• ???@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Let’s take one example where Israel told Gazans to move south then bombed several areas in the south of Gaza. That’s one of thousands of examples of Israel using proximity shielding or some other pathetic excuse to butcher civilians.

    Civilians and journalists and medical staff are over represented. Especially the ones Israel shot point blank in the head.

    Thanks for the details but they are diverging from the core issue. Maybe someone with more time could tackle them but I won’t. I think your math isn’t based on much, just numbers slammed together. Let’s focus instead on every single time Israel lied to civilians and then neutralized them.

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      1 year ago

      It sounds like you won’t be convinced by anything I write, so do it yourself. Pull the numbers yourself. Do the math yourself.

      A good place to start would be comparing the number of bombs dropped on northern Gaza vs. the south.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I guess I find it hard to use math to justify murder. The number of expected dead civilians should be very close to zero if Israel wasn’t committing war crimes like having military operations that directly harm civilians.

        So is asking people to go south then bombing the south, is that Israel trying to avoid human casualties? Yes/no would be good.

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          1 year ago

          I understand the hesitation. It’s treating humans as numbers. But civilian casualties will always be nonzero in war. Especially when one side is using human shields.

          Asking people to move south is actually proof they want to avoid human casualties. There never was a chance 100% will leave, and sure as shit not in 24 hours. But if 50% leave after 3 days and 80% after a week, then when the eventual ground invasion comes there will be far fewer civilians left who can be killed in the crossfire.

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            1 year ago

            But Israel deliberately bombed the South of Gaza knowing too well how many people are there. I find it hard to justify this or wiggle out of it to be honest.

            What about withholding water? Humans could die of dehydration. How were they avoiding human casualties then??