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I believe the laws of war as commonly understood authorise civilian casualties insofar as they are "proportionate". 1:20 is technically a proportion, but...

• shermantanktop 3y ago
  > the laws of war as commonly understood There’s a whole lot of wiggle room in that phrase.
• bjornsing 3y ago
  1:2000000 is also a proportion. Btw, the proportionality requirement in the law of armed conflict relates civilian casualties not with military casualties but rather the military advantage gained. The military advantages of killing a single low-level Hamas combatant are rather limited, and thus the room for civilian casualties should be rather limited as well.
• ivl 3y ago
  Proportionate in war is not about going tit-for-tat. > The principle of proportionality prohibits attacks against military objectives which are “expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated”. The way it's worded is to prevent destroying civilian targets for no military gain.
  • porkbeer 3y ago
    Thats a very... charitable reading.
• NomDePlum 3y ago
  20:1 is a proportionality I'd find horrifying. 1:20 is unspeakable. There is no justification in the current situation in Gaza to justify anything close to the numbers quoted.