One-Third of Those Killed in Israeli Assault Since October 7 Are Children
One-Third of Those Killed in Israeli Assault Since October 7 Are Children
The current death toll in Gaza is close to 42,000, but experts believe that figure is likely a gross undercount.
This is just outrageous and unacceptable. While I don't think any reasonable person would deny that Israel has the right to defend itself, I find it next to impossible to see how "national defense" can be used to justify killing children. wtf?
Look man, I get what you're doing, but it's just getting old at this point.
It's the Zionists who are killing children, and what you say is totally antisemitic.
Don't do this. Not only is your response actually antisemitic, but relating Israeli and Zionist policy to Judaism is exactly what Netanyahu is doing in order to be able to play the anti semitism card. If you are against Israel's actions, fight to make it clear that it is not the same as Judaism and support the Jewish people that speak out against Zionism and the Israeli government.
About half the inhabitants of Gaza are under 18 years old, so 1/3 of the dead being children corresponds to a ratio of two civilians killed for every combatant. This is not out of the ordinary for urban warfare conducted in a manner intended to reduce civilian casualties.
It is out of the ordinary. Either the Israeli military is extremely incompetent or they are deliberately targeting children and it is the second.
Many people seem to think so but the evidence doesn't support their argument. A 2:1 ratio of civilians to combatants killed isn't particularly low but it is far closer to the best that Western armies have been able to accomplish than it is to the ratio seen from armies that are not trying to reduce civilian casualties. For example, Russia's ratio in Mariupol is approximately 8:1 and that was against Ukrainian soldiers in uniform who weren't deliberately hiding among civilians. Urban warfare always involves heavy civilian casualties.
We must face the hard truth in Gaza: Israel has lost its moral authority - The Hill - 07/18/24
I reviewed thousands of incident reports and tens of thousands of individual data points from several dozen credible organizations, as well as the Israeli military itself, as a part of a nonpartisan task force analyzing Israel’s campaign in Gaza.
Our report, submitted to the Biden administration and briefed to Congress, establishes compelling and credible evidence of Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and U.S. military best practices, utilizing U.S.-provided munitions. It shows how the Israeli military has demonstrated a “systematic disregard for fundamental principles of international law, including recurrent attacks launched despite foreseeably disproportionate harm to civilians.”
Phew. So, like, this is OK, right? Nothing to to see here, move along? Nothing to worry about 15000 (fifteen fucking thousand, like fifteen times a thousand, something like a thousand times my kid's classroom size) dead kids, because it's not out of the ordinary for urban warfare conducted in a manner intended to reduce civilian casualties? Thanks man, that really will help me sleep at peace with my conscience tonight.
(If we were talking about 15000 dead Israeli kids, we'd be -rightfully- freaking the fuck out. But 15k of those other kids, that's fair game. Super ethical too.)
Isn't it kind of naïve to think that all non kids victims are even terrorists? Where is the proof for that. Because according to your logic even the hostages that Israel killed, and the WFK personnel should also be labelled terrorists, which apparently is wrong.
Something something they voted 20 years ago. /s
It's actually genocidal language...
That's not what I am assuming. My assumptions are only that none of the dead combatants are children and that the age distribution of dead civilians matches the age distribution of the civilian population.