"Backed with US weapons and munitions, Israel has dropped over ten thousand bombs in Gaza in just a week, twice as many as the US dropped in Afghanistan in a year and, according to UN sources, the equivalent to a quarter of a nuclear bomb."

A quarter of a nuclear bomb worth of explosives in one week. Let that sink in.

jacobin.com/2023/10/israel-gaz

@antanicus Dropped on a defenceless civilian population with no way out from the world’s biggest open-air prison. #StoptheKilling of Palestinians. #CeasefireNow

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The comparison of Gaza with an open-air prison is one that has been pretty well discredited as a rhetorical talking point with little reason to it.

But it's something people parrot all too often.

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@volkris @antanicus You have a point. In most prisons - the prisoners are guaranteed meals, electricity, water and medical care. They certainly wouldn't risk being bombed, their cell bulldozed, their water supply poisoned. You're right.

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