...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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corpse count claimed by Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...is fairly accurate, and that more civilians have been killed than Hamas operatives. The comments appeared to emerge from an off-record briefing for foreign journalists conducted by military officials.
An unnamed IDF official cited by AP says that at least 15,000 Paleostinians in Gaza have died since the outbreak of the war on October 7. The army says it estimates more than 5,000 of the Gaza deaths to be Hamas terrorists.
AFP quotes an unnamed Israeli official: "I’m not saying it’s not bad that we have a ratio of two to one," noting that the use of human shields was part of Hamas’s "core strategy."
"Hopefully, [the ratio] will be much lower" in the coming phase of the war, the official adds, noting that "in the south, because we have basically doubled the population, operations are much more precise."
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said earlier today that around 15,900 people have been killed so far in the Strip.