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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsrael 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
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malaise
(278,805 posts)1. Nothing justifies this response
That is all
Magoo48
(5,538 posts)2. You are absolutely correct.
And, it is being financed in large part by American taxpayer dollars and done in our names.
That is fucked up.
Sickening
sarisataka
(21,284 posts)10. "Everything we do is justified"
"Everything we do is justified"
-Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, interviewed on Lebanese LBC TV, October 24, 2023.
Tickle
(3,157 posts)3. Let me know when they
release the hostages
I presume you mean hamas, but the problem is that the bombs are falling on civilians...
David__77
(23,879 posts)6. Collective punishment is the strategy.
The bombing stops when the hostages are freed.
Tickle
(3,157 posts)7. 😂 release the hostages
and everything will pause.