Comment by beedeebeedee

> I can find literally no source for 10.000+ outside of the UN "estimating" it, the nearest I could find was 7.500 and that's not verified (and old). I'm not trying to downplay anything and I resent the implication.

16,500 children (Updated Sept 17. 2024) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham...

You resent the implication, but you also did not appear to do any research to support your view.

> Bombing civilians is not technically a war crime in of itself, people like to use the word war crime without actually fucking reading what are war crimes, such as not identifying yourself as military, hiding in the population, using medical buildings as cover and so forth.

"Laws of war likely ‘consistently violated’ in Israeli strikes on Gaza: UN rights office" https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1151196

Not distinguishing between combatants and civilians, causing indiscriminate death and suffering, collective punishment, etc, are all war crimes.

Once again, you have strong beliefs but have not done your research to back them up. Here is the website for the the Geneva Conventions, so that you can question your self: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/geneva-conven...

> Israeli's settling the west-bank and blockading aid under the guise of "the more material they have, the more they will use against us" is condemdable

The settlement of the West Bank is in direct violation of international law (article 49 of the Geneva Convention) and is a war crime in itself.

> Where I get annoyed is that people have decided that terrorists are good, actually, despite clearly throwing gay people off of roofs and engaging in what are actual war crimes.

I don't know who thinks "terrorists are good". To me, that sounds like a strawman to avoid the realization that what Israel is doing is deeply wrong.

Even Israeli scholars on genocide like Omer Bartov (a former IDF officer) state "it was no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel...

Israel is engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. That is painful to acknowledge, but in some ways is not surprising. The victim becoming the victimizer is a human story older than the Bible. The Jewish refugees from WWII underwent terrible horrors and were deeply traumatized. It is not surprising that many of them became radicalized and deeply angry. We have seen the same thing happening to the Palestinians, as well as any other people that is traumatized.