JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    erase the current populace entirely

    Do you realize that the population of Gaza grows by over 50,000 people every year? Even if we accept the casualty figures provided by Hamas (and I don’t) then unless this war goes on at its current intensity for another four months (which it won’t) the population of Gaza will actually increase rather than decrease in the one-year period that includes the war.

    The idea that the war in Gaza is “[erasing] the current populace entirely” is disconnected from reality.

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      Wow.

      Are you literally saying it’s not a genocide because the population is growing faster than the IDF is killing?

      I don’t know what happened to your brain, nor your heart, but I am sad whatever happened to you, happened.

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      You do realise that the birth rates will slow down during the conflict, right? Who’s going to be having a baby when the nearest hospital is being shelled? Assuming of course that both parents even survive.

      That 50,000 per year won’t hold for this duration and I won’t be surprised if it shrinks to below 1,000 by the time Israel is finished.