Israel attacks UN headquarters in Gaza

[gumboot]

So, while those are no definite numbers, it's safe to say that the area targeted by the bombing had a population density of at least 5,000 inh./sq.km, maybe even the double. The way I arrived at those numbers may sound selective - I picked a largely residential area - but the targets of the IDF we've heard of (schools, police station, UN compound) are also located in residential areas.

I am not so convinced about these numbers. Firstly, the mapped areas for Rotterdam are the areas that were totally destroyed by the bombing. This does not account for areas that were bombed but not totally destroyed, so I think it's misleading to suggest it represents the entire area targeted.

Secondly, in one case you're comparing the specific density of the area that was directly targeted (Rotterdam) while in the other the average density for a substantially larger area is being used (either Gaza City or the Gaza Strip as a whole).

Anyway, I am getting the impression we lack accurate figures to make any real comparisons, so I'll drop my earlier comments about comparing the "kill rate" of munitions dropped. On the topic of Rotterdam I found this curious account.

Something that leaped out at me was this:

For two and a half hours the Germans kept bombing the city. From twelve o’clock noon until two-thirty a relentless rain of death poured from the skies. After the bombing was over, more than 26,000 buildings lay in wreckage. Nearly 25,000 men, women and children lay dead in the street or buried under the masses of rubble. Eyewitnesses who escaped from Rotterdam reported that even after streets had been cleared of their heaps of dead, there was still an average of 1,800 bodies a day being dragged from the ruins for a period of seven days.

This has no bearing on the topic at all, I just found it interesting and thought I'd share it.

 

[a_unique_person]

An Israeli soldier shot a child in the head at close range, twice, and the kid's head didn't explode like a melon dropped off a ten-story building? When did the IDF start issuing air rifles and BB guns to its troops? I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the truth is that the kid was shot by a Hamas terrorist with a .22. Remember, the only thing Islamist fascists love more than a dead Jew is a dead Palestinian.

You know what did explode just now? My BS detector.

The new IDF guns use a small round about the same size as a .22.

Hamas lies, the IDF lies, but I don't know that all doctors are necessarily members of Hamas.