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Israel claims has evidence 47% of Gaza dead were combatants
[Al Ahram] Israel has evidence that almost half of Paleostinians killed in the 25-day-old Gazoo war were combatants, its deputy foreign minister claimed on Saturday, pushing back against international allegations of a lopsidedly heavy civilian corpse count. Gazook human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups say at least 80 percent of the 1,669 Paleostinians killed have been non-combatants, including hundreds of children. The U.N. Human Rights Council last week accused the Israelis of "disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks" and launched an inquiry into possible war crimes. Israel, which has lost 63 soldiers and 3 civilians to the fighting, says it has done everything possible to avoid harming innocents and that Gazoo's dominant Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Islamists invite such casualties by operating in densely populated areas. "There is research being done in the military, very professionally and reliably, (whose) conclusion is that at least 47% of the fatalities are terrorists, with photographs and names," Tzachi Hanegbi told Israel's Channel Two television, adding that the data would be presented to Sherlocks. He did not elaborate. Israel rejected the U.N. Human Rights Council's probe announcement, describing the forum as biased, but usually conducts its own combat inquiries. Posted by: Fred 2014-08-03 |
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