The United Nations’ top court opens hearings Thursday into South Africa’s allegation that Israel’s war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
    392·
    10 months ago

    You have to be either blind or paid off to say it’s not a genocide to kill 90% of civilians and displace from their home 80% of the total population.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
      181·
      10 months ago

      Or if you consider 2+ civilians for every combatant “tremendously positive”.

      At that point you’re indicating your goal is to kill civilians, or you have such a low, subhuman view of them that their deaths are inconsequential. Would the IDF consider two Israeli civilians for every Hamas “tremendously positive”?

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
        91·
        10 months ago

        For context even if we assume Hamas killed everyone who died on October 7th, they still did a better job at not killing civilians. And this is also assuming Israel is actually counting civilians and not just counting all men of “fighting age”.

        • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
          31·
          10 months ago

          Ironically, according to Wikipedia the ratio on October 7th was almost exactly 2 civilians for every soldier/police officer