Yesterday, I wrote about Elder of Ziyon’s efforts to count the Arab casualties from Cast Lead accurately.
Look at today’s report in the New York Times about the IDF’s investigation of its behavior during Cast Lead.
Gaza health officials said more than 1,300 Palestinians died during the war, but Israel disputes Palestinian claims that most of them were noncombatants. By the Israeli military’s count, 1,166 people were killed, of whom 295 were noncombatants, 709 were what it called Hamas terrorist operatives and 162 were men whose affiliations remain unidentified.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza put the number of dead at 1,417: 926 civilians, 236 combatants and 255 police officers. Israel says that about 400 Gazans die of natural causes every month, possibly accounting for the discrepancy in numbers.
PCHR is quoted and Israel disputes PCHR. But nowhere does the Times question the credibility of PCHR. That’s what Elder of Ziyon is working on. He’s showing that their claims are knowingly false.
