Gaza Health Ministry says over 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war

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More than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war, Gaza Health Ministry says
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Your comment sounds like it's justifying killing 2 civilians for everyone 1 soldier. Even assuming your number is correct, it doesn't really matter. It's just as bad.

Why it doesn't matter?

As a point of reference, according to the UN, civilians usually make up around 90 percent of casualties in war. That's a 1:9 ratio (one combatant for every nine civilians).

https://press.un.org/en/2022/sc14904.doc.htm

It shows that it's low, and Israel does care about civilians, a shame that civilians die in the first place, but that what war is, especially considering HAMAS fighters a lot of times wear civilian clothing and don't follow the laws of war

@Fitik yikes, classic case of not reading your own link:

Conflict continued to cause widespread civilian death last year, notably in densely populated areas, where civilians accounted for 90 per cent of the casualties when explosive weapons were used, compared to 10 per cent in other areas. 

  • The whole thing is a UN discussion where they talk about the need for greater Humanitarian access in war zones.

  • The part you are quoting is about how using explosives in densely populated areas causes 90% which is way higher than normal. Normal being 10%.

In other words, the people in your link are condemning exactly the kind of things Israel is doing now in Gaza i.e incendiaries in densely populated areas and hindering humanitarian access.

especially considering HAMAS fighters a lot of times wear civilian clothing and don't follow the laws of war

Sure, Hamas should paint giant targets on their backs and face the Israelis in an open field, mano-a-mano.

As long as Israel doesn't recognize Palestine as an independent state, I don't see why Palestinian freedom fighters, Hamas or otherwise, should behave like they're the official army of an independent state.

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