Comment by belter
1 month ago
>> Nobody else comes close to Israel in protecting civilians in combat zones.
"Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war" - https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21...
> "Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war"
The way they came up with this 83% figure is insane, they are essentially claiming everyone killed that hasn't been identified as a named fighter in one specific Israeli military intelligence database is assumed to be a civilian, this logic is of course blatantly misleading as one would not expect Israel to have the capability to identify the name of each and every enemy combatant in a war zone. On top of that the total number killed is a figure published by the Hamas run Gaza Health Ministry which is well known to have major accuracy issues.
You only are identifying half the problem.
That list was of those both identified to be terrorist and identified to be dead. Thus, not only does it not count the unidentified dead but it also does not count the identified but not established to be terrorist.
Not only is this a tremendously inaccurate measure of what happened but even if true it would still be better than typical. Reality is 90%+ civilian.