• @Viking_Hippie
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    8 months ago

    tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza, including civilians.

    MOSTLY civilians. A spokesperson for the IDF proudly declared a ratio of two civilians for every Hamas fighter and wouldn’t show any data to back it up so it’s almost certainly even worse than that!

    "He made it very clear that he intends to prosecute the war against Hamas to the full extent of his power, and he said the American people are behind him,” Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, said

    Can always count on Louisiana Kennedy to whip up a stupidly obvious lie in defense of fascists while sounding like Foghorn Leghorn.

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      38 months ago

      MOSTLY civilians. A spokesperson for the IDF proudly declared a ratio of two civilians for every Hamas fighter and wouldn’t show any data to back it up so it’s almost certainly even worse than that!

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel–Hamas_war

      The Gaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between combatant and civilian casualties in its reports. Hamas themselves have said they believe they have lost 6,000 fighters in the war, while the IDF claims up to 12,000 Hamas combatants were killed in Gaza as of 19 February 2024.

      The current death toll is around 30,000 so between 1,5 and 4 civilians are killed for every Hamas fighter.

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        48 months ago

        between 1,5 and 4 civilians are killed for every Hamas fighter.

        Definitely in the upper end of that, yeah.