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I take no position, if this is good or bad. I have my opinion but I don't want any arguments with either side, so I just posted objective facts.
I was just curious on the distance and figured other people would also want to know.
It is also an objective fact that only about 1/3 of Palestinian households own a car so for the average able bodied Palestinian it will be a ~4.5 hour walk assuming no traffic
And then throw in the fact that they're displacing over a million people. There will be traffic like never before.
It's not my fault if someone didn't do their own research when making up their minds from my image.
I posted one fact, I don't have to post every single fact in the world.
I posted what I posted before they started to attack the evacuating civilians or at least before I knew about it.
I later posted a link to an article about the bombings. What's up with Lemmy users not reading the thread before commenting?
I mainly used Google maps to know the distance, and the time helps with visualisation of the length.
If you think that the estimate was exactly correct, you are lost.
And if you look at any footage of the evacuation you would see that traveling by car is possible.
Maybe it's uncommon or it's slower than anticipated, but don't pretend it's impossible, because it clearly is.
That may be but don't argue with me about it.
I just posted an image from Google.
Your link is assuming more or less perfect conditions, right now probably some of this road is destroyed and completely packed with people, livestock and what not.
Yeah, obviously.
I just checked just now and it still alright fine, but that doesn't matter when Israel bombs the "safe" route anyways: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67108364
Maybe google's congestion tracking doesn't work well there, dunno.
This would only work if people are using their phones for navigation, considering that electricity and fuel are short, I don't think many people were keeping their phones switched on.