Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials

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.

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

Noo half are children their lives matter more click our article pls

neotux, (edited )

It is all and well within the limit of a “proportionate” response exercising the “right of selfdefence”! Wondering who decides where the limit goes.

middlemanSI,

Work towards a bEtTer future I see…

little_hermit,

Humans once again going batshit crazy with mass murder riding on a wave of vengeance. It’s a disease with no cure.

pingveno,

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  • Evotech,

    I mean, we know they shoot thousand of missiles into Gaza so yes a lot of people die. And given there’s a lot of kids. Kids die too.

    tygerprints,

    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.

    Ferrous,

    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”.

    balloflearning,

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  • BraveSirZaphod,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    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.

    explodicle,

    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.

    DogMuffins,

    I mean you’re right of course, buy even if they’d doubled the number… would 2500 deaths be ok?

    pingveno,

    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.

    Infamousblt,

    Ah, only Hamas has an agenda huh. IDF doesn’t have an agenda, Netanyahu doesn’t have an agenda, the US government and associated media organizations don’t have an agenda…only Hamas has the agenda huh.

    FALGSConaut,
    @FALGSConaut@hexbear.net avatar

    Well yea, it’s only propaganda when the people I don’t like do it. Just because what I believe and what I question lines up perfectly with us-foreign-policy doesn’t mean anything!

    NewDark,

    The average age in Gaza is like 18. Of course about half of the deaths are going to be children

    rgb3x3,

    Something like 54% of the Gaza population is under 24.

    SatanicNotMessianic,

    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.

    randon31415,

    My estimation predicted 88k, with a 63:1 ratio.

    Bay_of_Piggies,

    An agenda of informing the world of how Palestinians are facing a century long and on-going genocide

    dingleberry,

    Centuries long? You’re mixing them up with Jewish people?

    freagle,

    Century-long is what was written. Not centuries-long. So we only need go back to 1923 or earlier, and we know this started around then.

    Infamousblt,

    No see it’s not literally exactly 100 years or greater so you can’t use a world like century long because that would be inaccurate. I’m going to ignore literally everything else about the post and just focus on the fact that you used one slightly exaggerated word instead because I have no other leg to stand on smuglord

    TheLastHero,

    there was also Zionist activity in Palestine for decades before Israeli independence. Saying a century is completely accurate

    Bay_of_Piggies,

    I said century, not centuries. The state of Israel was formed in the 1940s, nearly a century ago.

    ShimmeringKoi,

    Throw yourself into a hole

    nohaybanda,

    Gaza’s population is near 40 % children (people under 18). Israel has lobbed thousands of bombs at an urban area with population density comparable to New York. What part of this do you find hard to believe?

    mar_k,
    @mar_k@hexbear.net avatar

    Gaza’s nearly 50% people under 18 actually. The 40% number is for people under 15

    jackpot,
    @jackpot@lemmy.ml avatar

    oh my fucking god

    DeriHunter, (edited )

    This is straight up lie, Al Jazeera lie they’re ass off. There are civilians who died but that’s only because hamas uses them as human shield.

    And after the horrors in Israel I don’t give a fuck. We need to do anything to kill each and every one of those fucking monsters,

    kidnapping a 9 month old babies, burning alive father and son hugging, which were barely identified,

    Opening a pregnant woman, taking the infant out, kills him and shoot the mother in the head

    rapping 10 years old kids fuck them!

    We need to kill every one of them, scums of the earth

    Edit: fuck you all down voters - terrorists supporters down vote all you want, see if a give a fuck

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  • bioemerl,

    Give them a gold star why don't ya

    generalpotato,

    This gut wrenching. Fuck those in power responsible for this.

    tygerprints,

    Absolutely disgusting in every way. War is the product of infantile minds and sick abusive hearts. These kids did not deserve to die for the stupidity and perverse beliefs of the adults surrounding them. Shame on Israel for this murderous atrocity and shame on Hamas for engaging in warlike acts of child murder as well. NO ONE is above blame for this horrendous show of inhumane and despicable sickness.

    bl4ckblooc,

    That’s antisemitism /s

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