• aleph@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    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.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      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.