CLAIM: Israel’s use of precision munitions saves civilian lives.
RATING:
Mixed
The IDF’s use of precision weapons may indeed limit unintentional collateral damage.
On the other hand, the use of precision weapons also means that the IDF has a significantly higher chance of hitting a target with each such munition, thus causing more intentional destruction per munition, rather than less.
After October 7th, the Israeli military was given permission to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians per junior Hamas operative “with no specific case-by-case examination to weigh the military advantage of assassinating them against the expected harm to civilians.” For a single Hamas commander, the number of civilians that could be killed was over 100. Officer “A” in the target operation room said that the army’s international law department has never before given such “sweeping approval” for such a high collateral damage degree. A high civilian-to-militant death ratio made it permissible to target Hamas militants in homes, camps, and other areas where many civilians may be present.
Indeed, the IDF used an AI system codenamed Lavender to identify thousands of potential militants, then another system called Where's Daddy to track their positions and identify when they had returned home. The entire home was then bombed, "usually at night while their whole families were present [because] it was easier". The IDF has generally blamed Hamas for all of these civilian deaths, claiming that Hamas was hiding behind human shields.
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Keep trying to invent history. The palis didn’t exist until the mid 1960s.
One other fun fact – every group, every political organization, and every government that has ever tried to destroy the Jews has been destroyed. Fun fact #2 Israel has never been stronger.