New York Times: “The pace of deaths in Gaza, especially among children and women, is beyond anything ever seen”

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Thomas Fazi
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New York Times: “The pace of deaths in Gaza, especially among children and women, is beyond anything ever seen”

Wow, even the

@nytimes

has been forced to admit the genocidal nature of what is happening in Gaza ― and what is about to recommence as the truce nears its end. Here are some excerpts from the article:

“Experts say that even a conservative reading of the casualty figures reported from Gaza show that the pace of death during Israel’s campaign has few precedents in this century.

Researchers say the pace of deaths reported in Gaza during the Israeli bombardment has been exceptionally high.

People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of US-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups.

Israel has been murdering Palestinians—with impunity— for a long time. More than 75 years to be precise. This young Gaza girl was killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip on Day 14 of the 2008-2009 offensive. (9 January 2009). [Wikimedia Commons]

Precise comparisons of war dead are impossible, but conflict-casualty experts have been taken aback at just how many people have been reported killed in Gaza — most of them women and children — and how rapidly. More children have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli assault began than in the world’s major conflict zones combined — across two dozen countries — during all of last year, even with the war in Ukraine, according to UN tallies of verified child deaths in armed conflict.

More than twice as many women and children have already been reported killed in Gaza than in Ukraine after almost two years of Russian attacks, according to United Nations estimates.

More women and children have been killed in Gaza in less than two months than the roughly 7,700 civilians documented as killed by US forces and their international allies in the entire first year of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to estimates from Iraq Body Count, an independent British research group.

And the number of women and children reported killed in Gaza since the Israeli campaign began last month has already started to approach the roughly 12,400 civilians documented to have been killed by the United States and its allies in Afghanistan during nearly 20 years of war, according to Neta C. Crawford, co-director of Brown University’s Costs of War Project.

 
Women and children account for nearly 70 percent of all deaths reported in Gaza even though most combatants are men — an ‘extraordinary statistic’, Rick Brennan, the regional emergency director for the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean office, said at an event this month.

While the overall death tolls in those wars were larger, the number of people killed in Gaza ‘in a very short period of time is higher than in other conflicts’, said Professor Crawford, who has extensively researched modern wars.

 
After initially questioning the death toll in Gaza, the Biden administration now concedes that the true figures for civilian casualties may be even worse. Barbara Leaf, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told a House committee this month that American officials thought the civilian casualties were ‘very high, frankly, and it could be that they’re even higher than are being cited’.
 
It is not just the unrelenting scale of the strikes, which Israel put at more than 15,000 before reaching a brief cease-fire in recent days. It is also the nature of the weaponry itself. Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in dense urban areas, including US-made 2,000-pound bombs that can flatten an apartment tower, is surprising, some experts say.
 
‘It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career’, said Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon”. nytimes.com/2023/11/25/wor

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