The latest count on Al-Jazeera was 109 with over 800 wounded, and reports of 40 bodies bulldozed away that no one can reach. They did shoot at a crowd of thousands.

[–] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 13 points 8 months ago

No. Many are still unaccounted for.

[–] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No. The article says the number wounded is likely in the hundreds. The headline is exaggerating a tragic event.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Let's not split hairs between dead or wounded. Getting wounded while starving and no hospitals functioning and everyone around you has dysentery dooms someone to a very slow, very painful death.

[–] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm not splitting hairs over dead vs wounded.

The headline says thousands were gunned down (dead and wounded: total casualties), but the article says combined dead and wounded are in the hundreds.

I'm "splitting hairs" over the headline exaggerating an already horrific event by an order of magnitude.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ok. Why lie? Those numbers are fucked enough. Now I feel mislead

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago

They're shooting to kill. If they hit someone, that person has been gunned down whether they die immediately or after bleeding out. They're shooting at a crowd of thousands, and 800 are dead or dying as a result, according to Al Jazeera. So maybe we need to wait a few more hours before the 1000+ number can be confirmed, but it's already obvious Israel was aiming for 'thousands'.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Also is this the same event?