Russia and Belarus have both been banned from participating in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics because of their involvement in the war on Ukraine. So why is Israel not being banned as well?

Israel’s military is engaged in one of the worst attacks on a civilian population since the Second World War, with more than 37,000 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip. And we only have Israel’s word that many of those killed were members of Hamas, the militant group that launched a violent attack against Israel, killing about 1,200 people, on Oct. 7, 2023.

In the first two years following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, more than 30,000 Ukrainians were killed or wounded.

There are actually more specific details on how Ukrainians are being killed by Russia than there are on Israel’s reckless military bombardment of nearly every city in the Gaza Strip. The details of the violence against Ukraine is so specific that humanitarian and aid organizations have pinned down the casualty rate to 42 civilians every day.

More than 87 percent of the Ukrainians killed, or 9,241 people, were casualties of explosive weapons. More than 5.9 million people have been forced to flee Ukraine to other countries and about 4 million are displaced within Ukraine.

In Gaza, nearly 85 percent of the population of 2.3 million have been forced........

© Eurasia Review