• mwguy@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    Last time the names of “Civilian” killed were released and online people started looking them up and seeing if they were part of Hamas. It started becoming a problem because they’d say things like, “Strike X killed 8 innocent civilians” and then a few weeks later they’d get asked why they categorized such and such as a civilian because he was a mber of Quassam etc… So they stopped releasing names.

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      1 year ago

      It shouldn’t stop us and we should honour Palestinian civilian casualties (no one cares about Hamas) with a wall of pictures, just as the Israeli do. It humanises them and also, attaching a name and face to a victim helps us to feel more empathy.

      Everybody’s talking about numbers, let’s see their faces, hopes and dreams. The least we can do.

      • mwguy@infosec.pub
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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately I don’t have the source for that easily reachable. It used to be a Google search away but all the keywords have been clogged by the most recent conflict.

        I’ll have to do some more digging to see if I can find it.

        Does lemmy have a remind me bot?

        • ???@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          No idea but to be honest a remind me bot would be really great as a feature. I just might make one if there isn’t one already.