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Toby Block's avatar

The casualty reports from Hamas' "health ministry" are inaccurate. Statisticians have noted that the claims that most of the dead have been women and children could be accurate only if there are esssentially no adult males in Gaza. Even the UN has questioned the Health Ministry's figures. Major Spencer (head of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point's Modern Warfare Institute) says the IDF has achieved the lowest ratio of civilian casualties to combatant casualties (1.5:1) ever recorded for fighting in a densely populated areas such as Gaza. He notes that ratios as high as 9 civilians killed for each combatant killed are not unusual.

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Rasha Abou jalal's avatar

This is the biggest nonsense I've ever heard since the war I've been living through in Gaza began... Do you want me to send you lists of the names of all the dead with their ages and ID numbers so you can verify yourself?

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Toby Block's avatar

Hamas's breaking a ceasefire started the war. Its vow to repeat atrocities over and over again is what convinced Israel that it's time to stop settling for continual war interrupted by intervals of relative quiet.

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JennyStokes's avatar

No it was NOT Hamas that broke the ceasefire. Are you reading MSM?

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Toby Block's avatar

It certainly was Hamas that broke the ceasefire on October 7, 2023.

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