How Hamas Comes Up With Bogus Civilian Casualty Figures

Camera/Yidwithlid ^ | 1/22/01 | Yidwithlid

[Shellybenoit]

HAMAS is like the Bill Clinton of terrorist groups. I am not suggesting that the terror group needs a lesson about what to do with Cuban cigars, it more a matter of twisting phrases and honesty. Or to put it a different way when it comes to Hamas Civilian casualty numbers, it depends what "IS" is.

The casualty numbers reported by the press and Used by Hamas are compiled by Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR). The PCHR numbers are seriously flawed. One of the problems with their figures is that they classify as Civilians, casualties that most reasonable people would call military

For an example, Lets say someone launches a rocket at Sedrot, then puts the launcher in the truck and hears the call to prayer. He puts down his rug and starts praying. At the same time IDF is honing in on where the missile was launched and takes out the truck and the people who just launched the missile. Those terrorist's are considered civilian because they weren't launching missiles at the time, they were praying. And that is just one example.

Beyond that the group does not report Senior Combatants in their numbers at all. Camera has done a numerical analysis of the numbers age and gender and convincingly proves a significant numbers of combatants may have been misclassified as civilians:

[Pontiac]

The first casualty of war is truth.

[Pontiac]

the media is all too willing to repeat the claims of partisan sources that most of the casualties resulting from Israeli actions are civilians despite evidence that these claims are exaggerated and the statistics they cite are manipulated.

It is to be expected that Hamas will lie to further their cause but it not expected that the western media would blindly accept these lies.

One should expect that a so called professional media would do a bit of fact checking before publishing inflammatory reports of intentional killing of non-combatants.

[Darksheare]

They get their numbers the same way the left got their “100,000 civilias killed in Iraq” number, they lied.