Palestinians are resisting a decades long occupation. Israelis are bombing refugee camps and hospitals. Openly calling for the destruction/removal of the entir

Palestinians are resisting a decades long occupation. Israelis are bombing refugee camps and hospitals. Openly calling for the destruction/removal of the entire population. Assassinating journalists, preventing food and electricity and clean water from an entire population. > Casualty stats are like polls. Its quasi data at best. 30,000 murdered people in three months isn't a statistic. It's human lives. Those are real people. They have names, and you can see the lists compiled. The average age of murdered children over there is five years old. If you want better stats, get Israel to let journalists in (maybe ask them to stop killing them while you're at it). > Can someone name a large-scale armed military conflict in which the civilian population caught in that conflict weren't treated as expendable? Ah - there it is. Palestinian civilians are expendable to Israel, and you call this normal. But how many senior Hamas leaders have been taken in Gaza? Zero. How many hostages have been rescued? Minus three. All while a child is murdered every ten minutes. Israel is committing verified war crimes and atrocities every day. It's not excusable. There is a responsibility, even in war, to protect civilian life.