• friendlymessage@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    7000… Isn’t that number from Hamas? I’m pretty critical of Israel’s reaction to the terror attacks myself but taking Hamas’ numbers at face value and to propagate that number without questioning it is extremely naive.

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      1 year ago

      They recently released a list of everyone who died in the last few weeks, with names and national IDs, numbering about 6400 IIRC. I think we can believe that. They said there were 200 or so unidentified victims.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      No, it isn’t. I’ve followed the death tolls day after bloody day. I didn’t even know that hamas had made any claim about the death toll.

      And even the way you phrased that “pretty critical of Israel’s reaction to the terror attacks” is propaganda. Mass murder of civilians, depriving civilians of food water and healthcare, neither of those things is a reaction to anything. Those actions stand on their own. No one is forcing Netanyahu to kill children. He is happily doing it on his own.

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        1 year ago

        On the contrary: saying that these atrocities committed by Israel were not direct reactions to the atrocities committed by Hamas is intellectually dishonest. There is no good guy in this conflict, both sides are thugs out for blood with the civilians on both sides caught in the middle. Believing anything else is falling for propaganda.