Gaza conflict themed games are flooding App stores

As everyone with a working pair of eyes or ears has heard by now, Israel is embroiled with another bitter and tragic conflict with Hamas militants in the war-torn Gaza Strip. The death toll is as bad as it’s ever been, making sure that the conflict is front page news every day. To add salt into the wounds though, it seems a large number of mobile developers have started flooding the Apple App store and Google Play with politically charged games directly relating to the ongoing conflict. Here’s a short list of some of the horrifying games to make it on the stores in a past few weeks-

[KwietStorm]

Disgusting. Reminds me of when people made 9/11 levels in littlebigplanet.

[Septic]

Proof that there are morons in the world. What's happening over there is not a joke or a game for that matter. Scores of innocent women and children have been killed and injured in Gaza and if you guys have followed some of the stuff that has happened, and seen some of the footage (that mainstream news channels won't show), you should would be shocked to the core.

What's happening there is a tragedy. The people who make these games deserve more than a smack in the face. If only there was more accountability online.

[SoapShoes]

Very true, I just can't comprehend people.

[egidem]

The internet never fails to disappoint.

[Douchebag696]

This is just messed up. What's worse? The people making them or the people playing them? What a crazy, stupid World we live in sometimes.

[chrissx]

This is proof hw messed up our world is

[GreenRanger]

Why the hell did Google and Apple allow these games to be released on their stores?

[1nsaint]

google doesn't check until they get a report. but yeah how did apple allow this, lesser things have been denied

[Mexxan]

Sometimes, you've got to see just how far the rabbit hole goes...

[Hendrickson]

Yes I agree, why the hell did they even let them be released on their stores?

[S2Killinit]

This is the first time ever, that I can agree with the nut jobs who insist games are a cause of violent behavior. These games will antagonize the young and lead to a more violent, hateful, future for humanity. Google, and Apple need to immediately ban these games. These are not fantasy war games, these wars are actually taking place right now. the conflicts here are in real time, and we cant afford to have a whole generation of people grow up playing this shit.

[Rebel_Scum]

Has anyone here actually played the games or are you all knee-jerking your comments?

One of those games "Bomb Gaza" as shown in the screenshot above has you playing as an Israeli jet firing bombs over Gaza to kill terrorists. There's a score tally for civilians and terrorists killed.

Only thing it is impossible not to kill more civilians than terrorists. The game is making a political statement. Yes it is arguably in poor taste. But I don't think it should be outright banned from civilisation. Remove from Google's store, sure. They're a private company, they can remove want they want.