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by TheGeminon 813 days ago
With 37,000 Palestinians marked as suspected militants, it would mean they expected up to 555,000 - 740,000 civilian casualties.
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How did you arrive at these numbers?
Not GP but:

> Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men

> they were permitted to kill 15 or 20 civilians during airstrikes

37000 * 15 = 555000 37000 * 20 = 740000

They claim the system has 90% accuracy, so they would have to actually kill about 10% more people than these numbers, to offset the 10% error rate. So between 610500 and 814000. The whole Gaza strip had about 2 million people before the current siege.