The Telegraph UK: Israel Conducted the Worst Bombardment of the 21st Century

[C0RI0LANUS]

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Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in front of the morgue in Deir al Balah on 31 Oct 2024. (Photo: Fatima Shbair / AP)

Excerpted from The Telegraph UK via Yahoo!News

In intensity and concentration of violence in the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip, the Nakba may have been the most destructive aerial and artillery bombardment of the 21st century. This takes into account the nearly three-year Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The level of physical destruction has been compared to the firebombing of Hamburg in the Second World War.


Rubble after the Allied bombing of Hamburg in July 1943.



Rubble after Israeli bombing of Gaza. (Photo: Ashraf Amra / Anadolu / Getty Images)

The Palestinian death toll, which the official Hamas-run health ministry puts at 46,600, is more than ten times its count in all previous Gaza conflicts since 2008 combined. 110,265 Palestinians have been injured. The IDF maintains 17,000 of the dead were militants. So, who were the 29,600 non-combatant casualties?

Just over half of the dead are women, children, or the elderly. Israel says the figures are suspect because of Hamas’s control of the ministry in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has not released figures for its losses.

UN experts estimate that at least 19,000 children have been orphaned in Gaza, but the true figure is probably higher. Those other wars did not involve this much bombing and this much displacement in such a small and crowded place, with a population that includes such a high proportion of children, said Jonathan Crickx, a spokesman for UNICEF.

In any war, the dead are often the lucky ones: the numbers of the maimed and crippled often dwarfs those of the dead.

According to Save the Children, on average the Israeli bombardment in Gaza maimed 15 children a day (475 per month), leaving them with lifelong disabilities.



UNICEF reports there are over 1,000 child amputees in Gaza like this girl pictured above.



Islamophobe Sebastian Gorka. Said his PhD adviser: ‘I would not call him an expert in terrorism.’ (Undated screengrab)

Soon the notorious virulent rightwing anti-Iranian Sebastian Gorka will be assuming a prominent national security role in the upcoming Trumpf administration. Americans will begin to hear anti-Iranian rhetoric from Fox News and other right-wing media outlets. With a Republican soon to be in the White House and a Likudnik in charge of Israel, the potential for conflict with Iran will greatly increase. Locations of American servicemembers stationed in the Middle East can be seen in the map below.





Americans are tired of seeing this:


Remains of a fallen US Soldier coming home. (Photo: US Army)

Sources:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worst-bombardment-21st-century-reshaped-081258905.html

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/explosive-weapons-left-15-children-a-day-in-gaza-with-potentiall

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2024/04/six-months-into-the-war-on-gaza-over-10000-women-have-been-killed

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/16/sebastian-gorka/fact-check-former-white-house-aide-says-iran-every/

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/gorka-credentials/index.html

https://www.unicef.org/sop/stories/facing-life-gaza-strip-new-disability

[LymphocyteLover]

1. Americans are tired of seeing our soldiers coming home in coffins? Really? That barely

happened under the Biden admin, but is likely to happen much more in the next 4 years.

This is sort of a strange post. I feel for the people of Gaza deeply but the war was fucked up and Hamas enabled it as much as Israel.

[C0RI0LANUS]

2. Thank you, LymphocyteLover. And thanks to President Biden who ended the "Forever Wars."

[Lithos]

4. Locking per I/P guidelines

Please save editorializations for the body, not the OP.

Lithos