[BugBrother]

>> I would have expected Israel to have reserved killing human shields for some later escalation.

More of your "facts". :-(

The Israelis talked a lot and made videos about "knocks on roofs", calling civilians and about not shooting where there were civilians.

If that is wrong, you need better references than your last ones...

But assume you are right -- maybe, possibly the Israeli side lowered themselves to the Hamas level in some cases.

Come on, tell me you don't have different standards. :-)

Never mind, bad fact errors in two comments.

Enough.

Please don't destroy HN. :-(

[cyphunk]

Again with my facts:

http://gazadeaths.com/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-un-says-...

My point was you do not even have to trust the UN's estimate that nearly 75% were civilians. You can use logical deduction to come to a number of more than %50 when you consider the number of women and children killed in comparison to the total, any total you find.

[BugBrother]

It is documented that Hamas shot from civilian areas. If the return fire kills civilians, it isn't the Israelis that broke the war laws.

Also, note the sex distribution: 671 dead men, 218 women.

And among older people, not of front line age, the sex distribution was much more even.

The media are planned more than the weapons in those conflicts. Note that the Israeli side have an interest in few Palestinian civilian dead, Hamas has the opposite interest...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28666562

Anyway, bye.