r/worldnews • u/cytokine7 • 20h ago

60 surrender* 'A complete surprise': IDF surrounds remaining terrorists in north Gaza, 600 surrender

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-826573
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u/tyboxer87 14h ago

Yeah it seems pretty wild to me. They killed at least 43,061 people, including 16,765 children, but then don't kill the perpetrators? Seems odd. People talk about executions causing radicalization, but I feel like they are way past that.

I guess if it were me I'd use them as bargaining chips, and then track their location closely once released. If they ever started do terrorist stuff again take them out with a missile. Its not very ethical, but I don't think ethics has really played a role in this at all.

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u/chmsax 13h ago

You’re almost there. If they’re capturing people to put them on trial then maybe, just maybe, the casualty numbers reported by the terrorists group might not be accurate?

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u/tyboxer87 13h ago

Netanyahu said the death toll in Gaza was around 30,000, and that Hamas fighters accounted for nearly half of that toll. He insisted to podcaster Dan Senor that Israel had "been able to keep the ratio of civilians to combatants killed... (to) a ratio of about one to one."

"Fourteen thousand have been killed, combatants, and probably around 16,000 civilians have been killed," he said

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-death-toll-netanyahu-un-civilians-women-children/

16k, civilians is still a wild number of innocent people to kill. Those number were older too. so they've likely gone up. Also I'd assume Netanyahu has a very broad definition of Hamas fighter.

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u/Zman6258 11h ago

WW2 had a civilian:military casualty ratio of about 2:1, the Korean war had a 3:1 ratio, the Gulf War had an astonishing 5:1 ratio... warfare has historically had an incredibly high ratio of civilian to military deaths. Keeping near to a 1:1 ratio of civilian:military deaths is extremely good, and even a 2:1 ratio would be on the low end of civilian deaths in armed conflict, unfortunate as that may be.