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[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Kid loses 32 family members, has his limbs crushed in the rubble of the home he was sheltering in, and coming to Canada is a rare exception that will saddle his uncle with 40k of medical debt (I found the GoFundMe here). What makes it worse is that this is a better outcome that many of this kid's peers will have. Over 13,000 children have been outright murdered by the IDF, tens of thousands more have been wounded like this kid, and hundreds of thousands are starving.

American tax dollars + multinational Israeli support makes it possible. Biden is sending Israel another 1,800 2,000lb bombs and 25 F-35 jets (worth over 2 billion just for the jets). One 2,000lb bomb "can have a lethal fragmentation radius – an area of exposure to injury or death around the target – of up to 365 meters (about 1,198 feet), or the equivalent of 58 soccer fields in area" and the US only dropped 1 ever in all the years they fought ISIS. Israel dropped hundreds in the first month alone.

this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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