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JERUSALEM, June 12, The Israel Defense Forces reported a battlefield mortality rate of 7.1 percent during the 2023 conflict, a sharp decline from the 15 percent recorded during the 2006 war with Hezbollah.
military report titled "Israeli Defense Force Medical Lessons Learned" details how the American military is absorbing these Israeli advances to improve its own combat casualty care.
Fox News Digital spoke with a senior IDF medical specialist who explained that the reduction in deaths stems from specific operational changes implemented during the war in Gaza.
The specialist noted that in 2006, advanced life support took 15 to 20 minutes to reach a casualty. In the current conflict, that time has been reduced to immediate response or within four minutes.
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