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Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN (www.aljazeera.com)

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[-] Fleur_@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

Is that just because 70% of people are women and children or is there bias?

[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

The math leans towards the former, but when the two hypotheses suggested by the data are "we are actively and selectively targeting noncombatants" and "we just don't give half a shit who we're killing," in a sane world you'd be universally branded as "the baddies" in the conflict.

[-] Fleur_@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

They're bad I just want a better understanding of what's happening so I can more accurately hate Israel

[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry. Not casting aspersions on you, just despairing at the situation.

[-] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I wish there was a way to convince them that murdering your neighbors then stealing their land is fucking evil.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would consider the latter to be depraved indifference, but the former to be maliciously genocidal.

Of the two, the former is much, much worse than the latter. And with everything being a spectrum of some kind, the former is much further along the path to being evil than the latter.

With that said, there is no single person pushing all the buttons in Israel; as such, I am sure there are people in the Israeli command structure that represent the former much more than the latter, and vice versa.

But if there is one characterization I feel is wholly appropriate: on Oct 6, Israel looked at the evil of Hamas and said, “hold my beer and watch this.” And boy, did they ever deliver.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

44% children, 26% women, 30% men. Gaza is about half under 18, so that's nearly randomly killing people. That said, these are only confirmed fatalities, so presumably susceptible to bias.

The report is here

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

No bias, they are just killing everyone on sight.

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