Posted on 12/22/2023 8:23:15 PM PST by DoodleBob
Rafah, Gaza Strip — More than 20,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel's war against Hamas, the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry said Friday. It was the latest indication of the staggering cost of the conflict as Israel expands its ground offensive and orders tens of thousands more people to leave their homes.
The deaths, amounting to nearly 1% of the territory's prewar population, are just one measure of the devastation wrought by the conflict that over 11 weeks has displaced nearly 85% of Gaza's people and leveled wide swaths of the tiny coastal enclave.
More than half a million people in Gaza - a quarter of the population - are starving, according to a report Thursday from the United Nations and other agencies describing the crisis caused by Israel's bombardment and siege of the territory in response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.
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Gaza's Hammas-run Health Ministry said Friday that it has documented 20,057 deaths in the fighting. It does not distinguish between combatant and civilian deaths. It previously said that roughly two-thirds of the dead were women or minors. It said 53,320 Palestinians have been wounded.
Israel blames Hamas for the high civilian death toll during its intense air and ground campaign, citing the group's use of crowded residential areas for military purposes.
Israel declared war after Hamas militants stormed across its border and killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 others. Israel's military says 139 of its soldiers have been killed in the ground offensive. It says it has killed thousands of Hamas militants, including about 2,000 in the past three weeks, but has not presented any evidence to back up the claim.
They were warned beforehand to leave Gaza.
I’ll be glad when the number gets to 0 (zero) because that would mean there would be no more Palestinians in the area.
Should 20,000 be considered, “ a good start?”
Stay tuned, this war has only been going on for thousands of years!
“From the river to the Med, all ham-ass should be dead!”. And, the “civilians” are complicit.
It’s a start . . .
End Times event. Pray the Palestinians see the Light - JESUS CHRIST.
” Gaza officials say “
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File under “What did you think was gonna happen?”
"Gaza officials" = Hamas
CBS thinks their viewers are idiots.
Headline should read “20,000 terrorists eliminated in Gaza”
Think the people might vote for a better government? na.
Hamas tells Gaza officials what to say.
Gaza officials ARE Hamas.
I read yesterday that Israel officials said the number killed was 8,000. I presume number of children killed to be 0.
“Notice how CBS takes the Gaza officials’ numbers as Gospel, but Israel has to present evidence for its Hamas body count.”
They are not known as See BS for nothing.
I’m sorry.
“From the Nile to the Euphrates! Greater Israel will be free!””
NO such thing as a “Palestinian”. Low class Arabs? Yep!
For the 20,000th time, I don’t care.
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