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According to Hamas, right? When someone throws numbers directly from Hamas, that someone lost all credibility.
by free652 3y ago
According to Hamas, right? When someone throws numbers directly from Hamas, that someone lost all credibility.
- andrepd 3y agoNo, according to the IDF, which disgustingly lumps together civilian and military casualties.
- zmgsabst 3y agoAccording to statistics, too: 2:1 civilian:Hamas ratio according to the IDF, with 5000 from Hamas dead and 10,000 civilians dead [0]; Gaza’s population is about half under 18 [1]. So if you figure deaths among civilians are random, then about 5,000 Gazans under 18 are dead. [0] - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/05/middleeast/israel-hamas-military-civilian-ratio-killed-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/05/middleeast/israel-hamas-m... [1] - https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206897328/half-of-gazas-population-is-under-18-heres-what-that-means-for-the-conflict https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206897328/half-of-gazas-popu...
- free652 3y agoI can read and suggest for you to do the same when providing sources: From [0]: >The Israeli military has not officially published any estimates of those killed.
- zmgsabst 3y agoApparently you can’t read the second paragraph. > The AFP news agency first reported the Israeli assessment on Monday, citing a briefing for foreign media by senior Israeli military officials. Asked about reports that about 5,000 Hamas militants had been killed since October 7, one of the officials replied, according to AFP: “The numbers are more or less right.”