15,000 killed by Isreal. The other 21,000 are unaccounted for. Now I know you're making the "joke" that if the 21,000 are "missing" that they must have been killed. And you're probably not wrong to some extent. However, unaccounted for isn't always the same as dead. If I were a kid in Palestine, and bombs started raining down, I'd get the fuck out too........and if my parents don't know where I am, but I'm alive, then I can try to contact them later. Assuming of coarse that the parents are still alive.
And sure, a portion, maybe even a large portion of those 21,000 actually are dead. We don't KNOW that, but it is a reasonable guess. The hard part is figuring out just how many of the 21,000 are alive, and how many are dead.
I say this because on 9/11, depending on which reports you base your knowledge on, somewhere between 3k-6k officially were declaired dead. Which is still a tragedy no matter what the numbers are. However on the day of the attacks, my local NBC news channel was saying the estimated deaths were close to 60,000 for the two towers, as that's how many people had gone missing.
Well........turns out a large portion of that 60k made a decision in the moment that survival was more important than logistics and numbers. Get out while you can, stay alive, and contact people later when it's safe. That's what they did on 9/11, and I assume some portion of those kids are doing the same now in Palestine.
So let's not take a situation which is already a tragedy, with no end in sight, and claim it to be the absolute worst case scenario it can be, when in reality, it's probably less than that. We just don't know by how much yet, and may not for years.
First responders and medical care were readily available after 9/11, thankfully.
In Gaza, Israel has crippled the medical system by attacking the vast majority of hospitals and much international aid. Additionally, the bombings and Rafah invasion haven't stopped.
Didn't realize La Pen was still haunting French politics. But then, I can't pretend i am particularly well versed in European politics as a whole. This NYT article helped me understand this a bit better. For fellow clueless Americans, the OP article makes a lot more sense after reading that NYT article.
Because you think the inevitable alternative will somehow be better? I hate Biden as much as the next reasonable human being, but I don't want another 2016 situation. We don't have good options, only least bad ones.
Is it plausible for a Lemmy feature where it can automatically ReaderView post the content of the article i the content so we don't have to deal with WildWest text rendering with every article?
I'm convinced at this point that the US is only keeping Israel supplied with weapons because of how important control of the Suez Canal is. Having an ally close to that region is important and Turkey is just not quite close enough
I think this article omitted important further context by not describing the target selection approach the IDF was using: they had an AI tool make guesses as to who was part of Hamas, then suggest bombing runs of their homes when they were believed to be inside around meal times or sleeping. They reserved precision weapons for commanders, and used dumb bombs to kill low-ranking suspected combatants.
This approach is inherently designed to create a pretense to carpet bomb neighborhood full of families based on a process with little to know human oversight it discretion.
For details, look up "lavender" and "where's Daddy".
Absolutely true, the targeting of civilians and civilian architecture has been blatant and deliberate. 972 Magazine has a great article about it and the use of 'Power Targets'
Compared to previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the current war — which Israel has named “Operation Iron Swords,” and which began in the wake of the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 — has seen the army significantly expand its bombing of targets that are not distinctly military in nature. These include private residences as well as public buildings, infrastructure, and high-rise blocks, which sources say the army defines as “power targets” (“matarot otzem”).
Although it is unprecedented for the Israeli army to attack more than 1,000 power targets in five days, the idea of causing mass devastation to civilian areas for strategic purposes was formulated in previous military operations in Gaza, honed by the so-called “Dahiya Doctrine” from the Second Lebanon War of 2006.
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