Israel has killed one child every hour

There's no "here we go about it". It's completely tit for tat, and neither side give a damn about the innocents. As I said, it's a brutal, ugly play for territory. Israel wants Gazza, the neighbours want Isreal. The "expendable" Palestinians suffer.

I’m so sick of this utter bullshitting out of posters on this forum. “eh, you’ll find that figure is 2% out!/10% out /17% out!
Anti-Semitic tropes!”

Over 18,000 children have been murdered. 18,000.
Is that not sensational enough?

Children blown apart, babies getting their 4-month old legs amputated with no anaesthetics. Children with complex needs being starved to death. I’ve seen so many children take their last breaths on filthy tile floors.

My heart is broken for them, and the good people of Israel living with disgusting depths the Israeli gov has sank to. Zero humanity. What a legacy.

They'll do sweet FA. They give no shits at all. And after Oct 7th, I very much doubt any of them will want to FAFO like Hamas did.

How should I really know, I'm in my living room in the middle of England. My cynical conspiracy theory is that they don't want to, hence using Gaza as a sacrifice to reclaim the land that Israel sits on.

Why aren't the neighbours doing something about it now?

We know that Hammas could have ended this by handing back the hostages. This is a complicated, 2000 year old war, and I think Gaza, being poor and of no value, is being used by the region as a sacrifice. Israel are over flexing out of fear, being surrounded by increasingly hostile nations. Israel won't exist in another decade, as their Muslim neighbours will use the genocide in Gaza as the excuse they have long wanted to flatten them. Edited to add that every child or innocent person killed is one too many.

Sensationalising the deaths, no matter what method used, is vulgar.

I think you have it backwards.

There are over 20k children dead. If it was one child per hour it would only be 16,790 dead. There are more dead children than is first implied by the headline (unless you read it and note the “more than” that I may have mentioned once or twice).

It has not been sensationalised. If anything it has been unsensationalised.

It does not say one child an hour it says "at least" one child an hour and "on average"

You thought it was a gotcha . It wasn't . Your numbers are irrelevant in the context of this article.

And laughing emojis when speaking about an unthinkable death toll of children isn't cute or funny.

I do understand. 16.7 is 17% less than 20k (at their one child an hour).

I find it quite baffling that a statement pointing out that sensationalist headlines do the Palestinians no favours in the eyes of the people who think it’s all being sensationalised by others 😂

My entire point was literally that they should be careful not to sensationalise things because it pulls people away from the facts. Heaven forbid someone show empathy AND point out the way to get support is to be more careful about how you word things.

Bloody hell. Not hard to see why people don’t want to engage with this debate is there? If you even halfway point out there’s better ways to make a point you’re ripped to shreds.

Where is the lie? The headline said (and I copied and pasted it so no need to deal with my terrible typing):-

GAZA: 20,000 CHILDREN KILLED IN 23 MONTHS OF WAR - MORE THAN ONE CHILD KILLED EVERY HOUR

So it says “more than one child killed every hour”.

The earlier poster who has done the sums reckons it is actually 1.17 children killed every hour. Which is more than one child killed every hour.

The headline could have said “child killed every 51 minutes” which would be more accurate and actually sounds so much worse to me - something about it being in minutes” but it isn’t wrong to say “more than one” when it is indeed more than one.

17% difference in what?

Do you not understand that the number of dead children is still the same , the time analogy was only used to illustrate it?

Quite frightening you think you have made a point here.

That doesn’t stop it being a sensationalist headline. It’s a 17% difference which is a bloody huge amount.

Fuck knows. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t note the fucking tragedy if it though.

Did you read the article or just get your calculator out for a gotcha

At least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in Gaza over nearly 23 months of war, with the number of children killed now surpassing 20,000, Save the Children said.

At least;not less than; at the minimum

As I mentioned once or twice before it says “more than”. 20k is more than 16.7k.

My mathematical skills have dulled greatly due to middle age but I am pretty sure of that.

And what could be done to stop it?

Couldn't agree more. It's just the lack of responsibility/fingers in the ears about why this particular conflict started and who can end it that winds me up. That, alongside the fact that other Muslim;Muslim wars that have been going on for years NEVER seems to get most people in the feels quite like a war where Jews can possibly be blamed.

Is it only children who have been caught in the crossfire?