Bodies of Israeli residents and Palestinian militants lay outside of burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after Hamas launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel, sending heavily armed fighters pouring across the border from Gaza and rampaging through rural communities.
  • Lols [they/them]@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i dont have a problem with adding context, i have a problem with downplaying the butchering of children

    Nobody in the media or here on Lemmy were in any of the other outlets in general even cared when it happened

    im assuming this is hyperbolic, if you actually never saw any sympathy for palestinians or mention of israels crimes on lemmy id be shocked

    even reddit regularly saw highly upvoted threads about israels borderline if not outright genocidal practices

    CNN, the organisation this article is from, has been reporting on it regularly

    In an interview with Israeli Government spokesperson Mark Regev earlier this week, CNN’s Jake Tapper said that Israel has killed more Palestinian children in the past three weeks of the military offensive in Gaza Strip than “the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006.”

    “If my calculations are right,” Tapper said, “Israel has, in the last three weeks, killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006, which includes the second Lebanon War, Operation Cast Lead, Operation Pillar of Defense, and now Operation Protective Edge.”

    The host of CNN’s The Lead continued putting the Israeli official in the hot seat by asking “at what point does the Israeli government say, enough, we’re killing too many innocent children?”