Australia vows to repair ‘distressing’ damage to war graves in Gaza bulldozed by Israeli army
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/05/gaza-war-cemetery-damage-australia-first-and-second-world-war-soldiers-graves?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Cue all the hysterical coverage of this from Murdoch and Packer news conglomerates in 3…2…1…
*crickets*
>Stanley said damaged graves could be repaired, and that people who had died in war should be treated with respect, and equitably.
>“At the same time as the Israelis are, understandably, demanding the return of the remains of hostages, the IDF is bulldozing the remains of Commonwealth soldiers; there’s an irony there.”
I believe the word you’re looking for is hypocrisy.
Oh, so we’ll pipe up about what the genociders are doing to the dead, but not to the living? We really have no shame over our cowardice and hypocrisy, do we?
Why not get our good buddy Herzog to repair them?
Vows to fix it, quietly and without much protest or condemnation
they gonna make a shiny monument to our diggers in the fucking gaza trump resort
The Israeli’s should be footing the bill for this, and made to apologise.
Well, it’s a good thing known war criminal Isaac Herzog is coming so Albo can give him a piece of his mind, right?
Praying for a journalist to grow a spine and ask Albo about what Australia’s position on all the Epstein stuff is especially with regards to Israel’s clear involvement but I don’t think it will ever happen unfortunately.
Australia should not be paying.
Israel should be. Period.
Muslims Have looked after those graves for 100 years, literally before Israel even existed.
Why are such a pushover?
I’d say we raise it with Herzog while he’s here.
We should ask Isaac about it while he’s here, but I’m sure it’d ruin his mood
Let’s bring them home. They need to come home.
When Israeli President Isaac Herzog signed that Gaza-targeted artillery shell, he wrote: “Send the repair bill to Anthony Albanese, Canberra, Australia.”
Repair it by deep throating Herzog’s boots next week.
This is such a minor issue after nearly three years of literal (the word you can’t post without being shadowbanned) that it is almost insulting to the dead to complain about.
Meanwhile, this from January 2023: ‘The Gaza family tending World War graves for 100 years’ (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64344483)
And of course there’s the Jewish graves that were cared for in Gaza, by Palestinians, over decades of occupation.
From The Age headline:
“Why Israel *was forced* to bulldoze the cemetery…”
Forced… sure.
I have photos of the WWI Gaza war cemetery taken during WWII by an Aussie stationed there.
Let’s be clear. Israel committed a war crime against the remains of Australian soldiers. They have not apologised. They have not committed to restitution of the site. They have not shown any regard for our people and their sacrifice.
This is wrong on the deepest of levels. Yet it will be shrugged off here. That should not be tolerated.