• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    Note that this means “83% of people killed were civilians”, not that 83% of civilians were killed. As the graph in the article illustrates, that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides:

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      18 days ago

      Notably, Hamas on Oct 7 killed two civilians for every military casualty. By the IDF’s own numbers, the IDF are literally greater terrorists than Hamas. Hamas literally does a better job at avoiding civilian casualties than the IDF does.

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        If you qualify military targets the way the IDF does then Hamas killed over 90% military targets on october 7.

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          And we’ll likely never know how many civilians/soldiers were killed by Israel issuing the Hannibal Directive on October 7th. Something we do know they issued that day.

          Yes. Israel has a protocol that says “killing/harming our own people is preferred to them being kidnapped”.

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      that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides

      The fact that this sentence can be said, unironically, and backed with data, is kinda depressing.