Inside Gaza, cut off from the world by a near total blockade, Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire neighborhoods, leveling homes, schools and mosques. CNN drone footage from Monday showed the level of destruction across parts of the strip, with whole streets flattened in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and a row of destroyed buildings known as al-Zahra towers in central Gaza.
Save the Children said Monday that over 1 million children are “trapped” in Gaza with no safe place to go and warned of the devastating impacts of lacking medication and electricity to power vital health infrastructure in the enclave.
“At least 2,000 children have been killed in Gaza over the past 17 days, and a further 27 killed in the West Bank,” the aid agency said on Monday.
“We call on all parties to take immediate steps to protect the lives of children, and on the international community to support those efforts,” Save the Children said, adding that Israeli airstrikes are “killing and injuring children indiscriminately.”
perhaps hamas should have considered this before attacking and killing a bunch of innocent people, then capturing a bunch of others…
And what about the children killed, is this their fault too?
Are they brown? Yes.
Are they white? No.
Go to reddit and you’ll see the modern JIDF in full force. They’re actually claiming and having top-voted comments (>1000 upvotes) where they say all Gazans are terrorists.
I’ve seen some of the discussion on there and it makes me feel sick. People talk about Gazan children as if they aren’t humans.
People do that across this conflict since it became trendy again to focus on, on the 7th. There’s people on both sides ignoring the civilian tolls and dismissing them for one reason or another. The amount of “this was horrible… BUT” both there and here on Lemmy is deeply disturbing, and stomach churning.
This holy shit yes. Reddit is a clusterfuck. I hold Netanyahu and Gaza’s elected representatives, Hamas, both accountable. I deeply condemn both of their past, present, and future war crimes. I am so old enough to know that Netanyahu and Hamas have always been partners.
But more importantly, although we may disagree on the conflict, we do NOT disagree that Reddit is a clusterfuck disaster. I fight the pro Hamas propaganda here on Lemmy because I still care about Lemmy. I happily soak up the downvotes from all these kids who have no knowledge of the conflict snd the anti-semites both.
But the pro Netanyahu/hardliners shit on reddit is fucking pointless to fight it’s a shitshow and nobody should look to Reddit for anything on this conflict. For this conflict I just consider it an illegitimate news source completely.
all of them? no - but there’s only one surefire way to tell
Hamas wanted dead Palestinians as an outcome of their actions. So it is partially their fault.
That isn’t what I’m asking. Did the children deserve this? Are they to blame?
No civilians ask or deserve to be dead. Not these children, not the ones slaughtered by Hamas on the 7th, not the teenagers dying, not the adults. Targeting civilians is literally a war crime.
100% agree.
No, of course the children are not to blame. Why even ask that? I thought you were asking if Hamas was to blame, as that’s what the context of OP was, and the children were obviously blameless.
What is the purpose of saying “Hamas should have thought about that”? It’s apportioning blame to the victims, who are children.
Hamas thought about it because it’s part of their objectives. They want this reaction from Israel. They are not fools. I don’t think many children are in Hamas, so I don’t get your point.
If this was intentional by Hamas then the original comment is pointless.
Look at you blaming the sins of the fathers on babies. How Christ-like you are.
sorry pops, not a jesus freak
Perhaps Israel should have thought about this before blockading Gaza for almost 20 years.
Hamas stated they were prepared for any possible response by Israel, so yeah
10% of the preparation is going to be ambushes and booby traps. 90% of the preparation is recruitment drives.