"If we weren't so precise and good, there would be twice as many civilian casualties in Gaza today, and the IDF wouldn't have the legitimacy to operate," added Lt. Col. R. "We improved capabilities to change a strike within a minute or two if a child suddenly passes by or movement...
More than half of casualties are women and children, say Hamas We do not know how many Palestinian combatants have been killed since the Israeli bombardment and ground invasion began. The IDF has reported numbers in the scores on a day-to-day basis in the ground invasion and it said on...
It’s now clear that the Gaza War is far from over. Hamas refuses to surrender. Israel has rejected the UN General Assembly’s call for a cease fire and American pressure to lower the intensity of the war because it says Hamas would regroup and rearm. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) s...
despite IDF pleas for them to do so since early October. When the ground offensive began, there were still some civilians in northern Gaza, perhaps as many as 200,000 out of what was once around 1.4 million.
Though it has faded somewhat from the headlines, Israel's war on Gaza is still going on, with a round of airstrikes that killed dozens this week. And how was this reported in the New York Times? As Hamas breaking a cease-fire agreement. Jodi Rudoren's dispatch (8/21/14) begins with...
The IDF may be betting that it will suffer lower overall casualties by keeping infantry inside their APCs and counting on the heavy armor, active protection systems, and sensors to see the vehicles through—even if that means getting surprised by more ambushes. There also could be ...
and militants in southern israel are not uncommon. “no, no,” benjakob’s wife insisted. “it’s more serious.” there was nothing yet on television or state media except unverified reports of casualties. the authorities were silent. in response to requests from haaretz , the idf said the...
Within Israel, the media are mostly publishing the IDF version of events unchallenged. According toIsraeli journalist and activist Anat Saragusti: “Hebrew-speaking Israelis watching television news are not exposed at all to what’s going on in Gaza. We don’t see atrocities, the rubble, the ...
Image:A Houthi military helicopter flies over the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the Red Sea Could trade stop using the Red Sea entirely? Mr Stawpert, the International Chamber of Shipping's senior manager for environment and trade, says there is a risk of "serious casualties", but ...
And that’s a very real issue now in the Gaza war. But it strikes me as interesting, actually, that the Israelis are not saying we have the right to block food going into Gaza. Their argument is this is not what we’re doing. So does that suggest that international norms have actuall...