Tags: civilian casualties

In Gaza, We Now Ask: Will It Be the Cold, Hunger or Airstrikes That Kill Us?

Many Palestinians fled their tents amid airstrikes & icy storms, but where will they go? Where is safety? I saw children selling the simplest of sweets, their faces marked by exhaustion, just to buy a little flour. I asked them, “Aren’t you scared?” They answered: “If we don’t die from the bombing, we’ll die from this cold & hunger.”

Report of the Independent Task Force on National Security Memorandum-20 Regarding Israel

The data demonstrate systematic disregard for fundamental principles of U.S. & international law, due to reliance on the steady flow of U.S. armaments. According to a high ranking former IDF officer, Israel’s combat could have achieved similar military outcomes “with 10 percent of the destruction [Israel has] caused.”

Israel’s Assault on Gaza Is Unlike Any War in Recent Memory

What we are seeing play out in Gaza daily is not “just another terrible war” but something altogether different. Its scale is comparable to the carpet-bombing of German cities in World War II. A staggering 70 percent of Palestinians killed so far have been women and children – setting Gaza apart from some of this century’s worst wars.