Amid a rising chorus of condemnation of the steep civilian death toll in Gaza – there were 172 fatalities in total by Palestinian accounts as of Monday – a senior Israeli air force commander who has flown combat sorties all throughout the past week asserted that the fact-checking of possible targets and in-air awareness of his pilots to the possibility of harming civilians is unrivaled.

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"I don't think there's an equivalent anywhere in the world," said Lt. Col. T, the commander of a squadron of F-16Is, the air force's most advanced model of that aircraft. "And I am familiar with many other air forces."

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