Let’s be clear. What Israel is doing now isn’t about self-defense. It is about ethnic cleansing. It is genocide.
Israel lost approximately 1200 civilians to the Hamas attack. And this was no doubt horrendous. But in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, at least 20,000 have been killed by Israeli airstrikes, shootings and settler terrorism and pogroms, with thousands more scarred and maimed.
Israel has bombed hospitals, UN shelters, mosques, churches, bakeries and it has restricted food and medicine from entering the besieged enclave. Over a million people have been displaced. Their homes gone. It is making Gaza totally unlivable. And it is doing this so that Palestinians can never return there. It is committing another Nakba.
The rhetoric Israeli politicians and pundits are employing is nothing less than genocidal. A music video was even produced featuring children singing “we will annihilate you” to other children only kilometers away. The intent is clear.
All this, after 75 years of home demolitions, indefinite detention of children, collective punishment and systematic apartheid. And all with the financial, military and diplomatic backing of the US, UK, EU and Canada.
Gaza has been called a graveyard for children. But it is more than that. It is a graveyard for our very humanity.
Kenn Orphan, December 2023
Kenn Orfanos 
My understanding from some more recent reports is that around 700 Israeli citizens were killed on Oct. 7th, not 1200 as you stated. Others in the 1200 number were IDF members. And reports of IDF members killing their own citizens makes those lost due to Hamas even less. Not that this changes the horror of what happened less, but it seems wrong to say that Israel lost 1200 citizens to Hamas when many of them were killed by Hellfire missiles and tank shelling from the IDF itself.
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this is our world, i am beyond understanding it
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