'The 6 deadliest conflicts since 2000 – don’t include Gaza (estimate: 70,000).

But nobody speaks about Congo, Syria, Ethiopia, Darfur, Iraq & Yemen.

And that is not even counting the Russo-Ukrainian war with an estimated 1.2 million casualties on the Russian side and over 500,000 casualties on the Ukrainian side.'  Public opinion on platforms like MapPorn Discussion points out that Western powers maintain deep military, financial, and diplomatic ties to the Israeli state, creating a direct sense of political accountability or complicity for domestic Western audiences that does not cleanly map onto internal African civil conflicts or remote insurgencies.

The Exception of Ukraine: The Russo-Ukrainian war did capture massive Western attention, rivaling or exceeding Gaza at peaks, driven by direct threats to European security architecture and major-power confrontation. However, casualty reporting there focuses predominantly on military attrition (with combined estimates topping over a million casualties) rather than total trapped civilian urban obliteration under a total blockade