In the recent brief, but intense, conflict between Israel and Palestinian terror group Hamas in Gaza, the Jewish state was predictably lambasted for the ‘disproportionate’ casualty counts, with Palestinians suffering far more than Israelis. However, one Palestinian human rights activist makes it clear who is believes is to blame for the Palestinian deaths.
According to Bassem Eid, it is Hamas, which initiated the fighting with massive rocket attacks against civilian targets in Israel, knowing what the Israeli response would be.
Bassem Eid summarizes the strategic situation simply and succinctly when he told The Algemeiner:
The main difference between Israel and Hamas: Israel is using missiles to protect its people while Hamas is using its people to protect its rockets. Hamas does not care where these missiles land.
The Algemeiner explains that Eid is a Palestinian from eastern Jerusalem who lived in a United Nations refugee camp in the 1960s. During his earlier years his research focused on human rights violations committed by Israeli armed forces. But more recently, Eid has brought balance to his efforts by focusing on rights violations by Palestinian forces.
According to Algemeiner:
In the conflict this month, Eid has blamed Hamas for the barrage of rockets fired at Israel, as well as for the innocent Palestinian lives lost to both retaliatory Israeli airstrikes and the militant group’s own missiles that fell short in Gaza.Eid estimates based on his own Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip that more than 50 Palestinians died because of errant rockets by the Hamas that were targeted towards Israel but which landed in Gaza. According to the Israeli army, about 4,340 rockets were fired by Hamas toward Israel during the 11 days of hostilities, with 640 of them falling within Gaza.
In response to the rocket barrage, Israel struck a total of 1,600 military targets, including 340 rocket launchers and destroyed more than 60 miles of underground terror tunnels in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry claims that about 250 Palestinians were killed during the hostilities.
“At the moment it is still very difficult to assess the exact death toll in Gaza as Hamas is still looking for and evacuating casualties from underground and within the struck tunnels, so the figure is likely to increase,” Eid said. “The Hamas claim is that most of the casualties were civilians as the statistics they publish doesn’t distinguish between civilians and fighters. According to my estimates at least 150 fighters were killed in the conflict.”
“This time Israel’s military action was much more careful if you look at the number of targets hit and the casualties, which shows that they tried to minimize the killing of civilians,” he added.
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Let’s worry about Detroit. Those people there who wear shields have it tough.
Destroy Islam.
LiSTEN UP…….GOD is Going to PUNISH the TERRORISTS. ANYONE Who Starts ANYTHING with ISRAEL…GOD will FINISH it. GOD has REINFORCEMENTS and THEY are NOT ANGELS. GOD is a SERIOUS GOD. HE has the LAST WORD. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
I agree with you 100%!!!👍🙏
Terrorists just don’t wake up one morning and declare their intentions to blow up people. These tactics are as old as tyranny, and people are driven to conduct such campaigns to eradicate corrupt governments, cartels and the potentates who profit from such activity. You saw for yourself what BLM and Antifa were doing in the U.S. Other mass violence and demonstrations occurred in America prior to those campaigns. I think it would be to our benefit to allow those people to hash out their own issues, and focus on our domestic ‘terrorists’ to discern the reasons why they’re behaving in that manner.
I have great Arab friends, both Muslim and Christian, But truth be told, I find Israel integrally more ethical and humane than Islam. You don’t find Jews, who were righteously wronged in Europe’s Holocaust, walking into restaurants, cafes and Christian churches in Europe with explosive suicide vests. Only Muslims use such tactics. HAMAS using a defenseless civilian population as ‘human shields’ is manufacturing human ‘collateral damage’ to smear the Israeli cause. This is beyond brutality. Such senseless murder leads me to suspect that Islam worships DEATH.
Dems claiming to be christian and at the same time support genocide of 63 million unborn children and go after Israel, should not be calling themselves christian.
Christian? I do not think it means what you think it means.
That does not seem to fit the American Democrats conclusion.