Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.
“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.
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Which is why war is the ultimate atrocity that humans can commit. Worse than child abuse, worse than rape - war is the result of sick minds corrupted beyond any hope of redemption.
I feel like war can be explained better than just the result of bad people doing bad things, and more so about contradictions. If, after all is said and done in this genocide, we are only able to deduce that the cause was bad people doing bad things, we aren’t doing our due diligence. We’d be better off trying to understand how the contradictions between Israel and Palestine such as religion, material conditions, age, ethnicity, geopolitical stances… made genocide the only solution for Israel. And more importantly, how to avoid it. Theres too much history here for me to wave my hand and blame some enigmatic force of “evil”.
In my view genocide is never justifiable and never excusable. Both sides are to blame for this horror. And the US for perpetuating it with more arms and munitions to keep the murders going on and on and on…
Do you think this is outside of the expected number of deaths at this point?
Israel usually kills 10-20 Palestinians for every Israeli killed, so we can expect about 15-30k total Palestinian deaths from this, most of whom will be civilians.
I expect the number of deaths per day is going to ramp up once the hospitals and food centers run out of resources.
My estimation predicted 88k, with a 63:1 ratio.
The average age in Gaza is like 18. Of course about half of the deaths are going to be children
I mean you’re right of course, buy even if they’d doubled the number… would 2500 deaths be ok?
Nope. None of this is acceptable. At the same time, I don’t like people just passing on figures from Hamas that are questionable at best. Facts matter.
I don’t believe anything Hamas or Al Jazeera says at this point. They both outright lied about the hospital thing claiming claiming 10x the casualties, why would I believe them about this?
If Hamas cared about the lives of children, they wouldn’t go murder a bunch of Israeli kids then hide behind a bunch of Palestinian kids. Hamas seems determined to maximize the number of civilian casualties on both sides, and now that Israel’s fault?
I’m getting weary of repeating this ad nauseam. You don’t need to take a side. Condemning Israel’s behavior does not mean supporting Hamas’.
Which organization has the resources to send someone to check, that doesn’t have an agenda?
I recognize that you’re not explicitly defending Israel; you’re merely criticizing one institution that operates under Hamas rule.
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In Gaza?
I’m fairly confident that the Palestinian Authority has no real control of anything in Gaza. Fatah and Hamas literally had a minor civil war over the issue in 2006 and 2007.