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| Israel claims has evidence 47% of Gaza dead were combatants |
| 2014-08-03 |
| [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 |
| #5 If the IDF were to stop the precision guided munitions use and level a few blocks, with the associated death of 1,000's of civilians, what could be said that isn't being said already? I recall hearing "I'll give you something to cry about" as a child - the lesson sticks with me today. |
| Posted by: rob06 2014-08-03 15:19 |
| #4 Considering most of the civilians are pressed into service by acting as human shields and weapon caches, I would push that percentage higher. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-08-03 14:00 |
| #3 That low? |
| Posted by: James 2014-08-03 13:23 |
| #2 Hamas: "147% of deaders were civilians!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-08-03 10:45 |
| #1 Israel always "claims" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-03 03:01 |