• very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      51
      ·
      19 days ago

      October 7th inventists obsess over the senseless violence directed at women and children on that day. The fact is that fewer than 30% of those killed on October 7th were women or children.

      In Gaza, 70% of the >40k (gross underestimate) are women and children.

      Death to israel and every genocide denier, justifier, and normalizer. This century’s nazis deserve an even more crushing defeat

      • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        25
        ·
        19 days ago

        About 600-700 were civilians, of whom we know some were killed by IOF forces. Split it down the middle and maybe resistance forces killed 350 on the high end, in a crossfire

        • very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          18 days ago

          Exactly. It’s mind-boggling how the story of October 7th seems so far removed from the truth. And of course, israel will ensure that the world will never know exactly how much blood from October 7th is on their hands. Their regime relies on delusion.

          Even besides israel killing themselves, didn’t military and police make up at least 30% of the israelis who died on Oct. 7th? I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen israel defenders claim that the IOF killing 1 “Hamas” for every 5, 10, or 20 civilians is just how war goes.

          No matter how you slice it, Hamas’ sins on October 7th pale in comparison to israel’s barbarism.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        edit-2
        18 days ago

        30% seems like a very high estimate of civilians honestly, since less than 30% of Israel’s population are civilians.

        Over 90% of Israeli adults are current or former IDF. Finding a place where 30% of people are civilians would honestly be impressive.

        Although following the news you’d think the IDF is somehow the world’s only all-civilian military. Like that Israeli-American “hostage” whose family the Democrats kept trotting out, who finished active duty in Gaza ~6 months before October 7th. Thats not a hostage, that’s a prisoner of war.

    • That is a rounding error. Gaza has lost 10% of it’s population (using Lancet numbers) to 15% (University of Edinburgh’s numbers). I do not care about those 1,200 people (large amounts of whom were killed by Israel) when Palestinians are incapable of counting their Martyrs fast enough. Al-asqa flood was a success and wholly justified.