Gaza deaths are being used as a tragic pawn

None of the local players cares a fig about dead Palestinians. Indeed, in the case of Hamas, the more dead Palestinian civilians the better.

There are many demonstrations in Israel calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, to sign a ceasefire and bring the Jewish hostages home, but none about the fate of the Palestinians. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 29, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip since last October’s Hamas attacks on Israeli settlements will reach 40,000 people in the next week or so. (It’s back up around 50-100 civilians dead per day.)

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