cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29307388
On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Reinforcing that horrifying conclusion, buried within the Commission’s report are bombshell passages unequivocally charging the Zionist entity with deliberately committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, consciously and intentionally “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as a group.” The details provided are irresistibly persuasive, and point to Israel being in flagrant breach of both the Rome Statute, and Genocide Convention. In a truly just world, the mainstream media’s mass omertà on this landmark ruling would in itself be a criminal act.
They only killed 100k civilans in 1 year, maybe we should wait a bit before calling it…
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Most Palestinians are under the age of 18 too. Mass murder of children.
I think the official total death toll as reported by Gaza Ministry of Health is 50k total. Not sure if the number was part of the /s but I wanted to provide accurate information. Not saying 50k in one year is not absolutely ridiculous. It is.
The Gaza Ministry of Health systematically undercounts the dead. First, they only attemp to count direct casualties, which excludes preventable deaths from malnutrition, disease, loss of shelter, etc. Second, their capacity to find the dead is significantly reduced due to the war. This isn’t unique to this situation. For almost any disaster, casualty estimates continue to go up after the disaster itself is over, and there are resources to spend looking for dead bodies.
I can’t remember what the number is, maybe it was the 50k number, but I remember reading about strikes that totalled over 1,000 after that number, and it never became 51… All this time of people dying to disease, dehydration etc from lack of resources, no uptick. Like obviously they can’t so a census, but I assumed they would use assumptions to make some sort of better statistical guess.
With the scenes we’ve seen, 100k already seems unbelievably low