Evidence gathered by Amnesty International demonstrates how over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.
Heartbreaking testimonies gathered from medical staff, parents of children hospitalized for malnutrition and displaced Palestinians struggling to survive paint a horrifying picture of acute levels of starvation and desperation in Gaza. Their accounts provide further evidence of the catastrophic suffering caused by Israel’s ongoing restrictions on life-saving aid and its deadly militarized aid scheme coupled with mass forced displacement, relentless bombardment and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
“While the eyes of the world were diverted to the recent hostilities between Israel and Iran, Israel’s genocide has continued unabated in Gaza, including through the infliction of conditions of life that have created a deadly mix of hunger and disease pushing the population past breaking point,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
In the month following Israel’s imposition of a militarized “‘aid” scheme run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured either near militarized distribution sites or en route to humanitarian aid convoys.
I didn’t bring up the Holocaust, especially not as a baseline. The situation is Gaza is horrible and needs to change. War crimes are likely happening and possibly crimes against humanity.
The situation not remotely equal to the Holocaust though.
The number of deaths per month in Gaza has been declining for over a year. Remember that gunmen with small arms managed to kill over 1000 people on one day October 7th in Israel. The IDF is heavily armed with advanced weaponry and could easily kill tens of thousands per day, if they wanted to.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is still bad, but has slowly been improving recently.
Domestically the Netanyahu government is under growing pressure to end the war. Also in Gaza the protests against Hamas continued fighting is growing. The plans for relocating Gaza‘s population have gotten no traction or progress. International pressure, negotiations, and diplomacy are busy as well.
All of this points to a better future, not an imminent Holocaust.
Equivalences to the Holocaust are at best nonfactual incitement, at worst antisemitic Holocaust denial.
The people of Gaza deserve a life in peace, liberty, and prosperity.
Comparisons and metaphors are not equivalency there is no denying the similarity between the tactic used by Nazis and the IDF. A genocide also don’t have to be fast, Israel is a sadistic terrorist state that enjoy slow death of Palestinians as people and as an identity
The Nazis systematically carried out mass shootings, gas chamber exterminations, and ghettos to erase entire communities, while the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have conducted mass bombings, airstrikes, and ground assaults in Gaza that have devastated neighborhoods and caused tens of thousands of civilian deaths, including women and children. Where Nazis used ghettos to confine and starve populations, Israel enforces a blockade on Gaza, restricting essential supplies like food, medicine, and fuel, resulting in widespread suffering and death. The Nazis aimed to annihilate entire groups through industrialized killing; similarly, many Israeli soldiers and observers have described their actions in Gaza as indiscriminate and brutal, with some soldiers even admitting they felt like Nazis during operations, targeting civilians and destroying whole neighborhoods. Although the methods differ—mass shootings and gas chambers versus aerial bombardment and siege
The number of people dying isn’t really the focus; six million+ died in The Holocaust and the pre-oct7 population of Gaza was about two million. By the standard of ‘number of deaths’ Gaza can never be ‘like the holocaust’.
As others have said, tactics used and eradication intention are really what makes this like the holocaust.
From your own link: “This data set, which includes only official deaths in which identification could be confirmed”
Who did most of the counting and identification? The Gazan Hospitals that Israel blew up.
Corpses shoved to mass graves by IDF soldiers (who have even posted photos and videos of doing it) don’t get counted, much less “identified”. And don’t get me started op those burried under the rubble of bombed buildings, especially once the Israelis started targetting ambulances and rescue services.
That kind of shit is like mid Nazi Holocaust claiming there were no deaths in Auchwitz, since the Nazis didn’t care to keep track of the identity of those they killed hence the count of “official deaths in which identification could be confirmed” was zero.
See. The lancet is is a bad source and the goodshepard is. You can see this by comparing how one weakens my argument while the other one strengthens it.
The cope is astounding
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“Nothing ever happens”