[ArutzSheva] Updated study on Paleostinian Health Ministry death tally reiterates unprecedented terrorist to civilian ratio.
The terrorist to civilian ratio of Paleostinian deaths in Operation Protective Edge is an unprecedented 1:1, a news study released last week reveals - supporting earlier findings regarding the so-called "civilian casualties" Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, touts to international media.
According to the highly respected Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), 49% of the "deaders" listed on the Hamas-run Paleostinian Health Ministry (PHM) list were found to have been linked to terrorist organizations; just 51% were confirmed civilian casualties.
The study, which has examined PHM's death tally since the war's early stages, has now tracked roughly 40% of published casualties during the war - some 842 people.
According to the ITIC, of those 842:
o 354 of those killed were terrorist operatives.
o 367 of those killed were non-involved civilians.
o 121 people who were killed are unidentified at this stage. Therefore, it is not possible to determine whether they were terrorist operatives or non-involved civilians.
o Of the 721 dead who could be identified, terrorist operatives constitute approximately 49% of the names. Non-involved civilians constitute approximately 51%.
o In addition, two names deemed originally as civilian casualties have now been re-identified as members of Hamas's "military wing," the Al-Qassam Brigades. A third has been re-identified as a member of Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem 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...
PHM - the officiating body for casualty counts in Gazoo which has enacted a monopoly on Western media - is run by a known Hamas terrorist, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qurda.
| Their motto: "About as accurate as The Lancet" |
The PHM does not differentiate between turbans and civilians, but several "Paleostinian rights groups" - including one UN-based group - do, and have estimated the civilian casualty rate at between 72-82%.
| Oddly enough, they have the same motto. Not-great minds, I s'pose. |
Israel, however, has maintained since the early stages of the operation that some 900 of those killed, or 47%, were terrorists.
| As the Good Book says, "Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God." Both the first and the second require truth and accuracy. |
Such a ratio of combatant to non-combatant casualties - roughly 1:1 - would be almost unprecedented in the history of urban warfare.
ITIC's results surface in the midst of the Paleostinian Arab leaderships' continued insistence that Israel has committed "genocide"
| ...it can't be genocide -- they're mostly still there and not the least bit dead... |
and "war crimes" during its fifty-day self-defense operation, and days after Paleostinian Authority (PA) Chairman the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
perpetuated the accusation at the UN General Assembly. |