Israel military says 2 civilians killed for every Hamas militant is a 'tremendously positive' ratio given combat challen

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13. Children

I wish the stat had better definition.

Hamas has a history of recruiting teenagers - technically children (under 18), but still able to serve as cannon fodder. Hamas also likes to position near civilians.

And no, not an excuse - the child-soldiers are going to always be a part of the death toll, sad. But, Israel has had years to come up with more targeted systems - Hamas' deployment strategy is extremely well known. For example: Ukraine has shown extreme effectiveness with using drones in highly targeted attacks. Israel should be at least on par with this. If I were being coarse - I would say that serving as a boot squad in the West Bank has degraded the IDF's out of the box thinking.