Re:‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF a...
by lazyasciiart on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:00AM
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Ew.
It turns out that even little massacres like 8000 Bosnian boys is “systematic extermination” when you do it with the express intent of wiping out their people.
Re:‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF a...
by protocolture on Monday July 28, 2025 @11:33PM
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>About 2.5% of the inhabitants of Gaza have been killed in the ongoing war, constituting fewer than 0.5% of Palestinians worldwide.
My understanding is that the agencies in Gaza have not only lost their ability to tally the dead, but have not been tracking deaths where a corpse has not been located.
Not to mention that this is the tail end of a long process that began with the Nakba. The fact that theres a remnant refugee population that has been removed from their land and isolated to a small stateless fragment, is already in meeting with definitions of genocide. Bombing that remnant into the dust is underlining the issue.
Re:‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF a...
by FabHK on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:50AM
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Sure, it's been going on for a long time. Close to a million Palestinians were expelled (or fled) from Israel after its founding, and close to a million Jews were expelled (or fled) from various Muslim-majority countries around that time.
The former is known as the Nakba (as you highlight) and well known. The latter, not so much.
The legal definition of genocide is not predicated on numbers, but I do want to bring some context:
The Nazis killed more than 90% of Jews in Poland during WW II, and 1/3 of Jews worldwide. That was genocide.
Nazi Germany lost some 10% of its population in WW II. Is it appropriate to say that the Allies committed genocide against the Nazis? Of course not, it was a legitimate defense against a murderous regime.
About 2.5% of the inhabitants of Gaza have been killed in the ongoing war, constituting fewer than 0.5% of Palestinians worldwide.
In 1950, there were about 1m Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories, now there are more than 5m.
Is that "systematic extermination"?
Just for further context: There are some 50 Muslim-majority countries (vs 1 Jewish-majority, so factor of 50), with some 1.8 bn people (vs 10 m, factor >100), and an area of some 30 million km^s (vs 20 k, factor >1000).