Early on in the war, IDF gave clearance to allow 20 civilian deaths for every low-ranking Hamas suspect, intelligence sources said: report

Wed, 04/03/2024 - 22:55

People surrounded a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. — Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on March 4, 2024.
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More than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, according to the city's health ministry.
A new report reveals some of the IDF's methodology for targeting militants — including an AI system.
The IDF set a ratio for how many civilians could be killed for every Hamas member, the report said.

During the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, the Israel Defense Forces established a ratio for the number of civilian deaths in Gaza that would be permissible for every Hamas militant killed, according to a new report.