JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

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      It's no accident Hamas keeps their HQ's and ammunition depots near civilian population aswell as regularly shoots rockets from near mosks and hospitals. They know Israel is atleast trying to minimize civilian casualties so they're probably not going to just level that building without a warning as they would if it was located in the desert.

      If Hamas had the military capabilities that Israel does and Israel would put their military HQ in the basement of Israeli hospital hoping to use their own population as human shields Hamas could not care less. They would level that building in a heartbeat and collateral damage would just be a bonus.

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          Israel has the capability to level both Gaza and West bank in a week and kill every single person in there. They haven't. What would Hamas do if they had this capability?

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            If they actually did that the entirety of West Asia and North Africa would attack them and all their allies would abandon them.

            So actually, no, Israel doesn't have that capability.

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              You seem to have a different understanding of capability than I do. They could do it, so they have the capability, but that says nothing about the consequences.

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                No, they would be dogpiled as they did it. They wouldn't be able to finish the job before the whole world ate them alive.

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        Hamas killed around 1100 israelis on Oct 7.

        Israel killed at least 122 of the 1200 themselves. Most likely more

        350 of the israelis killed were IDF

        This mean the civilian casualty rate was around 70%. On Oct 7.

        Hamas has a far better civilian casualty rate than America which goes around 80-90 while committing their supposed genocide attack. This is not an accident you can realize by blind firing into civilian areas.

        Purely from these numbers we can conclude in ACTIONS not words that Hamas takes decent care to avoid civilian deaths even when attacking. Far better than israel which just bombs everything that moves.