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Comment by LarsDu88

5 days ago

People tend to easily forget that the civilian casualty ratio for conventional warfare is around 50%

These attacks killed and maimed children, but firing JDAMs kills and maims even more children.

Not excusing the Israeli military here... they definitely dropped a lot of JDAMs, unguided artillery, and indiscriminate autocannon munitions on Gaza.

But the specific point on the pager attacks being against civilians is not a great argument.

Another thing I will note is that a lot of Palestinian groups also use similar reasoning towards targeting the Israeli population on the basis of the fact there is mass conscription in place.

> People tend to easily forget that the civilian casualty ratio for conventional warfare is around 50%

Causality in war includes people that were only injured. This was far, far more than a 50% casualty rate. More like a 9552% casualty rate.