Thread by @AliAbunimah

248 people were killed during the Israeli attack on Gaza, including 66 children. But the enemy claims it killed “200+ terrorists.”

248-200=48 and 66-48=18

So according to enemy occupier math, roughly 18 of the babies killed in Gaza were “terrorist” babies.

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1396170789305659402

The vast majority of people the Israeli regime kills are always civilians. This includes men, women and children. Colonial wars are always like that. The colonizers can’t get at the resistance so they take revenge on civilians.

So the “math” above is just sarcasm. In reality, most of the men Israel kills are civilians, as are the women and children. But typically there is an emphasis on women and children which can inadvertently obscure that the men are civilians too.

I also don’t like the term “innocent civilians” as it suggests that those who fight back against a brutal and merciless colonial occupier to defend their people are somehow not innocent.

There is something particularly perfidious, cowardly and barbaric about Israel that when it can’t hit resistance fighters, it bombs their homes, often killing their wives and children. This is among its many systematic war crimes.