6x's More Children Killed in Gaza Than Entire Ukraine War
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., told U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Wednesday that Israel killed six times more children in Gaza within three weeks than Russia did during its nearly 2-year war in Ukraine.
Van Hollen told the former Raytheon board member that in the first six days of the war, Israel dropped 6,000 bombs on the Gaza Strip.
“Israel has stopped reporting the number of bombs dropped, but the intense pace continues,” he said. “Last night, my wife and I learned that someone we know well lost two family members and four of their children in the bombing in Gaza…So they are not yet included in the most recent death toll, reported by the United Nations yesterday, which said the number of dead has risen to over 8,300 people, 70 percent of them women and children, including 3,457 children. According to UN figures, that is about six times more children killed in three weeks in Gaza than the number of children killed in Ukraine during the entire war there,” he said.
Antonio Guterres, the head of the UN, has said, “The grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas” but “those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
Van Hollen made it clear two months ago that he has supported U.S. funding for Israel, but warned that the money was not intended to fund Jewish “settlers” in the West Bank who are seizing “undisputed Palestinian lands.”
“And these taxpayer dollars should not be used to expand the settlements or illegal outposts. And these tax dollars are not intended to protect these settlers who are attacking Palestinian villages with virtual impunity.”
He said at the time that even Israeli military officials called these settler actions “terrorism.” He noted that the settler violence spiked dramatically under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
TREND FORECAST: Absent the mainstream media reports as the Israel War rages on, we have noted many of the criminal acts Israel was committing against Palestinians following the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and what the mainstream media called his far-right extremist government. And we had warned, with 39 weeks of protests against Netanyahu’s Judicial Reform act in what the Israeli media called a “civil war,” as Gerald Celente had forecast, when all else fails, Netanyahu would take the nation to war and the Israelis would forget about Judicial Reform and support war. And that’s what he did and that’s what happened.
TRENDPOST: Norman Finkelstein, the political scientist who has studied the Israel-Gaza relationship for decades, compared the Hamas attack on 7 October to the Nat Turner slave rebellion on 21 August 1831. Turner was joined by other slaves who rampaged through Southampton County in Virginia and brutally killed 55 people.