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I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed
- yusufusta 7mo agoWhy did this get flagged?
- birdsongs 7mo agoUnsurprising, but we know why. :( HN is not unbiased, and not above censorship. Political things make it to the front page all the time, but this is the wrong kind of political thing. We're not supposed to talk about ----cides, at least, this ongoing one.
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- Zealotux 7mo agoThere's a large amount of people flagging that specific topic and viewpoint, it's a regular thing on HN, I'm not surprised at all.
- gambiting 7mo agoLiterally anything related to this conflict gets flagged immediately.
- UncleMeat 7mo agoThe initial October attacks weren’t flagged. Violence in exactly one direction is flagged.
- dlubarov 7mo ago[flagged]
- gambiting 7mo agoMentioning that 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza is anti-Israel story now?
- dlubarov 7mo ago[flagged]
- gambiting 7mo agoAre there many places left in Gaza making military uniforms at the moment?
- dlubarov 7mo agoThey somehow manage to find uniforms when they do parades. In any case, the principle of distinction merely requires combatants to wear distinguishing marks. Hypothetically if they ran out of uniforms, they could use something as simple as colored armbands. It's a basic tenet of IHL which is essential for the protection of civilians in a war zone. If the pro-Palestinian community was genuinely focused on the well-being of Gazans, they would have extremely concerned about this particular war crime, and would have urgently tried to get Hamas to stop from disguising as civilians.
- gambiting 7mo agoSo the 20 thousand children killed in Gaza should have been wearing what kind of uniform to avoid behind killed? Just so I understand correctly. >>would have urgently tried to get Hamas to stop from disguising as civilians. So if the international community somehow pressured Hamas to wear uniforms, IDF would kill fewer children? Or they would stop their policy on waiting until a suspected Hamas combatant returns home and then blowing them up along with their family? I just feel like that's such a dishonest, morally bankrupt take. For every single Israeli killed in the October attack, Israel has killed 20 children. But hey, Hamas militants don't wear uniforms sometimes, damn I wish the world would talk more about this war crime too. I'm just trying to think of when my own country was under German occupation and 2 millions of our citizens were killed by Nazis - if internet was around back then I'm sure someone would have said that it's really suspicious no one talks about how our resistance forces don't walk around the streets in their uniforms or you know "at least wear an armband". If only anyone really cared about our well being surely someone should have pointed it out, maybe UK could have sent some strongly worded letters to the underground leaders to just wear uniforms when outside, then(and only then) talking about the genocide would finally be fine.
- jacquesm 7mo agoUncomfortable truths.
- 93po 7mo agoLiterally the first comment I read was of the sentiment "Palestinians are all terrorists and deserve this" so it's not really a wonder why no one wants to read this style of conversation
- nozzlegear 7mo agoPresumably for the same reason things related to e.g. American politics gets flagged: everyone knows where they stand on the topic, and there's no good discussion to be had about it here – just flame wars.
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- austin-cheney 7mo agoThis visual shows the names of 60,199 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza from 7 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025. This staggering figure includes only those whose names and ages could be identified by the Ministry of Health in Gaza up to that date.
- yanhangyhy 7mo agoits ironic that Israel becomes the new Nazi
- vincnetas 7mo agoirony is too week a word for for this situation...
- yanhangyhy 7mo agoyeah..
- PurpleRamen 7mo agoThey are not, and it's not helping the message to spread this wrong picture. Nazis had a dedicated machinery, based on crude racism and conspiracy ideology, which was actively seeking and executing their genocide. Israels lunatics lack this, their aim is stealing land, and the mass killings are just a side effect of their religious bullshit. Not understanding this difference derails the communication about this problem.
- orwin 7mo agoYes, agree. Nazi are typical fascists. Apartheid regimes might look fascistic at first glance, but they do not fill all the Umberto Eco criteria, or, if I go deeper (and imho to a more universal way to detect fascism), they do not have the same mythos as fascists, in particular those needs to point to internal enemies, 'traitors' if you will, that apartheid state don't (the discriminated population are not considered traitors, merely inferior). While some mediatic Zionists are fascist or at least have huge fascistic tendancy for sure (calling someone 'self-hating Jew' is to me a sign), the state isn't.
- tremon 7mo agoCan you explain the difference then between "crude racism and conspiracy ideology" on the one side and "Israel's religious bullshit" on the other? Because I don't see much difference between the nazi view that Aryan blood is superior and Israel's view that Arabic lives are inferior. And Israel's perpetual self-victimization and insistence that every Palestinian civilian is a Hamas terrorist and that they're hiding in every building sure sound like conspiracy ideologies to me.
- JohnnyLarue 7mo agoExperts agree that this number is a vast, vast undercount.
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- austin-cheney 7mo agoIf any of that were true why does Israel forbid foreign journalists from reporting facts on the ground? Why did they kill more journalists than all prior conflicts in human history?
- haght 7mo ago[flagged]
- polotics 7mo agoHamas as financed, and helped grow, and fostered as an entity, and rid of its more middle-of-the-road competitors, by two you-know-who parties in this farcical tragedy, parties that comically keep identifying themselves as one another's mortal enemy... glad I never set foot in that madhouse in 20 year and most likely won't ever again.
- austin-cheney 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_journalists_in_the_Gaza_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_journalists_in_the_... https://www.ifj.org/war-in-gaza https://www.ifj.org/war-in-gaza
- benterix 7mo ago> ow, when ukraine shows that they are strong, people on the internet look horrified how russian soldiers are annihilated with fpv drones and scream about how such things are war crimes and should be stopped. Sorry who are those people and where I can find them? In my bubble Ukraine is still the victim who lost 20% of its land, and Russians are still bombing the country daily, both military and civilian targets. All male Ukrainians are basically prisoners in their own country who can only pray they don't die soon.
- metalman 7mo agoMurdered, intentionaly ,by a zionist genocidal terrorist state.
- rdevilla 7mo agoUnsure why this comment merely copy pasting the summary of TFA is voted dead [0]. Perhaps this is how low the bar for "antisemitism" has fallen these days? Or is vote manipulation taking HN in the direction of /. and reddit? austin-cheney 6 minutes ago [dead] [–] This visual shows the names of 60,199 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza from 7 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025. This staggering figure includes only those whose names and ages could be identified by the Ministry of Health in Gaza up to that date. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612082
- qoez 7mo agoTo me it just sounds like a bot comment which is against HN rules.
- classified 7mo agoThankfully by now it has been resurrected.
- gambiting 7mo agoThat number is absolutely staggering, and the fact that at least 20,000 of these are children is literally making me sick every time I think about it. To Israelis who think this is justified because your country was attacked - for every person killed in the initial attacks, your military has killed 20 children(and many more adults). And that's the ones that were outright killed, and not "just" had their limbs torn off and given lifelong disabilities. How is that proportionate, fair or in any way justifiable?
- CommanderData 7mo agoClearly your an absolute anti-semite for having any empathy for Palestinians (who are Semities themselves).
- falcor84 7mo agoI'm not looking to defend Israel's actions or to take a political stance here, but just wanted to ask about the proportionality/fairness argument - to the best of my knowledge, a proportionality between casualties on the two sides is not an expectation of any rules of war, and I don't recall ever seeing it applied to other conflicts.
- gambiting 7mo agoThat is correct, but every war should have an end at some point. To maybe ask this in a different way - how many more palestinian children have to die for the Israeli government to say "ok yeah we're done now". What is that number going to be? 20k? 100k? Every single one of them? Their stated objective is to eliminate th Hamas militants, but on the path to that goal the truly astounding civilian cost cannot justify the end, can it? Or if someone thinks it can, I'd ask - really? Surely there is a number between 0 and "every single person in Gaza" that would cause even the most hardened supporter of Israel to stop for a second? (although maybe not, given that there are Israeli politicians saying everyone above the age of 5 in gaza should be cut down, so maybe I'm too optimistic).
- jacquesm 7mo ago
- 4gotunameagain 7mo agoThis will get flagged again, like all the posts before it criticising the abhorrent actions of Israel. The stranglehold of zionists in silicon valley and the US is crazy.
- Ardren 7mo agoGone in 25 minutes with 180 votes. The murder of 72,000 people is just too political.
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- madteacher 7mo agoThe higher on the scale the people, the younger they are. This is depressing and completely unnecessary, this is cruel and still ongoing with the recent incursion in Lebanon. It's insane that so many innocent people continue to die and Tsahal continues to justify their invasion and the death of these people. Heartbreaking.
- shalom111 7mo ago[flagged]
- throwaw12 7mo agoThanks for creating this, sad state of the world we live in. I see babies there who have seen this world for less than a day! I know they don't see things well at that stage, their eyes haven't evolved yet, BUT they weren't given an opportunity to see it!!! Can't express myself anymore
- bilalbayram 7mo agoThese are the ones that we know the names of, there is at least this much of more people that we are not even aware
- LightBug1 7mo agoWhat a great, and tragic, visualisation ... really brings it home. EDIT: and pathetic that it's immediately been flagged by the usual wankers.
- throwaw12 7mo ago@dang, please make sure this wont get flagged. This might not be 100% technical content, but the work, visualizations are technical. So many people upvoted because they have empathy to both types of content, and downvotes to this type of content comes most of the time from bots controlled by IDF
- blackoil 7mo agoPolitical content is acceptable as long it is negative about certain countries, this isn't about one of them.
- benterix 7mo agoWhich countries? Negative submissions about China and Russia get flagged near-instantly. Frequently also about the USA. People don't like a topic - they flag it.
- rdevilla 7mo ago[flagged]
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- hk__2 7mo agoThere’s nothing technically interesting here.
- sethammons 7mo agoNothing? At all? The visual is not technology and not interesting?
- hk__2 7mo agoBeing "technology" doesn’t make something interesting. A writeup of the author about their work would have been interesting, but they haven’t even published the code nor written anything about it.
- ipsin 7mo agoIt really is an indictment of this site that any mention of the genocide in Gaza is flagged almost instantly.
- birdsongs 7mo agoI'll give it time, perhaps the post was auto flagged from bots and mods can correct for it. Because political content is often here, and this is also a tech project as well. If it stays removed this is probably my last interaction on HN. It's just blatant censorship. There's not even any real political message here. It's just a fucking memorial for the tens of thousands of children (and tens of thousands of adults) that were killed, that someone coded up.
- hk__2 7mo ago> There's not even any real political message here. Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website. Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.
- manyaoman 7mo ago> Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website. What's political about the title? > Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice. Or maybe they realized the other ones are already covered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38083001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38083001
- yonatan06 7mo ago[flagged]
- madteacher 7mo agoRight, especially 8 and 10 year old that are Hamas operatives. Get a grip on reality and realise that killing that many people is not the right approach to the situation and is an unnecessary loss of life. wtf dude.
- birdsongs 7mo ago> but this website is just a lie What's the lie?
- hebelehubele 7mo agoSo you expect them to accept the gifts from the sky and not fight back at all?
- oa335 7mo agoThe next step could be to attempt to link as many of these as possible to a news article describing the Israeli actions that led to their death, and/or stories about their lives. Obviously it will be hard to attribute most of them, but I think even hundreds of accounts would be powerful.
- PurpleRamen 7mo agoWhite text on a mostly white background is not really a good choice, especially if you want to communicate something important. Kinda unrelated, but are any good sources for deaths in that whole conflict before the 7th October, including other areas? Throwing around that number does have some impact, but does not tell the whole picture and is often dismissed as being "just" a reaction to the attack on 7th October.
- therealdrag0 7mo agoAt least on my iPhone the theme aesthetic is great.
- 4gotunameagain 7mo ago@dang: Allowing the mass flagging of posts like that makes ycombinator complicit.
- lejalv 7mo agoThis got flagged because genocide is too lowly a concern for the high, pure souls of HN. Look, look sideways... until you break your neck.
- jacquesm 7mo agoWe don't do politics. We just do 'curious conversation'. /s
- pawkaman84 7mo ago[flagged]
- Protostome 7mo ago[flagged]
- lejalv 7mo agoIt is a genocide resulting from colonial occupation, don't lie to yourself.
- Protostome 7mo agoYes, this is the narrative palestinians spread in the west, but it's one that is fairly easy to disprove and debunk
- sethammons 7mo agoThe presentation is powerfully well executed and by itself alone is a worthy submission. That every mouse movement highlights lives lost is harrowing. Grains of sand on the beach, each with their own world and community. Shame on the flaggers.
- classified 7mo agoWas it flagged? I haven't seen that and was wondering why it isn't flagged yet. Reports of harsh realities aren't usually allowed to ruin the celebration of money-printing schemes here.
- skibidithink 7mo agoWhat celebrations? HN commenters hate money-printing schemes.
- tencentshill 7mo agoFlagging is not the only strategy. At 7 hours It's already been pushed to page 7, rank 196 alongside posts from days ago. No one else will see it. Mission accomplished.
- ygritte 7mo agoOn https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active it's still on the front page.
- joeldrapper 7mo agoThey’re in age order and age 15 starts at about a quarter of the way down. Shame on the flaggers.
- throwaway_s3434 7mo ago[dead]
- manyaoman 7mo agoSomeone should create and post this kind of a website about Iran's protester deaths and see if it gets flagged too.
- raxxorraxor 7mo ago[flagged]
- ejcho 7mo agoSeriously? Can we just acknowledge that this staggering loss of human life is appalling and heartbreaking regardless of how you brand it?
- oa335 7mo agoThe data has been compiled, wouldn’t be that hard: https://www.hra-iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Crimson-Winter-English-version.pdf https://www.hra-iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Crim... I’m betting the age and gender breakdown of deaths will be a lot different, as most Palestinians were killed in their homes with their entire families whereas most Iranians were killed in the streets. Iran government claims ~3000 deaths, this report attributes ~7000 deaths to government response. The numbers thrown around on twitter seem to grow higher as this war drags on though.
- pawkaman84 7mo ago[flagged]
- blks 7mo agoAll military criminals love this excuse. Russia says this all the time, together with “it was self-inflicted”.
- hootz 7mo agoThe criminal was inside a hospital, so police HAD to explode the entire hospital. At least the criminal is dead!
- DrProtic 7mo agoThey conveniently placed one person from Hamas to each house in Gaza. Right?
- kameit00 7mo agoFrom the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence: https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields....
- hknceykbx 7mo agoThis website was updated from personal page to this in a single commit. Suspicious
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- nojvek 7mo agoOne of the nice things I like about hn.algolia.com is that it doesn’t care about flagging. If it’s voted or commented on, it bubbles up and gets sorted by a deterministic algo. I think flagging is abused in HN as a form of censorship.
- boruto 7mo agoJust asking as i dont know, what does the sound represent? prayer?
- khaledh 7mo agoIt's a poem called "On This Land": https://readalittlepoetry.com/2025/10/06/on-this-land-by-mahmoud-darwish/ https://readalittlepoetry.com/2025/10/06/on-this-land-by-mah...
- sigma5 7mo agoit's a record of the famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish reading his poem "On This Land" (English translation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_jtTj26Q0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_jtTj26Q0).
- jeremie_strand 7mo ago[dead]
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- Protostome 7mo ago[flagged]
- frm88 7mo agoThank you for posting this. The visualisation is very powerful and the poem complements that power. It's standing in a virtual graveyard.
- sigma5 7mo agoThe audio you hear when you open the website is from the record of one of the greatest Arabic and Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish reading his poem "On This Land" (English translation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_jtTj26Q0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_jtTj26Q0).