Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN
Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN
Overall, 44 percent of the victims were children; the youngest was a day-old boy and the oldest was a 97-year-old woman.
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Given that most Palestinians are under the age of 14, this was to be expected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Palestine
Not most, technically - wiki says 0-14 make 44% of population. But this article breaks down the 70% further by saying 44% killed were 14 or under, so it's pretty much bang on for indicating that they're killing Palestinians at random.
And if 44% are children, that leaves 56% as adults. Cut that roughly in half to 28% for a 50/50 male/female split you get 72% (28 and 44) of the population is "women and children". If that's accurate, the title would be better stated as "Isreal kills indiscriminately".
Random is giving them way too much. Those are targeted numbers
No they aren't. Most of every population is women and children.
Its not random when you tell a population to go to a place for safety and then you bomb them when they are concentrated in that place.
Civilians are being killed b3cause ha,as is using civilians as shields.
Yah sure. I’m sure when they shoot a civilian it’s because hamas hiding under their dress. People need to stop believing in movies just because hamas is bad doesn’t make Israel the good guy. There doesn’t seem to be a good guy in this fight. Also look at how Israel has treated them over the years is it really hard to see why organizations like hamas have sprung up?
I agree that both sides in this are shitbags. But don't excuse Hamas's war crimes.
Nah, I expect militaries to not bomb indiscriminately. Because that's a war crime.
You expect too much of the IDF.
You seem to expect too little
Ya, perhaps. Time has taught my optimistic ass to be a pessimist where the IDF is involved. Or conservatives. Or... you know... People. ;)
Unfortunately, that's just war.
There never was, and there never will be a moral army in war.US military can literally hit one target in a building using a literal knife missile - https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-used-six-bladed-ginsu-weapon-to-kill-iraqi-militia-leader-7dfe0687
Israel proved they could target precision strike an Iranian general in a single room.
There is in fact an expectation for the military to not bomb indiscriminately, except when in the case of Gaza they choose to bomb indisciminately.
Join the IDF and see for yourself then. Why do you think there is a crisis of morale in the IDF? There was an interview from an IDF soldier talking how emotionally taxing it was for him to drive a bulldozer over dozens of people. Even Israeli news points out how horrific the average actions of the IDF are.
But he still did it. It must have been so hard for him hope he can get over the initial damage. Maybe the other oh wait they’re dead.
I mean, sure, but this assumes that the killing is completely indiscriminate.
It is, but it's important that you're clear on that
They're obliterating entire cities, so yeah.
What fraction is under 18? It's hard to tell by looking at the graph. I want to calculate what ratio of combatants to civilians killed a number of 70% implies.
Roughly half, as of mid October last year. I don't think anyone has a clear picture of the current proportions, for obvious reasons.