The aerial bombing campaign by Israel in Gaza is the most indiscriminate in terms of civilian casualties in recent years, a study published by an Israeli newspaper has found. The analysis in Haaretz came as Israeli forces fought to consolidate their control of northern Gaza on Saturday, bombing the Shejaiya district of Gaza City, while also conducting airstrikes on Rafah, a town on the southern border with Egypt where the Israeli army has told people in Gaza to take shelter.
The full death toll from the past 24 hours was unclear but the main hospital in central Gaza, at Deir al-Balah, reported it received 71 bodies, and 62 bodies were taken to Nasser hospital in the main southern city of Khan Younis, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Haaretz published an analysis by Yagil Levy, a sociology professor at the Open University of Israel, which found that in three earlier campaigns in Gaza, in the period from 2012-22, the ratio of civilian deaths to the total of those killed in airstrikes hovered at about 40%. That ratio declined to 33% in a bombing campaign earlier this year, called Operation Shield and Arrow….
“By Vetoing this Ceasefire, the US stands alone in Casting its Vote against Humanity”.
The US Veto, Funding and Arms makes it Complicit in the Carnage in Gaza. Makes it a Mass Murderer. Guilty of Genocide for all the World to see.. 13 of the 15 current UNSC members backed the Ceasefire. Co-sponsored by over 100 other countries. Only the USA voted against. It’s proxy the UK abstained. World leaders, international rights groups and United Nations officials have criticised the United States for vetoing a UN resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and failing to halt the war that has killed more than 17,400 Palestinians and about 1,100 people in Israel since October 7…
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Israel wants to slay the monster next door, but with this lethal bombardment, it is feeding it
Repeal the Exclusionary Nation-state Law, for the Sake of All Israelis
The Guardian view on Gaza’s devastation: don’t look away. See the bigger picture too
Do Palestinian lives matter to the world?
Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza
Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so
Dogs of war / New acronym in Gaza: WCNSF – Wounded Child No Surviving Family
Patrick Lawrence: Deeper Into Depravity
A Conspiracy of Silence / The Killing Floor of Gaza
Michael Brenner: Europe-Jews-Muslims
After the truth-shower 