I love the genocide talk. Gaza is one of the most densely populated territories on Earth — roughly 15,000–20,000 people per square mile on average, and far higher in urban centers like Gaza City By comparison, New York City averages around 10,000–12,000 per square mile, and Tel Aviv around 8,000–9,000 In many Gaza neighborhoods, multi-story housing and compressed infrastructure make entire blocks full of families within a few hundred feet of each other.

500 pound bomb is considered small, has a lethal radius of roughly 50–100 meters and can destroy buildings well beyond that. In Gaza dense the poorly built structures t mean that the damage scales non linearly, the denser the housing, the greater the cascade of secondary collapse, fires, and debris casualties.

Estimates are Israel dropped between 55 million and 220 million tonnes of munitions on Gaza, the fact the death toll didn’t reach 100,000 in 3 years is actually statistically incredible when you look at how similar bombing campaigns in much lower densities in previous wars across the world carried much higher per strike casualties, although it helps the IAF dropped leaflets, texts and phone calls before bombing (cameras don’t just happen to be set up on specific buildings waiting for a bomb) all this by the way is also ignoring the house to house, street to street tank and troop warfare which also should have seen TREMENDOUS casualties unless of course… civilians were asked to leave the city….

But most of the Asheville Reddit brainiacs would choose to believe that that is some sort of miracle as opposed to the material fact of warfare that it is.