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Benjamin Netanyahu: “The ratio of combatants to non-combatants killed was 6 to 1…”

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Binyamin Netanyahu on how Israel justifies its war in Gaza

Published | Video Starts at 03:01

Well, the liberal democracies that fought the battles from World War II to Afghanistan to Iraq and so on, The ratio of combatants to non-combatants killed was 6 to 1, 7 to 1. In Gaza... the ratio is about one and a half to one. And we lost a lot of soldiers because we didn't carpet bomb. We didn't. Do people have different ratios as well? You don't, actually, but that's not the point. (03:01–03:22)

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Asserts that the combatant to non-combatant casualty ratio in Gaza is lower than in other conflicts.

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