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Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials
(www.aljazeera.com)
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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.
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".
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.
My estimation predicted 88k, with a 63:1 ratio.
The average age in Gaza is like 18. Of course about half of the deaths are going to be children
Something like 54% of the Gaza population is under 24.
I mean you're right of course, buy even if they'd doubled the number... would 2500 deaths be ok?
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.
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.
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.