tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988870184363644257.post2458546005294908154..comments2023-10-26T04:49:17.512-07:00Comments on Perpetua of Carthage: Israel Defense Force Compiling List of Gaza DeadPerpetuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632860530530786486noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988870184363644257.post-67560300591496040942009-01-22T13:41:00.000-08:002009-01-22T13:41:00.000-08:00I didn't follow the media reporting on Jenin, but ...I didn't follow the media reporting on Jenin, but luckily <A HREF="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jenin" REL="nofollow">wikipedia comes through</A>:<BR/><BR/>Initially, reporting of casualty numbers varied widely and fluctuated day to day. On April 10, the BBC reported that Israel estimated 150 Palestinians had died in Jenin but the Palestinians were saying the number was far higher. Saeb Erekat, on a phone interview to CNN from Jericho, estimated 500 dead in Operation Defensive Shield in total.[28] On April 11, the Palestinians reported 500 dead. On April 12, Brigadier-General Ron Kitri said on Israeli Army Radio that there are apparently hundreds killed. He later retracted this statement. Secretary-General of the Palestinian Authority, Ahmed Abdel Rahman, said that thousands of Palestinians had been killed and buried in mass graves, or lay under houses destroyed in Jenin and Nablus. On April 13, Palestinian Information Minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo, accused Israel of digging mass graves for 900 Palestinians in the camp. On April 14, the IDF gave a final figure of 45 casualties. On April 18, Zalman Shoval, adviser to Sharon, spoke of 65 bodies, five of them civilians. On April 30, Qadoura Mousa, director of the Fatah for the northern West Bank, set the total dead at fifty-six.<BR/><BR/>After the battle, the UN estimated the death toll at 52 Palestinians and 23 Israelis.[36] One Palestinian Fatah official reportedly put the death toll at fifty-six. In 2004, Haaretz journalists Amos Harel and Avi Isacharoff wrote that 23 Israelis had died and 52 had been wounded; Palestinian casualties included 53 dead, hundreds wounded and about 200 captured. According to retired IDF General Shlomo Gazit, the death toll was 55 Palestinians and 33 Israels.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16632860530530786486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988870184363644257.post-7934688244506085282009-01-22T13:22:00.000-08:002009-01-22T13:22:00.000-08:00As far as the media is concerned, Gaza casualties ...As far as the media is concerned, Gaza casualties seem to be the Jenin "massacre" writ large.The Religious Pícarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03620636294081499041noreply@blogger.com