In the middle of this report from Eilat, the Sydney Morning Herald’s Ed O’Loughlin writes:
Yesterday’s attack ends a long period of quiet within Israel. According to the Israeli human rights group B’tshelem, killings of Israeli citizens in the occupied territories and Israel reached a low of 23 last year, including six soldiers. In the same period the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces rose to 660, B’tshelem found, half of them non-combatants and 141 of these minors.
O’Loughlin omits any context for the disparity of casualties so we’ll provide it.
