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Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials
(www.aljazeera.com)
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While I definitely kind of agree with the sentiment. Just statistically. It would be hard for this to not be true. The numbers overall might be a little different. But considering the average person in Palestine is 18 to 19 years old. Age groups over that rapidly dwindling. It's pretty much a foregone conclusion that at least half, if not more, would be children.
Oh, I don't doubt the Israelis are killing a crapload of children. I just would rather see the exact numbers from a more neutral party.
You'll never see exact numbers. Some people don't have anyone to report them missing, some bodies are never identified, and some are never found or completely destroyed.
That is a thought that terrifies me more than any other.
Yes 5000 is horrifically high. And if there's anything we've learned from watching the atrocities unfold over the last 70 years. Is that you don't believe either side without evidence.
Ukraine's total death toll is only 8000/9000 so far. 5000 in two weeks is genocidal.
Thats not even unrealistic to me when I remember the fact Gazas been bombed more in two weeks that Afghanistan ever got in a full years time. Afghanistan has a land area of a quarter of a million square miles and Gaza has an area of under 150 square miles.