Almost 90 bombs were dropped in one region in just 24 hours.

Russia unleashed an unprecedented bombardment in southern Ukraine overnight in what local officials described as a “massive attack” in the conflict which has continued to rage even as the international community’s attention has moved to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry on Monday morning said Russia dropped at least “87 aerial bombs on populated areas of the Kherson region - the largest number for all time.” At least eight people were also injured in other Russian strikes carried out in the Odessa region further to the west on Sunday night.

  • @YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    There is a lot of misinformation in your comment.

    The United States didn’t fund Israel’s iron dome system.

    There isn’t a genocide (race / tribe killing) in Gaza. That’s a population transfer or eviction of lands.

    Ukraine and the United States are working together to implement a air defense system. A likely defense treaty and a 100 year lease on military bases in exchange for infrastructure rebuilding is on the table.

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      There isn’t a genocide (race / tribe killing) in Gaza

      Genocide isn’t just killing…

      In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

      Killing members of the group;

      Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

      Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

      Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

      Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

      https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

      And even if that was just indiscriminate killing based on race/ethnicity, the UN is already saying what Israel is doing amounts to that

      https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-running-out-time-un-experts-warn-demanding-ceasefire-prevent-genocide

      Your opinion is your opinion.

      But what is/isn’t a genocide is clearly defined in the Geneva convention. And even if you’re definition was correct, the UN disagrees with you about Israel meeting that definition.

      • @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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        The UN’s humans rights body is heavily biased against Israel. And in general not a neutral party as you seem to think.

        Of the 193 countries which make up the UN, the majority (133) are non-democratic states. 48 are countries belonging to the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation).

        Of the 280 human rights condemnations the UN has found world wide between 2006 and 2023, 103 where in Israel. They found none in, for example, China, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. They also didn’t cry genocide during the genocide in Rwanda.

        I 100 % believe Israel commits war crimes against Palestine. But I do not believe that Israel alone is responsible for almost 40 % of all human rights violations world wide since 2006.

        • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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          Some wars are about who gets control over some resources, or who will be collecting the taxes, without trying to wipe out the other side.

    • @rah@feddit.uk
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      238 months ago

      That’s a population transfer or eviction of lands.

      Jesus christ.

        • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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          Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.[3][4][5] It constitutes a crime against humanity and may also fall under the Genocide Convention, even though ethnic cleansing has no legal definition under international criminal law.[3][6][7]

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

          • @YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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            Yes, stupid people (United Nations for example) use the wrong word, all the time, especially when it’s translated from another language. Genocide is the wrong word to use. Israel is not wiping out nor trying to wipe out the Palestinians.

            • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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              Since you’re the top mod, can I just remind you that you broke rule 5?

              Or do I need to report your comment?

              You’re still not understanding though, and it’s very important as a mod you understand this issue. Otherwise I’d have stopped replying already.

            • BarqsHasBite
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              This ain’t an etymology thing. Definitions are clarified for legal purposes. I think you have to ask yourself why you’re trying to dig your heels in against a literal definition. They didn’t define it wrong, it’s literally defined in excruciating and exacting detail for legal purposes.

              • @YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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                -148 months ago

                Where are the examples of Israel taking Palestinian child to convert them to Judaism? That is the line you’re trying to imply. Forced relocation is not genocide. It’s a population transfer.

                • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
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                  Forced relocation is not genocide. It’s a population transfer.

                  It’s Ethnic Cleansing, is that better?

                  • @YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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                    What is being cleansed, which means wiping out the entire race or tribe? Relocation isn’t killing, it’s inconvenient and will create more problems, but the population is being kept together.

                    Don’t get me wrong, I totally understand your hatred of Israel, but I haven’t seen an attempt at diplomacy this century by the Palestinian government. They wanted violence and they got violence.

                    Hopefully we can get a ceasefire, put a third party military in Gaza to secure the peace, remove all military weapons, arrest all the terrorists, and the Palestinian people can live their lives peacefully for awhile.

          • @YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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            Incorrect word.

            The use of a loaded latin word like genocide is used to invoke mass killing and wiping out a population completely. It you see it use you know the source is extremely biased and should not be taken as fact.

            Use the correct language so you don’t loot like a fool.

            • @SkippingRelax@lemmy.world
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              48 months ago

              You keep repeating this like you believe it. Find an English dictionary you’ll realise it’s an English word and it has a precise meaning that is not what you think it is. The fact you don’t agree with that meaning is your problem only, you don’t get to decide