The images were accompanied by charges that because more Palestinians died, Israel must have used disproportionate force and therefore committed a war crime. One example was the front page New York Times story and photo spread about the number of (mostly) Palestinian children killed. Numbers were at the heart of much of the coverage and commentary surrounding the fighting in May between Hamas and Israel. The estimate arrived at is 91, amounting to 36% of the alleged Palestinian death toll. The question addressed here is how many Palestinians are likely to have been killed by these errant Palestinian rockets in May. The death and destruction caused is, of course, usually blamed on Israel.
Of course, Hamas aims to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible, but its rockets place both Israelis and Palestinians in peril, because many of those rockets-in this case 680-misfire and explode inside Gaza. The number of deaths is actually very low for such an intense conflict, a testament to Israel’s Iron Dome and civil defense systems, and its use of precision weapons and warnings aimed at minimizing Palestinian civilian deaths. 2,081, June 27, 2021ĮXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Much of the coverage and commentary surrounding the fighting in May between Hamas and Israel has focused on numbers, especially the much larger number of Palestinians than Israelis killed.
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