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Palestinian death toll in Gaza war passes 50,000 as Israel expands new airstrikes

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Netanyahu has THREE corruption trials current or pending.

He was due to give evidence , but Court excused his appearance once the war restarted.

Anyone else see motive ?

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When posters extol the "mercy " of the IDF , saying the ratio of combatant deaths to non combatants is about one to one, does that mean that the higher the death toll rises the greater in number of Hamas fighters that were killed.?

At 50,000 dead, as now, does that mean 25000 Hamas dead ?

At 1 million dead, will that mean 500,000 Hamas dead. ?

If you tie the death toll to Hamas killed, the small armed group called Hamas keeps apparently, growing and growing.

I would think Israeli Intel. estimated the number of active Hamas fighters at the start of the war.

So clearly, the civilian death toll is over 10 times the number of Hamas killed

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I will answer my question.

Post Oct 7, the IDF estimated 25,000 Hamas fighters in Gaza.

Well they should all be now dead using the one civilian death to one Hamas formula spruiked on this forum

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So occupier has new target for genocide, it doesn't matter children and women being victims?

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Palestinian death toll in Gaza war passes 50,000 as Israel expands new airstrikes

The death toll is WAYYY more than that. The 48,000 dead narrative has been pushed for MONTHS. My guess is that its AT LEAST TWICE that.

At 50,000 dead, as now, does that mean 25000 Hamas dead ?

At 1 million dead, will that mean 500,000 Hamas dead. ?

If you tie the death toll to Hamas killed, the small armed group called Hamas keeps apparently, growing and growing.

I would think Israeli Intel. estimated the number of active Hamas fighters at the start of the war.

So clearly, the civilian death toll is over 10 times the number of Hamas killed

Mick- you're dealing with numbers and facts rationally- something the other side is not interested in. They are only interested in shrill screams about how they have to kill to be safe.

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Hamas was estimated to have around 20,000 to 25,000 fighters in Oct 2023. The U.S. estimated that Hamas had recruited another 15,000 by the end of 2024.

The problem with Israel's numbers is that they're always followed by the caveat "without providing evidence."

The 50,000 death toll doesn't include the many more thousands presumed dead but lacking positive conformation. The 50,000 also only includes those killed by direct traumatic injury. It doesn't include those killed by things malnutrition, exposure and destruction of medical services and infrastructure.

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The claim of the Palestinian Arabs for exclusive ownership of the land from the river to the sea is wrong, stupid, criminal, genocidal and suicidal.

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The Hamas supporters deny the well-documented fact that Hamas has perpetrated atrocities at a large scale on October 7 2023. The level barbarism of these atrocities is beyond description.

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NB, Their is no law saying,you have to support Israel genocide against Palestinians,only insecure people care about people,that they need some validation for their existence

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So not an eye-for-an-eye. More like 42 Palestinians killed for every Israeli killed.

The Hamas supporters deny the well-documented fact that Hamas has perpetrated atrocities at a large scale on October 7 2023. The level barbarism of these atrocities is beyond description.

Do you deny that Netanyahu knew for two years there would be an attack?

Israel was warned by Egypt of potential violence three days before Hamas' deadly cross-border raid, a US congressional panel chairman has said.

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NBToday 07:49 am JST

The Hamas supporters deny the well-documented fact that Hamas has perpetrated atrocities at a large scale on October 7 2023. The level barbarism of these atrocities is beyond description.

Do you have anything to say about the other well-documented fact that Israel, in spite of its no doubt highly sophisticated and hugely expensive intelligence-gathering aparatus, conspicuously and suspiciously failed to prevent these atrocities you're so piously outraged about?

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If America cared about the Holocaust,they would of intervene,it obviously the survival of Jews was not America priority,just like it is today,why is any different now

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NB,the majority of the people in the world support the Palestinians and their are billion who do,and Jews do only a small segment of world,you figure who will prevail

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Do you deny that Netanyahu knew for two years there would be an attack?

Hamas has been creating the deceptive impression that they are pragmatical. It was impossible to guess that they are so mad. Netanyahu has been negotiating with the Saudis. The Saudis were making an effort to bring peace, based on the two-state solution. Hamas launched the massacre/rape/kidnapping in order to thwart the Saudi effort.

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The claim of the Palestinian Arabs for exclusive ownership of the land from the river to the sea is wrong, stupid, criminal, genocidal and suicidal. - NB

"In 2014 Ariel said, "Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there will be only one state, which is Israel." The phrase has been used by the Israeli prime minister, Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, in speeches. Similar wording has also been used more recently by other Israeli politicians."

Is it also wrong, stupid, criminal, genocidal and suicidal when Israeli leaders say it?

The Hamas supporters deny the well-documented fact that Hamas has perpetrated atrocities at a large scale on October 7 2023. The level barbarism of these atrocities is beyond description. - NB

I don't think anyone here on the Palestinian side of the debate is a Hamas supporter, nor does anyone deny that Oct 7th happened. The descriptions of Oct 7th go beyond the barbarism. 40 beheaded babies? Never happened. Nothing but dehumanizing propaganda.

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Netanyahu has drawn up a plan for the Palestinians to leave Gaza permanently. Trump’s plan for ethnic cleansing.

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I won't be rushing to stay in a luxury hotel on Trumps Riviera, built on the site of a massacre.

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"In 2014 Ariel said, "Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there will be only one state, which is Israel." The phrase has been used by the Israeli prime minister, Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, in speeches. Similar wording has also been used more recently by other Israeli politicians."

Israel endorsed the UN resolutions 181 and 242. Israel has tried the Oslo path. Many Isaraeli peace propositions have been made - they were all rejected. Israel cultivated a culture of yearning for peace. All the while, the Palestinian Arabs have been insisting on exclusive ownership of the land and on butchering the Jews.

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Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran instigated this devastating war, are responsible for the lives of 50,000 plus

7 October 2023 in which 1,195 Israelis including foreign nationals, 815 civilians, were slaughtered, 251 taken hostage.

The Hamas atrocities, murdering hateful, deep seated callous islamic extremism, depraved fundamentalist terrorism

Gaza, once a future Palestinian homeland, resembles a blood soaked pile of smoldering rubble.

A so called two state solution in tatters. a fools' errand, a delusional political mirage.

Hamas with the full backing of UN peacekeepers could surrender, a Arab compromise found to release all the hostages.

Even then the Israeli government might simply reject any diplomatic compromise.

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Slowly the truth is coming out.

Slowly the denail of the truth is spread by the Palestinian propaganda machine. But the denail of the truth cannot change the well-documented truth.

Footages show Hamas terrorists wearing "press" vests roaming along the stretches of roads fool of vehicles whose passengers were shot.

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The extreme and insane leaderships of the Palestinian Arabs, some of them pseudo-religious, some of them pseudo-Marxist and some of them just plain nationalist, have brought hell on their own nation and on the other nation. The Palestinian Arabs could have opted to live prosperous lives together and side by side with the Jews, in their own state of Palestine and in the mixed state of Israel.

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Massive protest hit the street of Tel Viv on the weekend over the sacking of the Security Chief investigating Net genocidal team of death. Sure does in NB BS of Palestinian propaganda. LOL.

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Many Isaraeli peace propositions have been made

It is clear that these guys above are a clear example of the Israeli propaganda, the same politicians that have been brainwashing inside the Congress in Washington.

No knowledge of history, keep posting Tel Aviv dispatches, perhaps lots of connections with the warlords in Wall Street, the merchants of death who care about their investments more than innocent lives. This is the world we live in and unfortunately the new reality extends to Japan forums too.

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The NOVA festival was moved to the site used only 2 days before Oct7 so Hamas preparations, known to Israel, did not account for NOVA.

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And for Gods sake posters STOP referring to Gaza as a "future homeland " and such when consecutive Israeli PM,s have said "No Palestine state while I am PM "

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The barbaric atrocities did happan. The denial of the truth does not work.

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Gaza has always been in the plans of the racist Zionist state. A state for Jews and Jews only. Made possible by the unwavering support of the worlds only super power.

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The Gaza strip was evacuated from settlers in 2006.

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Don’t start a war you can’t win.

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The world is supporting one of the greatest INJUSTICES in modern history by allowing these Zionist War Criminals to carry on with this Genocide, the so called Free World is watching this with Blood in their Throats and on their hands.

May Peace Prevail Over Palestine.

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Both Hamas and Israel Can GO TO HELL for ending the lives of so may children.

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NB....The Gaza strip was evacuated from settlers in 2006 "...BUT THE BLOCKADE imposed by Israel made Gazans life nearly impossible.

Limiting food imports !

What sick pathological demonic state does this ?

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Could it not be, the reality for Hamas, the moment that provoked Hamas to commit unspeakable atrocities.October 7th 2023

That Hamas understood that a future Palestinian homeland could form into a peaceful two state solution?

I suggest such a vision, a future Palestinian homeland side by side with the Jew for Hamas, was unspeakable, unthinkable, unacceptable so Hamas committed an act so heinous to ensure the only conclusion would be war.

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The Zionists are NO Different than ISIS, all they know is Kill Kill Kill to accomplish their agenda.

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These statistics do not tell the truth. Common sense can easily double the death toll. After all the fake news put out by the MSM since October 7 (and nary a word about the decades before that date), who in our day is so naive or uneducated as to believe the propaganda of gas-lighting government people? A wise Jew once suggested we might find "the truth" if we compare the lies. So the top Dem, Chuck Schumer, is now promoting his new book and peddling stories of "40 beheaded babies. You couldn't make this up, but they do.

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The Gaza strip was evacuated from settlers in 2006.

But its borders were still controlled by Israel, so still a belligerent occupation. And from 2007 it was under a total blockade by Israel.

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A reminder that the Netanyahu's criminal regime in Israel has warded off completely the Gaza Strip since the start of the military operations, same as the battleground in South Lebanon. Therefore all the actions and destructions by Israel IDF cannot be documented by foreign media. Only the media embedded with Israel army. So you can have an idea of the authenticity of the chronicles, especially the narrative of American media. 

This terrible conflict would end the first 24 hours the US administration stops shipping lethal weapons to Israel, but, as we know, there is too much at stake for the US lobbies in Wall Street

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Religious ideological extremism in all its forms, the histrionics, centuries, millennia even, cannot be politically wished away in twenty four hours, with forgive me, naïve rhetorical blame, finger pointing.

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Itsonlyrocknroll...one problem with your theory...and it is a biggie.

Hamas accepts the state of Israel in the revised Hamas charter,

Your comment now dead...sorry.

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NB...google "Hamas accepts state of Israel in revised charter "

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NB..."Hamas developed sophisticated methods "....yep, I remember seeing a motorised hang glider being used to fly from Gaza into the battlefield.

Pretty sophisticated...in a Wright Brothers sort of way

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Hamas sticks to its ambition of cleansing the land from the Jews, from the river to the sea. The culture of the Palestinian Arabs is soaked with this "ideal". The idea of coexistence of the two nations has never occured in the Arabic Palestinian culture, after the 1940s, when the moderates were hanged by the extremists.

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