I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed
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That every mouse movement highlights lives lost is harrowing. Grains of sand on the beach, each with their own world and community.
Shame on the flaggers.
austin-cheney 6 minutes ago [dead] [–]
This visual shows the names of 60,199 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces
in Gaza from 7 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025. This staggering figure includes
only those whose names and ages could be identified by the Ministry of
Health in Gaza up to that date.
It's insane that so many innocent people continue to die and Tsahal continues to justify their invasion and the death of these people. Heartbreaking.
Shame on the flaggers.
If it’s voted or commented on, it bubbles up and gets sorted by a deterministic algo.
I think flagging is abused in HN as a form of censorship.
To Israelis who think this is justified because your country was attacked - for every person killed in the initial attacks, your military has killed 20 children(and many more adults). And that's the ones that were outright killed, and not "just" had their limbs torn off and given lifelong disabilities. How is that proportionate, fair or in any way justifiable?
(although maybe not, given that there are Israeli politicians saying everyone above the age of 5 in gaza should be cut down, so maybe I'm too optimistic).
I heard that from many people, including a 90 year old nun. (I could not have imagined what Sister Claire-Edith would look like furious.) They simply couldn't imagine any course of action that would allow that to occur again.
That didn't mean that exterminating Gaza was inevitable. They would have accepted a complete and unconditional surrender of its leadership, along with freeing all of the hostages, and allowing an outside force to establish a new government.
I'm not saying that's fair; I'm trying to explain what the parameters were.
It's clear (now more than ever) that the current government would have faced a quandary if that had happened. They wanted the war, more or less as it was carried out. But had Hamas surrendered, a lot of Israelis would have said "that's enough", and it would be much harder to continue in the face of public opposition.
That never happened, so it continued. Eventually they did get fatigued, with time more than body count. Hostages were exchanged and Israel started to prep for the Iran war. (Iran played a significant part in funding that October 7 attack, though it's indirect enough that a lot of Israelis do not support this war.)
The question I have is - what now then? Because the war is still going on. What event is the Israeli state waiting for now, exactly? Whatever remains of Hamas leadership to say "we give up"? Would that even suffice? Because right now it looks like Israel will just continue killing people in Gaza until they get bored or run out of munitions, or have something else to do(like the war with Iran and other neighbours - which doesn't formally end the hostilities in Gaza anyway, just might ignore them for a bit). If that's the "plan" then yeah, it will continue until everyone there is dead, moved out, or.....I don't know if there is a 3rd option. And at that point it's just a systematic eradication of the entire population, which is precisely what genocide is.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_att... (Nobody has created a 2026 article yet.)
At that pace, it can continue indefinitely. They are replacing people and ammunition faster than they're killing/using them.
The war in Iran is supposed to end that, or at least shift it. Without Iranian support, Gaza could collapse.
What happens after that, I cannot even begin to guess. Maybe the Palestinian Authority from the West Bank takes over. They've got an OK-ish relationship with Israel, though Israel keeps testing that relationship with more and more settlements by religious fanatics.
It's at least as likely that Netanyahu loses the election in October, at which point he may be prosecuted. Nobody in Israel is exactly in favor of the Palestinians, but there are at least some who aren't going to actively antagonize them. That will depend on their relationship with the US, which may change in November.
If you were talking about combatants, you'd be correct. The main point about Gaza is that the majority of those who are killed are civilians[1]. And most civilized countries recognize[2] that civilians should be spared during armed conflicts.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250821135825/https://www.thegu...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_I_to_the_Geneva_Conve...
This makes the entire regime culpable, and given that it is a democracy, the electorate shares a part in that culpability.
Notice that the entire polity of Palestinians is being held fully culpable for the actions of... Its unelected leadership.
... Also, using a war to displace an occupied civilian population is a genocide.
If you have no more free territory to fight on, you have lost. Give up.
If someone came to your country and did that, how radical would you be?
I see babies there who have seen this world for less than a day!
I know they don't see things well at that stage, their eyes haven't evolved yet, BUT they weren't given an opportunity to see it!!!
Can't express myself anymore
Kinda unrelated, but are any good sources for deaths in that whole conflict before the 7th October, including other areas? Throwing around that number does have some impact, but does not tell the whole picture and is often dismissed as being "just" a reaction to the attack on 7th October.
HN is not unbiased, and not above censorship. Political things make it to the front page all the time, but this is the wrong kind of political thing. We're not supposed to talk about ----cides, at least, this ongoing one.
I’m betting the age and gender breakdown of deaths will be a lot different, as most Palestinians were killed in their homes with their entire families whereas most Iranians were killed in the streets.
Iran government claims ~3000 deaths, this report attributes ~7000 deaths to government response. The numbers thrown around on twitter seem to grow higher as this war drags on though.
Look, look sideways... until you break your neck.
EDIT: and pathetic that it's immediately been flagged by the usual wankers.
If it stays removed this is probably my last interaction on HN.
It's just blatant censorship. There's not even any real political message here. It's just a fucking memorial for the tens of thousands of children (and tens of thousands of adults) that were killed, that someone coded up.
Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website. Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.
What's political about the title?
> Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.
Or maybe they realized the other ones are already covered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38083001
Calling this a genocide is a political message. That doesn’t mean it’s not a valid message, but saying it’s not political is hypocritical.
> Or maybe they realized the other ones are already covered
This one never hit the homepage.
These are not typical sockpuppet accounts either, but mostly established users that (conjecture) don't care about having the same non-technical debate among non-experts devolve into flaming and namecalling.
See relevant statements and context from moderators here:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The best thing you can do to foster discussion of topics like this is to keep the discussion civil and interesting.
Blaming the site itself is simply incorrect.
This might not be 100% technical content, but the work, visualizations are technical.
So many people upvoted because they have empathy to both types of content, and downvotes to this type of content comes most of the time from bots controlled by IDF
Nazis had a dedicated machinery, based on crude racism and conspiracy ideology, which was actively seeking and executing their genocide. Israels lunatics lack this, their aim is stealing land, and the mass killings are just a side effect of their religious bullshit.
Not understanding this difference derails the communication about this problem.
Jews have a history of 3000 years. Nazis have a history of around 20 Years.
Jews have religious scriptures, whose purpose is more practical and positive overall (I guess). Nazis build their whole Ideology mainly on fake news, greed and their harmed ego, completely negative.
> Because I don't see much difference between the nazi view that Aryan blood is superior and Israel's view that Arabic lives are inferior.
Israel is not moving out to cleanse the world from inferior blood. The Nazis did. Their whole history is a big copping on the big wars outcome and how bad Germany suffered from it and how they seek reparation for it and revenge on those they consider the culprits. Of course, it's significant more complicated than that. My point is, they both are bad, doing stupid shit, but their motivation and the lines they are willing to cross are very different. Israel whole purpose is to control their holy country, they don't care about the rest of the world, but they do care about anyone threatening their little paradise. And everything else is just result of the process.
The stranglehold of zionists in silicon valley and the US is crazy.
The murder of 72,000 people is just too political.