NYT - - “ “More and more, it seems like a war against children,” said Dr. Abu-Sittah.”

Gaza, the United Nations warns, has become “a graveyard for thousands of children.”

Determining the precise number of children killed in Gaza — in the midst of a fierce bombing campaign, with hospitals collapsing, children missing, bodies buried under rubble and neighborhoods in ruins — is a Sisyphean task. Health officials in Gaza say that 5,000 Palestinian children have been killed since the Israeli assault began, and possibly hundreds more. Many international officials and experts familiar with the way death tolls are compiled in the territory say the overall numbers are generally reliable.

If the figures are even close to accurate, far more children have been killed in Gaza in the past six weeks than the 2,985 children killed in the world’s major conflict zones combined — across two dozen countries — during all of last year, even with the war in Ukraine, according to U.N. tallies of verified deaths in armed conflict.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/world/middleeast/gaza-children-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1._kw.n6mx.zC_u6ykw8Odd&smid=url-share

Give back the fucking hostages Hamas! And stop using your people as human shields! And maybe change that vision statement that your goal is to wipe Israel off of the face of the earth.

Dropping more bombs in a week than we dropped in a year in Afghanistan, thousands of dead innocent civilians, far too strong.

The war brings up the whole kit and kaboodle. And the closer people look… leads to unfavorable public opinion because most people have basically humanist and democratic instincts.

I suppose that was the intention . Over-reaction was inevitable given the atrocity committed by Hamas, but while I expected something brutal, I did not expect it to be this bad. Stupidity and indifference to life has now been fully demonstrated by all parties.