Luddite_Blue
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Abridged version of an Owen Jones article on a new report produced by Airwars (part 2)
These statistics expose that when a named individual is killed, an average of 14 members of his or her family were also killed. They note this is higher than any other conflict they have documented.
In the first year, over 900 entire Palestinian bloodlines in Gaza - that is entire extended families, from little babies to great grandparents - had been exterminated by the Israeli military.
As Airwars found, civilians are being killed en masse:
“Families were killed together in unprecedented numbers, and in their homes. More than nine out of ten women and children were killed in residential buildings. In more than 95 percent of all cases where a woman was killed, at least one child was also killed.”
They show a graph comparing how many Palestinian civilians were killed in October 2023 with the most lethal month recorded in Iraq during the war on ISIS, during the Battle of Mosul - March 2017, where they find 1,470 civilians were killed by the US-led coalition, compared to over 5,000 in Gaza in the first 25 days.
This isn’t a ‘war’. It’s a genocide. This is what extermination looks like. There is no attempt to protect civilians from harm.
And here’s a key point. As we know from other conflagrations, the vast majority of civilians are not killed by the violence - by the bombs or the bullets - but by other causes, by the destruction of society itself - from the healthcare system to housing. That is what will kill the largest number of Palestinians in what is, and what must be recorded, as one of the worst atrocities of our age.
These statistics expose that when a named individual is killed, an average of 14 members of his or her family were also killed. They note this is higher than any other conflict they have documented.
In the first year, over 900 entire Palestinian bloodlines in Gaza - that is entire extended families, from little babies to great grandparents - had been exterminated by the Israeli military.
As Airwars found, civilians are being killed en masse:
“Families were killed together in unprecedented numbers, and in their homes. More than nine out of ten women and children were killed in residential buildings. In more than 95 percent of all cases where a woman was killed, at least one child was also killed.”
They show a graph comparing how many Palestinian civilians were killed in October 2023 with the most lethal month recorded in Iraq during the war on ISIS, during the Battle of Mosul - March 2017, where they find 1,470 civilians were killed by the US-led coalition, compared to over 5,000 in Gaza in the first 25 days.
This isn’t a ‘war’. It’s a genocide. This is what extermination looks like. There is no attempt to protect civilians from harm.
And here’s a key point. As we know from other conflagrations, the vast majority of civilians are not killed by the violence - by the bombs or the bullets - but by other causes, by the destruction of society itself - from the healthcare system to housing. That is what will kill the largest number of Palestinians in what is, and what must be recorded, as one of the worst atrocities of our age.