The Casualty Crunch
April 30, 2009 17:50 by BackSpin Editor Since the Gaza war, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights’ casualty figures (pdf format) have been accepted by the MSM as gospel, or at least as a counterweight to Israeli findings. While the question of how many people were killed is still disputed, another question remains: how many of the Palestinians killed during Op Cast Lead were really civilian?
Elder of Ziyon pored through the PCHR findings, comparing the PCHR’s names with info available on public web sites. (See EoZ's subsequent updates 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). He determined that at least 459 of the PCHR’s “civilians” were in fact combatants.
Now, recently released research by the Institute for Counter-Terrorism concludes that the PCHR misidentified 314 Palestinian combatants as so-called civilians.
You'd think a story as fundamental as "who really died" would be of more interest to the Western journalists. Why are they abdicating their responsibility to bloggers think tanks and NGOs?
Elder of Ziyon
9:34 pm
Apr 30, 2009
Correction: Total of 459 militants so far (now up to 461,) 226 were called “civilians” by PCHR.
Thanks for the link!
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Peter
11:49 am
May 03, 2009
So, let’s see . . . 1,415 Palestinians are killed, of which you say as many as 461 were “militants.” And your quibble is that PCHR may have exaggerated the number of civilians on the list?
I’m grateful for your clarification because now I feel MUCH better knowing that if fully 1/3rd of those killed were actually military personnel, that justifies not only those deaths but also the deaths of the other 2/3rds. I mean, if PCHR is going to lie about who’s a civilian and who’s not, what else might they be lying about?
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