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[-] Floey@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

What percent of Americans died in the 9/11 attacks? How many 9/11s is this?

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Since no one answered your question. I'll assume you were just curious about the numbers. It's easy enough to answer.

Around 23k civilians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since October 7th. On 9/11 2001, around 2.6k were killed in those attacks. So, around 8.8 “worth” of 9/11s.

Given 94 days since October 7th, it would be a “9/11 amount of civilian casualties” every 10.6 days.

Or perhaps:

A “Hamas October 7th” every 5 days. For over 3 months straight.

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

If you do what Israel was doing, you'd need to scale it on per capita basis. So America is about 330 million and the population of Gaza is about 2.3 million. So the population of America is 140 times the size of Gaza. So 1232 or so 9/11's.

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I suppose that makes sense if you want to equate % of civilians. Which is certainly relevant for "how likely it is that I know or am related to someone who was killed".

Whichever way the numbers are measured, it is absolutely horrific what Israel is, and has been doing for decades.

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