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Humanitarian agencies say women and menstruating people are also facing alarming rates of severe infections due to Israel's blockade of supplies and water.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, now I get you.

I don't equate these two situations. I wanted to point at the link between mental distress and physical health that was observed in these camps, IIRC I've read about it in David Frankle's memoir\self-help book first - and he is a survivor of one, that's why I refered to them. And these women are put into critical insecurity and distress too.

By now more than 23k were reported dead, or ≈1% of pre-October estimated population. Not an industrial scale of killing per se, but still a catastrophe. With how many buildings were leveled to the ground (33%) and how many people therefore were displaced, it sure is. Intensity of IDF bombing is pretty much systemic and overly agressive. Would you argue with that?

I think you are overreacting.

I've heard Gaza was called the-camp-in-the-open-air before October, and that wasn't true. It was occupation and segregation, and mass murder wasn't in the menu. Now it's hard to say, hearing all this warmongering and dehumanization. Is it assymetric warfare with a side of suspected warcrimes? A continuous act of terror? A genocide? I don't know. But it seems like Israel hardly cares about palestinians anymore, doesn't want them here and this shelling, military maneuvres are about making it's unlivable here so they'd leave. I don't think civilian\Hamas ratio was even 10:1. Not really a C-T operation.