https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/27/israel-defence-forces-most-moral-soldiers-in-the-world/

Just when coverage of Israel in much of the broadcast media couldn’t seem any more spiteful and misleading – the slippage into the mainstream of slurs like “genocide” and “famine”, for instance, neither of which are remotely accurate descriptions for what is going on in Gaza – a story breaks that destroys all my remaining confidence that such outlets will cover the war impartially.

  • nightshade [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    for every Hamas combatant eliminated, approximately 1.5 civilians have been tragically killed

    They’re claiming that a full 40% of the 40,000+ deaths so far were combatants. What a coincidence that it’s almost exactly the percentage you’d get if you counted every “military aged male” as a combatant.