Ilana wrote: >>while there are more than 500 Israeli victims in this intifada.
Jeroen replied: >As opposed to how many Palestinians deaths? 1,500 or so? Reggie Bautista <<How many of the 500 Israeli deaths were civilian deaths caused by terrorists and how many were Israeli's actively involved in the conflict (i.e., Israeli soldiers or Israeli terrorists)? How many of those 1500 Palestinian deaths were active combatants (i.e. Palestinian soldiers/militia and Palestinian suicide bombers) and how many were civilian deaths? Active combatants, whether legal or illegal combatants under the Geneva Convention, are people who know and expect that their actions could lead directly to their death (especially suicide bombers). Civilians going about their everyday routines of work, play, and/or worship do not expect that at any moment they could be killed.>> Ilana It depends - about 30 soldiers were killed during active duty, but if you count also those who were in blown buses on their way to the base, the number will reach 50. 60 if you'll count reservists or soldiers on home leave. About Palestinians I can't tell you much for sure. It's known that some of the dead are not dead at all, known that they count within those 1500 everybody who died during this time - including from age or from car accident or stoned to death as collaborators, known that 56 Janin dead almost turned into "thousands". Our government apologized for about 50 deaths. Given that there were, probably, deaths of civilians, that it preferred not to be responsible for and that there were times that it took responsibility by mistake, it looks like a right number. Of course, I can't know for sure. Ilana
