Casualties of truth - how the PCHR lies about the casualties of operation "Cast Lead" - 0 views
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Montreal Werner on 10 Feb 10Why, then, did they classify so many known militants as civilians? One can only conclude that the reason is to deceive the media. Such a high number of Al Qassam members among the police killed indicates that Hamas itself does not distinguish between its so-called civilian and military wings. Effectively, Hamas considers its police to be the same as its military force. If Hamas does not make such a distinction, why shouldn't everyone else conclude that its entire police force is a legitimate target? We have identified 368 militants in addition to the police, of whom 168 were identified as civilian by PCHR. None of our findings are inconsistent with the IDF report on Gaza casualties. While the PCHR misrepresents the facts about Palestinian casualties it makes other statements which reveal the highly politicized nature of the group that show it is not a human rights organization. For example, it consistently uses the phrase "IOF" ("Israel Occupation Forces") instead of Israel Defense Forces, the proper name of Israel's military, in trying to make Israel look as bad as possible.