Re:Reflections on Palantir
by jiggawatts on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:22PM
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I’m just trying to stay as close to the facts as possible… which is that yeah, about 50 kids died daily on average during this war. Even the low estimates divided by the number of days since the start result in about 50 daily deaths.
I would expect that number to vary a lot day to day, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were at least a few days near the beginning where over 100 kids died in a 24 hour period.
50 average dead every day in a year means we should have at least a single documented episode of mass killing of kids on that scale (which is already an extremely low bar).
One would expect outliers like twice that number, unless they are uniformly distributed, which of course they're not.
No such cases have ever been shown - neither accidental, nor deliberate.
Most of their "kids", obviously, are Hamas recruits in the age of 15 and up and has been killed in action in urban guerilla war. Which is still a war crime, but by the employing (Hamas) side.
Israel is doing extremely well.