It seems the focus of these articles are dead children in Gaza. You don't see raw footage and photos of the dead children in Israel unless you go looking for it. Why is that?
So if you have 12 kids on one side, and thousands on the other, you'll see more footage of Gazan children, assuming no bias in reporting.
Is there a source for "thousands of Gazan children under the age of 12 dead"? I'm sure many were (killed) but thousands seems on the high side of that estimate. Gaza's population is extremely young so unfortunately civilian casualties will include a lot of children.
I'm not sure what "no bias in reporting" can even mean in these situations. The loss of any child is a tragedy. The whole situation is just a tragedy. I'm not sure what the media is trying to do with footage of the dead. Maybe we should start running footage of children killed in car accidents to encourage people to drive more safely? Maybe we should do a few takes to find the best "dead".
https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-repo...
> Maybe we should start running footage of children killed in car accidents to encourage people to drive more safely?
Yes.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/11/1/know-their...
133 babies below the age of one
482 toddlers (1-3 years old)
344 preschoolers (4-5 years old)
1,042 primary school children (6-12 years old)
But I'm sure the number is high given the dense population and the large proportion of children. Very tragic. I think this will be clearer over time but this conflict will be seen as whatever it was before Oct 7th and after Oct 7th.
Not clear where we go from here. On one hand I blame the Palestinians, both in terms of their recent and historical actions, on the other hand we wouldn't be in this situation without Israeli government actions, strategically and tactically, over the last few decades. But then this government is in power because of the Palestinians. There are of course other players that have been working on creating this mess.
Most likely we're still going to escalate from here. It's sad but it's hard to see any other way.
The majority of this number are adolescents between 15 and 18 that are active participants in the conflict.
Also, it should be noted that even the source for the 6000 UNRWA is providing comes from the Gaza government, i.e. from Hamas.
This has real world impacts. E.g. thinking Russia vs. Ukraine we had a lot of western volunteers travel to fight for Ukraine, and many got killed, and very likely the media of various kinds played a major role in people's emotional response to the point they go and die for Ukraine. You might have two people living next to each other, one of them on Pro-Russia social media who is convinced that Russia is defending itself against NATO, and another who is going to Ukraine to fight against Russia. You also see similar things in internal politics, e.g. in the US and other places. So the media is biased and manipulative, people are lazy, easy to influence, and respond emotionally. And the world seems a less stable place. A post-truth world I guess, if there ever was truth.
If showing 'the other' people dying on tv/print/web is generally normal, and showing 'our people' dying is generally tragic, there's a deep suggestion that 'the others' are less worthy of dignity than 'ours'.
Though, statistically speaking, one might expect to see a lot more murdered Gazan children, given that so, so many more have been horrifically killed, every year.