Israel’s military has “achieved a significantly better civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio in battle than most — if not all — other armies,” according to former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp, who acknowledged the IDF’s success despite the fact that Hamas fights “from within the civilian population,” uses “human shields,” and “deliberately [tries] to force the IDF to kill as many of their civilians as possible,” so that the world “turns on Israel and falsely condemns it for war crimes.”
In a video clip posted to X on Thursday, Kemp noted that the IDF is “currently estimating civilian to combatant casualty ratios in this war at around 2-to-1.”
“That means two civilians killed for every fighter killed,” he said.
While civilian casualties during combat are “always devastating and tragic,”…
