▲ 206 ▼ Gaza Health Ministry says over 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com) submitted 2 years ago by Marshmellow@lemdro.id to c/world@lemmy.world 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Fitik@fedia.io -6 points 2 years ago (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] mellowheat@suppo.fi 0 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Fitik@fedia.io -6 points 2 years ago (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] mellowheat@suppo.fi 0 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years 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 permalink fedilink source parent