Friday, January 16, 2009

Who Are Your Sources?

Since Israel started its bombardment of Gaza, 1,133 Palestinians have been killed and more than 5,200 wounded, according to Gaza medics.


or

Health officials in Hamas-controlled Gaza say at least 1,105 Palestinians have been killed and 5,100 wounded since Israel launched an operation on 27 December


and this:

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Figures from Gaza now put the civilian toll at 698 dead or about 65 percent of overall fatalities, the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said on Thursday.

Samih Mohen of the organisation's office in Ramallah in the West Bank said the toll to midnight on January 14th included 230 children, 76 women, seven medical workers, three journalists and two United Nations contractors. The rest -- 380 dead -- were adult males, he said.

This number did not include 166 civil police killed by Israeli bombing on the first day of the offensive, which other reports may have placed among the list of civilian casualties. He said the centre counts casualties independently of the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. Its figures are collected daily by the organisation's field workers who visit Gaza hospitals, clinics and morgues, Mohen said.


more

The head of the United Nations children's agency says 300 children have been killed during Israel's campaign in the Gaza Strip. UNICEF director, Ann Venemen, says more than 1,500 other children have been wounded, casualties she calls "tragic" and "unacceptable."

Separately, Palestinian medics say more than 1,000 people have been killed during the 19-day offensive
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Nu, can you bear it?

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that the death toll from the Israeli war on Hamas in Gaza, now nearing 1,100, has become "unbearable."

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