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submitted 11 months ago by mwguy@infosec.pub to c/world@lemmy.world

By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem


The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He'd been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He'd heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. "You need to escape," somebody in the street shouted, "because they will bomb the towers".

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[-] oiez@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
  1. They are tired of dealing with daily rocket attacks on their population centers and the killing of 1400 civilians made leaving a terrorist group in charge of the region untenable?
[-] filister@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

So instead Israel kills 11K, and counting, razing to the ground entire neighbourhoods, causing humanitarian catastrophe while refusing any mention of humanitarian ceasefire or even pauses to let aid inside the enclave.

How noble of them. And by looking at the numbers of casualties and injured on both sides you will see the big picture that this is happening for years and years.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Out of sight, out of mind.

Look how many Iraqis were killed during desert storm 1&2 - makes this look like a picnic.

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 7 points 11 months ago

Oh, well I guess if someone else has already been evil before, being evil now must be okay then...

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

They're so tired of it that Mossad allowed the attack on the festival so they'd have an excuse to carpet bomb Gaza.

[-] oiez@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

If they were carpet bombing Gaza there would be 200,000 dead civilians.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Thinking that murdering 10.000 innocent civilians is justified because a terrorist organization murdered/kindapped over 1.500 is psychotic. Get help.

[-] oiez@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

First, there is zero information on the number of civilian deaths vs. Hamas deaths, they are all lumped together in that 10,000 number, so good job parroting Hamas propaganda. Second, here is what you sound like to me: "Thinking that murdering 500,000 innocent German civilians* is justified because the Nazi's murdered/kidnapped a few Jews is psychotic. Get help."

*The number killed in WW2, in case you're wondering.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Contemporary historiography agrees that bombing civilian population during WWII didn't contribute to actually winning the war, so congratulations on backing your psychotic position with your ignorance.

[-] oiez@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Starting to think you're just an antisemitic troll. Blocked.

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Hating the Zionist regime in charge of Israel != Being antisemitic.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

There is data on civilian deaths, but not any recent data since there is no way it can be reliably verified.

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