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IDF Targetting children.

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Looks like they've been dropping balls and toys that were not so fun to play with....because they exploded and injured children.


Targetting children.

Makes sense though. You don't get numbers like this by mistake:
Here are some findings in the commission’s latest report:

  • Israel has killed 20,000 children and injured 44,000 more since 7 October 2023
  • Severe physical and mental injuries, mass trauma, orphanhood, separation, disability, repeated displacements, starvation and the collapse of education and healthcare have erased childhood and will continue to affect children in Gaza throughout their lives
  • Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, with no information on their whereabouts
  • Israeli security forces have used sexual violence against children as part of the collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered and intergenerational pattern of occupation and hostilities
 

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Looks like they've been dropping balls and toys that were not so fun to play with....because they exploded and injured children.


Targetting children.

Makes sense though. You don't get numbers like this by mistake:
I have long supposed that they have been targeting kids, especially in the Occupied Territories and Gaza. Now I know it as fact.
 
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Looks like they've been dropping balls and toys that were not so fun to play with....because they exploded and injured children.


Targetting children.

Makes sense though. You don't get numbers like this by mistake:
Who knew that a military renowned for killing children would find more inventive way to kill children?
 
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Except the truth?
Yes, certain people prefer the anti-Israel narrative over truth.

Fact checking organizations such as France 24's Truth or Fake, have investigated viral images of alleged booby-trapped dolls and found them to be misattributed or altered, often using footage from entirely different conflicts or regions.
 
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Just as people refused to believe the Holocaust, so people refuse to believe Israel's atrocities.
That's a very twisted comparison needless to say. How far have to delved into the truth of this matter? Or do you prefer to settle for whatever provides conformation bias?
 
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That's a very twisted comparison needless to say. How far have to delved into the truth of this matter? Or do you prefer to settle for whatever provides conformation bias?
After killing over 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza, I would say there was a strong possibility that the report might be true.
 
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After killing over 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza, I would say there was a strong possibility that the report might be true.
Continuous Hamas led attacks against Israel brought about those deaths. The terrorists are to blame.
 
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Sure a ruling terrorist military force long sworn to eradicate Israel never did anything start, escalate and perpetuate the war.
So... Basically the arguement comes to, because one side threatens genocide, it's ok for the other side to actually engage in it.
 
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Sure a ruling terrorist military force long sworn to eradicate Israel never did anything start, escalate and perpetuate the war.
I am not being one sided in this matter at all. What Hamas did OCT 7 was completely wrong. But I believe Israel's response was disproportionate.
67,000 lives for 1500 lives? To me there is no justice in this.
Another question. Why are the Palestinians so against Israel? Because in 1948, 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homeland by Israel. And this displacement has continued down to the present. Now don't you think you would be aggrieved if that happened to you?
I don't condone the Palestinian violence, but I do understand the why and their frustration for justice to be served.
 
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So... Basically the arguement comes to, because one side threatens genocide, it's ok for the other side to actually engage in it.
What it comes to is Hamas was relentless in attacking Israel. They obviously didn't care how many Palestinian citizens died in the process.
 
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I am not being one sided in this matter at all. What Hamas did OCT 7 was completely wrong. But I believe Israel's response was disproportionate.
67,000 lives for 1500 lives? To me there is no justice in this.
Oct 7 was just the start. Hamas kept at it knowing that Israel was a superior force. Hamas doomed the Palestinians by continually attacking.
Another question. Why are the Palestinians so against Israel? Because in 1948, 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homeland by Israel. And this displacement has continued down to the present. Now don't you think you would be aggrieved if that happened to you?
I don't condone the Palestinian violence, but I do understand the why and their frustration for justice to be served.
Israel is the homeland of the Israelites.
 
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What it comes to is Hamas was relentless in attacking Israel. They obviously didn't care how many Palestinian citizens died in the process.
So yes, it is ok for the other side to engage in genocide in your opinion it seems.
 
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So yes, it is ok for the other side to engage in genocide in your opinion it seems.
Explain how less than 1% of the 2.3 million living in the Gaza Strip, 3.3 million in the West Bank, and 1.9 million living in Israel amounts to genocide.

67,000 out of 7.5 million is 0.89%.

Less than 1% of the population is not genocide.

People hear buzzwords like genocide and run with it without putting any thought into it.
 
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