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Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials (www.aljazeera.com)
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Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.

“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.

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[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think this is outside of the expected number of deaths at this point?

Israel usually kills 10-20 Palestinians for every Israeli killed, so we can expect about 15-30k total Palestinian deaths from this, most of whom will be civilians.

I expect the number of deaths per day is going to ramp up once the hospitals and food centers run out of resources.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

My estimation predicted 88k, with a 63:1 ratio.