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Tel Aviv has stepped up indiscriminate attacks against displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza due to the army's failure to 'dismantle' Hamas

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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm assuming they counted the people wounded.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago

The latest count on Al-Jazeera was 109 with over 800 wounded, and reports of 40 bodies bulldozed away that no one can reach. They did shoot at a crowd of thousands.

[–] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 13 points 8 months ago

No. Many are still unaccounted for.

[–] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No. The article says the number wounded is likely in the hundreds. The headline is exaggerating a tragic event.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Let's not split hairs between dead or wounded. Getting wounded while starving and no hospitals functioning and everyone around you has dysentery dooms someone to a very slow, very painful death.

[–] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm not splitting hairs over dead vs wounded.

The headline says thousands were gunned down (dead and wounded: total casualties), but the article says combined dead and wounded are in the hundreds.

I'm "splitting hairs" over the headline exaggerating an already horrific event by an order of magnitude.