Gaza death toll in Israeli attacks tops 5,000, nearly half of them children
www.aljazeera.com
Children make up 40 percent of dead since Israel started bombing the enclave, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

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.

    • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world
      164·
      1 year ago

      This sounds like apologia and the logic that will breed even more Hamas clones. Israel is the one committing this atrocity. They have the power to stop it. Don’t remove that responsibility from them by saying it’s just civilian casualties.

      • Meowoem
        21·
        1 year ago

        it’s not just civilian casualties, some of them were teenage soldiers.

      • teichflamme@lemm.ee
        22·
        1 year ago

        This is whataboutism but the same crowd has the opposite opinion when it come to Russia and Ukraine. And Ukraine didn’t even shoot missiles at Russia first.

        So it just appears to be alignment with certain groups and countries rather than honest worry about anyone’s wellbeing.

      • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
        710·
        1 year ago

        SasquatchBanana

        This sounds like apologia and the logic that will breed even more Hamas clones. Israel is the one committing this atrocity. They have the power to stop it. Don’t remove that responsibility from them by saying it’s just civilian casualties.

        Did anything that you read register or did you just blindly imagine something defending Israel lol?

        • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world
          53·
          1 year ago

          To militaries and the vast majority of western ethics… There’s a huge mental difference between terrorist attacks that discriminately shoot innocent children and families, from bombing those who are unlucky and happen to be near the bad guy.

          You’re literally rationalizing Israel (and other countries like Russia and US) going in and killing children deliberately as unlucky. Israel knows they are killing children. The moment the fucking number of “casualties” is half children then they should fucking stop.

          For places like this though, their hatred runs deep. Civilian casualties are part of the business when you’re packed that deep and using innocent people as shields.

          But, no, you aren’t doing apologia. It’s just part of the business! So let’s turn around and ignore what’s happening 🙌