How Many Gazans Have Already Died? Perhaps 200,000. With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000? With 5,000 babies born every month into the rubble, their mothers wounded and without food, healthcare, medicine, and clean water for any of their children, severe skepticism about the Hamas Health Ministry’s official count is warranted. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas, which he helped over the years, have a common interest in lowballing the death and injury toll. But for different reasons. Hamas keeps the figures low to reduce being accused by its own people of not protecting them, and not building shelters. Hamas grossly underestimated the savage war crimes by the vengeful, occupying Israeli military superpower fully and unconditionally backed by the U.S. military superpower. The Health Ministry is intentionally conservative, citing that its death toll came from reports only of named deceased by hospitals and morgues. But as the weeks turned into months, blasted, disabled hospitals and morgues cannot keep up with the bodies, or cannot count those slain laying on roadsides in allies and beneath building debris. Yet the Health Ministry remains conservative and the “official” rising civilian fatality and injury count continues to be uncritically reported by both friend and foe of this devastating Israeli state terrorism.
Honestly, I've though of the figure as low, we're so ready to acknowledge 3x as many Hamas fighters put out of commission for every one killed. So why wouldn't we be tripling the figure of those dead being in risk of dying from their wounds and a non-existent healthcare system? I hope Israel lets the international community in at some point so we get an accurate count at least (though I doubt it given the speed at which they buried the female victims of Oct 7).
The deaths of Palestinian civilians is not “great news”. These deaths are unfortunate and Hamas is solely responsible for them. Israel has done its best to avoid civilian deaths in a very crowded urban battleground. These total deaths is nowhere near 200,000; otherwise the Hamas Health Ministry would be rolling out and crowing about this number as a form of their typical Pallywood propaganda. At this point Israel and the international community must do more to ensure that aid is provided to the civilians in Gaza. They have started drops from planes, planning a port and trying to get the convoy routes open — however the food being provided currently falls far short of the need.
Total bullshit, it's obvious to anyone with a brain that Israel doesn't care about casualties and you are talking like Palestinians have control over Hamas. It's like saying Republicans have control over MAGA extremists.
Hamas is the governing and militant entity ruling Gaza since 2005. Hamas, a terrorist group, has used Palestinian civilians as human shields. Using hospitals, schools, residential buildings, mosques, and other structures as strong points to launch attacks. Hamas has launched rockets at Israel from positions on top of or directly next to civilian structures. Hamas started this war by invading Israel and killing over a 1000 people while raping hundreds of women in systemic barbarity. You would think that if Hamas cared about the Palestinian civilians then they would have allowed them shelter in their tunnels, and shared the medical supplies & food Hamas has been hording with them. Not to mention Hamas would have spent the hundreds of millions in international aid helping civilians in Gaza instead of diverting large portions of it to fund terrorist activities. Hamas recently warned Palestinian civilians that anyone cooperating with Israel in bringing in food aid into Gaza would be treated as collaborators and murdered (treated with an iron fist). Hamas stopping food aid (when they weren't looting the trucks) clearly demonstrates what they actually think of Palestinian civilians. Bottom line: Hamas is solely responsible for the civilian causalities in Gaza. Hamas actually doesn't really care about these civilians whatsoever either --- simply viewing them as human shields.
This is such a typical textbook response. When did I mention Hamas? I am opposed to butchering of civilians and children by Israel, you can be too without this bullshit deflection about Hamas. Stay on topic, you can oppose Israel's mass murder and Hamas' terrorism at the same time, you don't have to play the moral relativism bullshit like some politician whose job depends on spewing nonsense to partisans.
If Israel was deliberately and indiscriminately mass murdering civilians then there would be over a million dead in Gaza. In context of a very difficult urban warfare situation, Israel has attempted to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties. It's far from perfect -- but it is definitely not "mass murder" or "genocide". The bottom line is that Hamas is solely responsible for this war and the crisis in Gaza.
More nonsense, where do you get these bullshit numbers from? Just made up on the spot to defend cold blooded murder? Your bottomline has got NOTHING to do with the topic, nobody asked you for your bottomline which you keep peddling because you got no answer to Israel's shit tactics which is not something new.