And the other 53% were human shields. The “international allegations of a lopsidedly heavy civilian death toll” are jihad propaganda, willingly and even eagerly disseminated by the mainstream media.
“Israel claims to have evidence that 47% of Gaza dead were combatants,” Ynet News, August 2, 2014:
Israel has evidence that almost half of Palestinians killed in the 25-day-old Gaza war were combatants, its deputy foreign minister said on Saturday, pushing back against international allegations of a lopsidedly heavy civilian death toll.
Angemon says
And I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of the remaining 53% were irregular troops…
john spielman says
even the children are taught ( in UN schools ) to kill all Jews so is any one really a noncombatant!
happyboy says
So why don´t we put an atomic bomb on Gaza and clear up the problem once and for all? Why waste a lot of expensive ammunition when the answer is so obvious.
Jay Boo says
Yet the leftists and their mainstream news media continues to cover the Hamas skunk with roses in order to avoid discussing its stink.
Richie says
and still not a peep of protest from the left about Christians being butchered at the hands of Muslims in Egypt and Syria
One might be left with the impression that leftists couldn’t care less if Christians are wiped out
john spielman says
they don’t
Duv says
Has to be so. In the last casualty report that I saw, ~65% of Palestinian dead were men (18 years and older – I would argue that anyone over 16 should be considered men, but that’s another story).
If civilians were indiscriminately killed, why such a high proportion of men over 18?
rabrooks says
Too bad the press didn’t get there before the weapons were removed.
If the only difference between a civilian and a “fighter” is that the “fighter” actually is holding a weapon. So if he/she puts it down, then that changes his/her status? NO! If they spend the morning killing, and then go home for lunch. Then the house gets blasted! If they use their homes as a tactical center, it gets blasted! If their family gets killed, they should not be in an operational facility! If they use mousqes for arms warehouses, it gets blasted! If they shoot from schools, the school gets blasted! Any civilian casualties are the responsibillity of the ones involving civilians in a military matters.
The rules of the Geneva Convention, are there to clarify who is who, and what is what.
However, “colateral damage” is something that cannot be avoided in modern warfare.
Appalled By The World says
Until the Gazans finally wise up and install leadership that would truly want peace they should all be considered combatants. But like palestinians everywhere they keep on installing the likes of Hamas, Hizbollah, the PLO, etc as their leaders. These organizations may be different but they all share the same goal-the violent end of Israel.
jimjames says
Gazans need to wake up has truth; but listen, they just don’t have much to choose from. The “vote” for Hamas was more of a protest against the corruption in the PA than an approval of the ideology. I have difficulty with the label of “innocent civilians” because of the hatredness of Jews but most Israelis recognize the suffering they experience. But this recognition is the compassion of the Israeli population and this compassion does not seem to exist in Gaza or the West Bank. It is difficult to say this absolutely because if anyone would say something compassionate about Israelis or Jews they could be beaten to death. When I speak about the PA or Hamas I usually point to the Nazi sympathy which goes back to Nazi Germany but the hatredness in addition to the ideology of the Quran goes directly back to the 2d Reich and the violent uproar against the Balfour Declaration. This is why I pray because the people there are born into very backward conditions and it’ll take a miracle for this cycle to end.
Beagle says
Odd how numerous conflicts rage around the world, many involving horrific bombings of civilians, yet only pictures of wounded in Gaza gets any air time in the US. I was reading RoP yesterday and it turns out someone, probably the IS, is waging quite a suicide bombing campaign in Sadr City (Shia area of Baghdad). News to me. A couple dozen killed recently, not even a blip on the US media radar.
Jihad in southern Thailand? Nothing. Nigeria? Nothing since the girls were kidnapped, and nothing on them being used as human bombs. Syria? You’d think this one would get some air time every day, hundreds killed in huge military engagements, but no. Even the IS recording thousands of brutal executions in an attempted genocide of Shia barely moved the needle in the media. The IS is tightening the noose on Baghdad and I have to read about it at the Long War Journal. Libya? A few stories on the US evacuating the embassy. The list goes on. Only deaths attributable to the IDF are viewed as extremely newsworthy.
I’ve learned through the years that the media trots out video of bloody kids only when it has an axe to grind. The world produces far too many bloody kids and the media ignores 90%+ of them. And it works. The media has turned much of the world into a frothing and street theatrical mass of anti-Zionists who just happen to be indistinguishable from old fashioned Jew haters in many ways.
Rajivi says
Well said…I have taken the last but one Para to post it on Facebook…Thank u
Wetwork56 says
Since the withdrawal of all U.S. military, there has been constant murder in Baghdad perpetrated by both Sunni & Shia upon the populous in the name of allah. Suicide bombers of all descriptions with death tolls ranging from just a few-to upwards of 75 on almost a DAILY basis.
Where was the news media then?? Not a WORD spoken. (Be it print or broadcast). And the reason for this was to cover the backside of a president who is so thoroughly incompetent in foreign affairs that it is criminal. If in fact the media had covered any of these attacks-they themselves would be shown for the frauds and manipulators they truly are.
Ian C says
Congrats Beagle: An excellent comment worthy of note
Jay Boo says
It seems that they could really use some tighter gun control laws in Gaza.
Salah says
‘The “international allegations of a lopsidedly heavy civilian death toll” are jihad propaganda’
Indeed they are. Here’s an example caught on tape. This time it was the Muslim Brotherhood’s (Hamas’ masters) jihad propaganda.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/04/al-jazeera-busted-strong-bias-of-al.html
Charli Main says
The ” Gazan victim card ” played out brilliantly on the world stage, and outstandingly supported by their, flac jacketed, stooges from the BBC.
SpiritOf1683 says
This victim card isn’t new, nor is the likes of the BBC falling for propaganda. The BBC wants us to believe the Israelis are the ogres, picking on defenceless civilians, when we know the opposite is the truth. Cast your minds back to 2006 and Operation Cast Lead against Hizbollah. We saw pictures of a single childs shoe and a childs soft toy – all in mint condition without a speck of dust on them, and they looked as if they’d been placed there as an afterthought to arouse sympathy from gullible Westerners. But that was enough for the BBC to spout its usual lies. Nothing about the fact the Israelis had to shelter from Hizbollah rockets. The BBC is grossly antisemitic, and it is disgusting that we pay a licence fee for this propaganda and to pay its rabble rousers. And when Muslims riot in our streets, it is time to do what the Singaporeans do and put them in caning frames and give them the lashing of their lives, followed by deportation.
The Levite says
Is this figure also based on all those children who get carried out of ambulances in front of waiting photographers, being rushed into ER with no apparent injuries?….One of my favorite news scoops from there was on Sky News, when they interviewed to little girls, one of whom said that they were playing outside when the Israeli’s fired a rocket at them…….yes, of course they did….have you any idea what happens to humans when artillery is fired at them?? They certainly dont sit there afterwards and give news interviews….Surprisingly Sky has never shown that clip again……
james hazan says
Has anyone heard of a single Hamas terrorist being killed?
Has anyone lifted the covered body’s of “Women” to find out who’s body it is?
Has anyone noticed that the dead bodies of babies and children carried around were nearly 6 foot long?
Has anyone understood what the Finnish lady press corespondent had to say?
“I have seen rockets being fired from the hospital patio behind me” (Hamas does not understand a word of Finnish)I hope that lady has left Gaza
No Fear says
There were two protests today in Sydney. A pro-Israel gathering had 10,000 attendees and a pro-Gaza gathering had 5,000 attendees.
jed m says
The liberal leftist media feeding the world hamas propaganda will be the first to to have their heads hacked off when no longer needed by jihadism
John Collignon says
No one is for war, at least those who are not attempting to control and engulf ideologies on other peoples, aren’t. Those that are…..well, when did the attackers (jihadists) get to dictate the rules ? The tainted media has attempted to shift blame with this “method of warfare” and most THINKING people are not buying it. The Israelis are not a ruinous lot, but judging from most of the world’s areas of aggression, Muslim Islamists ARE !!!
duh_swami says
The level of irrational hate toward Israel I read in various comments, is a study in evil. These lying vile leftist/liberal worms are far worse in hostility and burning hate than most Mahoundians who hate Jews. There is no excuse good enough for these people and the irresponsible media that feeds them…If they support terrorists, they are terrorists in their own right, if they support savages, they are savages.
Angemon says
Here is a so-called “moderate” imam talking about what are “acceptable targets” in Israel:
Islamforbids.com says
No point in taking care of the problem once and for all. They are just asking for trouble in the future .ISIS, Al Qaeda ,Hezbollah,rank and file muslim Hamas ,all the same .
Diana Vance says
Why don’t these Gazans build bomb shelters instead of tunnels. Or they could even use the tunnels as bomb shelters.
Judi says
Can anyone in the UK here tell me if there are there any tv news outlets that are not biased against Israel.? Tune into the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 (virulent anti-semite Jon Snow), Sky News, Al Jazeera and the odious RT and you’ll find they are all spouting the same vitriol. It is absolutely sickening. At least, thanks to websites like these, we get the true picture.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Did anybody see the Geraldo show last night on Fox RINO? It was a bash Israel fest. The moustache/sailboat guy first noted that he’s half-Jew to imply that him being an antisemite was therefore impossible. What, who said anything about Geraldo being an antisemite? But that was an ointment to absolve him from the rest of the show, which devolved into a series of video clips of killed and maimed Palestinian children and nasty commentators denouncing Israel for defending itself.
The show hit its apogee, er, sorry, its nadir, when Geraldo pronounced that “there are two sides to this story, and this debate is good.” Uh, that’s a stupid thing to say, because in this argument yes there are two side, the wrong side and the right side. There is no law of human discourse ruling that we must divide by two.
And there was no debate on the show, there was only opinion programming. Fox RINO endlessly repeats the slogan “We report, you decide.” Yeah, RINOs, but what do you report, and what do you leave out?
Elisheva14 says
Many pictures shows it:
http://shoebat.com/2014/08/01/hamas-hangs-young-children-fence-use-human-shields/
UNWRA is an arm of Hamas and the UN is totally corrupt and should be defunded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGJajyjMCbs
Hamas’ objective is just to kill: including their own people. Total evil.
Walter Sieruk says
About Gaza , with all those militant Muslims of Hamas in engaging in their jihad to attempt to destroy the State of Israel are very ignorant indeed the god of Islam which they have so much faith in is not the God of that Bible. Therefore they not only have a lost cause against Israel but they themselves in believing in as false god are lost. To explain this is first needs to be state that some Arab Christian in the Middle East do use the word Allah for the word God. This started when in the passing of time the word Allah was substituted for the word God by truth compromising Bible “translators.” in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary of the book ASSASSINS ! by Dr. Haha Lung defines Allah as the “pre-Islamic lunar god: the god of Islam.” Likewise, the book INSIDE ISLAM on pages 22,23 informs the reader “In pre-Islamic time both Allah-worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which defines them as astral religions [ Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 21;3,5. 23:5. Second Chronicles 33:5. ] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of Islam is also the symbol of Islam. Therefore, the god of Islam is not the God of the Bible.
The words in brackets are my own. Also for a list of some books which further expose this truth are UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G.J.O Moshay
Walter Sieruk says
The God of the Bible will never allow the State of Israel to be destroyed. For God had declared that all of this land that now composes the State of Israel. including the West Bank belongs to the Jewish people. As shown in ,for example, Genesis 28;13-15. 35;10=12. Deuteronomy 32;48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4. in other words all this land belongs to the Jews by Divine Right. All this land also belongs to the Jewish people by historic rights. As shown in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25, 8;5,56. Therefore the members of Hamas, Hezbollah , P.I.J etc. even though they might not know it are striving against the Will of God. Thus that makes them wicked. So even if the members of these Islamic groups, just mentioned, join all their forces together to destroy Israel they will in the end fail ,as in lose and lose hard. For the Bible teaches in Proverbs 11:21. “Though hand join in hand the wicked shall not go unpunished.” [K.J.V.] Such a united front against Israel is nothing new. Such a mindset goes as far back as to ancient times. An example of this is in the Bible in Psalm 83: 3-5. “They have taken crafty counsel against thy people…they have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation: that the name of Israel may no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee.” The end result of all this is found in the same chapter on in verses 16-18. Which read “Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name O Lord. Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be putto shame, and perish: That men may know that thou, whose name is JE-HO-VAH, art the most high over all the earth.” [K.J.V.]
That is the one true God of the Bible who has the name of Jehovah, Who is in strong contrast to the false lunar god of Islam , who has the name of Allah. For as exposed in my other posting the God of the Bible is not the god of Islam.
Thus the Islamic terror groups will never destroy Israel because the God of the Bible will not allow that to happen.
happyboy says
The God of the Bible may have many names, but Jehovah is definitely not one of them. In biblical times the pronouniation of the name was more along the lines of Yahweh. And I don´t see how more biblical phantasies is going to help todays or future Jews. Believing in the kind of phantasies you ramble about already got Israel destroyed in AD 70 by the Romans. The tragedy is that we have two groups who are feeding on religious phantasies – one group has the Torah and another one the Quran. In the end both groups will probably finish off each other. The rest of us humans can only hope that we are not caught up in the mess
happyboy says
I could add that the statistics don’t bode well for the future of Israel. The “yeshiva” Jews feeding on biblical phantasies are unfortunately outbreeding the secular, smart Jews who built up Israel.
Uncle Vladdi says
I’m so sick of the leftarded enemedia slander and fraud against Israel!!!!
In yesterday’s Ottawa Citizen, they ran an AP article which said “In response to thousands of rockets fired by ‘guerillas’ and ‘militants’ against Israel ( and of course they didn’t bother to mention how they were “deliberately targetting innocent Israeli CIVILIANS”) “Isreal launched a war in response.”
Well, NO, you criminal victim-blaming LIARS!
When an army fully supported by the main part of the government of a neighbouring country “launches thousands of missiles” at your civilian citizens, then in doing so, THEY have “launched the war” and you have only – finally – decided to launch a defensive counter-attack!!!
Lying “Yellow” journalism seems to be the accepted global norm, these days!
;-(
happyboy says
Robert Spencer doesn´t deny himself. Not a shred of Christian compassion in sight. Yes, let us call those palestinian kids hiding in UN schools “human shields” and only idiots and jew haters may shed any tears for them when they get ripped to pieces by shrapnel from grenades and missiled.
Alla says
Guess what? Hamas is a proxy army for Russia, Turkey and Iran.
The oil was discovered in Gaza area and the territory belongs to Israel so Vladimir Putin wants to destroy Israel in order to get access to oil. Now here is about children. All children and women hate Israel and they hate jews. Children are being tought how to handle weapons, women are trained too.
If anyone wants a proof please contact me and i will send photo pictures.