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‘Horrific Reality’: Nearly 70% of UN-Verified Gaza Deaths are Women and Children (scheerpost.com)

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Nearly 7 in 10 people killed by Israeli forces in Gaza during an earlier six-month period of the ongoing assault on the Palestinian enclave were women and children, the United Nations human rights office said Friday.

The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified 8,119 of the more than 34,500 Palestinians killed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombs and bullets between November 2023 and April 2024. Among those killed were 3,588 children and 2,036 women ranging in age from newborns to nonagenarians. Minors under the age of 18 made up 44% of the victims in the analysis.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago

There's an unspoken implication that the 30% who are men all deserved to die.

It's likely that a similar percentage of men are totally unaffiliated with Hamas.