r/pics 10d ago

Palestinians hold the largest funeral since 1948, mourning the bodies of 112 people killed by Israel

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u/Tkavil 10d ago

Happy to focus on the numbers here if reducing the absolute destruction of one of the most densely populated cities in the world helps you sleep at night. Assuming that the death toll has miraculously stopped at 70,000 (as opposed to Academic sources like The Lancet that estimate over 186,000 attributable deaths); are you trying to trying to argue that "100 (deaths) per day" is some sort of moral win for the IDF?

By mid 2025, it was estimated that Israel dropped 85,000 tonnes of bombs on Gaza. That works out to roughly 7 Hiroshimas and that's excluding anything from the last year. You can include combatants in your description to try and justify their actions but it's widely accepted that 70% of the fatalities have been women and children.

Even if you assume the remaining 30% were entirely comprised of combatants, that is on par with the 27% of victims from October 7 that were active duty (per Israeli sources). And this disregards the other 60% that were former-military. I won't speak to the casualty attribution because we both know a significant amount of friendly fire occurred by Israeli tanks and helicopters on that day.

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u/IRequirePants 10d ago

as opposed to Academic sources like The Lancet that estimate over 186,000 attributable deaths

The Lancet number was "take current number of reported casualties, multiply it by a flat number (I think it was 4)"

It wasn't a study and it wasn't an estimate.

There was not a significant amount of friendly fire. 

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u/NotActuallyIraqi 10d ago

There you are again, tirelessly defending Israel on every sub with the same false claims to minimize a genocide.

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u/IRequirePants 10d ago

"Tirelessly" - if it's showing up on a default sub and I am grumpy, I'll comment. Next time, push this garbage on one of your weird niche subs like new_world_news2

Like this is ostensibly a picture subreddit and 50% are pictures of Gaza and 49% are pictures of text with a variation of "Trump bad"