Children make up 40 percent of dead since Israel started bombing the enclave, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.
“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.
Cryptofascists will cite dead children to justify slaughtering many times more children in retaliation, each and every time, because they see those that are killed in that retaliation as less than human.
I assume you're joking but just in case you're not (or for the sake of people reading this that didn't catch it) by crypto- as a prefix I mean deceptively veiled fascist ideology that pretends to be something else or justified in some ostensibly politically acceptable way.
A Russian soldier who kills a child should be tried for war crimes. On June 1st, the UN said 525 children had been killed. The majority of those would have been killed by Ukrainian military, but it's okay if you think Russia bares the responsibility for those as well, since Russia did invade the country. Though it would be misleading to not mention that the children killed by Ukraine in the civil war 2014-2022 is also around 525.
Russia invaded Feb 28, that's 600 ish days ago, so on average one child dies as a result of this war every day. In the last 17 days, Israel has killed 'nearly' 2500 children. That's 'nearly' 150 every single day. We're outraged by both, but Israel's slaughter needs to stop 150 times more urgently. Further, there is no argument, no security necessity, no motivation that can be attributed to Israel more convincing than pure hatred and a desire to steal land in order to explain why they are doing this. That means that the condemnation doesn't deserve nuance. It needs to stop. Israel is the villain.
no motivation that can be attributed to Israel more convincing than pure hatred
Hamas just killed about 1.5k Israelis, and they were absolutely aiming for civilians. The IDF was previously content to sit behind its Iron Dome and keep Gazans in an open air prison. This action is clearly a response to Hamas. Hamas and the Israeli government are co-villains in this latest spat of violence, with civilians trapped in the middle.