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Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza for nearly three months has destroyed 70 percent of the homes in the besieged Palestinian enclave, according to the Government Media Office.

No further details were provided but an earlier report said more than 200 heritage and archaeological sites were destroyed in the Israeli bombardment considered the most destructive in modern history.

About 300,000 out of 439,000 homes have been destroyed in Israeli attacks, a Wall Street Journal report said. Analysing satellite imagery, the report added that the 29,000 bombs dropped on the strip have targeted residential areas, Byzantine churches, hospitals and shopping malls and all civilian infrastructure has been damaged to an extent that they cannot be repaired.

“The word ‘Gaza’ is going to go down in history along with Dresden [Germany] and other famous cities that have been bombed,” Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has written about the history of aerial bombing, told WSJ.

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 100 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Maybe I'm just getting soft, but I think it's been pretty wild to watch a government murder tens of thousands of innocents real-time.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Those of us old enough to remember Rwanda have seen it before. I take issue with gov'ts who've also seen it before and still do sweet fuck all about it.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Rwanda, Serbia, Armenia, and still ongoing that everyone is ignoring, the Rohingya, Uyghurs and Sudan.

[–] Tosti@feddit.nl 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Russia is also marching 100's of thousands of their minorities and people of the Donbas to their deaths, and slaughtering Ukrainians while doing it, they are double dipping sort to say.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

World War 2 also had a little genocide issue....

The big difference is that we were supposed to be above this shit by now after 75 years of "never again".

Instead we've once again stooped down to the same moral level with the Ubermensch trying to expand their Lebensraum shit. And Westen governments are actually supporting it.

When I saw the Uyghur camps I didn't think "we could do worse than that" was an option.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The West only cares when it affects their geo-political interests such as access to natural resources or tying up another country in never ending war.

Edit: Hit submit way too early

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Russia has murdered almost 20 000 civilians, perhaps around 500 000 soldiers in total (both sides) in its mindless war in Ukraine. Not all of them innocent certainly, but I'd guess at least 90%. And they're not even trying to protect themselves from anything.

And if you've been paying attention, this has been going for almost 2 years now. And still goes on. One best case scenario that Estonia recently presented in a report was that Russia will lose the war in 2 years. So if the rate keeps until then, we're looking at about a million deaths in total. Granted, Ukraine and Russia's combined population is a lot higher than the Gaza strip. Senseless deaths still.