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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Cryptofascists will cite dead children to justify slaughtering many times more children in retaliation, each and every time, because they see those that are killed in that retaliation as less than human. us-foreign-policy

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I assume you're joking but just in case you're not (or for the sake of people reading this that didn't catch it) by crypto- as a prefix I mean deceptively veiled fascist ideology that pretends to be something else or justified in some ostensibly politically acceptable way.

        https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crypto-fascist

        • jamhandy@lemmy.ml
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          11 months ago

          Why assume he's joking? It's probably the first time many are hearing that term.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Because I assumed that not many would immediately associate cryptofascism with cryptography.

  • blkpws@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Killing 2000 childens... What a fucking terrorist state has those Israelians... hamas has the right to self-defense!

  • neotux@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    It is all and well within the limit of a "proportionate" response exercising the "right of selfdefence"! Wondering who decides where the limit goes.

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      11 months 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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        11 months 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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      11 months 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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        11 months ago

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

        • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months 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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            11 months 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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              11 months 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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      11 months 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.

  • Miczech@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I'd be careful with using these numbers as they are difficult to verify and often come from Hamas themselves. That is not to dismiss lives lost but raise awareness about committing to accurate information.