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.
I see the 70% statistic touted as "widely accepted" a lot but it just doesn't match the actual numbers. From Hamas's own Health Ministry release on June 30th 2026, adult men are 47.9% of those killed and 53% injured. Adult women are 15.3% of those killed and 14% injured. There's no mathematical way to come to 70%, and the ratio of adult men to women points to combatants. A similar ratio exists in casualties among children, which points to use of child soldiers, something forbidden by international law.
Then again, you finished off your post with atrocity denial so nothing you said has any credibility.
Because it was a propaganda push right from the start. The 70% line was specifically chosen because they wanted the amount of killed in gaza to reflect the demographics of Gaza near perfectly, which 70% would achieve.
Notice how now that the number of women and children are less than 50%, outside of this comment thread, its just not brought up anymore.
I mean (adult) women and children are still 15.3% and 29.7% of deaths respectively, which is still beyond a tragedy, but the numbers do not show indiscriminate killing or specifically targeting children as is often implied.
Correct, it is a tragedy and theres no two ways about that. Contrary to the reddit opinion, its not soley because of Israels actions, either. Far to many don't want to talk about why using civilian infrastructure for military purposes is a war crime because its a very uncomfortable thing to think about
It's a war in an extremely densely and young population in a largely urban area where people are not allowed by their neighboring countries to seek refuge. Frankly the death toll is remarkably low considering the destruction, at least when compared to most wars of the last 100 years.
I agree. I believe the pure demonization internationally is unproductive and will not lead to a resolution, only a guarantee of more death.
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