Gaza reports more than 11,100 killed. That's one out of every 200 people.

[David__77]

They include doctors, journalists, professors and poets.

More than 11,100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. While there is no breakdown between fighters and civilians, most of the dead are women and children.

In just a little over a month of war, that amounts to over 0.5 percent of Gaza’s more than 2 million people.

https://archive.is/XcfYH

[ExciteBike66]

1. But those are hamas numbers...

I'm sure it's only 4000 kids dead, not 5000!!!!111!!1

[getagrip_already]

3. Or 100

Do we know?

What we know is this war is under hamas' control. They can stop it. They can limit civilian death, but choose to maximize them.

They are responsible, yet they do the headcount.

[Voltaire2]

10. Really? Israel has no agency?

Odd.

[getagrip_already]

13. Hamas is actively conducting a war hiding behind children

They are not suing for peace.

Hamas wants this war. They want these casualties. They want these refugees.

Hamas wants these deaths.

If Israel backs off. Hamas will attack somewhere else even more horrifically to provoke them.

Those are their words.

[Voltaire2]

14. Surrender or die!

And if you surrender you will also die.

But that wasn't the point. You said "What we know is this war is under hamas' control. ". That statement removes all agency from Israel. So again, the IDF is under the control of Hamas?

[getagrip_already]

17. Isnt that the definition of war?

Either win, lose, or surrender. Maybe a fourth option is stalemate.

But surrender or die is pretty much how war is waged while both sides are intent on winning.

And hamas is still in the mode of attacking. They are still on the path to exterminate. They don't support any coexistence. There is no peace in their plan.

Those are their words. Not Palestinian words. Hamas words.

[Voltaire2]

18. Surrender or die and die if you surrender is a no quarters situation.

There is zero incentive for your opponent to surrender.

[getagrip_already]

19. Surrender is an option in gaza...

It is even an option on the front lines in Ukraine, where ukranian soldiers literally risk their lives accepting surrendering russian soldiers.

Hamas just chooses not to surrender. Whether it is a martyr thing or blocking units I don't know, but they aren't surrendering. Yet, they can.

[David__77]

5. The death count is likely considerably higher than reported.

Thousands are missing, likely buried under rubble.

[RainWalker]

2. Terribly sad

And it's also sad that people have lost their sense of humanity.....

[Goddessartist]

4. Yep.

[Goddessartist]

6. Horrific, again.

War crimes. Genocide.

[David__77]

7. And even if they stop bombing today, many more will die from the after effects.

This is leading to a crescendo. The intention is ethnic cleansing, to make civilian life impossible.

[Lonestarblue]

8. Israel's plan seems to be to make conditions so bad that Palestinians agree to leave.

Other countries have not agreed to take them, and Palestinians know that if they leave, Israel will never allow them to occupy their lands again. This war has gone beyond vengeance and is now ethnic cleansing.

[Beastly Boy]

11. Hamas already accomplished that after a decade of brutal theocracy

[murielm99]

12. "From the River to the Sea?"

That kind of ethnic cleansing?

[Goddessartist]

9. Yes.

Pure evil.

[onenote]

15. what do you think is the appropriate response to "pure evil"?

[Chautauquas]

16. Early on Israel said

their response would be felt for generations. I'm sure that is true now because they've killed so many civilians they've pretty much traumatized the entire population.