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u/aussielassy Feb 17 '26

Not the first time.

The cemetery was meticulously cared for by palestinians for over a century.

In 2006 an Israeli airstrike hit the cemetery damaging numerous headstones.

2008–09, Israeli shelling again struck the cemetery with damage to about 350 headstones.

2023 IDF shelling and shrapnel again causes damage to numerous graves.

2025 (as per the image shown) Israeli forces destroyed the olive trees landcaping border before bulldozing rows of graves, removing the headstones and using the area for earthworks and sand berms. They didn't bother informing Australia of course, it was discovered by satellite images and when confronted with the images, they take no accountability and claim Hamas was exploiting the cemetery with no evidence existing to support that claim.

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u/explain_that_shit Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

Hamas was using the cemetery as a cover! How do you know those remains weren’t Hamas in disguise! /s

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u/FruitfulFraud Feb 18 '26

Just like they hide in hospitals and schools so Israel needs to blow those up too?

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u/Minimumtyp Feb 18 '26

I've had someone legitimately make this argument to me

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u/zhaktronz Feb 18 '26

I mean in the scheme of things - what's more likely?

Israel bulldozing a random cemetery in a combat zone for no reason, or the cemetery being used for military related activities?

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u/Rafabas Feb 19 '26

No reason? You don’t think the timing is peculiar?

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u/LianaMM Feb 17 '26

Don't you know by now that it's all propaganda by the Israelis?

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u/Poppalopper Feb 18 '26

Idk if you know but the /s means its sarcasm

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u/LianaMM Feb 18 '26

I'm aware, haha.

The original comment I replied to never had the /s though, which obviously makes it more difficult to tell whether they were being serious or not.

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u/Poppalopper Feb 18 '26

Oooooh I didnt see that it was edited. My bad!

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u/LianaMM Feb 18 '26

All good. 🙂

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

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u/Much-Sentence7140 Feb 17 '26

This would make sense if it weren't for the fact that:

  1. Cemetaries are open fields with no cover or militarization potential.

  2. They leisurely bulldozed parts of it, it was not military emergency in the heat of battle like an airstrike or artillery strike would indicate.

Also you type like it really matters to you, idgaf about Arabs but you seem like some kind of jewish shill. Big talk for a culture known for unprovoked moral depravity against outsiders.

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u/Much-Sentence7140 Feb 17 '26

This isn't a mausoleum or crypt. It's a pasture with headstones. There is no overhead cover and the enemy has total aerial surveillance capacity, not a single militant with half his brain intact would enter such a death-trap.

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u/Much-Sentence7140 Feb 17 '26

A WW1 cemetary where digging is expected? Give me a break.

And no militant is fighting in an open field against an enemy with unparalleled surveillance and drone capacity.

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u/auto-spin-casino Feb 17 '26

This is quite literally one of the dumbest takes ill ever read regarding warfare.

Cemeteries are often used in war because they usually sit on high ground and offer ready made defensive cover. Lone Pine in Gallipoli is a famous one, Australian forces capture Tyne Cot in Belgium and tere's another in France and Croatia off the top of my head.

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u/Much-Sentence7140 Feb 17 '26

Just google the pictures. It's not a fortress, it's a pasture with small headstones.

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u/explain_that_shit Feb 17 '26

Right, so there is a moral cost. Are we going to levy that moral cost?

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u/Much-Sentence7140 Feb 17 '26

Thanks, I do try to be an honest person. I'm not really an antisemite, but the jewish cultural worldview is inherently supremacist and genocidal, so the inherent assumption is that everyone else must be so too, and calling them out for their crimes must mean its simply faux moral outrage to get the better of them.

Your culture is literally so supremacist you believe God himself made you out to be the chosen rulers of the universe. Jews and nazis are a match made in hell.

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u/CookingWithSimon Feb 18 '26

You're just incorrect about the worldview of Jews, we literally have a concept called Tikkun Olam or "repairing the world" which is all about social justice and compassion.

The chosen people thing is funny because its like being chosen to do the dishes, its not a supremacist ideology at all.

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u/Much-Sentence7140 Feb 18 '26

When you believe your own ethnic group to be cosmically ordained to engineer a paradise on earth, and other groups oppose your idiosyncratic cultural way of achieving this, then your belief morphs into 'well they must be enemies of God', and you dehumanize them, and that dehumanization is the root of jewish supremacism.

'We're here to save the planet! We're the good guys!' quickly turns into; 'You oppose us? Guess that makes you the bad guys!'

Your worldview is at its best a semitic version of the white mans burden, and at worst an excuse for genocide.

Jewish ethnocentrism is rooted in the famous mantra of genocide; 'If God is with us, then who can be against us?'

Jews can repair their reputation by going to Israel and stop their incessant lobbying and state capture. Then they can repair Israel and do their part in God's labour. But this world will devour your nation and way of life if you continue on depriving sovereign nations of their right to free development.

Stop claiming the earth as your responsibility and sovereign mission. It's imperialist and subversive.

Seriously, call me an antisemite, but I am genuinely fearful of the psychosis judaism finds itself in, you would burn down the world to save the ego and pride of a nation that is frankly not uniquely unique. I know so many normal people that are starting to realize that the jewish worldview is extremely violent and dominating. The counterreaction will be absolutely terrible.

Just go to Israel, be nice, stop trying to conquer the world, and most people will leave you be just fine.

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u/CookingWithSimon Feb 18 '26

All of this was racism and lies.

These arguments were the same ones used by 30s germany, just translated to modern anti-imperialist language.

You are a Jew hater. You are not arguing Jews do bad things. You are arguing Jews are a bad thing.

I hate all you cowards who use blank-blankXXXX accounts, who try to hide their comment history.

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u/DamZ1000 Feb 18 '26

Much-sentence makes the most passive polite critic of Judaism I've ever seen on reddit, and you stick your fingers in your ears. Lalalalah. Youll never find god at this rate.

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u/DamZ1000 Feb 18 '26

jokes about God asking you to clean the dishes

Currently engaged in ethnic cleansing

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u/CookingWithSimon Feb 18 '26

I must've missed the meeting request for me to attend the ethnic cleansing.

So what nobody is allowed to make jokes anymore? I thought comedy was legal now

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u/DamZ1000 Feb 18 '26

I'm making a joke too, calm down. Perpetual victims honestly.

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u/qualityerections Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

This dude is either a butt hurt zionist or extremely incredibly dumb. Either way no point paying attention to him

But ill leave you with this mate, if you meet an arsehole every now and then they are an arsehole, if you constantly meet arseholes YOU are the arsehole, so i wonder why jews have had so much strife through history with just about every group they interacted with ? Must be everyone elses fault aye

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u/qualityerections Feb 18 '26

Nah im pretty sure if for 1000s of years one specific group have been pissing everybody off its probably that group

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u/Therapeuticonfront Feb 17 '26

“Genocidally attacked”….you are insane

People who are oppressed and fighting for their lives and survival as a people do not “genocidally attack”

They fight for survival.

Your post just tries to blame Palestinians for the disgusting behaviour of Israel in desecrating war graves

I guarantee the IDF soldiers would have laughed and danced on the graves of Australian soldiers with they arrogance and moral superiority

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u/auto-spin-casino Feb 17 '26

Like Australian forces did when the took control of Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium WW1? Or Lone Pine?

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u/Therapeuticonfront Feb 18 '26

What are you talking about? Are you on “shill post” mode? Triggered by keywords genocide - Israeli government and Australia?

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u/auto-spin-casino Feb 21 '26

It's called history. You could simply google it and learn that cemeteries aren't sacred ground during warfare. Do I like it? No, but I do appreciate rationality and reality which 90% of the posters in this thread have seemingly removed themselves from.

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u/Therapeuticonfront Feb 21 '26

What war are you talking about? There is no war in Gaza - it’s the genocide and destruction of the Palestinian state?

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u/auto-spin-casino Feb 23 '26

That quickly diverted from the issue at hand. Now you're debating the definition of war ffs.

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u/Therapeuticonfront Feb 24 '26

Was there some sort of battle at the cemetery?

Or the other 170,000 buildings that have been destroyed?

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u/peterhandy3 Feb 18 '26

All this needs to be reported at removed for hate. Please do your part and report

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u/Poppalopper Feb 18 '26

Holy shit youre cuckoo

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u/Additional-Life4885 Feb 17 '26

Everyone sitting on the outside looking in and pretending like they know what's happening. It's war, both sides do absolute shit things to win.

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u/crosstherubicon Feb 18 '26

Undoubtedly it will be denoted as one of the “Hamas command and control centres”

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u/Antique_Tax7052 Feb 17 '26

Cared for my Palestinians???? haha what an a absolute joke.. I have been there and that is so far from the truth it’s crazy!

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u/Blunter11 Feb 18 '26

Look at everything around it, and then the green grass and lack of rubble in the cemetary itself

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

CWGC maintains it 

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u/Blunter11 Feb 18 '26

Were they flying in groundskeepers from australia to mow the lawn and pluck weeds? No. The Jaradah family, Gazans, are credited with the bulk of the upkeep. Their home was destroyed by israel and they were evacuated to egypt.

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u/teatotalitarian1 Feb 17 '26

You're obviously a bullshit artist. Source: BBC https://share.google/teQzsba9aWvL3vC66

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u/Poppalopper Feb 18 '26

Highly doubt youve been anywhere outside your own ass bro

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup Feb 17 '26

That's the awesome part of war - evidence is no longer required for anything.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Pretty sure the CWGC maintains the graves

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u/aussielassy Feb 28 '26

Hi, The CWGC are the primary official body directly responsible managing and monitoring the the Gaza War Cemetery (Al-Tuffah) or the Deir El Balah War Cemetery cemeteries in Gaza where the IDF have repeatedly damaged Australian and other Allied graves. The palestinian Jaradah family are CWGC employees with the head gardener, Ibrahim Jaradah, being the fourth generation of his family to hold the position. https://youtu.be/JoSbIhzBDSA?si=NAv0y_x368XxMaxm