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2023-10-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Dozens of Palestinian feared dead after ‘Israeli’ strike hits Gaza Orthodox Church

[AlAhram] Scare quotes mine. They got so much mileage out of pretending the hospital was hit by Israel that they are now trying to pretend that Israel just attacked the church next door. What say you, dear Reader – was it Islamic Jihad whut dunnit, or Hamas?
A Palestinian girl was killed and others were injured on Thursday after an Israeli air strike hit the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church in Gaza City, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

Odd — former Congressman Justin Amash claims two of his female relatives were killed when the church was hit.

The church has been a shelter for hundreds of Palestinians displaced by Israel's brazen war on Gaza.

The strike left a "large number of martyrs and injured" at the compound of the Greek Orthodox church, the Palestinian interior ministry said.
~~500!~~ A brazilian! Lots!
The attack also caused severe damage to the church building, a WAFA correspondent reported.

Local sources told WAFA that the shelling also caused the collapse of another Church building housing several Palestinian families seeking shelter.

More casualties are feared trapped under the rubble, as rescue and medical teams were seen working tirelessly to reach them, the correspondent reported.

The Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church is just meters from the Baptist Hospital, where the Israeli army committed a massacre last Tuesday, killing at least 600 Palestinians and injuring hundreds more.

Al Ahram is liveblogging events related to the current Gaza — with their own peculiar slant — here.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-10-22 2023-10-22 01:08|| || Front Page|| [21 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 The Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church is just meters from the Baptist Hospital, where the Israeli army committed a massacre last Tuesday, killing at least 600 Palestinians and injuring hundreds more.

I guess, after they've realized that nobody but their "friends" buys the hospital story - somebody noticed that the church wall was damaged by the rocket's shrapnel.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-22 04:08|| 2023-10-22 04:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Seems like 20% of Paleo rockets are ‘own goal’ scores, so IF the Church was hit …

Posted by Glenmore 2023-10-22 05:15|| 2023-10-22 05:15|| Front Page Top

#3 So "dozens" of people were killed in an Israeli strike on an Orthodox (i.e., Christian) church. Yet these people are "martyrs".
A)How are non-Muslims considered martyrs?
B) Who allowed a kaffir church in a Muslim country anyway?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-10-22 11:50|| 2023-10-22 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Friends, I'm a xirson who laughs out loud at the 3,000 Tulsa claim, then cries because xi knows that 30,000 will be next. Of course Pal claims (and them newfangled Arabic numbers generally, for all I care) are garbage. [startled Garbitsch gif] But I gotta confess I sometimes wonder whether there isn't a point, somewhere waaay out there, beyond which kneejerk cynicism loses a little of its peerless explanatory power. Anyway. With love...

Kaboom (St. Porphyrius bomb...
or whatever). The State, with aplomb,
Stands up and takes credit...
But wait, there's an edit:
Retraction of claim by, um, Grom.

Posted by Elmavimp Shoper3092 2023-10-22 13:51|| 2023-10-22 13:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Foghorn of War

No war is a walk in the park
For observers, but now, through the dark,
Booms the voice of [ahem]:
"Sure we know it was them
Because... isn't it always? And snark!"

[clever Leghorn pic here, please]

Posted by Elmavimp Shoper3092 2023-10-22 14:02|| 2023-10-22 14:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmm. There was an old man of Livorno? But seriously, Grom, mea maxima culpa.

Posted by Elmavimp Shoper3092 2023-10-22 14:06|| 2023-10-22 14:06|| Front Page Top

#7 The most degraded of them all
Mediterranean we call.
His hair is crisp, and even curls,
And he is saucy with the girls.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-22 14:21|| 2023-10-22 14:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Somebody needs to tell HamAss that we are fine with their casualties on any Israeli strike being anywhere from 0 to ALL. At this point, I just don't care how many of them die, they beg for it anyway, they're just getting their most fervent wish fulfilled.

Posted by Silentbrick 2023-10-22 14:58|| 2023-10-22 14:58|| Front Page Top

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