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.

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 year ago

      Ah, only Hamas has an agenda huh. IDF doesn't have an agenda, Netanyahu doesn't have an agenda, the US government and associated media organizations don't have an agenda...only Hamas has the agenda huh.

      • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Well yea, it's only propaganda when the people I don't like do it. Just because what I believe and what I question lines up perfectly with us-foreign-policy doesn't mean anything!

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Gaza’s population is near 40 % children (people under 18). Israel has lobbed thousands of bombs at an urban area with population density comparable to New York. What part of this do you find hard to believe?

      • mar_k [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Gaza's nearly 50% people under 18 actually. The 40% number is for people under 15

        • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Century-long is what was written. Not centuries-long. So we only need go back to 1923 or earlier, and we know this started around then.

          • Infamousblt [any]
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            1 year ago

            No see it's not literally exactly 100 years or greater so you can't use a world like century long because that would be inaccurate. I'm going to ignore literally everything else about the post and just focus on the fact that you used one slightly exaggerated word instead because I have no other leg to stand on smuglord

            • TheLastHero [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              there was also Zionist activity in Palestine for decades before Israeli independence. Saying a century is completely accurate

    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.