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AltAccount3 posted...

The "human shield" narrative keeps getting tossed around constantly but I have yet to see anything from verified sources showing or describing Hamas actually using babies as human shields. Only random people getting killed without Hamas even being in the area.

The IDF says there are 30,000 Hamas in Gaza. There are roughly 2.3M people in total. That's 1.3% of the population who are Hamas. Gaza is 140.9 sq mi in size, or 365 sq km. Meaning there are at least 213 Hamas members per square mile/82 per square kilometer at any given moment throughout the entirety of Gaza.

All that laid out means actually hitting ANY Hamas member per sq mi/km is actually pretty damn unlikely, compared to a citizen.

I'm pretty sure idiots are just saying that Hamas existing near civilians is "human shields". Like, apparently the US military could start indiscriminately bombing New York City if they learned that terrorists are somewhere in it. And all those dead innocent people would be 100% the fault of the terrorists for not hiding in "Terrorist Central" in some remote forest or desert.