Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza for nearly three months has destroyed 70 percent of the homes in the besieged Palestinian enclave, according to the Government Media Office.

No further details were provided but an earlier report said more than 200 heritage and archaeological sites were destroyed in the Israeli bombardment considered the most destructive in modern history.

About 300,000 out of 439,000 homes have been destroyed in Israeli attacks, a Wall Street Journal report said. Analysing satellite imagery, the report added that the 29,000 bombs dropped on the strip have targeted residential areas, Byzantine churches, hospitals and shopping malls and all civilian infrastructure has been damaged to an extent that they cannot be repaired.

“The word ‘Gaza’ is going to go down in history along with Dresden [Germany] and other famous cities that have been bombed,” Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has written about the history of aerial bombing, told WSJ.

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    Those of us old enough to remember Rwanda have seen it before. I take issue with gov’ts who’ve also seen it before and still do sweet fuck all about it.

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      Rwanda, Serbia, Armenia, and still ongoing that everyone is ignoring, the Rohingya, Uyghurs and Sudan.

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        Russia is also marching 100’s of thousands of their minorities and people of the Donbas to their deaths, and slaughtering Ukrainians while doing it, they are double dipping sort to say.

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        World War 2 also had a little genocide issue…

        The big difference is that we were supposed to be above this shit by now after 75 years of “never again”.

        Instead we’ve once again stooped down to the same moral level with the Ubermensch trying to expand their Lebensraum shit. And Westen governments are actually supporting it.

        When I saw the Uyghur camps I didn’t think “we could do worse than that” was an option.

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          When I saw the Uyghur camps I didn’t think “we could do worse than that” was an option.

          Israel and the USA were both doing worse than that at the time, let alone now.

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        Uyghurs

        How many Uyghurs have been killed so far? Still zero after, what, eight years now?

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          Perhaps it’s not quite as many as western media claims, but it’s definitely more than 0. I mean, governments kill more than 0 people even if they actively try not to.

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            Even the western media doesn’t claim more than 0.

            but it’s definitely more than 0. I mean, governments kill more than 0 people even if they actively try not to.

            Great standard of evidence there.

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                  Then why condemn someone else’s without supplying your own? A downvote should do instead.

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                    Do you understand how burden of proof works? If I say you’re murdering women and burying the bodies, it’s not up to you to prove you aren’t.

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      The West only cares when it affects their geo-political interests such as access to natural resources or tying up another country in never ending war.

      Edit: Hit submit way too early