From June 1 to June 11, Israeli forces killed over 800 Palestinians and wounded over 2,400 as they carried out bombardments and raids across Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported. This is an average of over 72 Palestinians killed each day at the hands of Israeli forces.

This includes Israel’s assault of Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday that killed 274 Palestinians, including 64 children, and injured 698 others, with Israeli forces carrying out one of the most deadly single attacks of their genocidal siege so far in order to retrieve four Israelis held hostage in Gaza. The attack was carried out on a bustling civilian center in the middle of the day, raising questions about whether Israeli forces violated international law.

The 11-day death toll also includes at least 70 Palestinians killed and over 300 wounded due to heavy Israeli shelling in central Gaza on June 4, MSF said; and at least 40 Palestinians killed and 74 wounded on June 6, when Israel bombed a UN school-turned-shelter in Nuseirat. The killings of hundreds of Palestinians in other Israeli attacks, ranging across southern, central and northern Gaza, in the first days of June have otherwise been largely ignored by news outlets, and are hardly documented by official sources.

Behind each death is a horrifying story of a Palestinian who lived through months of displacement, constant bombardment, hunger and likely the loss of family members, bearing witness to the 37,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza over eight months just to themselves be killed by Israeli forces. Survivors recall horrors, like children who recount being pulled out of the rubble of their homes, and the pervading smell of death.

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    No they don’t. Taking civilians hostage is an actual war crime according to international law. Deliberately killing people based on their ethnicity is genocide. Which is what Hamas did on October 7.

    Buddy, besieged people don’t care and they shouldn’t. Try making that “international law” of yours work in their favor at least sometimes, maybe then they will.

    This is not a crime. Nothing done against Israeli citizens is, actually.

    Israel has a right to build a fence on their border. Obviously not a good plan, since the fence wasn’t effective, but they have a right to do that.

    Israel doesn’t have a right to a sea and air blockade. Also no, it doesn’t have a right to build a fence, because its right to exist doesn’t include ethnic cleansing, and people in Gaza have properties on the other side which still legally belong to them, and lands where they have right to live on.

    If you believe that, then why are you supporting Hamas?

    I’m not for Hamas, I’m against Israel.

    Yes they would no longer be committing a war crime. Will Hamas send the people responsible for this war crime to face justice at the ICJ? Or does the ICJ only exist to punish supposed crimes by Israel but Hamas can commit any crime it wants without fear of punishment?

    ICJ already addresses both.

    While claiming that Israel is dehumanizing Palestinians you’re dehumanizing Israelis. A lot of people were brutally slaughtered on October 7, and you’re incapable of understanding the repercussions because you don’t think of Israelis as people deserving of life.

    I’m capable of understanding them, everything can be investigated once the state of Israel is under international control, disarmed and all its criminals of any rank are executed or in jail. Same as with Nazis.

    Try to be a better person.

    If you mean better than you, then it’s not a lofty goal and one I’ve achieved once I’ve realized that frogs and lizards can feel pain.

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      International law generally doesn’t work in favour of criminals, buddy.

      This is not a crime. Nothing done against Israeli citizens is, actually.

      Nobody is going to take claims of Palestinians being dehumanized if you’re dehumanizing Israelis while doing it. You’re a monster saying that other people are monsters.