John Spencer, a colonel in the United States Army and a world-renowned expert on urban warfare, wrote a column for the American weekly "Newsweek" in which he claimed that the IDF is the army that is the most careful of harming civilian lives of all the armies of the world.
"No army fighting a fortified enemy in dense urban terrain in an area barely twice the size of Washington, D.C. can prevent all civilian casualties. Reports of more than 25,000 dead Palestinians, whether civilians or Hamas, made headlines. But Israel took more measures to prevent unnecessary civilian harm than almost any other nation that has fought an urban war," Spencer wrote.
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"In fact, as someone who served in two rounds of combat in Iraq and studied urban warfare for over a decade, Israel took precautions that even the United States did not take during its recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," added the commander, who today heads the Department of Urban Warfare Studies of the Institute of Modern Warfare of the United States Army United States.
Spencer claimed that the IDF makes extensive use of guided bombs precisely in order to avoid indiscriminate damage to civilian infrastructure, holds telephone conversations with civilians in order to warn them and makes sure that humanitarian transit corridors are open for hours every day. In addition, he compares the conduct of the IDF to that of the army The American and the Iraqi army during the battles for the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
"Make no mistake, I am outraged by the amount of loss of life in the Gaza Strip, but it is important to direct this outrage to the place where it belongs, to the terrorist organization Hamas," Spencer concludes his words.
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