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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

19000+ as of 4 days ago, and this is the minimum number since it only includes people Gazan hospitals physically counted.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

19,000 is the total I've seen, but I don't think there are good figures on civilian vs. combatant deaths. I was assuming a very conservative 2:1, which I saw reported somewhere, but I assume the civilian share is much higher, given that at least 7,000 or more of the dead from Israeli attacks were children.

In any case the point is that if killing Israeli civilians is wrong then killing dozens of times more Palestinian civilians should also be wrong. It's a shame that most of the American political leadership doesn't see it that way and instead wants to send Israel even more weapons with which to murder a vastly disproportionate number of civilians to the losses suffered in Israel.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

19,000 is the total I’ve seen, but I don’t think there are good figures on civilian vs. combatant deaths. I was assuming a very conservative 2:1, which I saw reported somewhere,

I think you might be misremembering; that 2:1 is the number for October 7th.

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