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Israel has killed least 10,022 Palestinians, including 4,104 children
in air strikes on Gaza in just one month, the Gaza health ministry
reported on 6 November.

The health ministry also said more than 200 people had died in
overnight strikes.

"These are massacres! They destroyed three houses over the heads of
their inhabitants -- women and children," one resident, Mahmoud
Mechmech, told AFP in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

"We have already taken 40 bodies out of the rubble," he said as crowds
prayed around corpses wrapped in white shrouds outside a nearby
hospital.

Both US President Joe Biden and Israeli officials have questioned the
health ministry’s casualty counts, suggesting they are unreliable
because the ministry is part of the Hamas-run government in Gaza.

However, the New York Times quietly acknowledged that the health
ministry’s death toll is consistent with the US’ own count. “U.S.
officials said their estimates of the number of Palestinians killed
were similar,” to those of the ministry, the paper reported on 6
November.

The horrific casualties are in part due to Israel’s use of massive
2,000 lb bombs in densely packed residential areas. Last week, Israel
bombed the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on consecutive days
with such bombs, killing some 400.

After one of the strikes, an Israeli military spokesman acknowledged
to CNN that the bomb was dropped knowing it would kill many civilians,
even though the military was not sure a Hamas operative they claimed
to target was present and had been killed in the strike.

The high number of Palestinian civilian casualties is a result of
Israel’s military strategy, known as the “Dahiya doctrine,” which
calls for targeting civilians to establish deterrence against its
enemies.

As Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi explained, the doctrine was
revealed publicly in 2008 by Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, who was head of
the Northern Command and deputy chief of staff of the Israeli military
during the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah.

During the war, an entire southern suburb of Beirut, known as the
Dahiya, was devastated from the air by troops under Eizenkot’s command
using two-thousand-pound bombs and other similar ordnance.

Eizenkot stated: ‘What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in
2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on … We
will apply disproportionate force on it and cause great damage and
destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian
villages, they are military bases … This is not a recommendation. This
is a plan. And it has been approved.”


https://new.thecradle.co/articles/palestinians-killed-by-israel-in-gaza-surpasses-10000

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