Here are the latest casualty figures as of October 24, 2.40pm local time (11:40 GMT):
Gaza
Killed: At least 5,791
Including at least:
2,360 children
1,292 women
Injured: More than 16,297
Occupied West Bank
Killed: At least 96
Injured: At least 1,828
Israel
Killed: At least 1,405
Injured: At least 5,431
TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY children. I don’t care which side you’re on, but this should make everybody intensely sad.
Whether the numbers are inflated or not doesn’t really matter.
What really matters is that innocent people are being killed every day and a lot of those are kids.
That the humanitarian crisis is deepening every day.
That more than 1.4M people are displaced.
That Israel is bombing the area they suggested was a safe heaven.
That the people in Gaza are going through hell.
And sadly this won’t solve anything and would only strengthen the position of Hamas and nurture another generation of broken people. After this, peace in the region would become even harder and there would be increase of the support for far right parties in Israel. And those parties will do everything in their power to continue antagonizing the Palestinian and Arab population both in the West Bank and also in Gaza. Nothing good would come out of it! And it saddens me immensely!
if the people dying weren’t essentially innocent bystanders, I would relish this shitshow of awful regimes practicing mutual annihilation.
5791 - 2360 - 1292 = 2139 men of age.
Israel claims to have killed over 1,000 who invaded its territory on October 7th. Earlier reports were over 1,500.
On the northern front: Israel is reporting over 50 Hezbollah members having been killed since October 7th. Hezbollah have confirmed 7 (or 8, it’s a little difficult to track only through liveblogs) members killed today (October 24th). Hamas has also claimed responsibility for several attacks on the northern border which Israel did claim having killed those responsible, but I don’t see where or if those are being counted.
It’s hard to trust any of these numbers. 1 innocent death is 1 too many, but the numbers seem to come from Hamas and they have every incentive to inflate them.
Are Hamas fighters or legitimate targets being included in these figures for instance? The 500 dead at the “hospital” seen very dubious too given the scale of the actual destruction, it’s unclear whether that number is included also.
The Israeli numbers are largely backed up by multiple sources within the country: both media organizations and different governmental organizations. Historically, there are some names that aren’t published as a matter of public policy (pilots, military personnel in classified positions, same stuff you’d see from any other western country).
Hamas 100% include their armed members. The hospital blast was for sure not 500, but I haven’t seen any follow-up numbers from that incident. No clue if that is included in their running totals.
Why doesn’t it include women and children counts for both?
Because Al Jazeera is a biased source. If you want to look for yourself, you can go through a partial list of the Israeli fatalities here. Google translate is decent. Not all include an age, and Israelis have many unisex names.
I can’t trust either side. But I can guarantee that number is bigger than zero.
Sickening. Israel is a barbaric fascist state
Aljazeera fails to mention that using civilian infrastructure as military installations is a warcrime and that those are legitimate war targets, therefore all those numbers are actually on Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Also huge doubt on the actual numbers themselves since it is, well, Aljazeera. Might as well listen to RT.
Buddy, they live in an incredibly densely populated open-air prison. There’s no option of using “military infrastructure” when it’s incapable of existing in Gaza.
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I think what you fail to grasp is that for some people “it’s on Hamas” doesn’t change the the ethical calculus. It doesn’t diminish their feeling of empathy towards the victims and their families.
So what’s the alternative? Not pressure Hamas with rockets to free the hostages is probably not an option because of how diabolically they planned their bases of operations next to hospitals, schools or inside civilian buildings.
So Israel should try to go in with the army on foot and evacuate building by building by force? Sure that will be no problem especially given that Hamas will 100% pose as civilians during those raids and attack Israel from behind with all the tunnels underneath Gaza - so every soldier there would be extremely paranoid - no way that can go wrong.
Not doing anything and letting Hamas take hostages and kill thousands is not an option either - so calling for evacuation and then targeting legitimate targets by international law is the correct course of action even though I agree that it’s an extremely shitty situation for the civilians there.
At least the civilians killed by Israel are killed by accident and not fully intentional like Hamas is doing.
Everyone can agree that the civilians in Gaza are the poorest party in this but imho people fail to grasp the situation from different viewpoints and see it for how complex it is.
I don’t know what the alternatives are and nowhere in my comment did I weigh in one way or the other. I’m merely pointing out that “it’s on Hamas” is not doing anything for some/many. Israel is held to a higher standard than Hamas - a terrorist organization. It’s also held to a higher standard than mass war criming regimes like Russia.
Then stop commenting.
Also huge doubt on the actual numbers themselves since it is, well, Aljazeera. Might as well listen to RT.
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