[Salon] Civilians Killed in Ukraine and Gaza
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- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 21:34:25 -0400
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FM: John Whitbeck
Transmitted below is a link to the latest update by the UN
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on
civilian casualties during the war in Ukraine.
As of September 11, 2023, the UN's confirmed total for
"those killed in territory controlled by the Government
when casualties occurred" was 7481.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/09/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-11-september-2023
Before Israel cut off all communications out of Gaza on
the night of October 27 in anticipation of launching an
even more intensive killing spree, the Palestinian
Ministry of Health's confirmed figure of those killed by
Israel on the territory of the Gaza Strip was more than
7600, including more than 3000 children. These figures
counted only bodies brought to hospitals or other Ministry
of Health facilities. There were also an estimated 1650
bodies, half of them children, remaining under the rubble
of their homes (https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/28/mass-graves-unclaimed-bodies-the-war-robs-gaza-of-funeral-rites).
All of these numbers have surely increased significantly
since communications out of Gaza were cut.
It follows that more civilians have now been killed, with
full-throated Western support and approval, during three
weeks of Israel's exercising its "right to self-defense"
than were killed during 19 months of "Putin's brutal war
of aggression."
How likely is it that the pro-war, pro-apartheid,
pro-genocide Western mainstream media will deem this
milestone of savagery newsworthy?
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