Israel-Hamas war

After Hamas broke a long-standing ceasefire Oct. 7, killing, burning and seizing roughly 250 hostages in the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Israel began ridding Gaza of this evil organization.

The Israel Defense Forces have been doing an exemplary job of rooting out Hamas terrorists while also working to protect civilians, despite Hamas allegedly embedding itself among the people in hospitals and homes, allegedly employing them as shields.

Israeli troops allegedly uncovered numerous weapons stored in a hospital and accused terrorists of taking refuge in it and firing from inside it. This would be in contravention to international law. Militant use of these types of places makes them legitimate targets, according to the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel adheres to international law; Hamas does not.

John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, states that Israel has gone “above and beyond what international law requires and more than the U.S. did in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” according to Newsweek.

Much of the media quotes the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry’s casualty figures while some experts say the numbers do not add up.

Israel says it has killed more than 13,000 Hamas militants. Even using the Palestinians’ unreliable body counts, the ratio of Hamas fighter to civilian deaths is about 1-to-1.5. The U.N.’s own ratio for modern warfare is roughly 1-to-9, according to Newsweek, which makes Israel’s conduct a model to the world.