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Why would anyone still listen to the IDF?
Or listen to a rightwing Israeli media company that Bibi controlls?
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-jerusalem-post/
You really doubt that Hamas said this? The IDF can be bad, and still correct at the same time.
Hamas clearly do not care about civilian casualties or they wouldn't be literally using them as human shields, storing their weapons in civilian locations and housing their militants in civilian buildings.
Why do people keep repeating that?
Gaza a year ago was one of the most densely populated areas on the planet...
It might even be more densely populated now, despite all the death the survivors are more concentrated.
There's literally nowhere Hamas could be that doesn't have civilians around. Which is why leveling city blocks isn't a feasible strategy.
Like, there's no other option than around civilians, do you think Gaza has a North Dakota nobody talks about?
They keep repeating it because it's true.
Most densely populated areas on the planet? No... not even close.
The Gaza strip is around 6000 people per square kilometer and only 360 square kilometers, that puts it 5th in the world in terms of population density for entire countries. However, 6000 people per square kilometer is not dense for such a small area. Kolkatta in India is 306 square kilometers, and 29000 people per square kilometer. Bogata in Columbia is the same. Even major cities like Metro Paris is 4000 people per square kilometer and around 700 square kilometers in size.
There's a difference between "around civilians" and literally storing weapons and living in residential apartment buildings and residential homes. There are absolutely places in Gaza that are open space where they could set up. Go look at a satellite map of the Gaza strip, there's farm land, there's industrial zones, there's small chunks of just nothing. Hamas is actively choosing to setup in residential areas because it's part of the "Guerilla Warfare 101" handbook.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/middleeast/maps-population-density-gaza-israel-dg/index.html
Over 3x the population density of LA...
I didn't even read the rest of your comment, don't take me ignoring everything else you got wrong as me agreeing with it.
It's just easier to point out one obviously wrong thing at a time.
Your own quotes say that there are comparable third world countries with over 4x the density of Gaza City. So your statement that it's one of the densest areas in the world is clearly wrong. It's not even in top 100 most dense cities in the world.
Also, if you think LA is dense, you are the one that's dense. You've clearly never travelled outside North America. LA is textbook urban sprawl.
Three times denser than the densest city in America
You're trying to "well ackschully" me like like I said it was the densest place...
Like, do you understand what I said or are you intentionally misrepresenting this?
I honestly can't tell
You're so poorly travelled that you simply don't understand how poorly developed the US is when it comes to cities and density.
Metro LA is the 57th largest city in the world, but the 72nd most dense city in the top 80 cities by population in the entire world.
At the end of the day, you were the one that asserted that Gaza was one of the most dense places in the world, and I gave evidence proving it isn't even close to the most dense places in the world. Now you're trying to play off your error like this is about LA being dense or not.
You still don't understand how those are two different things bro?
I'm sorry, I legitimately can't think of a simpler way to explain this.
What two things?
You were trying to say that Hamas could not set up outside of residential buildings by saying the area is too dense with people for that to be possible.
It's not. It's not even close to too dense for that.
Go look at the Satellite maps of Gaza, there's tons of space they could set up if they didn't want to risk civilians. Literally half of gaza is farm fields.
https://reliefweb.int/map/occupied-palestinian-territory/unosat-gaza-strip-agricultural-damage-assessment-january-2024#:~:text=UNOSAT%20analysis%20shows%20that%20the,an%20extensive%20land%20cover%20analysis.