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Were you aware of this? The dying Gazans, they're almost all young males. Which can't possibly be true if you believe Israel is targeting, like, everyone:
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Justbeen listening to a piece on the radio about this. Turns out it is very common in wars for civilian deaths to be predominantly male - for a variety of reasons. For instance - it tends to be the men who venture out to look for food/survivors, to risk going back home to get things etc. Within safe areas, women and children tend to be further in and men are often at the outskirts, in the corridors and so on - so a hit on a refugee safe area, like a hospital is likely to kill far more men than women. Men are much easier to mistake for fighters when they not. Women are generally assumed not to be fighters. A rocket hitting a cafe or bar is more likely to kill men that women, particularly in a muslim country - where men tend to be out more than women. The emergency services in a muslim country in particular are more likely to be male than female.
No doubt some of those young men weren't civilians. But - many of them wil have been and this is to be expected in any large number of civilian casualities.