According to NPR:
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has reached a gruesome milestone: More than 10,000 people have died in Gaza in the four weeks since the conflict began.
On Monday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported more than 10,000 people killed — most of them women and children — in the besieged territory.
While every single death in war is a death too many, I know when numbers get that big it is hard to conceptualize so I translated what 10,000 deaths would be equivalent to for different countries* since Gaza's population is small so the same number of deaths mean a greater heartbreak for Gaza then other countries with larger populations. The collective impact of say losing 1 in a million people is different than say 1 in a thousand which is different from say 1 in a hundred.
About half a percentage of those living in the Gaza Strip have been killed
(The Gaza Strip has a population of about 2 million, so 10000 is about half a percent)
Half a percentage of those living in Israel is about 46,820
(The population of Israel is 9.364 million)
Half a percentage of those living in the US is about 1,659,500
(The US population is about 331.9 million)
10/16/23 c
By Dreaming Ace
The problem with wars that last generations
You can always find a reason to continue fighting
The other side is always doing something
That you believe somehow “justifies” war
“Oh my god, enough!
Now you listen to me…
I said enough!
I’m sick of all this fighting!”*
We will never know who threw
The first stone, or at least the first stone
After Europe told you two to cage fight
Over a bit of meaningful but arid land
No no no no no!
No, you don’t!
When you have a problem you come home
You don’t go off and make matters worse on your own*
You DO NOT take hostages
You DO NOT prevent humanitarian aid
You DO NOT launch rockets
You DO NOT create modern day apartheid
You DO NOT target civilian’s only possible escape routes
You DO NOT choose genocide as an answer
“Oh my god, enough!
Now you listen to me…
I said enough!
I’m sick of all this fighting!”*
“Because it's always the same.
When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel,
You have no idea who's going to die.
You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn.
How many hearts will be broken!
How many lives shattered!
How much blood will spill until everybody does
What they're always going to have to do from the very beginning --
SIT DOWN AND TALK”**
*”Enough” from In The Heights
*The Doctor's War Speech from Doctor Who
*All population data differs slightly depending on the source but the over all truths are the same
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