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Benjamin Netanyahu: “The proportion of civilian casualties, non-combatants to…”

Featuring: Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud | Prime Minister of Israel | International

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Extended interview: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Published | Video Starts at 35:47

They actually shoot civilians who wanted to leave the neighborhoods. And we said to them, please vacate those neighborhoods. So obviously we end up with civilian casualties. But the. The proportion of civilian casualties, non-combatants to combatants, is one of the lowest in the history of modern urban warfare. So Israel is given a bum rap. One of the ways you can measure genocide is to see the ratio of combatants to non combatants. (35:47–35:56)

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Asserts that Israel's civilian casualty ratio is low compared to other urban conflicts.

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