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US tracking nearly 500 incidents of civilians harmed by US weapons during Gaza war (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

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US State Department officials have identified nearly 500 potential incidents of civilians being harmed by US-supplied weapons during Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, Reuters has reported.

However, no further action has been taken on any of them, three sources, including a US official familiar with the matter, said this week.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I have a WILD idea on how to reduce the growth of that statistic to 0.

What if, and bear with me here....

What IF.... We stopped sending Israel weapons and armor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

I'm surprised it's that low. In the first several weeks alone Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000lb bombs. "The heavy munitions, mostly manufactured by the US, can cause high casualty events and can have a lethal fragmentation radius – an area of exposure to injury or death around the target – of up to 365 meters (about 1,198 feet), or the equivalent of 58 soccer fields in area." That doesn't even count all the other munitions used.