The fact people dying on both sides are dying is appalling, but it has been clear that the Palestinians are dying in greater numbers than Iraelis and facing harsher conditions, especially since Gaza's final running hospital was destroyed along with the people inside. It does not matter who attacked the hospital. Nothing matters more than the fact that the injured, sickly, and already dead were in that building, and none of them posed a threat to either side. These people weren't even members of Hamas. They were and are children, women, and non-combatant men. A ceasefire needs to happen to allow the sick, injured, and regular Palestinains (who were also made vulnerable by the bombs descending on their homes by the way) to rest and recovery so they may escape. Not migrate, but escape, because it has become clear through Israel's bombing of an evacuation route *it designated* under outside pressure from the United Nations itself and the suggestion from an Israeli official that a solution to the "problem" of Gaza could be a nuclear attack that this is no longer self-defence. Self defence is firing back at a home intruder who threatened you with a gun. Self defence is not escalating a conflict with millions of innocent civilians at risk and being complicit in their violent deaths by bombs or their suffocating deaths by starvation, dehydration, or illnesses/injuries that literally cannot be treated. Israel may claim that it's aiming at Hamas and its combatants. But it's time that people held the Israeli government and its officials accountable for all the innocent Palestinian blood they have on their hands. They are complicit in a genocide of these Palestinians who have lived their lives --- ones which have been cut short by this Israeli-Hamas war --- surrounded by an entire government that hates them. A government that is primarily Jewish, with Jews having known similar genocide themselves, a fact which should have led them to avoid inflicting similar injustice on another people.
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