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by xk_id 896 days ago
perhaps Palestine's majority support of the October 7th violent attack has something to do with the reason why it became a contentious topic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israe...

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That doesn't justify inflicting mass slaughter, starvation, and now preventable disease on an entire population, which is what's happening. We can argue about whether it's genocide, but unquestionably it's collective punishment, and that's a war crime: https://opiniojuris.org/2023/10/24/a-short-history-of-the-wa...

I'm sorry to bring this up, but did you know that children are now having limbs amputated without anesthetic there? How is it possible to know that and not want it to stop?