[dragonwriter]

> The official Israeli counts support that they're killing militants to civilians at a ratio of 2:1 --- which is horrible, but better than warfare in urban areas usually achieves

Official counts by a party to the conflict also are invariably better than what the actual war they are prosecuting achieves.

[mlyle]

Of course-- this is a point already made in my comment-- "It is probably not as favorable of a ratio as Israel states". We obviously cannot simply take the numbers from either Israel or Hamas.