18,600

Gaza - Precision bombing?

"The current indiscriminate killing in Gaza, in which two-thirds of the dead are women and children, bears little resemblance to surgical strikes and reveals little apparent distinction by Israel between legitimate Hamas targets and innocent civilians." - "L.A. Times" Editorial December 14th 2023

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Letter to the editor of "The Los Angeles Times" from Anne Hormann  in Pasadena  December 11th 2023...

To the editor: There’s got to be a better way. How did we come to the point of thinking that more than 17,000 deaths, the vast majority civilian, are acceptable even in the face of a terrorist atrocity?

And the number climbs daily. How many will be enough? 18,000? 20,000?

My heart aches for the Israeli families of hostages. My heart is also in agony for Palestinian families, thousands of whose loved ones are held hostage under mountains of rubble. No amount of negotiation, no prisoner swaps will ever bring them back.

We are all harmed by the ghastly number of lives lost and homes turned to piles of debris. We cannot come out of this, even as observers, without being diminished as human beings, our souls sickened by the callous acceptance of thousands of lives snuffed out.

There’s got to be a better way.

Anne Hormann, Pasadena

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Current death toll in Gaza: 18,600

An estimated two thirds of these were women and children

Number of people seriously injured - unknown but in a typical war

the ratio is usually around 3:1 so that's 55,800 injured.