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Since October 7, more than 3,257 children have been reported killed, including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, according to the Ministries of Health in Gaza and Israel respectively. The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict globally – across more than 20 countries – over the course of a whole year, for the last three years.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Israel has a right to defend itself (from children)

Hamas made Israel do it. Bombing was the humane option.

Israel provides water for the Gaza strip for FREE! (because they exclusively control the water supply and give substandard unclean water to Palestinians) They should be thankful for the supplies!

It's not genocide if I insist on not calling it that.

I know more about the conflict than anyone who is critical of Israel. If you criticize, that means you are ill-informed.

There we go. I saved every one some time.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

you forgot to mention how many LGBTQ people Israel saved. They only killed bigoted children.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Oh silly me you are right! As a queer person myself I should be celebrating the military wing of the IDF Pride ally coalition bombing direct action.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@TinyPizza please note that for some reason this talking point is only authorized for use by people who show no other interest in LGBTQ+ rights whatsoever.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage 4 points 1 year ago

That's patently false. They have an OVERSIZED interest in (eliminating) LGBTQ+ rights in any other context.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The world standing by and watching a genocide unfold is unconscionable. Children cannot be militants nor terrorists. Unless the kid is literally pointing a gun at your face there is never a justifiable claim of self defense

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If ~~your~~ a nation makes war. Don't use your nation's name. Don't raise their flag. Live for humanity. Denounce the old life of being submissive to people that ask you to kill for them.

Understand we are going back to an era of owning up to our responsibilities as individual human beings. Side with none. Fight for all.

Anything else is just the same old story of murder, occupation, pride and war.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US will watch because it is the kind of things they would do, even is they don’t specifically like it when someone else does. This is far from the worst regime they’ve supported in the name of US interests. Since the US supports them, nobody else will do anything.

[–] Linkerbaan 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America isn't watching they're actively supporting this genocide.

[–] kurwa 9 points 1 year ago

Exactly, Israel is basically an extension of the US, the whole thing is pretty much funded by it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The rest of the world: 🤙

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK weird thing for me: I'm in the US. If I click that link I get told to go to the US site (savethechildren.org not savethechildren.net) and the US site appears not to have that story, at least not in that form. I used their search function for the article title and found nothing.f

Maybe they just titled it differently and I should search more carefully, but it seems odd right now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I checked it out, you're absolutely right and it's weird as fuck. Maybe they raise a lot of money through the US side and they think that being too pro Palestinian child or detail specific might turn some people off?

Good catch btw!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks for checking. I'm sad to be right about this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's so fucked, is there anything we can even do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nope. Been writing my senators and reps for years to do more than nicely ask for peace and hit them in the funding if you really care. Before this time, the last one I sent out was in 2021 around the sheikh jarrah attacks. My senator tells me he strongly condems what happens, but his budget vote disagrees.

[–] thatsage 3 points 1 year ago

It's very bad. But it's the fault of Hamas, not Israel, and they are the true source of their suffering. If only Hamas cared about the children of Gaza - other than as a tool in their Islamic jihad war, we wouldn't be in this horrible situation.