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The genocide is still ongoing and many things are still developing in Palestine, but we are removing the limitation on only posting things related to the operation Flood of Al-Aqsa to this thread, you can now freely post over Lemmygrad again.

Please don't stop talking about Palestine.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can anyone help with an unpaywalled version of:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/10/10/how-a-rave-party-near-gaza-turned-into-a-horror_6161957_4.html

Archive.org leads to a cookies acceptance page, and 12ft.io doesn't seem to work. The bit I can read has details about armed security and a tank at the entrance to the festival.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were then joined by an Israeli Merkava tank. Equipped with a powerful 120 mm cannon, this tank was of no use at the time, except as a refuge thanks to its armored plating. Dozens of participants took cover behind it, along with some of the police. Bullets rattled. The assailants were there.

The article seems to say that the tank was there before Hamas. So maybe the ravers were caught in the crossfire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's how I read it as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're a fucking champ, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

From the preview:

People were smiling. Videos taken by those attending captured the scene. At around 6 am, in the distance, plumes of smoke appeared in the sky. Rockets that were fired from the Gaza Strip were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome, its anti-aircraft system.

How much of a warning do you need?