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bigtree

(90,287 posts)
Mon Nov 6, 2023, 07:50 AM Nov 2023

Israel dropped almost as many bombs in Gaza in one week as the U.S. did in Afghanistan in one year -- the heaviest year.

Eric Umansky @ericuman (editor, Pro Publica)
Israel dropped almost as many bombs in Gaza in one week as the U.S. did in Afghanistan in one year -- the heaviest year.

Gaza is 141 sq miles.

Afghanistan is 252,071 sq miles.





“The Jabalya strike, because it was a planned attack, shows that Israel must have a tolerance for civilian casualties which is orders of magnitude greater than that that was used by, say, the U.S. Air Force in the war against ISIS,” said Mark Lattimer, executive director of the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights.

On Oct. 14, just a week into the war, the Israeli air force said it had dropped 6,000 bombs on Hamas targets in Gaza. By contrast, a little more than 7,300 bombs were dropped on Afghanistan by the U.S.-led coalition in all of 2019, the heaviest year of aerial bombardment there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/05/israel-strike-targets-gaza-civilians-hamas/
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Israel dropped almost as many bombs in Gaza in one week as the U.S. did in Afghanistan in one year -- the heaviest year. (Original Post) bigtree Nov 2023 OP
Nothing justifies this response malaise Nov 2023 #1
You are absolutely correct. Magoo48 Nov 2023 #2
Yep malaise Nov 2023 #4
+1 leftstreet Nov 2023 #9
"Everything we do is justified" sarisataka Nov 2023 #10
+1 Chautauquas Nov 2023 #11
Let me know when they Tickle Nov 2023 #3
"They"? ExciteBike66 Nov 2023 #5
Collective punishment is the strategy. David__77 Nov 2023 #6
This Calculating Nov 2023 #8
😂 release the hostages Tickle Nov 2023 #7

Magoo48

(5,538 posts)
2. You are absolutely correct.
Mon Nov 6, 2023, 08:58 AM
Nov 2023

And, it is being financed in large part by American taxpayer dollars and done in our names.

That is fucked up.

sarisataka

(21,284 posts)
10. "Everything we do is justified"
Mon Nov 6, 2023, 10:08 AM
Nov 2023

"Everything we do is justified"
-Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, interviewed on Lebanese LBC TV, October 24, 2023.

ExciteBike66

(2,640 posts)
5. "They"?
Mon Nov 6, 2023, 09:08 AM
Nov 2023

I presume you mean hamas, but the problem is that the bombs are falling on civilians...

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