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Causualties Israel-Palestine 10/24/23: Gaza 5791 dead, 16297 wounded, Israel 1405 dead, 5431 wounded. (www.aljazeera.com)
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Here are the latest casualty figures as of October 24, 2.40pm local time (11:40 GMT):

Gaza

Killed: At least 5,791

Including at least:

2,360 children

1,292 women

Injured: More than 16,297

Occupied West Bank

Killed: At least 96

Injured: At least 1,828

Israel

Killed: At least 1,405

Injured: At least 5,431

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whether the numbers are inflated or not doesn't really matter.

What really matters is that innocent people are being killed every day and a lot of those are kids.

That the humanitarian crisis is deepening every day.

That more than 1.4M people are displaced.

That Israel is bombing the area they suggested was a safe heaven.

That the people in Gaza are going through hell.

And sadly this won't solve anything and would only strengthen the position of Hamas and nurture another generation of broken people. After this, peace in the region would become even harder and there would be increase of the support for far right parties in Israel. And those parties will do everything in their power to continue antagonizing the Palestinian and Arab population both in the West Bank and also in Gaza. Nothing good would come out of it! And it saddens me immensely!

[–] e_mc2@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY children. I don't care which side you're on, but this should make everybody intensely sad.

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The average age in Palestine is 19 so ~50% of civilians killed are going to be children. And for the survivors 53.5% of children in Palestine have PTSD and something like 80% show symptoms.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why doesn't it include women and children counts for both?

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Because Al Jazeera is a biased source. If you want to look for yourself, you can go through a partial list of the Israeli fatalities here. Google translate is decent. Not all include an age, and Israelis have many unisex names.

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Israel: Hamas beaded 40 babies

Israel: We never said that

Israel: But actually we have footage of it

Israel: But we're not going to show you

Israel: Ok some journalists can see it but they have to put their phones in Yondr™ pouches because we're filming a special for Netflix

[–] pythoneer@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel indeed never said it. What I've seen is that some reporter that said that they beheaded babies, and 40 babies were killed, then somehow it for turned to 40 beheaded babies on social media.
So basically Israeli officials never claimed that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/unverified-allegations-beheaded-babies-israel-hamas-war-inflame-social-rcna119902

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In a response to questions by The Washington Post, a White House spokesperson said the president’s comments were based on news reports and claims by the Israeli government.

“The president based his comments about the alleged atrocities on the claims from Netanyahu’s spokesman and media reports from Israel, according to the White House.”

The Israeli army has said that it cannot confirm the claims, which were repeated on Wednesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson Tal Heinrich.

But Israeli military officials have told a number of media outlets that women and children were “brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/white-house-walks-back-bidens-claim-he-saw-children-beheaded-by-hamas#:~:text=The%20White%20House%20has%20walked,leaders%20at%20the%20White%20House.

[–] pythoneer@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's good and all but still the claim of "40 babies were beheaded" never existed.

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Israeli army has said that it cannot confirm the claims, which were repeated on Wednesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson Tal Heinrich.

What are you disagreeing with?

Are you trying to say Tal Heinrich is not a spokesperson for the IDF? Because NewsNation, IndiaTimes, Australian Financial Review 9news[dot]au, and the NY Post all refer to her as such. Ohh and theres this piece from JewishInsider

The Prime Minister’s Office has put together a task force that includes some past staff, such as Netanyahu’s former spokesman and diplomatic adviser, Mark Regev, and President Isaac Herzog’s former spokesman, Eylon Levy, as well as new faces such as journalist Tal Heinrich, to help with wartime communications.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Al Jazeera is widely considered Islamist propaganda, including by the Palestinian Authority/Fatah and governments in the Muslim world. Post a more credible source, if you want people to be less sceptical.

[–] Aleric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That source says things I don't like, that means it's propaganda!

ROFLMAO.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Copy-paste:

Al Jazeera:

... Officials of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party ... accused Al-Jazeera of bias toward Hamas (with which it is at political loggerheads), and Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan sued the broadcaster. ... On 15 July of that year [2009], the Palestinian National Authority (PA) closed down Al Jazeera's offices in the West Bank in an apparent response to claims made on the channel by Farouk Kaddoumi that PA president Mahmoud Abbas had been involved in the death of Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian Information Ministry called the organization's coverage "unbalanced" and accused it of incitement against the PLO and the PA. ... Al Jazeera reporters and anchors in London, Paris, Moscow, Beirut and Cairo have resigned. Ali Hashem, the organization's Shia Beirut correspondent, resigned after leaked emails publicized his discontent with Al Jazeera's "unprofessional" and biased coverage of the Syrian civil war at the expense of the 2011 Bahraini uprising. Since the Bahrain government was supported by the Gulf Cooperation Council (of which Qatar is a member), the protests were given less prominence than the Syrian conflict on the network. Longtime Berlin correspondent Aktham Suliman left in late 2012, saying that he felt he was no longer allowed to work as an independent journalist ... Al Jazeera faced criticism from Bangladeshi human rights activists ...accused of downplaying the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, in which Islamist militias assisted the Pakistan Army in targeting Bengalis ... demanded a ban on Al Jazeera transmission within Bangladesh citing similar bans in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and the UAE.

... Critics say in past years, Al-Jazeera — particularly its flagship Arabic channel — has reflected Qatari policy by promoting Islamist movements. Many of the region’s Arab rulers, particularly in Egypt and the UAE, see the Muslim Brotherhood group and its offshoots as a top threat. ... Al-Jazeera’s English and Arabic channels, as well as its news websites and its popular online AJ+ videos, do not mirror one another in style and target different audiences.

And:

Qatar’s dalliance with Islamist groups has long been the primary means for Doha to project influence in the Arab world, particularly through state support for Al Jazeera Arabic. After 2011, Qatar came to believe, and Al Jazeera Arabic confidently predicted, that a wave of Islamist governance would sweep in with new Arab democracies. Instead, the elected Brotherhood government in Egypt proved even more unpopular than the Hosni Mubarak dictatorship ... With the Brotherhood’s decline in prestige and power, Qatar’s bet has yielded precious few returns. And now Hamas’s disastrous rebranding in Western eyes could well force a reckoning with Doha’s irresponsible strategy.

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Al Jazeera is actually pretty legit. Obviously you gotta be aware because it is literally government funded but let this be the first of many times you will look up a claim made by Al Jazeera and find it to be true.

Btw, you could easily look this up. Why is this my job? I gave you quotes and names so you could look this shit up yourself.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for further details about Biden’s remarks. Two senior administration officials said Biden was referring to reports from Israel about beheaded children and cited several media reports of beheadings.

NBC News has not confirmed those reports. IDF Spokesperson Maj. Doron Spielman told NBC News: "That specific report and that number I can’t confirm."

A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that toddlers and babies were found in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz in southern Israel, with their “heads decapitated” after Hamas’ attack over the weekend, CNN reported.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-deliver-remarks-roundtable-jewish-community-leaders-rcna119865

Almost verbatim what Al Jazeera said

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Much of Russia Today's coverage is also perfectly factual. They mix the lies in with the truths, to make it less obvious.

Feel free to continue posting al jazeera links, but people will be rightly sceptical. It is not a reliable source.

[–] anteaters@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Why does Aljazeera spread nonsense numbers from terrorists that try to milk sympathy after live streaming the most horrendous and torture and murder?

Because people love it and jerk wildly to the ever higher number of dead people in Gaza.

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

5791 - 2360 - 1292 = 2139 men of age.

Israel claims to have killed over 1,000 who invaded its territory on October 7th. Earlier reports were over 1,500.

On the northern front: Israel is reporting over 50 Hezbollah members having been killed since October 7th. Hezbollah have confirmed 7 (or 8, it's a little difficult to track only through liveblogs) members killed today (October 24th). Hamas has also claimed responsibility for several attacks on the northern border which Israel did claim having killed those responsible, but I don't see where or if those are being counted.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sickening. Israel is a barbaric fascist state

[–] Narrrz@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

if the people dying weren't essentially innocent bystanders, I would relish this shitshow of awful regimes practicing mutual annihilation.

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Aljazeera fails to mention that using civilian infrastructure as military installations is a warcrime and that those are legitimate war targets, therefore all those numbers are actually on Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Also huge doubt on the actual numbers themselves since it is, well, Aljazeera. Might as well listen to RT.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Buddy, they live in an incredibly densely populated open-air prison. There's no option of using "military infrastructure" when it's incapable of existing in Gaza.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also huge doubt on the actual numbers themselves since it is, well, Aljazeera. Might as well listen to RT.

Copy-paste:

Al Jazeera:

... Officials of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party ... accused Al-Jazeera of bias toward Hamas (with which it is at political loggerheads), and Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan sued the broadcaster. ... On 15 July of that year [2009], the Palestinian National Authority (PA) closed down Al Jazeera's offices in the West Bank in an apparent response to claims made on the channel by Farouk Kaddoumi that PA president Mahmoud Abbas had been involved in the death of Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian Information Ministry called the organization's coverage "unbalanced" and accused it of incitement against the PLO and the PA. ... Al Jazeera reporters and anchors in London, Paris, Moscow, Beirut and Cairo have resigned. Ali Hashem, the organization's Shia Beirut correspondent, resigned after leaked emails publicized his discontent with Al Jazeera's "unprofessional" and biased coverage of the Syrian civil war at the expense of the 2011 Bahraini uprising. Since the Bahrain government was supported by the Gulf Cooperation Council (of which Qatar is a member), the protests were given less prominence than the Syrian conflict on the network. Longtime Berlin correspondent Aktham Suliman left in late 2012, saying that he felt he was no longer allowed to work as an independent journalist ... Al Jazeera faced criticism from Bangladeshi human rights activists ...accused of downplaying the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, in which Islamist militias assisted the Pakistan Army in targeting Bengalis ... demanded a ban on Al Jazeera transmission within Bangladesh citing similar bans in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and the UAE.

... Critics say in past years, Al-Jazeera — particularly its flagship Arabic channel — has reflected Qatari policy by promoting Islamist movements. Many of the region’s Arab rulers, particularly in Egypt and the UAE, see the Muslim Brotherhood group and its offshoots as a top threat. ... Al-Jazeera’s English and Arabic channels, as well as its news websites and its popular online AJ+ videos, do not mirror one another in style and target different audiences.

And:

Qatar’s dalliance with Islamist groups has long been the primary means for Doha to project influence in the Arab world, particularly through state support for Al Jazeera Arabic. After 2011, Qatar came to believe, and Al Jazeera Arabic confidently predicted, that a wave of Islamist governance would sweep in with new Arab democracies. Instead, the elected Brotherhood government in Egypt proved even more unpopular than the Hosni Mubarak dictatorship ... With the Brotherhood’s decline in prestige and power, Qatar’s bet has yielded precious few returns. And now Hamas’s disastrous rebranding in Western eyes could well force a reckoning with Doha’s irresponsible strategy.

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Al Jazeera is propaganda

lol Interesting claim from someone doing their own selective editing. Your second link is dead so I couldn't follow it but the third link... why did you cut it right before

At the same time, Qatar has long been a key U.S. partner in the Middle East.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the headsup on the dead link. I've replaced it with an archived link.

Obviously I'm not going to argue the US isn't hypocritical in its dealings with Qatar. You can also look forward to Europe doing exactly nothing, because they rely on Qatari gas.

But if you think it's damning that Qatar has close ties to the US, you should probably read this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas

That's the thing with people who spread pro-Islamist coverage, including stuff from al-Jazeera.

For years Hamas was supported by key players in Israel. A strong Hamas helped to sow division in the Palestinian cause, undermining the two state solution. People who support Hamas, and/or push pro-Islamist media, are arguably helping support the continued oppression of the Palestinian people.

Netenyahu and the Jewish supremacists in his government, certainly weren't too dissapointed by this recent Hamas attack. They have their excuse now. Thanks to Hamas and media like Al-Jazeera who support them.

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 0 points 1 year ago

You think it’s damning that Qatar has close ties to the US?

No, the opposite.

... I had to go back because I didn't understand your response in context. I reread your original comment and I think I misunderstood you.

Not really sure where to go from here. I don't think Al Jazeera is nearly as bad as RT. Is AJ propaganda? Yeah, in the same way WSJ is. Everybody has a bias but I've never seen AJ bend the truth like Fox or NY Post.

[–] hh93@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Quatar is a key partner because they have a position that allows for negotiations and are not as fundamentally extremist as many other countries in the region

Hamas leaders are living in quatar though without Quatar having any problem with that - they are basically Switzerland in the middle east.

And Al-Jazeera reported stuff directly from official sources from Palestine which happened to be exaggerated Hamas propaganda all the time - I'd say it's a bit less one-sided than RT since they usually include other views as well but it's still extremely biased reporting for issues regarding the conflict