Another mistake in NY Times cover was that a 17 year old was actually a member of a terrorist organization. http://nytimes.com/2021/05/30/wor …pic.twitter.com/3QFLgNTc5W
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I don’t believe that the NYT acted maliciously or intentionally misled. There is an active campaign to warp and misrepresent information that comes out of Gaza, and to appeal to those that think that can understand a conflict solely by amount of children dead.
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The death of Palestinian children is tragic. However the use of their bodies by terrorist organizations as tools for propaganda is ghoulish, and must be fought.
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Additional note: The Shahid poster for the child soldier mentioned above was available already by May 22.https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1399108565038739461 …
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Additional note: I’ve been asked about corrections. NYT posted an article about the child soldier: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/world/middleeast/gaza.amp.html … And also issued a correction regarding the incorrect photo included: https://twitter.com/herbertnyt/status/1398694787222491139?s=21 … They also changed text that suggested mostly civilians killed.
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Another note: multiple comments have referred to children killed in proximity to relatives that were military targets. It’s unknown at this point wether the child below was actually part of a terrorist organization, but his father was.https://twitter.com/DigFind_/status/1399572411339591682 …
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Added context to this is that these children are not the targets, they are in close proximity to military targets. It is still a tragedy that innocents lose their lives. However it must be noted the IDF employs multiple tactics to avoid as many civilian casualties as possible.
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So ~30% of casualties were civilians?
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That we know of. There are probably casualties that hadn't been counted yet and, OTOH, some of those in the official Hamas casualty list might still be alive or died unrelated to the military operation. Also, we don't know of any affiliation of those 30% *yet*, some might be
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