Your comment sounds like it’s justifying killing 2 civilians for everyone 1 soldier. Even assuming your number is correct, it doesn’t really matter. It’s just as bad.
Hamas is partly to blame for the following reasons:
They use human shield tactics
They haven’t built bomb shelters (edit: for civilians)
They have no civilian evacuation plans
They appear to actively stop people from evacuating
Also, the population density in Gaza is one of the highest ones in the world. Which is really nobody’s fault I guess, but makes the number of civilian deaths worse, especially given the above 4 points.
As a point of reference, according to the UN, civilians usually make up around 90 percent of casualties in war. That’s a 1:9 ratio (one combatant for every nine civilians).
It shows that it’s low, and Israel does care about civilians, a shame that civilians die in the first place, but that what war is, especially considering HAMAS fighters a lot of times wear civilian clothing and don’t follow the laws of war
especially considering HAMAS fighters a lot of times wear civilian clothing and don’t follow the laws of war
Sure, Hamas should paint giant targets on their backs and face the Israelis in an open field, mano-a-mano.
As long as Israel doesn’t recognize Palestine as an independent state, I don’t see why Palestinian freedom fighters, Hamas or otherwise, should behave like they’re the official army of an independent state.
Your comment sounds like it’s justifying killing 2 civilians for everyone 1 soldier. Even assuming your number is correct, it doesn’t really matter. It’s just as bad.
Hamas is partly to blame for the following reasons:
They use human shield tactics
They haven’t built bomb shelters (edit: for civilians)
They have no civilian evacuation plans
They appear to actively stop people from evacuating
Also, the population density in Gaza is one of the highest ones in the world. Which is really nobody’s fault I guess, but makes the number of civilian deaths worse, especially given the above 4 points.
Did you really say “they didn’t build bomb shelters”? Are you ok?
I should’ve written: “They haven’t built bomb shelters for civilians”
Is it shocking to learn this? It seems so absurd that you cannot believe it?
I kinda agree.
Why it doesn’t matter?
https://press.un.org/en/2022/sc14904.doc.htm
It shows that it’s low, and Israel does care about civilians, a shame that civilians die in the first place, but that what war is, especially considering HAMAS fighters a lot of times wear civilian clothing and don’t follow the laws of war
Now prove 10,000 were Hamas.
Sure, Hamas should paint giant targets on their backs and face the Israelis in an open field, mano-a-mano.
As long as Israel doesn’t recognize Palestine as an independent state, I don’t see why Palestinian freedom fighters, Hamas or otherwise, should behave like they’re the official army of an independent state.