• sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That is not even close to the world record. Killing 250 people in a day isn’t good, obviously, but it is not even a rounding error compared to real warfare.

    Just considering conventional weapons, the firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9–10 March, 1945 killed approximately 100,000 people.

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      11 months ago

      Very true, but they allegedly arent at war, and the Israelis are meant to be the good guys.

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        11 months ago

        I’m pretty sure this is a war. At least I’ve heard Israeli officials describe the current conflict as a war on Hamas. I don’t know of any war in which civilians aren’t negatively affected.

        Israel can’t really stop fighting Hamas yet. According to the BBC, Hamas is still receiving new weapons via their tunnel system. They apparently also have an extensive weapons manufacturing system within Gaza itself.

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          11 months ago

          Don’t worry mate, Israel has plenty of people supplying them with weapons.