This is the best summary I could come up with:
In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II.
But from blast fragments found on-site and analyses of strike footage, experts are confident that the vast majority of bombs dropped on the besieged enclave are U.S.-made.
Israel vows to press ahead, saying it wants to destroy Hamas’ military capabilities following the militant group’s Oct. 7 cross-border rampage that triggered the war, in which it killed 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage.
Israel’s offensive has destroyed over two-thirds of all structures in northern Gaza and a quarter of buildings in the southern area of Khan Younis, according to an analysis of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data by Corey Scher of the CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University, experts in mapping damage during wartime.
Several experts pointed to two photos posted to social media by the Israeli Air Force at the start of the war showing fighter jets stocked with unguided bombs.
The level of destruction is so high because “Hamas is very entrenched within the civilian population,” said Efraim Inbar, head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, a think tank.
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I very doubt it even comes close to the destruction of WWII.
Proportionally?
Germany lost about 6 million people out of a population of 70 million, so something to the tune of 8.5% of the population over the course of six years.
In the current Gaza campaign, we’re coming up on 20,000 out of a population of 2 million, so something to the tune of 1% over the course of three months. Extended to the six years of WW2, that would be 41% of the population.
Factor in non-combatant casualties, and it will be even more disproportionate.
Yeah, there were a lot of civilian deaths in ww2. But they largely at least tried to minimize the non-military casualties. That isn’t even a factor for IDF
You think the entire populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military?
Also, entire cities in Southern Germany were entirely wiped out. Munich was re-built from the ground up.
I mean, even taking the IDF’s numbers, proportionally, the IDF has killed far more civilians than the Allies in WW2. The IDF’s estimate is that they’ve been killing 50% civilians and 50% combatants, while in WW2 the Western Allied count was about 10% civilians in Europe, and 33% civilians in Japan. However, the wars being fought are very different, so I find that a less compelling comparison than the sheer level of destruction leveled in such a short period of time.
Yeah, there were a lot of civilian deaths in ww2. But they largely at least tried to minimize the non-military casualties
I feel obligated to point out that the Brits in Europe and the Americans over Japan engaged in deliberate terror bombing.
Yeah, there are no good guys in war… Just different levels of crimes and justification from the obscene, to the grey.
The Allies were responding to aggressors that had invaded and “terror bombed” dozens of countries for years, killing millions of civilians, while maintaining extremely high domestic support throughout… Doesn’t make terror bombing their civilians right, but it was more justifiable in context than anything the invaders did.
You’ll probably never know how many of those deaths were combatants. Don’t forget that Hamas does recruit children as soon as they’re old enough to hold up a gun and pull the trigger.
Scale-wise not perhaps, but on percentage of destroyed buildings in a particular (small) area it’s right up there I think.
It shouldn’t be a race to be honest, but I get your point, the article is quite vague on why it thinks it’s “one of the most destructive military campaigns in history”.
Yeah, it’s not even the most destructive of the decade, but it’s sure the most popular.
Given that more than 80% of people have been displaced and in 2 and a half months almost 1% of the population died, pretty sure it’s beyond it already, proportionally speaking.
It’s nowhere close.
This source is pretty suspect - a hard left leaning Oregon uni.
