The Defense of Children in Palestine has tracked dozens of deaths in Palestine as a result of airstrikes from Israel.
    • المنطقة عكف عفريت@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      9 months ago

      Gaza only ended up on the situation it is now because surrounding countries kept attacking Isreal over the last 70 years and lost land to them, then Hamas/the PLO/etc have played on similar agrievements to get themselves into the leadership position and have now lead them into a war.

      Just FYI, Gazans are refugees who were forced to the Gaza strip by… ISRAEL! Woohoo.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              61·
              9 months ago

              Gaza is not Hamas and Hamas is not Gaza. Those children are innocent and they’re nearly half the population, as the post says. When you put a huge number of innocent people under siege, and kill more of them than were killed on your side, you’re escalating.

                • المنطقة عكف عفريت@lemmy.worldOP
                  31·
                  9 months ago

                  Hamas are the defacto leader of Gaza, voted for in 2006. You can make all sorts of arguments about what’s happened after that, but if the people of Gaza have made no attempt to remove them from leadership since then this is the outcome.

                  Sure, let’s blame the civilian Palestinian deaths on the Israelis that voted this current gov’t into power…

                  Oh wait, this isn’t how it works

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
      English
      2·
      9 months ago

      Israel didn’t exist there prior…

      They took land (rather, were given land by western empires that wasn’t there’s to give) and kicked out and killed those who were there. Yeah, that’s didn’t create any resentment at all I’m sure and it’s all the attacks that happened in response that caused it.

      Someone else can always be blamed. To act like Israel doesn’t share in the blame is probably one of the most ignorant statements I’ve heard.