[Salon] Statistics on Deaths and Destruction in Gaza and Ukraine

FM: John Whitbeck

Transmitted below is a link to a useful chart prepared by the EURO-MED HUMAN RIGHTS MONITOR on the deaths (38,000+), wounded (71,000+) and destruction inflicted upon the people of the Gaza Strip during the past 4-1/2 months as a result of Israel's continuing effort to make the Gaza Strip unlivable, leaving its people with an existential choice between death and departure.

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6176/Statistics-on-the-Israeli-attack-on-the-Gaza-Strip-(07-October---23-February-2024)

By contrast, according to a UN report issued this week (https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/two-year-update-protection-civilians-impact-hostilities-civilians-24.pdf), in the two years of the war in Ukraine, roughly 10,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 20,000 injured -- awful but not in the same league with the experience in a much shorter period of Gaza's much smaller population.

The dramatically different responses of the governments and media of the United States and the Global West to the events in Gaza and Ukraine constitute yet another vivid manifestation of Rule No. 1 of the U.S.-dictated "rules-based order" (https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/28/what-is-the-rules-based-order).