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Gaza: The U.N. estimates that 11,000 bodies are trapped under the rubble. (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 2025 OP
The IDF estimates that 99.7% of them are Hamas fighters. WarGamer Apr 2025 #1
They will stay there now as the IDF just destroyed the bulldozers that were brought in during the ceasefire. AloeVera Apr 2025 #2
They don't count malaise Apr 2025 #3
Neither alive or dead. AloeVera Apr 2025 #4
Indeed we do malaise Apr 2025 #5
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Howard Zinn Ping Tung Apr 2025 #6
"How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?" Howard Zinn. AloeVera Apr 2025 #7

AloeVera

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2. They will stay there now as the IDF just destroyed the bulldozers that were brought in during the ceasefire.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:16 PM
Apr 2025

They were being used to clear roads to facilitate the movement of ambulances and rescuers, as well as clear rubble to free the bodies under it.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out attacks on "engineering vehicles" used for "terror purposes."


Yeah, sure... Of course.

Of those 11,000 people, who knows how many died a slow and painful death because, since the beginning of the "war"* Israel has continued to destroy these life-saving equipment.

A recent investigation from Sky News highlighted how Gazans trapped under debris and rubble die slow deaths as residents attempt to dig them out with inadequate equipment such as a trowel or hammer. The U.N., relying on local reports, estimates that 11,000 bodies are trapped under the rubble.


The video describes efforts to rescue 15 people - 12 children - from one family that had to be abandoned. The cries of the children were heard for days as people tried to save them with sledgehammers, trowels and rope - until the cries stopped.

Just think about that.

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