GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019
GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019
The number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across conflict zones
Since October 7, more than 3,257 children have been reported killed, including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, according to the Ministries of Health in Gaza and Israel respectively. The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict globally – across more than 20 countries – over the course of a whole year, for the last three years.
Israel has a right to defend itself (from children)
Hamas made Israel do it. Bombing was the humane option.
Israel provides water for the Gaza strip for FREE! (because they exclusively control the water supply and give substandard unclean water to Palestinians) They should be thankful for the supplies!
It's not genocide if I insist on not calling it that.
I know more about the conflict than anyone who is critical of Israel. If you criticize, that means you are ill-informed.
There we go. I saved every one some time.
72your forgot to mention how many LGBTQ people Israel saved. They only killed bigoted children.
28Oh silly me you are right! As a queer person myself I should be celebrating the military wing of the IDF Pride ally coalition bombing direct action.
24@TinyPizza please note that for some reason this talking point is only authorized for use by people who show no other interest in LGBTQ+ rights whatsoever.
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The world standing by and watching a genocide unfold is unconscionable. Children cannot be militants nor terrorists. Unless the kid is literally pointing a gun at your face there is never a justifiable claim of self defense
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youra nation makes war. Don't use your nation's name. Don't raise their flag. Live for humanity. Denounce the old life of being submissive to people that ask you to kill for them.Understand we are going back to an era of owning up to our responsibilities as individual human beings. Side with none. Fight for all.
Anything else is just the same old story of murder, occupation, pride and war.
12The US will watch because it is the kind of things they would do, even is they don’t specifically like it when someone else does. This is far from the worst regime they’ve supported in the name of US interests. Since the US supports them, nobody else will do anything.
9The world can't do much without going to war with US empire given that the only reason Israel is able to do these things is unwavering US backing. US is currently moving a huge number of military assets to the region and warning countries not to interfere with the genocide Israel is committing.
8What if someone gives you a choice, they will kill your children brutally or you kill them and their children as collateral damage?
That is what this is.
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The rest of the world: 🤙
23OK weird thing for me: I'm in the US. If I click that link I get told to go to the US site (savethechildren.org not savethechildren.net) and the US site appears not to have that story, at least not in that form. I used their search function for the article title and found nothing.f
Maybe they just titled it differently and I should search more carefully, but it seems odd right now.
14I checked it out, you're absolutely right and it's weird as fuck. Maybe they raise a lot of money through the US side and they think that being too pro Palestinian child or detail specific might turn some people off?
Good catch btw!
12Thanks for checking. I'm sad to be right about this.
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If you support Israel you support genocide.
14That's so fucked, is there anything we can even do?
14Nope. Been writing my senators and reps for years to do more than nicely ask for peace and hit them in the funding if you really care. Before this time, the last one I sent out was in 2021 around the sheikh jarrah attacks. My senator tells me he strongly condems what happens, but his budget vote disagrees.
2tbh I assume if I wrote to my senator they'd just put me on a list (if I'm not on one already)
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Commenting about it in social media doesn't help
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That's horrible. Palestinian civilians are the worse off in this whole conflict. But blaming Israel is 50% of the question. Maybe even 40%, since by now they have no other way of securing their 200 prisoners while not leaving Hamas with so much power to launch another deadly attack on them.
The only way to prevent such atrocities now is to let Gazans flee to Egypt and let Israel kill Hamas, then let Palestinians start fresh with a leadership which prefers clean water over terror.
-1Country with a history of taking any land these people get pushed off is going to sweep them all into Egypt and kill the "bad" ones. Then it's welcome back with open arms to the land off ruble and bodies huh? Is this a sick joke? Are you saying Israel is 50%-40% responsible for the thousands of dead children they bombed and killed?
since by now they have no other way of securing their 200 prisoners while not leaving Hamas with so much power to launch another deadly attack on them.
Guys we didn't try anything but killing civilians and now we only have the option of going in and doing an ethnic cleansing, Damn, we really put ourselves in a pickle by forcing ourselves to murder everyone. Guess the only solution that will bridge this divide and heal these wounds is more murder. But hey, after we totally let everyone come back home wink wink we'll throw them a pizza party and hook em up with some high quality H20.
The fuck?
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And where the fuck is the outrage for the thousands of children kidnapped by the Russian's in Ukraine? The ACTUAL definition of genocide is a lot different than collateral damage caused by war. An ACTUAL genocide is happening right now in Ukraine with concentration camps (filtration camps) and all those bells and whistles. This world is fucking stupid sometimes. What is happening in Gaza is small fucking baby potatoes compared to what is happening in Ukraine. Russia also supports Hamas so maybe that is where all this propaganda comes from on this sub-lemmy? Its terrible. Fuck this entire sub.
-5Calling it a war is a lie. There is only 1 army here. The people dying are innocent civilians. They cut off water food and medical supplies to 2.1 million people. They're bombing homes, shelters, hospitals, evacuees.
This didn't just start this month. This is the culmination of 40 years of apartheid. And this is a textbook attempt at genocide and ethnic cleansing.
7Absolutely present? Are you whataboutisming the murder of kids? Whats wrong with you?
Edit: since this person wanted to add a paragraph to their comment (without notation btw) Also fuck Russia, fuck Hamas and fuck their justifying 3000+ children's murder as collateral damage.
7A person can be outraged by both. This is not a competition.
4What is happening in Gaza is small fucking baby potatoes compared to what is happening in Ukraine.
So, I thought you were genuine and passionate about that, so I clicked on your profile to see the stories you have been contributing and raising awareness, so I could upvote them and support you in that.
Crickets chirping. Absolute silence from you on Ukraine.
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This is a tragedy, but I just want to get a few things straight:
- The numbers regarding Palestinian victims come exclusively from Hamas.
- Hamas has been caught lying about these numbers before. Often, and with no shame. And they're a terrorist group. I'm sure the truth is still tragic, but the specific numbers cannot be trusted to the point where you can compare them to anybody else. The death toll is certainly lower than Hamas says it is, the number of dead children is a smaller proportion than they say it is, and they have no interest in separating civilians from combatants for their BS statistics anyway.
- Hundreds of rockets from PIJ and Hamas have fallen short of their targets, landing in Gaza, most famously causing the Al-Ahli hospital explosion. Again, although Hamas estimated 500 dead (a number it somehow put out within 20 minutes of the explosion), independent estimates are that roughly 200 people died—which is still 200 too many.
- Hamas is refusing to allow civilians to evacuate because its goal is, in no small part, to "martyr" as many children as possible in the hopes that these statistics will turn you against Israel. It uses roadblocks and misinformation to prevent civilians from evacuating to the South. It is, in fact, using civilians as human shields.
-6Dan, this thing reads like the narcissists prayer dude.
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.4
Are we still believing Hamas’s numbers?
-7The Associated Press and WHO seems to be.
“The numbers may not be perfectly accurate on a minute-to-minute basis,” said Michael Ryan, of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program. “But they largely reflect the level of death and injury.”
In previous wars, the ministry's counts have held up to U.N. scrutiny, independent investigations and even Israel's tallies.12