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2021-05-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

The numbers behind the 11-day Israel-Hamas fighting

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-21 02:49|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 back in 2014 it took over a year to get reliable estimates of Gaza casualties.

In that conflict about 1000 Gaza fighters, mostly Hamas but also PIJ and others died, about the same number of civilians and several hundred who could reasonably be called civilians assisting fighters;
subsequent to the cease fire, Hamas executed several dozen alleging spying for Israel

In that conflict Israel lost about 70 fighters and about half a dozen civilians.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-05-21 05:36|| 2021-05-21 05:36|| Front Page Top

#2 what is more difficult to determine is the damage to Hamas's infrastructure

back in 2014, Israel knocked out several dozen command and training facilities and damaged a few dozen tunnel entrances

although not known for sure, the damage to the tunnels this time is probably an order of magnitude more severe than back in 2014 while the damage to command and training facilities is probably about the same

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-05-21 08:03|| 2021-05-21 08:03|| Front Page Top

The Israel military also says some of the Gaza civilian fatalities were killed by the terror groups’ own rockets falling short and exploding in Gaza.

Allan wills it

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-05-21 08:29|| 2021-05-21 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Well, it's the same as structural racism being the ultimate clause of black on black violence.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-21 08:34|| 2021-05-21 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 RS brings up an interesting point

in the 2014 conflict (which was about 40 days), Hamas and PIJ sent about 4000 rockets and only about 40 failed to clear the Gaza border

in the 2020 conflict (11 day), they sent about 3500 rockets with about 400 failing to clear

It is astounding to see the fail rate increase like this. There are lots of possible non exclusive reasons for this and it will keep the analysts busy for quite a while.
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Posted by Lord Garth 2021-05-21 09:30|| 2021-05-21 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 including more than 66 minors,
And an unknown, but likely large, number of miners, in the collapsed tunnels.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-05-21 10:10|| 2021-05-21 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 but likely large, number of miners, in the collapsed tunnels.

Many of the miners in Gaza are minors — small bodies need less space to dig, and they command smaller paychecks. I remember posting the story here some years ago.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-21 13:22|| 2021-05-21 13:22|| Front Page Top

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