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Israel suffers worst combat losses since October, diplomatic isolation (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/news

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Intense fighting was under way both north and south Gaza, a day after the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel's "indiscriminate" bombing of civilians was costing international support.

Warplanes again bombed the length of Gaza and aid officials said the arrival of winter rain worsened conditions for hundreds of thousands sleeping rough in makeshift tents. The vast majority of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been made homeless.

Israel had global sympathy when it launched a campaign to annihilate the Hamas militant group that controls Gaza after fighters stormed across the border fence on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and seizing 240 hostages.

But since then, Israel has besieged the enclave and laid much of it to waste. Gaza's health ministry said on Wednesday at least 18,608 people have been killed and 50,594 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7. Many thousands more are feared lost in the rubble or beyond the reach of ambulances.

In Rafah, in Gaza's south where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter, the bodies of a family killed in an overnight air strike were being laid out in the rain in bloodied white shrouds, including several small children. One, the size of a newborn, was wrapped in a pink blanket.

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[–] glimse 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Israel reported 10 of its soldiers killed in the past 24 hours, including a full colonel commanding a forward base and a lieutenant-colonel commanding a regiment. It was the worst one-day loss since 15 soldiers were killed on Oct. 31.

Omg 10

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Did you expect more from the headline? Journalism at its best...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wow Reuters blocking my adblocker is not cool. Fuck all these corpos man I have no respect for that shit

[–] BlackPenguins 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reuters is a quality news source and as long as the ads are non intrusive I'll allow them.

[+] chitak166 -10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Downvoted for lowering standards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can either pay, or deal with ads. Your choice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nowhere is it written that ads are required to lessen a user's experience but here we are.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What solution would you like?

Everything for free?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where did I say that? Are you actually not old enough to remember non intrusive banner ads?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am older than the common era of the internet, like before 56k.

I remember them, I also remember never actually looking at them.

They just didn’t work.

[–] Gamoc 4 points 11 months ago

I'm on your side here. But I don't look at any ads. If you interrupt what I'm watching with an ad, I stop watching/reading and do something else. If anything an ad will make me less likely to use or otherwise engage with your product. If it's unskippable that effect is inevitable.

The only exception is something I'm already interested in, in which case you've wasted your money advertising to someone redundantly AND my time because I don't want to see your shitty adverts, which risks me losing interest.

Adverts used to work. Now they're so constant and endless that they have the opposite effect for me. I stopped using YouTube a few months ago because of the ads. Can I remember literally a single product that was ever advertised to me on YouTube? No, because their ads can go fuck themselves.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If the marginal cost of reproducing a thing approaches zero, then obviously the appropriate price point is "free". It costs almost nothing to serve a webpage, but if that page is filled with intrusive and potentially malicious adverts then the cost of viewing it is astronomical in comparison. You wouldnt go out in public naked, and nobody should be using the web without adblock.

[–] cm0002 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It costs almost nothing to serve a webpage,

Wut? To one person maybe, but once you're scaling to delivering that same webpage to hundreds of thousands to millions that cost rises dramatically lmao do you even know how powerful a system needs to be to serve a million requests for the same webpage at the same time?

Even a text only webpage is going to need some good power behind it just to handle the protocol overhead and that's not even covering the infrastructure costs

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

I look forward to the day I run into a Lemmy hug of death

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

I manage a system for work that handles tens of thousands of interactions per second during peak season, so yeah I'm intimately aware that the cost per visit scales down near zero with volume (a google search used to cost less than 1/1000 of a cent before they started feeding everything into LLMs).

Plus, ads are responsible for about 2/3rds the cost of serving a page, not to mention the liability when malicious content gets injected into your site by an ad network.

The ad-funded internet was a mistake that enabled the domination of Big Tech. Other financing models like subscriptions or donations are the safe and ethical alternative.

[–] chitak166 -2 points 11 months ago

I'll continue doing neither like I have been for decades.

[–] cm0002 6 points 11 months ago

Reuters seems unable to detect my ad blocking, I'm using AdAway in root mode on Android and able to read the article without ads

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Urban warfare increases casualties. Especially when it's house to house.

[–] Jumi 3 points 11 months ago

You mean when it's ruins to ruins

[–] ours 2 points 11 months ago

Or when dropping huge bombs from aircraft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Fuck ‘em.

[–] masquenox 1 points 11 months ago

Israel had global sympathy

No it didn't.

Fuck Israel.