On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel during a ceasefire, killing nearly 1,200 men, women, and children. The massacre killed more Jews in a single day than at any time since the Holocaust. Israel retaliated against Hamas with overwhelming military force to uproot the terrorist group’s command and military infrastructure.

Israel’s subsequent two-year campaign in Gaza has become the model for urban combat against an entrenched enemy hiding among the civilian population. While polemicists, progressives, and journalists allege genocide, famine, and other atrocities, the reality is that the death toll of non-combatants is the lowest in world history. The proportion of terrorists to collateral casualties was far lower than even the United States’ actions against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Israel hit targets with precision and enabled the evacuation of more than one million civilians from areas of looming operation. Gaza’s growing population belies claims of genocide. Portly terrorists and celebrating civilians feasting in restaurants and handing out candies belied the fiction of famine.