Every conflict since at least 2006, the Hamas health ministry releases casualty numbers.
Then after the conflict subsides, the UN sends in professionals to verify the numbers.
The UN has verified the Hamas health ministry's numbers as accurate every time.
Did we forget about how Democrats had control of both houses of Congress when Biden was elected, yet still failed to accomplish anything significat?
And Manchin is still head of the energy committee, hes on appropriations and armed services too... If Democrats actually wanted to push back on his obstructionism they would have stripped his committee assignments. They haven't, making it obvious that they want to keep him around as the current rotating villain.
I'm just asking you to apply the same logic to both sides.
Members of the IDF also go inside schools, malls, and hospitals. In fact, since there is mandatory military service in Israel, it's easy to say that the IDF are everywhere. In my opinion, this does not justify Hamas rockets targeting Israel, but the same logic is used to justify the massive Israeli bombardment on civilian infrastructure.
Suggesting that Hamas wants it's own civilians to die is just sick IDF propaganda to justify war crimes. I think civilians stayed in north Gaza because they did not want to abandon their homes, not because "hamas talked them into staying" lol
The IDF has launched, by it's own admission, over 8000 rockets into Gaza. Are we to believe all 8000 were launched at legitimate Hamas targets? To justify such an act we need serious evidence, "The IDF said it was all Hamas" is not good enough.
All of this is hauntingly similar to the US "war on terror". At a certain point, we labeled all military-aged males as "enemy combatants", therefore it was acceptable to kill them all. Israel is following the US lead: kill them all, then label them as Hamas to justify the mass slaughter.
Not sure where you would get such a silly idea.
I support the side that is being unjustly attacked and besieged by a much stronger military power. I stand with Ukraine and Palestine.
This "human shield" propaganda is so biased. By Israel's extremely broad definition, every Palestinian is a human shield.
If you were to apply this sick "human shield" logic to both sides, most of the innocent civilians killed by Hamas on Oct 7th would be acceptable military targets.
The IDF has military infrastructure near schools, malls, and hospitals. Why are they hiding behind human shields?
Vote for who? I always do my duty and vote for the lesser of the two evils, and they all turn out to be war criminals.
That's a lot of words to say you support genocide.
This is an article about dead children, it's rather shocking to see such bloodthirst in the comments.
If every pro-GameStop post on r/WSB and r/Superstonk was actually a joke then they have achieved levels of sarcasm far beyond what I thought possible.
Everything you mentioned is an NRA talking point.
The NRA started out as a well respected advocacy group for hunters rights and environmental protection. Then they were captured by the arms manufacturing industry, so now their only goal is to sell more guns.
And after every major mass shooting there is a significant uptick in sales of guns and ammo, so the arms industry is financially motivated to contribute to the culture of gun rampage.
The plan was to close the horrific, abusive insane asylums and replace them with community mental health centers.
Then neoliberals got into power and said "nah, I dont think so" to that second part.
So now our most mentally unwell people live their lives in prison and on the streets.
There was a massive outcry from the world. It sounds like this: "Its horrible that rockets are getting fired at you! Here is a multi-billion dollar rocket defense system! But if you want the rockets to stop, end your brutal apartheid regime!"
Sadly, the Zionist response is to install the rocket defense system and increase the brutality. Then they smear any critics, including most of the UN and nearly every human rights organization, as biased and antisemitic.
I think it's important to distinguish between good faith criticism, like you are doing, and the people screeching that "I dont believe the 10k number bc its Hamas". The latter is genocide denial, it rhymes with "I dont believe 6m died in the Holocaust."
And yes I agree the fog of war is thick, the initial reports of 500 dead at al-Ahli hospital were overblown and sensationalized.
But I think the safe assumption is that the 10k number is a significant undercount. The health ministry counts corpses in hospitals and morgues. It isn't able to count people buried under rubble, bodies incinerated, corpses strewn across the road outside Gaza City, direct hits that leave nothing behind but pink mist, etc.
Look at it from the other side: Israel has said it launched over 9000 rockets, so if the 10k deathtoll is accurate, then each rocket killed only 1.1 persons on average. This death rate per rocket is very low, especially considering many are launched into heavily populated urban areas.