Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities
www.economist.com
More than a third of the dead are children
  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    “Authorities” = the Gaza Media Office. Up until now, the counts have been from the Gaza Health Ministry.

    Not that I doubt the numbers - frankly I think they are likely higher - but it bears saying that the new figure comes from a body with less authority on the matter.

    Meanwhile, for all Israel says of “those are numbers from Hamas” or whatever excuse they give, Israel have never (to my knowledge) provided their own numbers to counter the claim, nor said what would be an “acceptable” number of civilian casualties for their campaign.

    The real purpose of all this is to use up weapons stockpiles and sell more. Change my mind.

  • sadreality@kbin.social
    71·
    11 months ago

    Took Russia about 5 years to get these numbers in Ukraine.

    Israel really working OT on this.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      11 months ago

      That comes with an asterisk because we still don’t know the number of people that died in Mariupol - Ukraine estimates at least 25000 and Associated Press estimates at least 30000 based on satellite pictures of mass graves.

      If Israel resumes the indiscriminate bombing campaign they will catch up with those numbers fast though.