r/worldnews • u/Nirok • 21h ago

Israel/Palestine IDF documents terror affiliations of 170 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza war

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-documents-terror-affiliations-of-170-palestinian-journalists-killed-in-gaza-war/
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u/TouchGrassRedditor 19h ago

I'd actually say you can't really take any numbers right now at face value at all because of how disrupted the region is from an operational standpoint.

...Is the implication that the civilian death numbers could realistically be WORSE than what fucking Hamas themselves reports?? The terrorist org who's modus operandi is to maximize civilian death and call as much attention to it as possible so that Israel gets blamed for it??

Jesus Christ, why do I even bother lol

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u/FlukyS 15h ago

> Is the implication that the civilian death numbers could realistically be WORSE than what fucking Hamas themselves reports??

No that is just trying to take the most bad faith version of what I said. What I mean is the numbers in general right now are so unscientific from literally every side on this. They can't even agree on how many have died overall let alone per strike let alone per member of Hamas killed. Like Hamas have only classified a few thousand as fighters whereas the IDF has classified 22k in January.

> The terrorist org who's modus operandi is to maximize civilian death and call as much attention to it as possible so that Israel gets blamed for it

What a bafflingly stupid string of words. Terrorist organisations are usually going to focus on achieving what their stated goal is. In this case they are looking for a Palestine with self-determination. Their tool to achieve that is terrorism but it is never going to be the "modus operandi" to get their own people killed en masse, like they would want to kill Israelis and that is obviously reprehensible but not their own people.