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| IDF Indiscriminately Killing In Gaza? Data Says No |
| 2014-08-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] International media outlets, including The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... and the BBC, have raised serious questions regarding Gazoo civilian casualty figures as recorded by health officials both in the Strip and abroad. The outlets maintain that the hard data does not support the notion that the Israel Defense Forces is engaged in "indiscriminate" killing of unarmed residents in the Paleostinian enclave, as was suggested by several international leaders over the past month. Citing figures released by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the BBC's head of statistics Anthony Reuben found that the number of civilian men killed in the fighting outnumbered the number of women by a factor of nearly 3.5:1. According to the UN, 725 men were killed in the conflict as opposed to 214 women. When the 216 confirmed "members of gangs" were included in the figures, the disparity grew even larger. Israeli military officials said 750-1,000 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and other gunnies had been killed in the fighting as of Tuesday, August 5. "If the Israeli attacks have been 'indiscriminate,' as the UN Human Rights Council says, it is hard to work out why they have killed so many more civilian men than women," Reuben noted dryly. The question echoes a New York Times analysis from earlier this week, which showed "that the population most likely to be murderous Moslems, men ages 20 to 29, is also the most overrepresented in the corpse count: They are 9 percent of Gazoo's 1.7 million residents, but 34 percent of those killed whose ages were provided. At the same time, women and kiddies under 15, the least likely to be legitimate targets, were the most underrepresented, making up 71 percent of the population and 33 percent of the known-age casualties." Both analyses do not, in any way, suggest thon the lam numbers of Gazook civilians haven't suffered and died in the fighting. But they do give rise to the option, in Reuben's words, "that some of the conclusions being drawn [from death-toll figures] may be premature." The death-toll statistics may constitute decisive evidence that, contrary to the claims of organizations such as the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... , and others, civilians were not the targets of Israel's strikes in the Strip. Deliberate targeting of civilians would amount to war crimes under both international and Israeli law. Israel has stressed that it is seeking to avoid civilian casualties as it tackles Hamas rockets and tunnels, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday the international community should hold Hamas responsible for all Gazoo civilian deaths since it uses Gazoo civilians as "human shields" for its terrorist infrastructure. Health officials in the Hamas-ruled Gazoo Strip say at least 1,867 Paleostinians have been killed since the fighting began, most of them civilians and many of them children. The UN and Gazoo human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups monitoring the corpse count have said that more than 75 percent of those killed in Gazoo were civilians. But an Israeli military front man, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, said last week that about 900 members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , and other Paleostinian terror groups had been killed by Israeli forces during the war. In a conversation with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Sunday, another military official had said at least 300 bad boyz were potted. Lerner said the figure of 900 snuffies killed was an approximation, based on reporting from individual Israeli units, but provided no further details. Later, in an official blurb, the army said between 750 and 1,000 murderous Moslems had been killed. The IDF also said it had struck nearly 4,762 terror targets — most of them rocket-launching sites, nearly 1,000 of them command and control centers, about 240 buildings of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, nearly 200 weapons storage and manufacturing facilities, close to 150 terror training compounds, and 1,535 additional terror sites. On the Israeli side, the war in Gazoo has claimed the lives of 64 soldiers, 11 of whom were killed by Hamas gunnies emerging from tunnels dug under the Gazoo-Israel border, and three civilians. Over 3,300 rockets have been launched at Israeli cities in the month-long conflict, according to IDF figures. The Israeli government has blamed Hamas for the death and destruction in Gazoo, since it emplaced its rockets, rocket launchers, cross-border tunnel openings and other military infrastructure in homes, schools and mosques. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Arguing facts with Leftists? They don't need no stinking facts. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-08-10 09:32 |
| #2 Antisemites are olivious to statistics, facts, or any rational statements of truth. They want the Jewish People dead. Period. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-08-10 05:05 |
| #1 Bibi should suggest that the IDF could indiscriminately kill for one day so that the whiners have a benchmark measurement point. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-08-10 00:23 |