Israel minimises civilian casualites despite Hamas human shields
If only Hamas would stop starting deadly wars (like on Oct 7th) with Israel and actually not endanger its own people!
It’s Hamas and Palestinians that target civilians with murder, and Hamas that uses its own population as human shields, knowing that Israel doesn’t want to hit civilians.
– The IDF has done leaflet drops to warn civilian areas to evacuate
– Phonecall warnings before bombings
– 50% of airstrikes aborted to avoid civilian casualties
– “Roof knock” warnings before bombing
All unheard of measures undertaken by the IDF to avoid hitting civilians who Hamas hides amongst knowing Israel doesn’t want to hit them.https://youtu.be/9hQF8o2dKBA
đźš©Israel warned North Gazans to evacuate south. Hamas told them not to, wanting to use them as human shields
https://youtu.be/GmD8ByNW7zk?si=jXZduqSxySIjF0TI
đźš© Israel dropped more than 1.5 million pamphlets, made nearly 20,000 phone calls, sent nearly 4.5 million text messages, and made nearly 6 million pre-recorded calls urging residents to northern Gaza to evacuate.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-israel-helps-thousands-of-gazans-evacuate-after-hamas-tried-to-trap-them
đźš© Data Regarding IDF Efforts to Evacuate Civilians Within Gaza
X Approx. 79,000 evacuation phone calls placed.
X Approx. 7.2 million evacuation leaflets dropped.
X Approx. 13.7 million text messages calling for evacuation sent.
X Approx. 15 million voice recordings sent.
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-regarding-the-hamas-israel-war/january-24-pr/war-against-hamas-interim-data/data-regarding-evacuation-of-civilian-population-within-gaza/
đźš© Here is a dialogue on Feb 13th between the Head of the Coordination & Liaison Administration for Gaza & the management of Nasser Hospital (where Israeli hostages are believed to be held) emphasizing the importance of civilian evacuation from the area
https://bit.ly/48o8VBw
đźš© IDF sent a text message to Jenin residences to stay in their houses whilst the military operation was undertaken to avoid civilian casualities. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuR51uXscsc/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
đźš© Roof knocking warning shot, allows civilians to evacuate.
https://youtu.be/hcae-XdfsLA
đźš© Phone call warnings civilians to leave building before bombing.
https://youtu.be/OMuA34ZijMA
đźš© UN General Charles Wald commends Israeli Roof Knock warnings.
https://youtu.be/6apOPryIcsc
đźš© Leaflet drop warning civilians who are embedded amongst Gazan military installations.https://youtu.be/6Ohx-nwskKc
đźš© Gazan Evacuation phone call on video
https://youtu.be/sumq8ktYOTI
đźš© Israel’s military evacuated Palestinians from parts of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, ahead of an expected military operation. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/06/israeli-military-tells-palestinian-civilians-in-parts-of-rafah-to-evacuate-immediately-.html
“No army in the world acts with as much discretion and great care as the IDF in order to minimize damage. The US and the UK are careful, but not as much as Israel” -Former British Commander In Afghanistan, Col. (res.) Richard Kemp
Israel doesn’t target civilians. Israel targets Hamas who hide amongst civilians and hospitals, schools and mosques.
The IDF Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 — which specializes in HUMINT (human intelligence) — has held 50,066 phone calls with Palestinians in Gaza while also issuing 12 million voice messages and 14 million text messages, according to figures published by Channel 12 on Saturday.
The vast majority of the messages were aimed at urging Palestinians to evacuate to southern Gaza or to designated shelters and humanitarian zones, during the war.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-intel-units-calls-with-gazans-reveal-cracks-of-dissent-against-hamas-rule/
If Israel is wanted to hit civilians it could have taken out a sickening amount of people in a short amount of time. Israel isn’t so immoral, like the Palestinians.
If Israel targeted civilians there would be world wide sanctions and worse, and its stated goal of returning the hostages and removing Hamas would certainly not be possible.
IDF troops found toy boxes filled with dozens of mortar shells, warheads and RPG type anti-tank missiles in a kindergarten in Gaza
https://nypost.com/2023/12/24/news/israel-finds-explosive-belts-made-for-kids-toy-chests-with-warheads-in-gaza/
The IDF dropped 7 million leaflets to warn Gazans to evacuate, made 70,000 phone calls, sent 14 million text messages, 14 million voice messages, all save lives.
130,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid.
https://youtu.be/2qXW7NFNfi4?si=MCQMDOwqFec39k3x
If we take [Mosul](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mosul_(2016%E2%80%932017)) as an example, the low end of the reported military deaths reported by Iraqi commanders is 7,757 and the high end of the reported civilian deaths from AP is 11,000. That gives a civilian ratio of 58%. The rate in Gaza is 51% last I checked and this is the figure that Israel has quoted in interviews with politicians and ambassadors.
Israel does not target civilians for murder, doing so is immoral, against international law and therefore would draw international condemnation and sanctions against Israel which would cripple its economy and actually go against its goal of removing Hamas (Israel would have to cease fire if the world started sanctioning).
Hamas can’t win this battle against Israel militarily, so the fact that Hamas won’t surrender and return the 100 hostages demonstrates how they see Gazans as “a nation of martyrs that they’re proud to sacrifice”.
Measures Israel takes to avoid civilian casualties:
đźš©Israel warned North Gazans to evacuate south. Hamas told them not to, wanting to use them as human shields
https://youtu.be/GmD8ByNW7zk?si=jXZduqSxySIjF0TI
đźš© Israel dropped more than 1.5 million pamphlets, made nearly 20,000 phone calls, sent nearly 4.5 million text messages, and made nearly 6 million pre-recorded calls urging residents to northern Gaza to evacuate.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-israel-helps-thousands-of-gazans-evacuate-after-hamas-tried-to-trap-them
đźš© Data Regarding IDF Efforts to Evacuate Civilians Within Gaza
X Approx. 79,000 evacuation phone calls placed.
X Approx. 7.2 million evacuation leaflets dropped.
X Approx. 13.7 million text messages calling for evacuation sent.
X Approx. 15 million voice recordings sent.
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-regarding-the-hamas-israel-war/january-24-pr/war-against-hamas-interim-data/data-regarding-evacuation-of-civilian-population-within-gaza/
đźš© Here is a dialogue on Feb 13th between the Head of the Coordination & Liaison Administration for Gaza & the management of Nasser Hospital (where Israeli hostages are believed to be held) emphasizing the importance of civilian evacuation from the area
https://bit.ly/48o8VBw
đźš© IDF sent a text message to Jenin residences to stay in their houses whilst the military operation was undertaken to avoid civilian casualities. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuR51uXscsc/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
đźš© Roof knocking warning shot, allows civilians to evacuate.
https://youtu.be/hcae-XdfsLA
đźš© Phone call warnings civilians to leave building before bombing.
https://youtu.be/OMuA34ZijMA
đźš© UN General Charles Wald commends Israeli Roof Knock warnings.
https://youtu.be/6apOPryIcsc
đźš© Leaflet drop warning civilians who are embedded amongst Gazan military installations.https://youtu.be/6Ohx-nwskKc
đźš© Gazan Evacuation phone call on video
https://youtu.be/sumq8ktYOTI
“No army in the world acts with as much discretion and great care as the IDF in order to minimize damage. The US and the UK are careful, but not as much as Israel” -Former British Commander In Afghanistan, Col. (res.) Richard Kemp
Jan Spencer, urban war expert who teaches at West Point, says Israel has exceeded the requirements of international law in avoiding civilian deaths. They have dropped fliers and maps, sent text messages, provided safe corridors and pauses in the war to allow civilians to escape harm.
Does this prevent every death? No. This is impossible, he says, in urban warfare. However, along with many statisticians, he disputes the exaggerated casualty figures of Hamas.
Lastly, he accuses the press of focusing only on the destruction in Gaza and not on Israel’s attempts to avoid civilian casualties. Richard Kemp, former UK commander in Afghanistan, agrees with him. Why have I never seen these men quoted in major media outlets?
Why is the press presenting Israel in the most damaging light and going easy on Hamas?
War is hell, civilian casualties are a tragedy. This was a war started by Hamas, it was not one Israel wanted.
Israel’s response to Oct 7th against Hamas in Gaza achieved a civilian to militant casualty ratio of approximately 1:1, significantly lower than other urban conflicts such as the US-led coalition against ISIS in Mosul, Faluja, and Raqqa, aswell as with NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, which had a ratio of about 4:1, and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, where the ratio was around 3:1 . This was attributed to advanced intelligence, precision targeting, and warnings to civilians to evacuate.
The combatant-to-civilian death ratio in this war is unprecedented.
I’ll explain: The international media regularly quotes Hamas claims that around 37,000 people have been killed in Gaza. They of course do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
If we are, for argument’s sake, going to accept Hamas numbers then we should also accept IDF numbers that the military has killed around 16,000 combatants (if you accept a terrorist’s numbers please have the decency to accept the democracy’s claims too).
With those numbers, the combatant-civilian death ratio in Gaza is just over 1:2. In other words, for every combatant killed, around 2 civilians are killed.
Every loss of civilian life is tragic, but with this ratio, not only should Israel not be accused of genocide (that’s obvious), world leaders should be applauding the IDF’s precision-strike capabilities.
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).
What is happening in Gaza is unique – it is a new form of warfare (urban setting, extensive use of human shields and massive tunnel infrastructure) and still the ratio is low.
What the IDF is doing will be studied by other militaries for decades to come. No other military in the world has ever achieved this.
The IDF achieved the lowest civilian-to-militant casualty ratio in urban warfare history ! And that is despite Hamas hiding in humanitarian safe zones and hospitals !
War is hell, especially when Hamas hide amongst civilians.endangering them. However, the IDF just managed the lowest civilian to militant casualty ratio in urban military history.
39,000 have fallen according to Hamas exaggerated numbers, 16,000 of them are Hamas militants according to the IDF, so that’s a ratio of 1 : 1.4, significantly lower than other urban conflicts such as the US-led coalition against ISIS in Mosul, Faluja, and Raqqa, aswell as with NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, which had a ratio of about 4:1, and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, where the ratio was around 3:1 . This was attributed to advanced intelligence, precision targeting, and warnings to civilians to evacuate.
“The former Commander of the British Armed Forces in Afghanistan, Col. Richard Kemp, has explained the IDF’s efforts to avoid civilian casualties:
“The UN estimate that there has been an average three-to-one ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in such conflicts worldwide. Three civilians for every combatant killed. That is the estimated ratio in Afghanistan: three to one. In Iraq, and in Kosovo, it was worse: the ratio is believed to be four-to-one. Anecdotal evidence suggests the ratios were very much higher in Chechnya and Serbia. In Gaza, it was less than one-to-one.””
The IDF just achieved the lowest civilian to militant casualty ratio in urban military history, and that’s despite Hamas lying about casualty numbers and hiding amongst its civilians.
“No army in the world acts with as much discretion and great care as the IDF in order to minimize damage. The US and the UK are careful, but not as much as Israel” -Former British Commander In Afghanistan, Col. (res.) Richard Kemp
The military’s rules of engagement in Gaza are at least as rigorous as those of the British Army, says a former Nato commander. General Sir John McColl. https://www.thetimes.com/article/e2125279-cc23-4b9e-aeb8-f02191f27c88?shareToken=5457dc755403eb830f0b15ce70c67c6b
Despite condemnation, human shielding has become endemic in contemporary conflict, taking place across the legal spectrum of conflict. To use “human shields” as a war tactic is heartbreaking!
Sadly many innocent women, children and babies will be killed, because of Iran’s ‘Axis of Evil/Resistance’ the Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen. All use this PURE EVIL “human shields” war tactic that is PROHIBITED under International Humanitarian Law, Rule 97.
The war tactics used by all of Iran’s ‘Axis of Evil/Resistance’ also tell their civilians to remain in places of strategic importance, to accompany military convoys, to serve as a protective screen, even peacekeepers have fallen victim to this tactic.
Iran’s cowardly terrorists only goal is to divert enemy fire away from themselves. These acts should rightly be condemned as not only cruel and barbaric but as the most dishonourable cowardly act. Iran’s terrorists use these war tactics because it’s effective with, as Iran’s terrorists call us ‘Useful Western Idiots’ and rely on the Western people for sympathy !
People SHOULD be aware, Israel is following International Humanitarian Law. Israel gave effective advance warning of all attacks that may affect the civilian population, therefore Israel is following International Humanitarian Law, Article 57, (1 & 2) – Precautions in attack.
Hamas should return the hostages, surrender and spare Gazans the horrors of this war.
But the jihadists won’t, Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad called Gazans “a nation of martyrs that they are proud to sacrifice”.
On October 7, 2023 Hamas broke a ceasefire & invaded Israel committing thousands of war crimes against civilians. Israel has since waged a legal, moral, ethical campaign against Hamas in Gaza with a historically low civilian to combatant ratio compared to any like situation.
John Spencer
🇬🇧 General Sir John McColl, KCB, CBE,DSO, KStJ after visiting Israel/Gaza:
“Basing my views about the Israel-Hamas war on UK media coverage, I arrived in Israel critical and sceptical of their military operations… I came away from the trip satisfied that the IDF’s operations and rules of engagement were rigorous compared to the British Army and our western allies.”
This is by far one of the most senior military leaders from UK to have visited the Israel Hamas conflict.
Gazan admits IDF warned them to evacuate by dropped leaflets, SMS and IDF website.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKHdbUrNb1l/?igsh=ODBjYWk5d3o5eDho