My Jewish friends are going to block me, I'm sure.
What's going on over there is fucking awful. Yes, Hamas has committed atrocities. Yes, they took hostages. Yes, they have killed people.
Meanwhile, 6 Israeli children have died in this conflict, and that is fucking HORRIBLE! It is it's fucking horrible and horrifying and terrible and should have never happened. And there is NO excuse for the deaths of children in a conflict.
Meanwhile, we have this, from Save the Children (follow link):
"At least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in Gaza over nearly 23 months of war, with the number of children killed now surpassing 20,000, Save the Children said.
The latest data released by the Government Media Office in Gaza showed at least 20,000 children - about 2% of Gaza’s child population - have been killed since October 2023.
At least 1,009 of the children killed were under age one, with nearly half (450) of these babies born and killed during the war. At least 42,011 children have been injured, according to the Ministry of Health, with the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities reporting at least 21,000 children left permanently disabled. Thousands more are missing or presumed buried under rubble.
After 23 months of war, the lives of surviving children are at risk daily. The famine in Gaza Governorate is likely to spread in the coming weeks with over a million people, about half of whom are children, already facing catastrophic hunger, the worst-case IPC Phase 5. At least 132,000 children aged under five face risk of death from acute malnutrition, and at least 135 children have already starved to death, 20 of them since famine was declared on 22 August, according to the Ministry of Health. "
Source: Save The Children
That's pretty fucking disproportionate, I think.
And if I am horrified by the deaths of six children in Israel, how much should I be horrified by the deaths of 20 THOUSAND children in Palestine, with more to come? One child EVERY HOUR is dying over there, either bombed into oblivion, or starved down to a fucking skeleton.
Those children were guilty of NOTHING.
And I don't care if Hamas is using them as a human shield. I don't CARE.
They were CHILDREN, for fuck's sake.
THIS IS NOT OKAY!
This is very sad, but you know me I wouldn't use that kind of language, but I do agree with you. I am going to pray for these children in other countries. I am so happy that we are friends. We both don't like the same people, so that is what we have in common too. We have dogs. We have cats. We have family members around us. I am going to get off here, but I will talk to you later.
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