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Source: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4570/gaza-civilian-casualties
Gaza's Civilian Casualties: The Truth Is Very Different
(Gatestone Institute) Col. Richard Kemp - Western media unquestioningly accept the casualty statistics given by Gaza's Hamas-controlled medical authorities, who ascribe all deaths to the IDF. Is anyone in Gaza dying of natural causes? Mass executions of "collaborators," and civilians killed by malfunctioning Hamas rockets, are all attributed to IDF fire. Are the "overwhelming majority" of the dead really civilians? It would seem so. We see a great deal of grotesque and heart-rending footage of dead and bleeding women and children but never so much as a glimpse of killed or wounded fighters. There seems to be a complete absence of Gazan military casualties, an extraordinary phenomenon unique to this conflict. The IDF has developed the most comprehensive and sophisticated measures to minimize civilian casualties during attacks against legitimate military targets. Mandatory, multi-sensor intelligence and surveillance systems to confirm the presence or absence of civilians precede attacks on every target from the air. The writer was Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan.