Israel Accidentally Praised Hamas: Killing Only Two Civilians Per Militant on October 7 is a “Tremendously Positive” Ratio

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The IDF spokesman meant to praise Israel, but the kill ratio he called “tremendously positive” in Gaza is the same as Hamas’s on October 7

Two months after the October 7 attack, the IDF’s official spokesman, Jonathan Conricus, announced that Israel was killing only two civilians per Hamas militant:

“I can say that if that is true — and I think that our numbers will be corroborated — if you compare that ratio to any other conflict in urban terrain between a military and a terrorist organization using civilians as their human shields, and embedded in the civilian population, you will find that that ratio is tremendous, tremendously positive, and perhaps unique in the world.” — Jonathan Conricus, IDF spokesman

Conricus said this because he knew that between 1990 and 2000, 90 percent of the world’s four million war-related deaths were civilians.

What Conricus did not notice was that on October 7, 695 Israeli civilians, 71 foreigners, and 373 security forces were killed by Hamas— a ratio of two civilians for each militant.

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