QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoIsraeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barragewww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down118
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minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoAbout 2/3 dead are women and children according to most sources I see. 15K Hamas of 37K dead exceeds 1/3, so that can only be possible if you count numerous women and children as Hamas and valid military targets.
minus-squareFlowVoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-25 months agoThe most recent UN figures I saw count 4,959 women, 7,797 children, 10,006 men, and about 10,000 unknown. So that’s still in keeping with 15,000 adult male combatants.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoThat’s a lot of heavy lifting from the assumptions that the missing is majority men and also that all fighting age males would be Hamas
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minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoBy the way, mass death from starvation on the way https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/starvation-already-causing-mass-death-and-lasting-harm-in-gaza-agencies-say
About 2/3 dead are women and children according to most sources I see. 15K Hamas of 37K dead exceeds 1/3, so that can only be possible if you count numerous women and children as Hamas and valid military targets.
The most recent UN figures I saw count 4,959 women, 7,797 children, 10,006 men, and about 10,000 unknown. So that’s still in keeping with 15,000 adult male combatants.
That’s a lot of heavy lifting from the assumptions that the missing is majority men and also that all fighting age males would be Hamas
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By the way, mass death from starvation on the way
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/starvation-already-causing-mass-death-and-lasting-harm-in-gaza-agencies-say