If you read through the linked twitter thread it seems like it’s a significant majority too. Obviously this is totally contrary to what Israel has previously claimed.
I also suspect that many of the civilian deaths were caused by the IDF using them as cover, especially at the festival.
In any case, next time someone talks about indiscriminately killing civilians, you can point out that unlike the IDF, Hamas has predominantly and objectively focused on military targets

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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look, I'm no expert on army command structures and the specific structure of the IOF, but I find it pretty unbelievable that the lowest ranked soldier Hamas encountered was a corporal.
I suspect the number of actual civilians in the list is embarrassingly small.

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought that too, but looking at it the IDF just autopromotes everyone to corporal after 4-12 months of service, then to sergeant after 18-20 months. So everyone that's conscripted ends up as a sergeant or higher by the end of compulsory service. Presumably a decent chunk of the time as a private is in training.

Seems weird to me to have a system where a conscript army bare has any privates and 90% of your reserves are sergeants, but maybe maybe it's motivational for them to feel more important like that or something.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

literal participation trophy army lmao

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

everyone gets a nice working trophy except the merkavas

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's kinda hilarious tbh. Military autopromotion always makes me think of how my *dad did some work rehousing members of the British Army who were made redundant and they had to make him a lieutenant in order to fit the idea of a civilian telling them what to do into their heads. Got jumped straight to CO by being on a base for 5 minutes.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Bootbrain is a helluva drug.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

like a call center making everyone a manager by title

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In conscript armies auto promotion to corporal after a few months is quite common. I know quite a few older people that were conscripted to the South African Army before 1994, and most were corporals or lance corporals.