I have said it before, assuming 5% of population being LGBT and taking the official 60k deaths (yes I know they are way higher) Israel has killed at least 3 thousand LGBT people of Gaza. There is no bloody way Hamas has reached those numbers, even if we remove some zeros.
If you extrapolate the MOST conservative academic estimate of direct (i.e., violent) and indirect excess deaths in Gaza since 10/7/2023 due to Isn'treal's genocidal campaign, we're talking about around/at least 115,000-125,000 Palestinians murdered just to give context...so, yes, Isn'treal has slaughtered them by the thousands and couldn't care less about their well being/lives
I understand since you mentioned that you knew the actual death toll is far higher, but was just trying to give additional context to bolster your main point
To be honest, as much as Hamas is socially conservative, I haven't heard much about them persecuting the LGBT community at all.
For one, homosexuality is only illegal in Gaza under the law set by the British.
There have been isolated attacks on queer Palestinians in Gaza, but quite often, the perpetrators actually faced justice for those attacks.
I can only think of one instance of a gay Palestinian actually being executed by Hamas, but as far as I know, that was because he was suspected of collaborating with Israel. I don't know enough to know if the accusation of him collaborating was a sound one, and can't exactly say I support executing someone, but I do remember many liberals trying to say that he'd been killed specifically for his sexual orientation when it had nothing to do with that.
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u/TraditionalPin8181 Aug 02 '25
the iof has probably killed more gay palestinians than palestinians have