^Of course it's dehumanizing. Israelis are 'people'. Palestinians are just, well, 'Palestinians'. It's a not-so-subtle way of 'othering' the dead in Gaza, to exclude them as human beings. If you can keep them from belonging to the group 'people', it makes it easier to justify butchering them.
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