Public sentiment is highly critical of both Israel's actions and the ongoing violence in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Many commenters express outrage over the perceived failure of ceasefire agreements, viewing them as deceptive and ineffective, while also emphasizing the humanitarian crisis faced by Palestinians. There is a strong call for accountability from both Israel and Hamas, along with a plea for meaningful international intervention to alleviate the suffering.

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Hmmm... I am not sure... I always wondered why they didn't document when they bombed the USS Liberty...

RealityBitesProducer

What's the point? When Israel released evidence about other things in the past, it gets disregarded as fake and propaganda. It's pointless to tell the truth or release evidence in this climate, it's better to just fight propaganda with propaganda and appeal to your base supporters, you're never converting anyone on the other side and moderates don't care either way.

Tal-Carmi

&gt; Why doesn't Israel back up its claims more effectively? Show. Don't tell. What is the downside for Israel?

1.  They don't want to release detailed sourcing information for every claim they make.  They do not want Hamas and Iran knowing too much about methods.

2.  They don't care too much what their critics think.  The critics are often grossly unfair and make up all sorts of lies.  The Israeli government doesn't answer to the leftwing. 

3.  When they do release information the basis of the criticism often shifts.  

3.  They do release information when asked to, overseeing figures with strong non-disclosure arrangements.  For example the USA military.  But then they don't publish to the general population. 

5. Israel has devestated their internal information arm because of the political stress they are under as their society shifts.  By way of analogy think about the problems Donald Trump is having.  The professional class, especially involved in the USA tilts Democrat hard and the foreign policy establishment that aren't Democrats is heavily Never Trump Republican. The people a 3 levels or more under him disagree with fundamental aspects of MAGA,  so Republicans have trouble trusting their own government bureaucracy to actually be trying to implement the policies they are ordering them to.  Mutiny, subversion... are norms.  Netanyahu has the same kinds of problems and has reacted like Trump by diminishing the groups that would be producing these reports.

JeffB1517

Because a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, as many of you have demonstrated over these last couple of years.  You guys hear bits and pieces of a story, and you go feral with overconfidence on something that, I can tell, you don’t grasp the realities of. I wouldn’t trust people either

&gt; All we have is Israel’s word

Israel has not done a single thing that they haven't said they would do.  Not a single thing.  This entire time, when Israel said “we will do this if XYZ conditions are not met” they did the thing they said they would, did they not?  It wasn’t a surprise when they did in fact go to Rafah, was it?  Maybe your discernment needs some work: do you listen to the group that has gone against their word, or the one who has stuck to their word?

Now you can say there have been individual dipshits in the IDF doing individual dipshit things, most of those incidents are rather minor considering that these are mostly 19 year olds.  I’m more concerned about the group that aligns with a 1988 charter.

Icy-Builder5892

In one of your comments you pointed out the IDF shouldn't be trusted based on past events. 

On the other hand, there are multiple occassions of ceasefire violations by Hamas documented in the past, [such as "error" rocket fired](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/14/gaza-ceasefire-largely-holds-despite-rocket-fire-in-error). But you will not use that as some premise to any argument on the Israeli side. 

The basis to your argument could just as strongly be used against Hamas and Gazans in such case due to the past documented and even admitted multiple ceasefire violations on their part. Moreover, taking those 25 Palestinians killed as another 'civillian' casualty number is already serving the crazy and delusional idea that out of all the Palesitinians killed in this war, as per Gaza health ministry casualty classification, zero were militants. 0 of the men killed in this war according to Gaza were combatants. Delusion.

shepion

Why don’t they?  Same reason they targeted and killed journalists there first and blocked international journalists from going in.

Great question though. Imagine if CNN ran that question.

Parkimedes

Have you been paying attention? Israel has been doing a free for all in Gaza since the beginning… well, since they bombed the first hospital and legacy media and the U.S provided political cover. It’s been a total gloves off scenario. They’ve violated the ceasefire with Lebanon roughly 1000 times. Yes, 1000, it’s what they do. I think maybe have a little faith in some future justice. IDF soldiers are starting to come forward with some truths about intentional war crime, direct orders and doctrine from commanders and higher ups for killing civilians etc. eventually there will be justice.

Pumpstache

If they reported their own ceasefire it would ruin their public reputation, people already know how wild that nation is

xmattar

Not everything can be evidenced and much of the evidence is sensitive information which is not something any military would share publicly. Ceasefires were violated back and forth in this war (as before) so it is plausible that Israel did the violation as much as it is that Hamas combatants shot at Israelis first; we also do not know how what percentage of that 25+ Palestinians were combatants. At the end of the day, the peace terms are clear and it is up to Hamas to follow up on them so there’s that.

EstablishmentKooky50

Would you believe evidence that was soldiers saying they were shot at? microphones picking up gun fire (a system like shotspotter)? Would the average person?


It isn’t very convincing evidence for an outsider, but for the army, it’s enough evidence to act on because they trust their soldiers and are familiar with the system. 


Remember also that the army treats its info as confidential by default cause even releasing this type of evidence can give an adversary info about the workings/limitations of its systems. 

Not to mention that they don’t want to set the precedence that they need to release evidence in order to counterattack. What if they release drone footage one time, but the next time only have the evidence described above?

I do think that Israel could do a better job of sharing ceasefire violation evidence, but I also understand why the army doesn’t want to.

Low-Razzmatazz9433

200 hamas terrorists crossed the yellow border of the agreement. don't you think smaller groups of terrorist are doing it daily?

Also they didn't return the hostages and they faked looking for them. and they didn't put down their weapons.
Hamas broke the deal so many times by now, and it's already very well documented. Also they are still using human shields just like they always do. Nothing has changed.

Lidasx

Because Israel lies nearly every time. 

The IDF **constantly** has to hide its behavior, its soldiers, and its evidence. 

Don’t you ever wonder why they make such grand effort to keep independent journalists out of the area? 

When you’re doing the right thing, you don’t have to hide and obfuscate. Come on…

AssWhoopiGoldberg

It's like rapist or killer claiming how nicely he raped or killed someone in very ethical way.
Of course people ignore since crime is crime.

Pure-Impression-7878

Three hostages are still in Gaza. Hamas didnt disarm. Isnt that in itself enough to resume the war?

babidygoo

It’s not just Israel, we are watching too.   The US and the other countries at the international base are flying drones over Gaza.  US Central Command has released drone footage.   That’s so we don’t have to just take anyone’s word.

CyclicalTrend

It's interesting how the obvious response has been: HAMAS LITERALLY LIVESTREAMED MASS RAPE, MURDER, AND INFANTICIDE, AND PEOPLE STILL TRIED TO DENY THE EVIDENCE AND BLAME ISRAEL. Only for the responses to be, "but, but... uh... Israel lies! Hasbara lies! Never happened! Stonetoss was right!"

Due_Representative74

It has. Often. People dismiss it as propaganda.

anonrutgersstudent

I don't think any serious observers doubt that if IDF said there was attack, indeed there was. 

And people who aren't serious either aren't going to be swayed by any evidence presented by IDF, or their opinion isn't really important.

Besides, what "evidence" do you even want to see? Do you assume every square meter of the territory is under constant video observation?

knign

Israel isn’t a popular news site that needs to release things immediately for clicks. Actual reporting takes time. 

ADP_God

Probably because they don’t have any evidence

A1727

How many people believe stuff from Israel? Even if Israel documents it without people believing it that's a meaningless exercise. Not to mention some of the violations especially those relating to the bodies of the hostages have been covered in the media.

AsaxenaSmallwood04

Waste of time, the idf is allowed to defend themselves from people approaching the new border aka the yellow line. Hopefully they start to fortify it soon, i am envisioning, minefields, guard towers, auto turrets, seismic sensors, along with standard fencing. 

Straight_Dot3625

Nobody believes anything Israel or the IDF says or the evidence they produce. Why bother?

MunchkinX2000

We have, ya'll call it bigotted and smear campaign what the IDF shows even thought it's literally sourced videos, sounds, pictures and documents.

MysteriousOwlOooOoo

Same rhyme since the war started (and before that as well). 

The real tragedy is that Israeli media just relays the press releases of the military without questioning it, and articles assume these statements to be true. Ultimately, what most Israelis want to hear is that the overall security situation of Israel is "We are being attacked by multiple enemies and we have a strong army that responds to threats effectively when necessary. Maybe sometimes certain soldiers show too much aggression but that does not represent the IDF/Israel's values, and the big picture is that we're mostly engaged in self-defense."

The important mainstream media figures are worried about losing viewership if they deviate from this, so everybody just caters to this perception.

ophirelkbir

Deep_Head4645

Like others have pointed out:

* **Publishing footage has repeatedly proven futile.** Look at the October 7th footage Hamas filmed of themsleves committing heinous acts that people still deny is credible. Same with the Al-Ahli hospital situation back in 2023....it was blamed on Israel, but Israel published footage of the rocket being launched from the hospital parking lot by PIJ and it was crickets over the evidence and plenty of accusations of the footage being faked.
* **It's difficult to document every single thing in a war zone** at all times + not compromise operational security when they do have the footage.
* **Israel has never been great at PR** in this context. Period. They should step it up realize they are fighting in a PR war and have a better strategy. But lack of strategy doesn't prove they are guilty (see first bullet).

ETA: See this recent example where [Reuters 'accidentally' referred to Hamas fighters as 'civilians' ](https://www.camera.org/article/reuters-pulls-article-which-called-200-armed-hamas-combatants-civilians)and then instead of issuing a large-scale apology they just poof deleted the article with barely an acknowledgement of the egregious claim.

BananaValuable1000

It seems the just carpet bomb random neighbourhood. Another 25 dead, probably mostly civilians as is always the case.

Yet they will cry every day about October 7th but at the same time are perfectly fine unaliving babies on a daily basis.

dek55

They do document violations when footage is available, barring anything that would hurt OpSec…though it’s not always immediate, and certainly not released in the exact moments that troops are defending themselves, the yellow line, etc. Yesterday the IDF released images of rocket launcher and weapons caches found beyond the yellow line and a complex underground tunnel that was found. 

Fire towards IDF soldiers that was responded to by force, including air strikes etc does not necessarily always have footage. Not every inch of war is on film, and far from it. Most ceasefires in any war have numerous tit for tat violations that often go on for many months, years, or more. This is unfortunately not uncommon and is not unique to Israel-Hamas war, but is found the world over. Ceasefire violations are often a he said she said type of thing. There is no objective truth in media.

Ok-Cryptographer7424

What evidence? The only evidence they ever had of ANYTHING Hamas did, Hamas filmed themselves. 

Everything else is lies lies lies lies lies lies 

Jewish taqqiyah

thelittlemyrrhmaid

What do you mean? Shall they start filming in advance when getting ambushed from tunnels or shot from RPGs across a street? How to know when they are getting attacked? Shall they always film everything, all the time? 


Yes maybe IDF should have learned that they could expect an attack as soon as something bad is out in media, about Hamas . 


The second time the ceasefire was broken by Hamas it was the staged hostage they pretended to find when in real just hid it right before. When IDF released the footage and all media started to share it and it was all over social media Hamas attacked a couple of hours later, and the conversation was shifted in a second . 


Yesterday it was the UN resolution calling them a terrorist organization several times and forcing them to de-militarized with a neutral peace force taking control (or something like that). Then right after, when media was discussing that, Hamas attacked Israel again and Israel retaliated and the conversation was shifted again. 


(first time it happened there was no special news to my knowledge but Hamas first said they lost contact with their forces in the region, then a couple of hours later changed the story to: Israel was lying and we had no soliders there). 


Hamas main tactic this whole war has been to manipulate media and try to trick people to hate jews. They lie and lie and lie but they do a good job with that and you have to put soooo many hours to really debunk their lies, which I have done. 

NefariousnessLeast89

Oh my god, that's @roseyingaza, been following her for ages, what the fuck are they trying to kill her for? Too much truth for the jewish state to handle I imagine. I can't believe israel killed 46 Palestinian kids in this breach of the ceasefire and it's nothing but a sidenote on MSM. Can you imagine the global outrage if it was 46 jewish children? There is no fucking equivalence, between an Arab and a jew.

Onomatapier

As a citizen of this world I am deeply sorry this Israeli brutality, and the suffering it has caused has not ended in Palestine.

Yes they lied, yes they have always lied, yes we knew they were not going to stop, but for these normal human beings in Palestine just trying to get by like everyone else, to see the unbelievable and even unmentionable pain that they are put through again and yet again it drowns the heart in tears.

Israel will not stop - they even said they have no intention of stopping.

Israel must be forced to stop.

Free, free, Palestine 🇵🇸!!!

beergonfly

I love this woman. Her IG is @[roseyingaza](https://www.instagram.com/roseyingaza/?hl=en#). I'm still in shock after this.

Weak-Expression-5005

skypilot909

Ugh. I feel so horrible for her. She lost her cat as well, due to the bombing. :’(

babygirh

"Ceasefire" means Israel gets a license to do what they want, but the people can't resist. How anyone hasn't understood that by now is beyond me.

ExchangeLivid9426

The most nazi country in the world.
Hitler would be really proud of his Israeli creation.

Rakirdo

lexeckstasy

Afraid-Unit-5652

Dam I follow her on IG I knew this would happen eventually smh

Tgrove88

I know i'll continue to boycott for life. It is so shameful to let a lifestream genocide ever happened in my life.

chronothrowaway7

Apparently Hamas killed an Israeli soldier.  
Israel responded with a "targeted attack" by killing 101 people, 35 of which were children. All with the backing of the USA.  
[https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1029/1541046-middle-east/](https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1029/1541046-middle-east/)

eezipc

Jfc 

Civilians are the only victims in war 

I feel so effing bad for her

Cool_Ad9326

Israel and crasefire never goes hand in hand. They want to tetrorize and reduce palestinian populations as many as they can so the land cam be colonized by importing people from us/europe or other regions

Standard-Pain7195

I'm so sorry this happened to you. Thank you for sharing it with the world. Hope you can keep those wounds clean.

Available-Visit5775

That's rosey. I been following her on IG and YouTube. I had a bad feeling that sooner or later she'd be hit

sams0606

I follow Rosey and felt my heart in my throat while watching this. The atrocities our governments have committed will not be forgotten.

puffinpixie

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Israel is using a sneaky loophole. pausing the ceasefire while each bomb drops then resuming it once it explodes. Hamas presumably haven’t thought of using this one strange trick

joeoram87

Proving one again that the zionazis can't be trusted to honour any agreement

absolutelyyuseless

Why do we keep being in denial we all know they're never going to stop until they're all gone denial denial denial time to rise is the only way cuz the only way they're going to stop is until the last one is dropped dead and we all know this is true we need to finally get to there together and stand up or by the end of all this all there's going to be left is death and despair 😐 and if you haven't learned from this saying they're going to stop and believing their word then you're the problem.

Spiritual_Carob_2828

toethumb25

BananaShakeStudios

Shit, I thought “is that rosey?”. Damn.

setut

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم 

Repulsive_Return_254

Here’s what their minister of security says about the ceasefire…basically they have their hostages back now go all in and destroy the rest. They never wanted peace. It was all just a big ploy:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Wxa-1vo_Mnc?si=hHE0zfyYKyKO0mpy

Btw it’s getting harder to find these videos on YouTube. Censorship propaganda has already commenced.

Sad_Magician_316

Israel needs to be forced to stop, clearly. These are civilians that Israel is PURPOSELY BOMBING, as they've been doing all along. Fucking American MSM is owned by zionists.

@roseyingaza

Kindly_Golf_2244

They just killed about 40 people just to recover a dead body.

DeepAnt8165

That’s the first time I’ve heard someone properly use the term “fml”. Kind of hits different when it’s not the usual Barbie who didn’t get the straw she asked for with her oat milk caramel macchiato.

hashwashingmachine

fashionguy123

Wake up America!

Israel does not represent American values.

Tu_t-es_bien_battu

God bless and protect u! Honestly my heart breaks for the people of Palestine! 🇵🇸 know we r supporting u and will continue to fight for justice and peace! 🥰

Love-life-5828-

The history of the Israelis is built on betrayal of promises and spreading lies.

bearded_man666

She is an Instagram content creator. I've been watching her videos, she regularly helps people there and films the destruction of Gaza. She is a good person and I hope she doesn't end up dead. She was beautiful and was able to take care for herself even during the hardest times in Gaza. It's sad to see her in that state. 

Zios are monsters. Their supporters are ignorant fools. Bibi and everyone that is benefited from this genocide should be jailed at the very least. The humanity does not need them and should dispose them for our own good.

insitnctz

Bet trump knew about it. Just wanted the pr

b_buddd

Israel is a terrorist state and should be dealt with accordingly.

GodsGoldenBoy

They have to be  sanctioned! No cease fire is gonna stop the terrorist apartheid state.

Soul-slayer

And they want Hamas to disarm Hamas isn't stupid

ymymhmm_179

Thank you for being so brave and sharing your experience. Please don’t give up. Don’t give up hope. God bless you.☮️

Capable_Special_131

No-Yam-4519

thigh_high_levii

krxkxn69

The Israeli colonists don't see the Palestinians as humans. They see more humanity in the Nazi Germans than they do in the occupied Palestinians. The existence of the Palestinians is an affront to them.

Bnedem

Firm-Shake7688

All the people cheering Trump after the “ceasefire” was announced are complete fools, it didn’t do anything apart from a quick hostage exchange, it’s just a stay of execution for the people of Gaza. It was always obvious Israel was never serious about peace talks and have no intention of actually honoring the ceasefire, they’re just going to do small attacks until they can provoke a response and claim Hamas broke the ceasefire.

an_african_swallow

https://preview.redd.it/njbki7nlctyf1.jpeg?width=1074&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=bfa42e3958f7bb006658935cdd31d947d363274a

Hardfracking

If you understand Israel, you understand the war will not be over so long as Palestinians exist. We should be thinking about the US government the same way when it comes to anyone who isn't white or Christian. They won't stop, it's us or them. Palestinians have as little chance of overthrowing Israel as the Jews had of overthrowing the guards at the Concentration Camps. They need help. But please, US, don't put off overthrowing your tyrant so long that you become the next Palestine, that you are cornered in ghettos, disarmed, starved. Fight while you still have a chance.

Significant_Cash_578

She looks very similar to the Israeli gal on Instagram that repairs smartphones, Tamar. Complete with crazy nails. Can’t be the same, but def resembles her.

Glittering-Book7069

ISNTRAEL1948

Bro its a damn ceasefire why tf are u still bombing

Behebehehhehd

Its crazy how calm she is, i would be panicking so hard.

Opposite_War6454

TopLifeguard2411

Be nice if The Guardian bothered to explain who the 'Gaza Media Office' actually is.

Wyvernkeeper

Do we have a reliable source on what, exactly, the agreed upon terms of the ceasefire are? Because all I've heard since it was announced was both Hamas and Israel pointing fingers at each other and frankly I find it entirely believable that both of them have violated the ceasefire multiple times.

supportgolem

…honestly, I’m starting to wonder if a two state solution is even possible at this point…

SelectShop9006

I had full confidence that this is what Israel would do, so i never celebrated the ceasefire. It always felt like a lie.

Why did it? Well, how could it not - considering the many times of Israel admitting on video on TV, on Internet interview and in the Knesset itself that, that the Palestinian people are "the enemy" and that they intended to "wipe out every last one of the enemy", and that they would take all of the Palestinian lands. 

There is also the fact of, very early on after Oct. 7th, real estate land being advertised in some synagogues. I viewed this online. It was appalling - and solidified for me that I won't be a part of any synagogue at all that receives funding from groups with Zionist ties of any expression. 

Painful as it is, I would rather remain completely alone than to sacrifice my integrity or my solidarity with humanity. I can't bear to knowingly and willingly support the harm done to the Palestinians, nor anyone else in Israel-Palestine, (including harming Jews psychologically through Zionism, or how it puts us all at risk).

FilmNoirSockMonkey

“Israel violating ceasefire” should become their national motto.

They are also killing people trying to clear the rubble in Southern Lebanon. 

Attacking Syrians within their own national territory as their buffer needs a buffer, etc.

Rabbit-Hole-Quest

How the positions of the "yellow lines" as a point of the ceasefire were able to be agreed to by both parties, but the specifications of their physical demarcation weren't, to my knowledge, specifically laid out in the offer or brought up for clarification by anyone involved, seems insane.

Does anyone know if there was ever an agreed upon notification system worked out that would make crossing it a violation contingent on an agreed upon 'sufficient" notice or warning by the IDF or Hamas? 

I just find it so hard to believe neither side had a documented responsibility in terms of securing these areas written into the agreement, especially with it being a multipoint withdrawal. It seems like a gigantic oversight, on everyone's part, that gets us right back to the "he said, she said" back and forth.

Owlentmusician

Israel broke the ceasefire, at this rate, at least a hundred times. You don't need permission to acknowledge the ceasefire as disingenuous.

 Anyone saying palestinians deserve it because of the actions of hamas is an antagonist trying to stoke misinformation and obscurantism. Hamas doesn't equal the Palestinian people. Killing innocents doesn't punish extremists who don't care about those innocents. The whole thing as a sham.

Dr-Paul-Meranian

The US genuinely wanted the ceasefire, as did the 8 Arab nations involved and most of the rest of the international community. But we all knew neither Israel nor Hamas ever wanted one. In fairness there is a condition on Hamas in Phase 1 besides the returning of hostages, that is the surrender of arms, and Hamas has never indicated is intends to comply with it.

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