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‘Horrific Reality’: Nearly 70% of UN-Verified Gaza Deaths are Women and Children (scheerpost.com)

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Nearly 7 in 10 people killed by Israeli forces in Gaza during an earlier six-month period of the ongoing assault on the Palestinian enclave were women and children, the United Nations human rights office said Friday.

The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified 8,119 of the more than 34,500 Palestinians killed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombs and bullets between November 2023 and April 2024. Among those killed were 3,588 children and 2,036 women ranging in age from newborns to nonagenarians. Minors under the age of 18 made up 44% of the victims in the analysis.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i'm not looking forward to seeing the gaza genocide as another historical footnote that only future leftists read; understand and futilely try use in warning future voting masses about their country's trajectory.

i bet that isreal will follow the us and japan's tradition of not fully teaching their younger generations about the atrocities that their countrymen have committed and i wonder why the germans do.

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Germans teach about the genocide they committed, because they get a sick sense of moral superiority out of pretending to have denazified.

All the while it does nothing to prevent their complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

i would judge; but i'm learning i'm your typical american reddit liberal and judging would be like the kettle calling the pot black; but only one of them is hot atm.