Pinpoint Assassinations In the Crosshairs

Collateral damage from Israeli targeted assassinations is at its lowest rate ever. Haaretz writes:

Reducing the number of civilian casualties in the attacks on Gaza was one of the first tasks Halutz’s heir as IAF chief, Eliezer Shkedi, marked out for himself. The data improved commensurately. From a 1:1 ratio between killed terrorists and civilians in 2003 to a 1:28 ratio in late 2005. Several IAF mishaps in 2006 lowered the ratio to 1:10, but the current ratio is at its lowest ever more than 1:30.

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