Note that this means "83% of people killed were civilians", not that 83% of civilians were killed. As the graph in the article illustrates, that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides:
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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
(www.theguardian.com)
Notably, Hamas on Oct 7 killed two civilians for every military casualty. By the IDF's own numbers, the IDF are literally greater terrorists than Hamas. Hamas literally does a better job at avoiding civilian casualties than the IDF does.
that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides
The fact that this sentence can be said, unironically, and backed with data, is kinda depressing.
95% civilians of mariupol? Holy fuck
Yes, that's the result of Russia "liberating" a city. I'm surprised Grozny doesn't show up here - enough civilians got away, I guess. The city itself was completely obliterated.
In any case, it is civs/total deads.. and maybe Grozny didn't got enough press.
Since Mariupol i have welded in my mind the russian word for children. Freaking animals.
Yup. This is why I had to ban someone posting Russian propaganda from a Pro-Russia Mariupol Youtube channel.
"Look how much better things are with Russia instead of Ukraine!" bullshit.
you should ban zionists who deny the genocide that killed 85% of civilians too
I absolutely do, but that doesn't come up as often. Most often it's the anti-zionists advocating murder, death, and destruction.
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And that’s if we believe the Israelis aren’t lying to cover their genocide.
Every single major news publisher trying their hardest to call this a war and not a genocide.
isreal wants the palestinian civillians to leave the area.
does that happen if isreal is very careful and avoids harming civillians and its pretty safe for civillians even if they stay?
or if the civillians know they risk being horrifically and indiscriminately massacred if they stay?
they get international hate for their actions; they also get what they want.
not a war
Those 9000 Hamas militants were collateral damage
I think whomever is modding here today deserves a beer or three.
We're actually doing OK. Fortunately the tools to ban users and remove their bullshit is like, 2 clicks, total.
That being said, they've created a bunch of accounts with 8,000+ posts soooo... like 12 clicks? LOL.
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These people are such a murderous bunch of worthless jackasses that I lost faith in humanity. I mean they let a lot of Nazi and Imperial Japanese criminals live because they were 'valuable' and were needed to run the bureaucracy... zionist shitheads have no use. They higher level ones need to be executed and all the lower level ones imprisoned and forced to work to rebuild what they destroyed for the rest of their damned lives.
oh dear, it seems like just a few commenters made a mess of this thread. my question is: which ones were real people, and which ones were just bots?
It's one real person using scripts to create accounts and flood the channel.
We ban them as soon as the accounts are created but sometimes the comments still federate.
We're on it. If you see them, block them, and that will clean up the comment thread.
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International rules for me, not for thee.
Israel is commiting mass murder, genocide, backed by USA.
anything isreal says is a lie. you cant trust the words of a nation that is dropping the bombs and killing the civilians to give honest reports and data. isreal is the devil nation of this decade.
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