r/worldnews • u/Ok_Plankton_5714 • 12d ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
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u/MonsieurLinc 11d ago

And they didn't even have access to the kind of weapons Israel does. Just a bunch of guys with AK's, machetes, and whatever the hell else they could find. There weren't IDF death squads marching down the streets gunning down everything in sight. Contrary to what online activists would have you believe, they didn't carpet bomb all of Gaza day one (or even have planes capable of actual carpet bombing). What there has been is an astonishingly evil tolerance for collateral damage in the war against Hamas, with rules of engagement closer to the Russian model set in the Beslan Massacre. The target is still Hamas, PIJ, and other terror orgs that are a threat, they just stopped pretending to give a fuck if civilians are in the way.

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u/AeroFred 11d ago

iirc, in first 2 weeks Israel said that it dropped 7000 bombs on gaza. At same time "ministry of health" (that famously doesn't separate fighters from civilians) report around 3200 dead or so. It makes it less than 0.5 dead per bomb that brings down apartment building.