Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History

Photo: Israeli Army Video of Alleged Hamas Tunnel Where Hostages Were Held in Gaza

No country has been more demonized, villainized and ostracized more than the most humane military on earth, Israel. Worse still, the barbarian jihad enemy and their atrocities are normed under the guise of some completely fictional narrative. That terrible reality reflects moral bankruptcy and evil that has subsumed the world.

Israel is not morally required to sacrifice its people.

Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History

By John Spencer, Newsweek, February 1, 2024:

No military fighting an entrenched enemy in dense urban terrain in an area barely twice the size of Washington D.C. can avoid all civilian casualties. Reports of over 25,000 Palestinians killed, be they civilians or Hamas, have made headlines. But Israel has taken more measures to avoid needless civilian harm than virtually any other nation that’s fought an urban war.

In fact, as someone who has served two tours in Iraq and studied urban warfare for over a decade, Israel has taken precautionary measures even the United States did not do during its recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I say this not to put Israel on a pedestal or to diminish the human suffering of Gazans but rather to correct a number of misperceptions when it comes to urban warfare.

First is the use of precision guided munitions (PGMs). This term was introduced to nonmilitary audiences during the Gulf War, when the U.S. fired 250,000 individual bombs and missiles in just 43 days. Only a very small fraction of those would fit the definition of PGMs, even though common perceptions of that war, and its comparatively low civilian casualty rate, was that it was a war of precision.

Let’s compare that war, which did not ignite anywhere near the same level of outrage internationally, to Israel’s current war in Gaza. The Israeli Defense Force has used many types of PGMs to avoid civilian harm, including the use of munitions like small diameter bombs (SDBs), as well as technologies and tactics that increase the accuracy of non-PGMs. Israel has also employed a tactic when a military has air supremacy called dive bombing, as well as gathering pre-strike intelligence on the presence of civilians from satellite imagery, scans of cell phone presence, and other target observation techniques. All of this is to do more pinpoint targeted to avoid civilian deaths. In other words, the simplistic notion that a military must use more PGMs versus non-PGMs in a war is false.

A second misperception is a military’s choice of munitions and how they apply the proportionality principle required by the laws of armed conflict. Here there is an assessment of the value of the military target to be gained from an act that is weighted against the expected collateral damage estimate caused by said act. An external viewer with no access to all information cannot say such things as a 500-pound bomb would achieve the military mission of a 2,000-pound bomb with no mention of the context of the value of the military target or the context of the strike—like the target being in a deep tunnel that would require great penetration.

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Related: Civilian Deaths in Gaza: Relatively Low

By: Professor Alan Dershowtix

Nations engaged in genocide do not go to such great lengths trying to reduce civilian casualties, including placing their own soldiers at heightened risk. Op-ed.

• Critics of Israel almost never cite comparable data from other military encounters. This omission creates the false impression that the civilian death tolls in Gaza are among the highest in history, when they are in fact among the lowest.
• The New York Times’ conclusion that the new data suggests that it is “wrong to accuse [Israel] of wanting to maximize civilian deaths” is highly relevant to the false charges of genocide that are being considered by the International Court of Justice.
• The decreasing civilian death rate among Gazans should also end the campaign to impose a ceasefire on Israel before the IDF completes its legitimate mission to destroy Hamas’ military capacity. Successfully completing that mission will save civilian lives in the long run, by reducing Hamas’ capacity to keep its promise of repeating the barbarism of October 7 and also by reducing its use of civilian shields.
• The time has come, indeed it is long overdue, for the world to stop imposing a double standard on the nation-state of the Jewish people. Double standards are a form of bigotry, and when bigotry is addressed to the only nation-state of the Jewish people, it becomes a form of international anti-Semitism against the Jew among nations. It must stop.

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Walter Sieruk

3 months ago

The actual real genocide is the intention of the Jewish people is the goal of Hamas and not those in power in the State of Israel.

About innocent children who died in Gaza because the jihadists Hamas hiding among places with children. Also this current war that Hamas started this with Israel on October 7th when it launched its brutal vicious and murderous and even vile and heinous jihadist attacks on the peaceful Jewish citizens of the State of Israel.

That innocent children died in Gaza because of Israel’s air force was not the intention of the government and military officials of Israel.

Those youngster who had been killed had died because those despicable jihadists of Hamas, because they are so very callous and cruel that they deliberately stationed their jihad strategy command and weapon centers at buildings that have children in and around those places.

Therefore the bloodguilt for the death of those children of Gaza on the wicked hands of the Hamas jihadists.

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Sam enhorn

3 months ago

I think that things would change among people in their feelings against Israel if they knew what islam feels and does to kafirs in their political tenets in the sunna,quran and sharia. BIDET WANTS ISRAEL TO GIVE THE PHONYSTINIANS A STATE. I DONT THINK ISRAEL WILL BUY THAT HAVING EXPERIENCED HELL WITH THEM. I PROPOSED THE BIDET USE THE EAST PALESTIINE STATE AS A PERFECT STATE FOR THEM AND HE’S TO LEAVE ISRAEL FIGHT THEIR WAR AS THEY WANT TO. HIS FACTS ON JUDEA AND SAMARIA ARE REAL TROUBLESOME AS HIS KNOWLEDGE RE THEM IS ALL WRONG. POOR ISRAEL WITH ALL THOSE TROUBLES AND STILL ABLE TO FIGHT THAT WAR. GOD BLESS THEM!!

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Stephen Honig

3 months ago

No anti Semite believes it or wants to hear it.

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Kay

3 months ago

Oh yeah, by taking the IDF troops off the border on the 7th of Oct. and letting Hamas into the country to start a war? Sure, the “safety” of the civilians comes first. Sure it does. And if you believe that happy horseshit, I gotta bridge to sell you!
ROFLMAO! What a bunch of BULLS#IT!

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