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

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

  • @filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -2•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.pubEnglish
      0•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.