There is several and solid evidence that, during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Israel acted proportionately to the threat posed by Hamas and did not committed an indiscriminate war against the whole Gaza population.
If the military efforts of Israel was this indiscriminate slaughter that was so often "denounced" it seems to me that there would be proportionality between the number of deaths in each demographic category with their percentage in the population. e For example, when the Allies bombed Dresden (so almost undoubtedly indiscriminate) I would not be surprised that the proportion of dead men women children respected their proportion in the population of this city ....
The same NYT articles explain that 16% of causalities were under 15 (when incidentally they represent more than 40% of the population of Gaza) . To put this in perspective British troops invading Iraq in 2003 made 100,000 dead with 46% being under 15 (source Washington Post which itself source this information from the scientific journal "The lancet"). as Ben-Dror Yemini says in his excellent blog post on this subject : "Yes you have read well : 3 times more children dead in proportion,(and around 150 times more in absolute number - yes 150 you have read it well"
3) “Israel Went to Extraordinary Lengths” to Limit Civilian Casualties" declare U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey . He said that when participating in a discussion at the Carnegie Council for Ethics was asked to assess “the ethical conduct” of the IDF during Operation Protective Edge. Listen to his full answer:
Similar praise from other respected anti terrorism expert such as Former Col. Richard Kemp, who was head of British forces in Afghanistan, who declared "No other army in the world has ever done more than Israel is doing now to save civilian lives":
Conclusion: wars are wars and they do create tragedies. That being said, denouncing the israeli war behavior as "particularly inhuman" when there is fairly good evidence that it was conducted with restraint is not a particularly intelligent way of working for peace in the region.
Some media almost give the impression that Israel behaved in a worse way than ISIS jihad fighters do...This is a form of double standard that is just partisan. Peace requires transparency, the avoidance of misinformation and of selective bias like that.
1) The number of casualties among non male inhabitant of Gaza contradicts any possibility of "indiscriminate war behavior" by Israel:
As
this revealing NYT article Civilian or Not? New Fight in Tallying the Dead From the
Gaza Conflict explains:
"No other number is as contentious
as the ratio of civilians to combatants killed, widely viewed, including in
Israel, as a measure of whether the commanders in the field acted
proportionately to the threat posed by militants — or, in the eyes of Israel’s
critics, committed war crimes." In the same article, it is revealed that around 1800 inhabitant of Gaza were killed during this war with the following demographic:
What the table
shows are more than compatible with the assumptions that israeli officers acted
proportionally to the threat posed by Hamas. As the NYT article explain itself
the demographic " least likely to be legitimate targets, were the most
underrepresented" among the known-age casualties and "the population
most likely to be militants, men ages 20 to 29, is also the most
overrepresented in the death toll"
2) The number of casualties among children is significantly lower than what has been caused by European armies in recent conflicts
The same NYT articles explain that 16% of causalities were under 15 (when incidentally they represent more than 40% of the population of Gaza) . To put this in perspective British troops invading Iraq in 2003 made 100,000 dead with 46% being under 15 (source Washington Post which itself source this information from the scientific journal "The lancet"). as Ben-Dror Yemini says in his excellent blog post on this subject : "Yes you have read well : 3 times more children dead in proportion,(and around 150 times more in absolute number - yes 150 you have read it well"
3) “Israel Went to Extraordinary Lengths” to Limit Civilian Casualties" declare U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey . He said that when participating in a discussion at the Carnegie Council for Ethics was asked to assess “the ethical conduct” of the IDF during Operation Protective Edge. Listen to his full answer:
Similar praise from other respected anti terrorism expert such as Former Col. Richard Kemp, who was head of British forces in Afghanistan, who declared "No other army in the world has ever done more than Israel is doing now to save civilian lives":
Conclusion: wars are wars and they do create tragedies. That being said, denouncing the israeli war behavior as "particularly inhuman" when there is fairly good evidence that it was conducted with restraint is not a particularly intelligent way of working for peace in the region.
Some media almost give the impression that Israel behaved in a worse way than ISIS jihad fighters do...This is a form of double standard that is just partisan. Peace requires transparency, the avoidance of misinformation and of selective bias like that.
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