In just a quarter year, Israel's army (funded by American taxpayers) has slaughtered more than 1% of Gaza, half the dead being children. Anesthetic ran out in Gaza's hospitals several weeks ago, but currently, the average number of children's limbs being amputated every day is in the dozens. To try to save lives, destroyed arms and legs are being hacked off of little kids, without any sort of pain control or antibiotics. This is a nightmare, there's just no other way to think of it. Nobody deserves that, not even if their parents voted for a government considered by other countries to be a terrorist organization. They still shouldn't be starved, frightened, crushed to death by the thousands. It's not self-defense. It's not even retaliation. It's ethnic cleansing. It's Holocaust. It's Nakba. It's extermination. It's genocide.
The IDF has cut and bombed most communications in Gaza, so deaths from many areas are no longer being included in the total. The last available data is slightly outdated - it was published on January 4th - as well as incomplete.
Even so, it tells a tale.
Notice the Israeli fatalities in blue. Looks like about twice as many in the October 7th attack as in the previous 15 years put together - a serious escalation.
Now notice the escalation in Palestinian deaths. That's a lot more than double! In fact, more than 5 times as many Palestinians have been killed in the past 3 months, than in all the years since 2007. Tens of thousands confirmed dead or missing under collapsed buildings. ALL Gazans are mourning dead family members and friends right now.
Considering all the 2000 pound bombs (which can kill people many blocks away) being dropped into crowded residential areas... Only an idiot buys the "we're doing everything we can not to kill civilians" line they've been repeating since this all started.
And we're being told this is going to have to go for AT LEAST another year! The devastated death camp known as Gaza won't survive another 12 months of this. They're literally starving already, with no help in sight. People's bodies have less and less nutrients stored, less in reserve, less to keep them going, every day. They're not getting fed, they're not hydrated properly, they're not getting proper sleep, they're under massive nonstop stress, I could go on and on. Every day is doing immeasurable damage to little kids, moms, dads, elderly, disabled, babies, every single person of their ethnicity. Even if it stopped now, permanent damage to millions of people's physical and mental health has been done. Even if it stopped now, the death toll would continue to rise for months. But it's not stopping now.
I've been speaking out and advocating peace for many years. Here is my stance on it, if you have 15 minutes:
We need not let these psychopaths lead us into nuclear war. We must not.
DRutter
We don not know when these conflicts stop, I pray that it'll end soon. Casualties are more on innocents, they have done nothing wrong with these governments. It hurts, seeing those kids crying for their freedom and seeking for help and food.
Very right, so many more innocents than soldiers are being killed in Gaza. And 3/4 of them are women or kids. Tragic!
Thats not true. Gaza civilians participated in raping and murdering and stilling from Israelis. Also there are Israeli hostages, women and babies held in Gaza. Innocent the Gazans are not.
lol it's like a logical fallacy magic trick: Hamas is a terrorist that needs to be destroyed. And now that we have our foot in the door, watch the magic: Gazan civilians = Hamas and every single one needs to be tortured and destroyed, not even allowed to flee.
I wish they will all flee and live happily ever after far away from our children
Yesterday, Israel again announced that no civilian deaths (past or future) are the fault of Israel. So I guess your government agrees with you (or you agree with your government). But let's be clear, Palestinians are just as human as you are, and have the same rights, so the reverse must also be true: Nobody is at fault when Israeli citizens are killed. That's equality for you. Maybe you will realize how wrong that position is, but I don't have a lot of hope.
I agree with this: "Palestinians are just as human as you are".
I wish no one had to suffer. In the war they started we have to win. I wish hostages return and fire will cease. I wish Palestinian will recognize Israel right to live peacefuly in Israel.
Read again today that Israel considers their loss of ~1000 soldiers and civilians on Oct 7th to be a "genocidal attack".
Meanwhile, they are facing formal charges of genocide in the international courts. This is something which almost never happens, is very serious, and could impact the ongoing genocide.
Amazing they are crying genocide, while killing so many more Gazans - over 1% of their people!
Genocide is what Assad did in Syria. Israel is in a war against terrorists that raped and murdered Israelis.
It's not about Syria, or anywhere else. This is about what your tax dollars are going toward, which is pure evil.
The world leaders are watchinh each other. When Kadafi and Mubarac were removed oposition in Syria made a move. Assad saw what happened to Kadafi in Lybia and Mubarac in Egypt and decided to fight to stay in power. Putin supported. 22 Million refugees and 600,000 murders later, Putin saw US doesn't care. So Russia invaded UA. 8 Million refugees and 1 Million kiils on boths sides (20k kidnapped children) later, Hamas saw US doesnt care and attacked Israel. Israel also sees Russia and Iran and Syria kills without hesitation and US and EU does nothing, so Israel is forced to survive by the middle east cruel rules.