These 30 odd thousand casualties in Gaza
Does that include Hamas fighters ? Or are they on top and not included in the stats ???
Last time I looked I think Israel were claiming up to 15,000 Hamas. Gaza stats are generally acknowledged as being overstated by around 10%. In this conflict figures are even more 'woolly' and are being challenged by statisticians, the death toll seems to be reported as 270 per day plus or minus 10% which is not what the statisticians like, too uniform. The Palestinian figures don't separate combatants from the count, and are claiming three quarters of all fatalities are women and children, much of it doesn't really add up. If and when it ends we'll probably get a more accurate picture.
The worst case scenario I can find online is that the civilian to combatant death ratio is about 66%, which is awful. But that ratio in the Iraq war was 77%, in Kosovo, it was potentially double again but all parties dispute the figures. The Syrian civil war is likely both those added together and multiplied by ten (there were up to 700,000 total deaths (civilians and combatants). In the Syrian civil war most of the deaths would have been caused by Russian bombing, yes, the same Russia that has a permanent seat on the UN security council and is accusing Israel of genocide.
Two things are clear.
1. Israel is being held to account to standards not applied to any other country in the world.
2. The world is a very *****d up place, and an awful lot of people are being taken for fools.
In some ways, knowing that I'm not going to be around for many more years, I hope the Ayatollahs do take control of the Middle East and Europe and China and Russia topple America. I'll be PMSL in my grave knowing that the lefties got everything they wanted.