So unless the MSM can provide other evidence that Gaza's population is over 2 million , they need to report this accordingly.
If they cant keep themselves in line then people will.
@AkomoCombine I was just about to ask about this because I read 2 million with half of them being children.
I wondered if numbers were inflated and I wondered why they wouldn’t get their children out of there when warned if safety is only 20 miles away.
This is an info graph from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), updated September 2023.
There are 2.2 million, give or take. This info graph focuses on poverty & mobility. Other UN data measures the population as 40% under 15, around 50% under 19.
Video & on-the-ground reports show civilians terrified because they don't know if IDF can be trusted. There *are* civilians hit while evacuating. None of this is as easy as it looks.
@MLClark It's a desperately sad situation. How many innocents (especially Palestinian children) must die before the madness stops? Madness didn't save anyone after 911. It only created more madness
@EdgeOErin @MLClark There's a huge difference: Hamas is essentially a state - a government unto itself - whereas al-Qaeda was/is, to the best of my knowledge, pretty much purely a clandestine terrorist organization (in many ways similar to organized crime gangs).
Hamas, from what I gather, is much larger (in terms of manpower/resources) and more organized than al-Qaeda ever was.
Comparing the Israeli response to these attacks with the US response to 9/11 is not an apples-to-apples comparison.
@IrelandTorin @MLClark We've yet to see what the Israeli response will be, so we shall see. The war against terror became an unrecognized Crime Against Humanity, but I hope that is not what happens in Gaza.