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7. UN Geneva -One in every 20 Gaza children are dead

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu Feb 29, 2024, 11:09 AM

Feb 2024

”About one in every 20 children, women and men in #Gaza are now dead or wounded.
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚 .”

- @volker_turk speaks at #HRC55 on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

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Palestinian deaths in Gaza pass 30,000 as witnesses say Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid [View all] muriel_volestrangler Feb 2024 OP

Your defense aid tax dollars at work. marble falls Feb 2024 #1

Evil Fucking Shit. Biden needs to cut all weapons/money to Israel right now. Brenda Feb 2024 #3

Right now: stop the slaughter or all US aid programs will stop. marble falls Feb 2024 #4

That makes no sense. The aid is supposed to help THOSE BEING SLAUGHTERED! TeamProg Feb 2024 #11

Wait, you do mean stop aid to Israel, right? TeamProg Feb 2024 #12

😭 enid602 Feb 2024 #2

Aid shipment enid602 Feb 2024 #5

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if that was sarcasm or not. TeamProg Feb 2024 #10

The IDF Goddessartist Feb 2024 #6

UN Geneva -One in every 20 Gaza children are dead womanofthehills Feb 2024 #7

30,000 dead. Igel Feb 2024 #41

This message was self-deleted by its author PufPuf23 Mar 2024 #46

Too many have died speak easy Feb 2024 #8

Yup. The AP has already had to amend their headline. The crowd was not "waiting," it was stampeding the trucks. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #21

How sure was the IDF that those were all Hamas members gathered to receive aid? Was Hamas TeamProg Feb 2024 #9

These are war crimes Novara Feb 2024 #13

It's not genocide. The aerial video shows the crowd stampeding the trucks. Looks like all were men. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #24

They are fucking hungry. Novara Feb 2024 #25

No doubt. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #34

After being starved by Israel they deserved to be shot by Israel, got it /nt Alpeduez21 Feb 2024 #26

They were shot because they swarmed the trucks and created a threat to the trucks. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #31

No it's a sound "military" practice Alpeduez21 Feb 2024 #38

Israel warned the civilian population to move out of northern Gaza, where this happened. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #40

Stop using trucks. Aussie105 Feb 2024 #42

Consider it done. Beastly Boy Mar 2024 #45

I wonder if it was staged to bring more pressure on Israel since it makes no sense otherwise to cstanleytech Feb 2024 #44

Noble enid602 Feb 2024 #29

No, the video shows no shooting or children, just men stampeding trucks. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #33

Quibble enid602 Feb 2024 #36

Facts matter. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #37

Drone enid602 Feb 2024 #30

No, the video shows no shooting or children, just men stampeding trucks. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #39

Unless Hamas is hiding in the flour and canned goods IronLionZion Feb 2024 #14

This has become obscene and just plain unbearable. nt leftyladyfrommo Feb 2024 #15

Link to wapo video JustAnotherGen Feb 2024 #16

Post removed Post removed Feb 2024 #17

They all pray to the same God, for starters. Jews, Christians, Muslims. maxsolomon Feb 2024 #19

Here is my disagreement in a non-combative and civil manner: madaboutharry Feb 2024 #28

They weren't "waiting." It was a stampede on the first aid trucks to reach northern Gaza in a month. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #18

Your explanation is likely to fall on deaf ears maxsolomon Feb 2024 #20

Yup. A lot of people only read the (now inaccurate) headline. nt SunSeeker Feb 2024 #23

Yeah the BBC story on it has this: EX500rider Feb 2024 #22

Ah, those well-known walking stampedes muriel_volestrangler Feb 2024 #32

If you want to call it a "swarm," fine. SunSeeker Feb 2024 #35

Isn't this way past MOMFUDSKI Feb 2024 #27

It is. Aussie105 Feb 2024 #43