“Strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up or how many children you can leave hungry.”
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“Strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up or how many children you can leave hungry.”
Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found.
At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a toll that included combatants and civilians. Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians. That apparent ratio of civilians to combatants among the dead is extremely high for modern warfare, even compared with conflicts notorious for indiscriminate killing, including the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars.
“That proportion of civilians among those killed would be unusually high, particularly as it has been going on for such a long time,” said Therése Pettersson from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, which tracks civilian casualties worldwide. “If you single out a particular city or battle in another conflict, you could find similar rates, but very rarely overall.”
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Meanwhile, Israeli rhetoric has increasingly mirrored genocidal language.
In leaked audio recordings aired on Israel’s Channel 12, Aharon Haliva, the former head of military intelligence, claimed, “The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations.” He went further, saying: “For each [victim] on 7 October, 50 Palestinians have to die … There’s no choice, they need a Nakba every now and then to feel the consequences.”
Gaza’s death toll has since risen to beyond 62,000, according to the enclave’s health ministry. The total number of wounded has now exceeded 157,000.
At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a toll that included combatants and civilians. Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians. That apparent ratio of civilians to combatants among the dead is extremely high for modern warfare, even compared with conflicts notorious for indiscriminate killing, including the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars.
“That proportion of civilians among those killed would be unusually high, particularly as it has been going on for such a long time,” said Therése Pettersson from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, which tracks civilian casualties worldwide. “If you single out a particular city or battle in another conflict, you could find similar rates, but very rarely overall.”
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Meanwhile, Israeli rhetoric has increasingly mirrored genocidal language.
In leaked audio recordings aired on Israel’s Channel 12, Aharon Haliva, the former head of military intelligence, claimed, “The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations.” He went further, saying: “For each [victim] on 7 October, 50 Palestinians have to die … There’s no choice, they need a Nakba every now and then to feel the consequences.”
Gaza’s death toll has since risen to beyond 62,000, according to the enclave’s health ministry. The total number of wounded has now exceeded 157,000.
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It's official, famine confirmed in Gaza City...
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Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed report says - live updates
The IPC says "catastrophic conditions" are projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September.
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Soon after the start of the war, Yossi Sariel, then the head of the elite 8200 intelligence unit, began sending a daily update on the toll in the form of a data graph, which was dubbed the “war dashboard”, several intelligence sources told the Guardian. The display was treated like “a football game, officers sitting around watching the numbers go up on the dashboard,” one source said.
Sariel and other senior commanders presented the deaths of Hamas fighters as an objective in itself, sources said. There was no discussion of how Gaza would be controlled or governed if Hamas collapsed, or what concessions Israel might try to force through the mass killing of individual fighters.
Several sources said that inflating militant death tolls, figures frequently reported and amplified by the Israeli media, was seen by some in the military as a way to restore their standing in the eyes of the Israeli public after the failures of 7 October 2023.
But from a strategic perspective that attempt to measure military progress through a militant body count, amid an extremely high rate of civilian killing, was tactically unsound and self-defeating, a senior western military source said. “They are just measuring the wrong statistic. They will never be able to kill everybody who is associated with Hamas, so what is the definition of victory?”
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Sariel and other senior commanders presented the deaths of Hamas fighters as an objective in itself, sources said. There was no discussion of how Gaza would be controlled or governed if Hamas collapsed, or what concessions Israel might try to force through the mass killing of individual fighters.
Several sources said that inflating militant death tolls, figures frequently reported and amplified by the Israeli media, was seen by some in the military as a way to restore their standing in the eyes of the Israeli public after the failures of 7 October 2023.
But from a strategic perspective that attempt to measure military progress through a militant body count, amid an extremely high rate of civilian killing, was tactically unsound and self-defeating, a senior western military source said. “They are just measuring the wrong statistic. They will never be able to kill everybody who is associated with Hamas, so what is the definition of victory?”
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The war crimes continue,
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Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli double strike on hospital
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a "tragic mishap" and promised a "thorough investigation".
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Yes, and the israeli terrorists use the 'double tap' method...The war crimes continue,
Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli double strike on hospital
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a "tragic mishap" and promised a "thorough investigation".
Attack a hospital and then attack a second time when the rescue services to help the injured...
And of course knock off any journalists around in an attempt to prevent reporting of yet another said war crime!
Protests are being held across Israel, with organised demonstrations scheduled in Tel Aviv throughout the day. Organisers, many of them relatives of captives currently or previously held in Gaza, say they are calling for a deal to secure their release and end the fighting. Already this morning, demonstrators have blocked Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway as part of what organisers describe as a day of intensive action, The Times of Israel reports. Protesters have also unfurled Israeli flags outside the US embassy in Tel Aviv.
Haaretz reported that demonstrators are rallying outside the homes of senior ministers, including Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, Education Minister Yoav Kisch, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, and Innovation Minister Gila Gamliel.
Haaretz reported that demonstrators are rallying outside the homes of senior ministers, including Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, Education Minister Yoav Kisch, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, and Innovation Minister Gila Gamliel.
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"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on).
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Public support for long wars always results in protests as more people get killed.
In their latest attempts to cover up the truth in Gaza:
Israel has called on the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) to retract a report that officially declared that famine was present in parts of Gaza. “Israel demands that the IPC will retract immediately its fabricated report and publish a notice,” the director general of Israel’s foreign ministry, Eden Bar Tal, told a news conference.
Tal added that Israel would share “evidence” of misconduct in preparing the report with the IPC’s donors if the organisation fails to retract “within a short time”, but did not provide any evidence to back up his statement during the news conference. He went on to call the initiative a “politicised” institute that is “working for an evil terror organisation”.
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Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has applauded the government’s move to set up more illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying he hopes they continue to multiply – with US support – across the territory. “Settlements are a guiding light for us; we are expanding and strengthening them,” Zohar said in comments carried by Israel’s Arutz Sheva media.
Ongoing settlement projects in the occupied West Bank are a “significant achievement”, he said, adding “perhaps soon we will do the same in Gaza”. However, “no less important than settlements is the task of sovereignty,” he stressed, apparently referring to Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory. “Once we implement sovereignty, we can say we have accomplished something real.”
Israel has called on the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) to retract a report that officially declared that famine was present in parts of Gaza. “Israel demands that the IPC will retract immediately its fabricated report and publish a notice,” the director general of Israel’s foreign ministry, Eden Bar Tal, told a news conference.
Tal added that Israel would share “evidence” of misconduct in preparing the report with the IPC’s donors if the organisation fails to retract “within a short time”, but did not provide any evidence to back up his statement during the news conference. He went on to call the initiative a “politicised” institute that is “working for an evil terror organisation”.
Meanwhile...
Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has applauded the government’s move to set up more illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying he hopes they continue to multiply – with US support – across the territory. “Settlements are a guiding light for us; we are expanding and strengthening them,” Zohar said in comments carried by Israel’s Arutz Sheva media.
Ongoing settlement projects in the occupied West Bank are a “significant achievement”, he said, adding “perhaps soon we will do the same in Gaza”. However, “no less important than settlements is the task of sovereignty,” he stressed, apparently referring to Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory. “Once we implement sovereignty, we can say we have accomplished something real.”
The share of US voters who believe a genocide is taking place in Gaza includes 77 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday. A large majority of Republicans – 64 percent – do not think Israel is committing genocide, according to the poll, whereas 20 percent do.
Six in 10 US voters also oppose Washington sending more military aid to Israel, according to the poll, the highest share since Quinnipiac began asking the question in November 2023. Voters are almost evenly split in their sympathies for Palestinians and Israelis, according to Quinnipiac, with 37 percent saying they are more sympathetic towards Palestinians and 36 percent saying they feel more sympathy for Israelis.
The share of Americans expressing sympathy for Palestinians is the highest – and the share sympathetic towards Israelis the lowest – since Quinnipiac began asking the question in December 2001.
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It seems more relevant than ever that the broadcaster of choice has become responsible for the media narrative you prefer. To be independent means being seen as sitting on the fence while more extreme views are given a wider audience, risking wider acceptance in the mainstream. It's a shame to watch this happening in real time while the wider world burns and our environment is poisoned with the mendacious mistruth spoon fed to people who feel the need to belong to a certain group profile, misinforming them of events to promote an extreme agenda in the cause of 'democracy'.
Six in 10 US voters also oppose Washington sending more military aid to Israel, according to the poll, the highest share since Quinnipiac began asking the question in November 2023. Voters are almost evenly split in their sympathies for Palestinians and Israelis, according to Quinnipiac, with 37 percent saying they are more sympathetic towards Palestinians and 36 percent saying they feel more sympathy for Israelis.
The share of Americans expressing sympathy for Palestinians is the highest – and the share sympathetic towards Israelis the lowest – since Quinnipiac began asking the question in December 2001.
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It seems more relevant than ever that the broadcaster of choice has become responsible for the media narrative you prefer. To be independent means being seen as sitting on the fence while more extreme views are given a wider audience, risking wider acceptance in the mainstream. It's a shame to watch this happening in real time while the wider world burns and our environment is poisoned with the mendacious mistruth spoon fed to people who feel the need to belong to a certain group profile, misinforming them of events to promote an extreme agenda in the cause of 'democracy'.
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How Israel justifies murdering journalists: The legitimization Cell.
Established after October 7, the unit sought information on Hamas’ use of schools and hospitals for military purposes, and on failed rocket launches by armed Palestinian groups that harmed civilians in the enclave. It has also been assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters. According to the sources, the Legitimization Cell’s motivation was not security, but public relations. Driven by anger that Gaza-based reporters were “smearing [Israel’s] name in front of the world,” its members were eager to find a journalist they could link to Hamas and mark as a target, one source said. +972mag.
Established after October 7, the unit sought information on Hamas’ use of schools and hospitals for military purposes, and on failed rocket launches by armed Palestinian groups that harmed civilians in the enclave. It has also been assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters. According to the sources, the Legitimization Cell’s motivation was not security, but public relations. Driven by anger that Gaza-based reporters were “smearing [Israel’s] name in front of the world,” its members were eager to find a journalist they could link to Hamas and mark as a target, one source said. +972mag.
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It's official, genocide and war crimes...
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say
The world's leading association of genocide scholars cited several actions by Israel, including attacks on the healthcare sector and the killing of children.
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