{"id":17305,"date":"2025-05-12T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=17305"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:35:34","slug":"the-real-meaning-of-destroying-hamas-a-call-for-mass-annihilation-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/05\/12\/the-real-meaning-of-destroying-hamas-a-call-for-mass-annihilation-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Meaning of &#8220;Destroying Hamas&#8221;: A Call for Mass Annihilation in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Watan<\/strong><\/em>-Everyone supports the destruction of Hamas. Who\u2019s against it? No one. The extremists want to do it before freeing the hostages. The moderates say, \u201cFirst, we free the hostages, then we destroy them.\u201d But this conversation is a deception that needs to be unmasked. Destroying Hamas means annihilating a people \u2014 or wiping out all the men of Gaza. It\u2019s mass destruction with a seemingly rational cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1541\">Destroying Hamas may appear to be a legitimate goal, especially after October 7, but it cannot be achieved without destroying all of Gaza. That\u2019s why it\u2019s a criminal goal. As long as the occupation continues, this aim will never be achieved \u2014 even if they stop calling the resistance &#8220;Hamas.&#8221; One cycle after another, resistance will rise again, and Israel will destroy it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"2092\">What\u2019s happening now is a mass slaughter of men in Gaza under the pretext of destroying Hamas \u2014 yet this is rarely discussed. A handful of Israelis with a conscience, and international public opinion, focus mostly on the women and children being slaughtered on a hellish scale. Except for the fascists in Israel and in the Knesset, no human being can remain indifferent to the sight of dying children in Gaza. But this humanitarian focus on women and children inadvertently legitimizes the killing of men, who are seen as neither innocent nor naive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16697\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16697 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11111.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli war crimes in Gaza\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11111.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11111-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11111-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eradicating Hamas Means Eradicating Gaza\u2019s Men \u2014 and Beyond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-12\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto py-5 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[72rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto flex max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"6afdb8f7-bc0e-498c-8990-789c8b1e02ba\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light\">\n<h3 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"103\">&#8220;Eliminating Hamas&#8221; Means Killing a Generation: Gaza\u2019s Men and Boys Marked for Death<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2094\" data-end=\"2604\">You can\u2019t destroy Hamas without eliminating all men and youth in Gaza. Every man still breathing in Gaza \u2014 especially those earning a living \u2014 is in some way connected to Hamas. In a blockaded land ruled by a dominant political movement, every nurse, accountant, school driver, traffic officer, or market organizer \u2014 even a child in daycare \u2014 is deemed linked to Hamas. These people, like Hamas fighters, are marked for elimination. And in the process, thousands more are allowed to die as \u201ccollateral damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2606\" data-end=\"2940\">The reality is that this war is not between two armies. It is between a massive military and, at best, what can be called a ragtag militia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2024\/02\/19\/gaza-war-understanding-israels-endless-mission-and-the-cycle-of-resistance\/\">Israel<\/a> doesn\u2019t consider them soldiers \u2014 \u201cterrorist\u201d is a very elastic term. In the West Bank too, executing a child holding a stone is now permissible under the pretense of countering terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2942\" data-end=\"3526\">Hundreds of thousands of children \u2014 war orphans, amputees, displaced, hungry, sick, and their future grandchildren \u2014 will grow up and want to resist. They can only be stopped by killing them all. A whole generation will rightly seek revenge \u2014 with Hamas or with another movement. The new children of death won\u2019t read Hamas\u2019 charter; they\u2019ll only know the laws of resistance. Killing them \u2014 that\u2019s what \u201celiminating Hamas\u201d really means. And the tens of thousands of grieving fathers in Gaza will want to join the fight against those who killed their sons \u2014 and they too must be killed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15285\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/war.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli war crimes in Gaza\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/war.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/war-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/war-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As war devastates Gaza, children like Ali, Raghad, and Mohammed face hunger, loss, and trauma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-14\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto py-5 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[72rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto flex max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"496bbd24-4e25-4d57-9c98-036febbca480\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light\">\n<h3 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"111\">From \u201cMowing the Grass\u201d to Mass Annihilation: The True Cost of Israel\u2019s War Doctrine in Gaza<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex justify-start\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3528\" data-end=\"3676\">The world\u2019s \u201cmost moral army\u201d will call this \u201cmowing the grass.\u201d And there will always be another mowing season as long as the occupation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3678\" data-end=\"4219\">Is killing men and youth in Gaza less criminal than killing women and children? Doubtful. While women and children are the universal symbols of innocence, after this war, innocence no longer exists in Gaza. Everyone there is helpless. No one is uninvolved anymore. After 19 months of terror, indiscriminate bombardment, and criminal airstrikes, even a displaced person trying to return to the ruins of their home is deemed a threat, a person worthy of death \u2014 just like the 1948 refugees who were labeled \u201cinfiltrators\u201d and marked for death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"4221\" data-end=\"4432\">Trying to protect your children? That\u2019s involvement. A grandmother trying to save her grandson? Also involved \u2014 and must be killed, along with everyone around her. This is the real meaning of \u201cdestroying Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"4434\" data-end=\"4500\">From Yair Lapid to Bezalel Smotrich \u2014 all of Israel supports this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-Everyone supports the destruction of Hamas. Who\u2019s against it? No one. The extremists want to do it before freeing the hostages. The moderates say, \u201cFirst, we free the hostages, then we destroy them.\u201d But this conversation is a deception that needs to be unmasked. Destroying Hamas means annihilating a people \u2014 or wiping out all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1776,644,167,903],"class_list":["post-17305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-gaza-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israeli-war-on-gaza"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Real Meaning of &quot;Destroying Hamas&quot;: A Call for Mass Annihilation in Gaza - Watan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"disturbing logic behind the call to \u201cdestroy Hamas,\u201d arguing that it justifies mass killings of Gaza\u2019s male population and civilians under\" \/>\n<meta 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