The comments by Khalil al-Hayya came amid a stalemate in months of cease-fire talks. But it's unlikely Israel would consider such a scenario.

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Can you cite a source for that claim?

      For the bombings in WW2 having a better soldier-civilian kill ratio than Hamas?

      Here’s a fun recent one of America having a 300% higher civilian casualty rate than Hamas:

      Are you fucking kidding me? If you go to the actual source, the Intercept (not Huffpo) cites an example in which 35 deaths out of 200 were of targets during Operation Haymaker - Operation Haymaker primarily targeted Taliban posts, not some fuckers in the streets, and engaged targets of opportunity during many of the strikes. Independent sources often point out that the civilian casualty figures of drone strikes are off by almost an order of magnitude from what the US government claims. That is to say, 15-20% instead of .2%-2%

      Which is worse?

      1 civilian killed for every 4 soldiers killed?

      Or 2 civilians killed for every 1 soldier killed?

      Must be the one that says “Hamas good!” and the appropriate buzzwords du jour.

      Here’s the UN in 2022:

      Ninety Per Cent of War-Time Casualties Are Civilians

      That’s not even fucking close to being relevant to the civilian casualty ratio of a military force, unless you think fucking Israel is more moral than the average war right fucking now.