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In reply to the discussion: Hamas' brutality is unpardonable [View all]madaboutharry
(42,025 posts)The number of 22,000 dead is coming from Hamas.The terrorist organization that committed the massacre of October 7th is not a reliable source. Among the dead from the fighting in Gaza are 8,500 Hamas terrorist killed with an additional 1,000 Hamas terrorist killed during the fighting on October 7th.
For purposes of propagandizing the world, Hamas is intentionally making no distinction between civilian and combatant deaths, and it defines any person under the age of 18 as a child even if that person is a combatant and member of Hamas.
Thousands of civilians have been killed. No one is disputing that. Every civilian death is a tragedy. To say that 22,000 innocent people have been killed is simply not true and is perpetuating a lie.
Urban warfare is always bloody and ugly. That is a fact of war. Hamas is responsible for this war and for misery and suffering it has brought to its own people.