• Minotaur@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Is that… supposed to be numbers in Israel’s favor? That for every one militant they kill they only kill 1.9 women and children and noncombatants?

    That’s just absolutely insane. And that’s with what I’m going to assume is an extremely favorable estimation on Israel’s part

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      4 months ago

      That’s literally one of the “best” ratios for urban warfare in modern conflicts tho? It’s a shame that the war is even there, but the numbers are “in Israel favor”, Gaza is densely populated, and this is a full scale war.

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        4 months ago

        That’s simply not true. You might be basing your opinion on the widespread (but almost entirely made up) statistic that “90% of war casualties are civilians”.

        Add in that this is no longer 1945 or whatever and you have to come to terms that the death toll is so high largely because the IDF is one of if not the most profoundly cowardly militaries on the planet