Dear little Israhell has killed more civilians than the big bad Rooskies

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Palestinian civilian deaths now passing reported total in Ukraine
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/palestinian-civilian-deaths-now-passing-reported-total-ukraine

On 17 October, The Electronic Intifada reported that more Palestinian children had been killed in Gaza in just a few days of Israeli military strikes than Ukrainian children in 18 months of Russia's fighting in Ukraine.

Today, three weeks later, Israel has killed more than 4,000 children, or more than seven times the verified number of children that Russia has slain in Ukraine.

Both numbers for Ukrainian and Palestinian children are appalling. In the Palestinian case, however, the US is arming and rearming Israel.

https://twitter.com/DCIPalestine/status/1722285842264211877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1722285842264211877%7Ctwgr%5Ec01974a93f4e91e9752795edac7fad9a440b6922%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmichael-f-brown%2Fpalestinian-civilian-deaths-now-passing-reported-total-ukraine

President Joe Biden doubts the veracity of the Palestinian health ministry figures, though Glenn Kessler in The Washington Post has since done a fact check confirming the general historical accuracy of these figures.

Civilians of all ages
Now, more Palestinian civilians of all ages are thought to have been killed over the past month than those civilians reported killed in Ukraine since February 2022.

The Palestinian health ministry does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, but the number of children, women and elderly killed, when added to the fact that most men in Gaza are not combatants, strongly indicates the number of civilians killed during a month of Israeli bombardment is above 10,000.

The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza passed 10,000 early this week according to the Palestinian health ministry.

In both Ukraine and Gaza, not all deaths have been tabulated. In Gaza, over 2,000 people still lie under the rubble and have not yet been confirmed dead. Some may yet have a chance of escaping the horror of being buried alive, but most are likely to have perished beneath the concrete.

The number buried under the rubble is another reason to believe Palestinian civilian casualties are above 10,000.

Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of the Coordination Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, asserted in late October that more than 9,900 civilians had been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion.

One important caveat for Ukraine is that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights "believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration." How high those final tallies will go for both Ukraine and Gaza is uncertain.

The response of Western officials, particularly American officials, has been vastly different in the two cases, highly critical of Russia and extremely indulgent of Israel's actions.

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1721657908369203677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721657908369203677%7Ctwgr%5Ec01974a93f4e91e9752795edac7fad9a440b6922%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmichael-f-brown%2Fpalestinian-civilian-deaths-now-passing-reported-total-ukraine

But you won't see mainstream Western media like CNN frequently reminding their viewers how much deadlier the situation is for civilians in Gaza. Instead, it turns out this sort of information is best found by turning to Al Jazeera and even Chinese state-owned CGTN.

https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1721620032541556978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721620032541556978%7Ctwgr%5Ec01974a93f4e91e9752795edac7fad9a440b6922%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmichael-f-brown%2Fpalestinian-civilian-deaths-now-passing-reported-total-ukraine

The numbers in Gaza are staggering. The equivalent number of Americans killed would be some 1.4 million in approximately one month. Soon, one in 200 Palestinian civilians in Gaza will have been killed in this Israeli onslaught. It's possible the number has already been reached.

No wonder that the Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal and the National Lawyers Guild have put members of Congress on notice that "should you vote in favor of [the emergency military assistance package to Israel], you risk facing criminal and civil liability for aiding and abetting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity under international law, and may face investigation."

https://twitter.com/theCCR/status/1720823865595572657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1720823865595572657%7Ctwgr%5Ec01974a93f4e91e9752795edac7fad9a440b6922%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmichael-f-brown%2Fpalestinian-civilian-deaths-now-passing-reported-total-ukraine

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https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1722109970982875258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1722109970982875258%7Ctwgr%5Ec01974a93f4e91e9752795edac7fad9a440b6922%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmichael-f-brown%2Fpalestinian-civilian-deaths-now-passing-reported-total-ukraine

Most in Washington, however, seem determined to disregard such warnings and vote for further military aid to Israel.

House highlights its racism
Congress voted Tuesday to censure Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for saying, among other profoundly misrepresented statements, "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."

The resolution further asserted that "Israel has existed on its lands for millennia and the United States played a critical role in returning Israel to those lands in 1948," while making no reference to the 800,000 Palestinians that Zionist militias and then Israel dispossessed that very year.

Her support for equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis made no difference. She was simply accused of promoting what was termed "a genocidal call to violence," all evidence to the contrary about what she actually supports and understands the slogan to assert being ignored.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee stated in a press release Tuesday night that the congressional censure "is yet another example of Palestinians being targeted, harassed and silenced not just on school campuses and on social media, but also at the highest level of government. This censure also constitutes an attack on free speech and has established a shameful precedent of punishing Members who stand up for basic human dignity."

The fact that Israel has itself claimed all the land between the river and the sea did not seem to matter.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's map at the United Nations in September taking for Israel all the land between the river and the sea, along with the occupied Golan Heights – in an apartheid arrangement vastly different from Tlaib's preference for equal rights – certainly did not deter them.

Israel's expansionist apartheid is not nearly so alarming to the anti-Palestinian racists in Congress as a Palestinian American on Capitol Hill.

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Republican Congressman Max Miller of Ohio, who was among those pushing for censure against Tlaib, faced very little scrutiny prior to the vote for his racism, though Congresswoman Ilhan Omar raised concerns over his genocidal call to turn Gaza into a "parking lot."

Top Democratic leaders don't highlight his violent statement, or his demagogic rhetoric, perhaps fearing they might slow the war machine unleashed on Palestinians in Gaza. Democratic voters, though, are taking note.

https://twitter.com/RepMaxMiller/status/1722264214189088837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1722264214189088837%7Ctwgr%5Ec01974a93f4e91e9752795edac7fad9a440b6922%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmichael-f-brown%2Fpalestinian-civilian-deaths-now-passing-reported-total-ukraine

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With 22 Democrats broadcasting their anti-Palestinian animus and crossing over to support Republicans, they signaled that Tlaib calling for equal rights is more dangerous in their eyes than Republican politicians making genocidal calls against the Palestinian people.

The anti-Black racism that once dominated the Democratic Party is shamefully turning up again and is also now directed at Palestinians, both on Capitol Hill and in the killing fields of Gaza.

Some years from now, Congress may well apologize to Tlaib, though that does her and the Palestinian people no good currently. Nevertheless, she should wear as a badge of honor the racism they have directed at her.

Anti-Palestinian racism grows by leaps and bounds in Washington as Israel and the United States pursue a brutal onslaught against the children of Gaza.

These are violent people.

Many voters will remember this in the next presidential election and quite possibly for years to come.

https://twitter.com/RepRashida/status/1721915427045920966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721915427045920966%7Ctwgr%5Ec01974a93f4e91e9752795edac7fad9a440b6922%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmichael-f-brown%2Fpalestinian-civilian-deaths-now-passing-reported-total-ukraine

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Gaza death toll 'could be even higher' – US official
Palestinian reports could be undercounting the dead, a State Department diplomat has said
https://www.rt.com/news/586943-gaza-deaths-higher-state-department/

The number of Gaza Palestinians killed in Israel's war on Hamas is probably higher than the 10,000 reported by the local health ministry, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf has told Congress.

"In this period of conflict and conditions of war, it is very difficult for any of us to assess what the rate of casualties are," Leaf told the House Foreign Affairs Committee during a hearing on Wednesday, according to The Hill. "We think they're very high, frankly, and it could be that they're even higher than are being cited."

"We take in sourcing from a variety of folks who are on the ground," Leaf added. "I can't stipulate to one figure or another, it's very possible they're even higher than is being reported."

As of Wednesday, the Health Ministry in Gaza has reported the overall death toll from Israeli attacks at 10,569 – including 4,324 children – with 26,475 people wounded and at least 2,550 missing.

Leaf's comments seemed at odds with last month's statement by US President Joe Biden, who said he had "no confidence" in the Palestinian numbers. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that the Gaza Health Ministry is "just a front for Hamas."

"We can't take anything coming out of Hamas, including the so-called 'Ministry of Health', at face value," Kirby said at the White House press briefing on October 26.

The US has reportedly asked Israel to avoid killing civilians, but a New York Times article last week revealed that Israeli officials "believed mass civilian casualties were an acceptable price in the military campaign," comparing the operations in Gaza with the firebombings of Germany and Japan in WWII.

Israel declared war on Hamas after the October 7 incursion by the Palestinian militant group, which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,400 Israeli citizens, while more than 200 were taken hostage.

Speaking to the House panel on Wednesday, Leaf described the civilian suffering in Gaza as "emotionally wrenching" but said that stopping the Israeli military operation would be wrong.

"To call a cease-fire right now that might or might not be honored by Hamas, would be to leave Hamas in control of some 240 hostages, including babies and children, and would also leave fairly well intact, much of the military infrastructure and warfighting capacity and terrorism capacity of Hamas intact," she said.

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From Information Liberation
Israel's War on Gaza is Killing Children at 100x the Rate of Russia's War on Ukraine 
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64194

Some 560 children  were killed in 18 months in Russia's war with Ukraine https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15434.doc.htm  whereas 8,000 children have been killed in just two and a half months in Israel's war with Gaza.  https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/tragic-and-shameful-milestone-gaza-death-toll-hits-20000-including-8000-children-and-6200-women-1.100059301

Russia's war is killing an average of 31 children a month, whereas Israel's war is killing an average of 3,200 children a month.

We've all been told over the past two years that Vladimir Putin is the ultimate evil in the world and the New Hitler™ and yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's religious "war of extermination" to "wipe out Amalek" in Gaza is killing children at just over 100 times the rate as Russia's war with Ukraine.  https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64166

https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1737155843424993455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1737155843424993455%7Ctwgr%5E441d1ca4bb6b8eaf8f82b69ee3366e97a1a9fcf0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D64194

Ukraine's population is 22 times that of the Gaza Strip (44 million vs 2 million), so the numbers would be even more dramatic if you broke them down on a per capita basis.  https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64057

Has the media's coverage of Israel's slaughter of Palestinian children been 100 times more hysterical than their coverage of Russia's war in Ukraine?

Of course not, we've seen just the opposite.

The media has instead fed the public an endless torrent of atrocity propaganda to justify Israel's historic war crimes. 
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64171
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64193