• zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    You’re right of course, but I don’t see how that makes any of this better. If anything, it seems you’re saying we should expect the casualties to be even higher because a city is being bombed.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Yes we should. It’s a testament to who evacuated the place is that the casualty rates are only this bad.

      Had there not been a mass evacuation, the numbers would likely be an order of magnitude higher, at least. The Gaza strip is one of the most densely-populated places on earth

    • galloog1@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      We should. It has been higher in the taking of every city in the middle east in the last 20 years that wasn’t a NATO country.