I'm not the only one who says it.
It's a holocaust. You are promoting holocaust denial.
Look at the footage of Rafah: desolation as far as the drone can see. Even by the end of Biden's term, the majority of civilian buildings had been destroyed across the strip. 6 Hiroshimas, on a 12x12 mile square populated with over a million children.
> Note it wasn't just 6 million Jews killed in the holocaust, but also 5-6 million Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, disabled people, and more.
Christians, homosexuals, and disabled people have all been slaughtered by Israel as well - and hostages too. So what's your point?
> Estimates place the ratio of combatant to civilian death near to that of other urban wars.
You're missing the key piece of factual information there: IDF estimates. Other estimates put the ratio of civilian deaths an order of magnitude higher, and if there's any evidence whatsoever for IDF's claims of Hamas fighters killed I don't know anyone who's ever seen it. Feel free to present some if you have it.
> Most sources estimate a civilian to combatant death rate of 4:1 in Gaza
What sources are these? The IDF, Netanyahu, and Ben Gvir?
You're lying.
> That's despite Hamas leadership actively using civilians as shields.
Still no evidence for that claim whatsoever. Plenty of evidence of Israel doing it though - it's openly admitted, including in your own linked article.
> There's worse confirmed famine occurring just hundreds of miles some estimates of 522,000 infant deaths due to starvation in Sudan in the last two years alone.
Is Sudan surrounded by aid trucks sitting idle? And are both connected to Western interference?
> Despite 10 times the numbers of people dying in Sudan, much less Yemen and Somolia, they're receiving only a fraction of the international aid or attention that Gazans receive.
Somolia? ... Even if we ignore the problems with your figures (using IDF estimates, ignoring the fact Sudan is 25 times more populated than Gaza, longer time period, etc) - there are still at least three major problems:
One, Western powers are directly enabling, funding and arming Israel's genocide, which means we are complicit and have more of a responsibility to discuss and bring an end the situation as soon as possible.
Two, Western interference (esp the US and Israel) with Sudan, Yemen and Somalia is also responsible for no small part of their current problems, so the comparison is pretty rude.
Three, if the best argument you have in defense of slaughtering tens (more likely hundreds) of thousands of people is that more people are dying elsewhere, you're very far gone.
I wish you the best of luck finding your way back; it won't be easy but you really need to try.
My refutation was implicit in the fact that the boy's condition appears to be genetic and that his brother appears healthy and well fed. His mother also appears not to be starving either.
> Read the comments on your own link - they're absolutely vile and I won't repeat them here, but that you think this is making a good case for you is absolutely wild.
I didn't link to those comments nor do I condone them. There's plenty of vile pro-Palestinian comments on X and elsewhere as well.
You also don't deny the veracity of the photo or the full story.
There is real starvation occurring in Gaza, but the IDF has also started scaling up aid and food including announcing safe corridors for UN aid delivery which I believe the IDF should've done sooner.
> Sometimes I almost feel pity for the type of mind that can defend the perpetrators of these acts. But this is going on for 21 months (and 80 years) now. At some point - long past - you become fully complicit by defending this holocaust.
You've convinced yourself it's a holocaust, despite the scales being 2 orders of magnitudes different in number and completely different in actions and intentions. Note it wasn't just 6 million Jews killed in the holocaust, but also 5-6 million Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, disabled people, and more. That's 2 out of every 3 Jewish people in Europe at the time.
Your distortions and semi-irrational accusations don't change the actual realities which are hard enough to estimate.
Estimates place the ratio of combatant to civilian death near to that of other urban wars. Most sources estimate a civilian to combatant death rate of 4:1 in Gaza, while Mosul was 4.7-6.1:1. That's despite Hamas leadership actively using civilians as shields.
There's worse confirmed famine occurring just hundreds of miles some estimates of 522,000 infant deaths due to starvation in Sudan in the last two years alone. Despite 10 times the numbers of people dying in Sudan, much less Yemen and Somolia, they're receiving only a fraction of the international aid or attention that Gazans receive.
Yet it's not sensational or in the headlines everyday, so who cares right?