wastewater and get bombed in a eegularly way

Wrong-Reading1992

To be honest I am sick to fk of hearing what Israeli's think and feel. It is nice to hear from the small number of Israeli anti-Zionist's because people who resist brainwashing from inside the cult are always interesting. Apart from them it is just a disgusting, depraved, uncivilised colony of ghouls. Hearing their voices all the time is just harming all our brains. Elevate worthy voices and tell Israelis to stfu.

ArymusDesi

Interesting that they admit that they know about the proportion of the 1200 gazens who left on oct 7th

In the western media all Gazans leaving were reported as terrorists but actually quite a number were thieves.

Theres was a video for some time on YouTube of the families that repeatedly left and returned to Gaza filling cans with water - probably the first and last  fresh water they would ever taste

TutsiRoach

It would have been almost believable hadn’t they wrote who the sponsor was..

Due_Airport_5778

Israel was a mistake, they were not supposed to be installed there, and what we're seeing is the inevitable result of a horrible decision after ww2. The western world stopped a genocide only to start a second one decades later.

FerrisRed

It feels noticeable that these videos look like they are in working class areas of Israel. I'm not sure how that may affect the way some people feel vs others in more affluent areas. They are al brainwashed to one degree or another and experiencing cognitive dissonance and though not the same situation, this seemed to happen during the illegal Iraq invasion to a lot of UK residents. (though there was also a protest movement)

Mammoth-Squirrel2931

So based on the fact that the Palestinians would do the same to Israel given a chance and they absolutely hate each other.
How do you expect these two different cultures to live next door to each other.
It has been tried with a huge fence and no man's land, but Hamas still went through the fence.
We have a lot of armchair critics and a lot of morality police, but not one has a working practical suggestion.

__phil1001__

https://preview.redd.it/xpt54bfc3dtf1.jpeg?width=626&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=1ca70695a71e7732f5905a21699518d7466a747a

Flashy-Nectarine1675

These type of videos should never ever be trusted. 

You can ask 100 people the same question and only show the answers that fit your narrative. We have no way of knowing if these are all of the answers or some of them. Thats why you should never trust these sort of videos. Even if they are showing support for your beliefs you cannot know for sure if you are being given the full picture or just a fraction of it.

ProofAssumption1092

The US should pull all funding from Israel immediately. No more money, no more weapons.

Stunning-Stressin

traanquil

Jhasaram

That was really wonderful❤️❤️❤️

Scarletroseblush

Absolutely shocking, how is it possible that Israelis hate gazans almost as much as gazans hate israelis

Brutal_murder

Much respect to Corey and his team. The exposes the hate and reason on BOTH sides.

d333my

If you asked Palestinians if they celebrated Oct 7th most would say yes. Why should I care about them if they are not decent people either? If Mexico sent in a suicide squad on el paso we would collectively want revenge. We saw it with 9/11. Silly propaganda

YoggTheGateway1992

On Oct 7, Palestinians were on the streets celebrating the rapes, murders and kidnappings, mutilating the bodies of victims as they were paraded through the streets in jubilation. These people I don't care what happens to them, as the consequences of their vile ideology and support for such a vile act has brought on repercussions that they have to accept and can't cry victim. This is the vast majority of Palestinians, being over 80%.

There are a very few Palestinians who want peace with Israel, don't support the violence, and were disgusted with what happened on Oct 7, it's only those people who I care about and feel for, as they are suffering due to stupidity and vile acts of their neighbors. Problem is that they are so few in numbers. 

Wouldn't you agree that this is the correct stance, and not being sympathetic to extremists who celebrated and support such vile acts?

layland_lyle

People keep reposting the same couple videos of Israelis being disgusting, like that girl making a prank call or the lady saying we need to stop Palestinians from having kids. So in the spirit of true 'underreported news', I wanted to post a video which doesn't portray all Israelis as monsters.

michaelas10sk8

For all the people crying in the comments, let's wait for OP to post a video showing Palestinians supporting a full ethnic cleansing of Jews

Frosty-Army9751

Considering Palestinans call for the death of all Jews consistently and most actually celebrated Oct 7.... I honestly don't blame them.

Peelie5

Aks Turks if they are happy that Kurds Are suffering! 

Hypocrite MF

Mindless-Storm2561

TheRelPizzamonster

it really feels like once israel’s goals were all accomplished (total destruction of gaza) that the zionist NYT has decided to greenlight an apology tour of articles. 


https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-new-york-times-commitment-to-zionism-begins-with-its-own-staff/



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[US support for Israel has been immoral since 1948](https://www.reddit.com/r/Global_News_Hub/s/keQCsFNwab) and [led to the 9/11 attacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_attacks), the $ [8 trillion war on terror](https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/BudgetaryCosts) (the wealth equivalent of 20 million homes), and the [Iraq and Afghanistan wars.](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n06/john-mearsheimer/the-israel-lobby)
Take action and [boycott Israel](https://www.boycat.io/).

Mundane_Molasses6850

Is this some type of attempt to whitewash New York Times role in manufacturing consent for this genocide? Either put archive or alternative links because they do not deserve the traffic.

Khers

Man, maybe if the NYT wasn’t so invested in running spin for the genocidal Israeli regime and simply regurgitating IOF PR bullshit, I’d pay to read more articles from them.

Goofalo

Only 100 of the more than 700 are now contactable.

With those kind of statistics the pro rata uncontactable/findable is likely to be around 320000 

Given those that escaped were contactable and the demographic of those with mobile phones&amp; other technology for contact are likely to be in the higher demographics its pretty clear the figures are much higher than 60000

I already knew people would make comments about “future generations” and “children” knowing that a bunch of those kids are dead, who didn’t get to choose any of this, and who are a victim of collective “punishment”. 

Then again this is r/anime_titties that had Japanese and Europeans flood my inbox with comments about my race and about my country, some even bordering along death threats, all because I defended a Kurdish Japanese child who was the victim of physical assault from an adult Japanese man.

seiryuu-abi

The statistics are horrible, but hearing the stories of the individual people affected by this really impacts you the most. It’s hard to conceptualize the deaths of tens of thousands and impoverishment of millions, but hearing from someone who lost their entire family and most friends makes that real. How do you move on with life after a loss that devastating?

LineOfInquiry

Turns out that electing and supporting the group responsible for the first/second intifada, October 7th, etc. was a horrible idea. 

Hopefully future generations don’t make the same mistake.

860v2

Why can’t it just be both?  

I am asking because arguing over whether this meets the legal definition of genocide distracts from the fact that what Israel is doing is terribly awful and the USA should do everything it can to stop it ASAP.

sfreddity

Its a square. Like all squares, it is also a rhombus. The squares who yell at people for only saying rhombus are more concerned with yelling than geometry.

starchitec

I don't really care which term they use, it's the use of the passive voice to describe what's happening.

"The starvation in Gaza is unacceptable!" Is a correct statement, but it completely leaves out what is causing the starvation.  They've turned the state of Israel into how they used to view Republicans, just pawns in the flow of history, their every action dictated by their opponents, with no other options but to do, sadly, what they were forced to do by the left.

There is a man made famine in Gaza and Israel is the "man made" part of it.  It's exhausting that they know they've completely misunderstood the current state of Israel badly, and that we have to listen to them fumble around, desperately hoping that what is happening is secretly the fault of someone else.

John_Jaures

Again, how do far leftists keep taking over these centrists subs?

Peanutbutternmtn2

I like Sarah a lot. But let’s not do this euphemism bullshit. Call a spade a spade. What started out as a legitimate military operation in response to October 7 has now devolved into a full blown genocide. I’m not anti Jewish. I’m not anti Israel. I’m not pro hamas. But for the love of God, there is an actual genocide happening in plain view. DO NOT COVER FOR IT!

It’s both. The genocide is the worst part of it

MuddyPig168

They’re gonna hate you for speaking the truth

LankyStandard8645

Really interesting convo

https://youtu.be/RrhBypHFYPY?si=4mxBmXerGx5migr9

2Schnell4u

These people are George W. Bush Republicans, not beacons of morality. Don't expect these ghouls to be ethical when it comes to murdering Muslims or anyone else. They are still likely to defend what we did in Iraq, even though they would have to acknowledge that we were lied to in order to gin up support for that atrocity. Most of the Bulwark are devout zionists who have no problem with Jewish people of European extraction going to a land that has nothing to do with their personal ancestors and slaughtering natives in order to steal their homes. The fact that it's happening by the millions at this moment does not bother them. The bad PR of being a full throated supporter of this atrocity at this moment is the only thing that motivates Sarah even begrudgingly using the words "humanitarian crisis." They would never actually support something like an arms embargo against Israel because they support what is happening.

Background-Wolf-9380

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As someone who grew up in fundamentalist evangelical Christianity and was always morally confused with all the church’s political stances, I completely relate. Although I morally disagreed with them through high school, majoring in Sociology and learning about REAL history, no Americanized whitewashed history were huge for me. There’s really no reasoning with Christian nationalists, so we need to protect our communities and historically marginalized folks and refuse to play a passive role in their agenda. We must resist just as hard as they try to get us to fear the wrath of god. This is a moment where we need to come together as a community and show these racists that THEY ARE NOT THE MAJORITY. Anyway, sorry for rant, but after my childhood, I want to spend the rest of my life using my privilege to advocate for the dignity of EVERY human being.

SuddenAssistant8465

Both the PFLP and the DFLP were founded by Palestinian Christians: George Habash was of the Greek Orthodox Church, and Nayef Hawatmeh is from the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. In South America there are thousands of descendents of christians palestinians.

I think only in the US the "christians" are fanatically pro zionists.

Agitated_Structure63

I think the genocide has opened a lot of people's eyes -- the mass protests for Palestinian liberation certainly seemed like an indicator to me -- for all those people out there, there must have been thousands of times more people quietly seething in their homes. The people's awakening to their conditions has caused the capitalists a lot of worry, that's why we have Trump doing all this crazy shit and why the Democrat politicians continue to use "socialist" and "communist" as slurs.

lasercat_pow

We feel the same way. Breathing air leaves me feeling guilty. But don’t give up. Don’t give up because they need you to keep the pressure on. 

This may sound fucked up but I find catharsis in saving and archiving the footage coming out of Gaza. As hard as it is to look at, someday the perpetrators will be held to account. And this information will be suppressed and hidden away. In this simple act I’m not allowing that to happen.

Watt_Knot

Whether Jesus would support those who live in Palestine made me think of the Richard Sindell song [_The Ballad of Mary Magdalene_](https://genius.com/Richard-shindell-the-ballad-of-mary-magdalen-lyrics):

&gt; My name is Mary Magdalen
&gt; 
&gt; I come from Palestine
&gt; 
&gt; Please excuse these rags I'm in
&gt; 
&gt; But I've fallen on hard times
&gt; 
&gt; But long ago I had my work
&gt; 
&gt; When I was in my prime
&gt; 
&gt; But I gave it up, and all for love
&gt; 
&gt; It was His career or mine
&gt; 
&gt; ⋮ 
&gt; 
&gt; Jesus loved me
&gt; 
&gt; This I know
&gt; 
&gt; But why on earth
&gt; 
&gt; Did I ever let him go
&gt; 
&gt; He was always faithful
&gt; 
&gt; He was always kind
&gt; 
&gt; But he walked off
&gt; 
&gt; With this heart of mine

C_Plot

If you're interested I would recommend looking up Palestinian Liberation theology. There's this myth in the West that in order to be a Christian you have to support Israel. That's a view point that largely comes out of conservative evangelical circles as well as members of the religious right. Step outside of the West and you will see the majority of Christians globally endorse the Palestinian cause for liberation and justice. Palestinian Christians were some of the founding fathers of the Palestinian nationalist movement and you even had Orthodox and Catholic priests who openly participated in Palestinian resistance.

Anglicanpolitics123

It is mind boggling to see people go about their daily lives as if they don’t know or don’t care about active genocides fraudulently referred to as wars. People are busy trying to survive capitalism. People are desensitized and won’t make an effort to get involved until something affects them. The media and most politicians in power are heavily controlled and influenced by Israel and AIPAC. Some are being blackmailed and others are not willing to risk the backlash and losing donations. Our own president is committing war crimes and trying to instigate a civil war. There is just so much going on at once to distract us from the truth. They want us to feel hopeless so that we give up while a demented puppet turns our country into a dictatorship. Don’t give up. Focus on self care so you are prepared for whatever they are going to throw at us next. You have valuable experience as a former church goer and you just might be able to reach people who think the way you used to think.

jojoclifford

It's not an accident they ignore it. Israel is continuing a war that Europe started 500 years ago.

Urek-Mazino

So, there’s this guy called Orwell who writes a scathing satire of capitalism, titled 1984. 

And before any of you says anything, Orwell had only experienced life under capitalism. So his works can only be a criticism of capitalism. Not “authoritarianism in general”.

Neco-Arc-Brunestud

This genocide has really highlighted how powerful propaganda can be. Seeing the lies and gaslighting in real time is infuriating. 😫😡

talor_swib

A lot of sad things happening in this world everyday

No-StrategyX

https://preview.redd.it/0bcf5u2ysrtf1.jpeg?width=1080&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=f26f15f2cdb85241b5eaccf63d4be091ce316960

Smarterthanthat

I feel you. I was Christian background too and while not exactly Zionist, was ignorant on the whole thing. Learning and unpacking, seeing this more clearly, has at once made me feel more sane, and also like I could absolutely lose my mind.

lookimacowmoo

Well, what else do you expect from a genocidal entity? The outpost of civilization against barbarism is doing a great job of spreading Western values. Anyone who had any illusions about the intentions of the West now sees the truth.

New-Noise-7382

Wealth &amp; Health, our loved One's &amp; our belongings all can be taken away. The One thing Israel cannot touch is a person's Character and it is Our Character that will be weighed on the day of Judgement.

Worry less about what is yet to come and focus in the Present, perfecting/workimg upon One's own Character. Great loss is when, One that know's what is right, has felt the beauty of Islam, yet continues to do wrong.

Israel cannot take Islam away, no matter how hard they try. Home is where the heart is. Life on earth is only meant to be temporary. People dream about meeting the Prophets &amp; Sahaba. Home is where the heart is.

WeWillReturn2OneGod

eALbl420

Cool story now do churches and Jewish heritage in middle eastern countries

MysteriousOwlOooOoo

It was Hamas’ decision to go to war. And their decision to continue it. When Israel said they were going to take Gaza City, Hamas released 2 hostage videos.

jokumi

War sucks and urban warfare sucks even more. Blame Hamas for starting it and not surrendering to end it.

chaver4chaverah

SamLeckish

Puzzleheaded_Soup_97

after the Buda statues in Afghanistan and the Sumerian relics in Iraq. Muslims don’t really get to complain.

ozneoknarf

https://preview.redd.it/ub5fdhoxgapf1.png?width=1319&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=3d60579995fe3c7d95d72a4aea673bafad0c0852

What about this history? Is it also part of the Palestinian narrative?

Correct-Ad-382

The Muslim world is a joke. Stupid fools following the 'rules' that no one but them follow or are held accountable to. The only law is FAFO 'and Who is going to stop me' you deserve it.

T_M_N_P

esse7777

This organisation - Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor - has links with Hamas through it's founder Ramy Abdu and others. It's fair to say that despite their name they have a one-sided focus on Palestine/Israel and neglect the hostages issue in this particular conflict. Intentional destruction of heritage must be proved for a war crime to be committed, otherwise it's insufficient to claim war crimes for heritage destroyed during the course of war. Israel have made no statements to the aim of erasing Gaza city and dsplacing it's population - the aims they have stated (1) Destroy Hamas (military &amp; governance), (2) Free the hostages, (3) Long term demilitarization of Gaza.

This statement is hyperbole and propaganda, whichever side you claim to support.

You forgot the tunnels - such beautiful tunnels.

https://preview.redd.it/tj3g1ks0w9pf1.jpeg?width=576&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=357254484b61c03a8965d2a197091f7e228da915

BrownEyesGreenHair

Tavuklu_Pasta

The conflict in Gaza has led to significant destruction of cultural heritage sites, impacting the identity and history of the region amid a humanitarian crisis.

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