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Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials (www.aljazeera.com)

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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.

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[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago

Where are all those people wailing about Hamas being monsters for killing babies? This should make them even angrier and louder.

[-] Arrakis@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Now don't be silly, you're implying there is logic and reason to their arguments instead of just emotion.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

This sounds like apologia and the logic that will breed even more Hamas clones. Israel is the one committing this atrocity. They have the power to stop it. Don't remove that responsibility from them by saying it's just civilian casualties.

[-] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

it's not just civilian casualties, some of them were teenage soldiers.

[-] teichflamme@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

This is whataboutism but the same crowd has the opposite opinion when it come to Russia and Ukraine. And Ukraine didn't even shoot missiles at Russia first.

So it just appears to be alignment with certain groups and countries rather than honest worry about anyone's wellbeing.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

SasquatchBanana

This sounds like apologia and the logic that will breed even more Hamas clones. Israel is the one committing this atrocity. They have the power to stop it. Don't remove that responsibility from them by saying it's just civilian casualties.

Did anything that you read register or did you just blindly imagine something defending Israel lol?

[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

To militaries and the vast majority of western ethics... There's a huge mental difference between terrorist attacks that discriminately shoot innocent children and families, from bombing those who are unlucky and happen to be near the bad guy.

You're literally rationalizing Israel (and other countries like Russia and US) going in and killing children deliberately as unlucky. Israel knows they are killing children. The moment the fucking number of "casualties" is half children then they should fucking stop.

For places like this though, their hatred runs deep. Civilian casualties are part of the business when you're packed that deep and using innocent people as shields.

But, no, you aren't doing apologia. It's just part of the business! So let's turn around and ignore what's happening 🙌

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