mozz@mbin.grits.dev to World News@beehaw.org · 8 months ago‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gazawww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down10
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-link‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gazawww.theguardian.commozz@mbin.grits.dev to World News@beehaw.org · 8 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoWars are all horrible. But the world’s humanitarian NGOs, experienced in war zones, are saying this is unusual in its scale and scope of pediatric and civilian deaths. There are also experimental weapons being “combat tested” against Palestinians. Sniper drones are an example. I don’t see why you would want to downplay these things.
minus-squaremozz@mbin.grits.devOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoPalestine has its own special medical circumstance which isn’t common enough anywhere else in the world – in any war or disaster zone – to need its own acronym. Only in Gaza.
Wars are all horrible.
But the world’s humanitarian NGOs, experienced in war zones, are saying this is unusual in its scale and scope of pediatric and civilian deaths.
There are also experimental weapons being “combat tested” against Palestinians. Sniper drones are an example.
I don’t see why you would want to downplay these things.
Palestine has its own special medical circumstance which isn’t common enough anywhere else in the world – in any war or disaster zone – to need its own acronym. Only in Gaza.