This seems to be an indication that Israel has been a lot more precise in targeting fighters than I thought. I don’t see another explanation for the huge disparity between men and women.
I still wouldn’t call it “precise” in the slightest.
Even assuming that this ratio remains constant after the remaining 10,000 unidentified bodies are accounted for, men of fighting age only account for 40% of those being killed and not all of those will be actual Hamas fighters.
The typical combatant to civilian casualty rate in embedded urban warfare is about 1/4. Obviously any civilian death is tragic, but it is a reality of war.
The disparity between men and women in the identifying efforts is quite simple.
When a men is killed, chance is he was out trying to secure food for his family, carrying wounded to hospitals or trying to rescue people from under the rubble. The family then often was in a different place and survived.
When a women and children are killed they were probably at home/in a refugee camp/ on the run and the entire core family is killed and there is no one to refer to for identification anymore.
This seems to be an indication that Israel has been a lot more precise in targeting fighters than I thought. I don’t see another explanation for the huge disparity between men and women.
I still wouldn’t call it “precise” in the slightest.
Even assuming that this ratio remains constant after the remaining 10,000 unidentified bodies are accounted for, men of fighting age only account for 40% of those being killed and not all of those will be actual Hamas fighters.
The typical combatant to civilian casualty rate in embedded urban warfare is about 1/4. Obviously any civilian death is tragic, but it is a reality of war.
The disparity between men and women in the identifying efforts is quite simple.
When a men is killed, chance is he was out trying to secure food for his family, carrying wounded to hospitals or trying to rescue people from under the rubble. The family then often was in a different place and survived.
When a women and children are killed they were probably at home/in a refugee camp/ on the run and the entire core family is killed and there is no one to refer to for identification anymore.