Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
  • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
    821·
    19 hours ago

    Note that this means “83% of people killed were civilians”, not that 83% of civilians were killed. As the graph in the article illustrates, that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides:

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      13 hours ago

      that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides

      The fact that this sentence can be said, unironically, and backed with data, is kinda depressing.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      371·
      17 hours ago

      Notably, Hamas on Oct 7 killed two civilians for every military casualty. By the IDF’s own numbers, the IDF are literally greater terrorists than Hamas. Hamas literally does a better job at avoiding civilian casualties than the IDF does.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
        231·
        16 hours ago

        If you qualify military targets the way the IDF does then Hamas killed over 90% military targets on october 7.

        • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          111·
          14 hours ago

          And we’ll likely never know how many civilians/soldiers were killed by Israel issuing the Hannibal Directive on October 7th. Something we do know they issued that day.

          Yes. Israel has a protocol that says “killing/harming our own people is preferred to them being kidnapped”.