cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17887604
“Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered. But never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport.”
- Christopher Hedges American journalist on assignment in Gaza
Yeah, they just send missiles and drones to blow up the buildings they live in.
Yes. But the posted pic specifically talks about something else that also matters.
True. Wasn’t responding to the post, just to that specific comment. Israel is even more fucked up than russia, that’s for sure.
There is nuance. No one is saying you can’t be sad for Ukranian children, we all are too and what’s happening there is horrendous as well.
The difference is that the IDF is specifcally going after kids. Not “whoops, collateral damage war is hell haha” but “hey, wanna kill some kids today?”
It’s like the difference between a murderer and murder-rapist. Both are awful, but one is objectively more twisted and fucked in the head than the other.
Russia definitely kills children but the percentage of children killed by Russia vs Israel is wildly different.
More Ukranian men have died than the total amount of Palestinians. But those are soldiers.
Far more more Palestinian women and children have been killed than the total amount of Ukrainian women and children.
More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year – Oxfam