About two civilians have been killed for every dead Hamas terrorist in Gaza, the IDF said — calling the ratio “tremendously positive,” considering the challenges fighting in the highly-dense region.

A senior Israeli military official corroborated reports earlier this week that about 5,000 Hamas terrorists have been killed since the war began in October, with more than 10,000 civilians dying as well.

While IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus said he could not confirm the numbers yet on Tuesday night, he touted the estimates as a “positive” for Israel’s ongoing campaign across Gaza.

“I can say that if that is true, and I think that our numbers will be corroborated, if you compare that ratio to any other conflict in urban terrain between a military and a terrorist organization using civilians as their human shields, and embedded in the civilian population, you will find that that ratio is tremendous, tremendously positive, and perhaps unique in the world,” he told CNN.

The remark was immediately slammed by the UN secretary-general’s office, describing it in a statement as “tasteless.”

CNN political and foreign policy analyst Barak Ravid also criticized Conricus’ choice of words when discussing the ratio of civilians to terrorists killed.

“Regardless of what you think about what’s going on in Gaza, I don’t think the fact that 10,000 civilians [were killed] … is positive in any way,” Ravid said following the segment with Conricus.

The IDF spokesman later admitted on X that he may have chosen the wrong words, writing: “I should have said that while every loss of life is sad, a ratio of 1:2 is unprecedented in the modern history of urban warfare.”

The IDF did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Israeli officials have repeatedly placed the blame for the high civilian casualties on Hamas, accusing the terrorist group of hiding behind civilians as the IDF continues to bombard and advance its ground incursion across all of Gaza.

While military officials said they are working to reduce the number of civilian casualties in southern Gaza, which was pushed for by the Biden administration, humanitarian groups have said there is no longer any place to seek shelter in the Palestinian enclave.

“There is no ‘safe’ zone, the entire Gaza Strip has become one of the most dangerous places in the world,” the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees said in a statement.

For the first time since taking office in 2017, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invoked Article 99, which calls on the world agency to focus on a specific topic, this one being Gaza and a way to end the war.

“The situation is fast deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region,” Guterres wrote in his letter invoking one of the UN’s most powerful tools.

United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk echoed the calls for a cease-fire during a news conference in Geneva, warning Wednesday that there was an increased risk of “atrocity crimes” in Gaza.

“The catastrophic situation we see unfolding in the Gaza Strip was entirely foreseeable and preventable,” Turk said. “My humanitarian colleagues have described the situation as apocalyptic.”

With Post wires