Israeli PM said to have turned down proposal in early talks and continues to take tough line

  • filister@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh and Israel cares so much about civilians lost. Perhaps you should check the numbers of killed and injured people on both sides even before 7.10, to get a bit of perspective.

    • mwguy@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      I mean they clearly do. A cheap and WW2 era artillery bombardment of the region could have killed an easy 200k in a week.

      The UN believes a modern conflict will kill about 9 civilians for every militant. Hamas’ government last I checked reported about 11k casualties, 100% civilians. If that’s the IDF would need to have killed 1,200 Hamas fighters to meet that ratio. Given that there’s an estimated 20-40k fighters in Gaza we should expect 180k-360k casualties if the IDF nominally completes their goal of eliminating Hamas military.