War is typically understood as “a geographically limited armed conflict between two or more sovereign nation states characterized by violence conducted via an armed, organized military force.” Under this definition, what is occurring in Gaza cannot be defined as a “war.”
First, a side-by-side comparison reveals that one side of the conflict does not even have “an armed, organized military force.”
Israel has an estimated 90 nuclear warheads, 49 gunships, five submarines, over 2,200 tanks, 530 artillery weapons, 144 military helicopters, 303 fighter jets, and 88 other military planes. Hamas-run Gaza has a grand total of zero of each of those.
Israel has an army of 634,500 with a budget of over $23 billion. Hamas has fewer than 25,000 mostly untrained combatants with a $600 million budget.
Israel has an Iron Dome. Gaza doesn’t.
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