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It is usually used when referring to the losses of life, property, or other negative outcomes that are the result of an event (an accident, a war, a natural disaster, etc.) over which one has no control. For example: "The tornado left behind a path of destruction, with hundreds of people losing their homes and becoming an unavoidable casualty of the storm."
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Avoidable civilian casualties are unavoidable in any war.
"If we let it happen, human casualties may be unavoidable.
"I suspect some casualties would be unavoidable," said Stephen Johnson, a former British Army chemical warfare expert who served two tours of duty in the Iraqi desert.
On the battlefield, casualties are often unavoidable.
A senior military official said Israel had hit nearly 1,000 sites since Wednesday in what he called "intelligence-driven precision strikes," and described civilian casualties as "regrettable" but unavoidable because the "terrorist infrastructure is embedded inside the population".
The military continually repeats its mantra that civilian casualties are regrettable but unavoidable.
Unlike Feiglin, the senior officials have expressed concern about limiting civilian casualties, though the government describes them as unavoidable.
Obama's order says, "Civilian casualties are a tragic and at times unavoidable consequence of the use of force in situations of armed conflict or in the exercise of a state's inherent right of self-defense".
"Civilian casualties are a tragic and at times unavoidable consequence of the use of force in situations of armed conflict or in the exercise of a state's inherent right of self-defense," Obama said.
It holds Hamas responsible for many of the Palestinian civilian casualties caused by the IDF, arguing that they were unavoidable due to Hamas's tactics of embedding militants among civilian populations, whether in homes, schools, mosques or UN buildings.
Despite revelations about the massacre at My Lai, the United States government was able to suppress the true scale of noncombatant casualties and to imply that those deaths that did occur were inadvertent and unavoidable.
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