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Is this also propaganda by Palestinians?
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, thus far 1,376 Palestinians have been killed.[11] According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, at least 68% of those killed were civilians.[6] 7,200 have been wounded, according to Gazan medical officials.[11] According to data provided by the Palestinian Health Ministry, 79.7 percent of the Palestinians killed in Gaza are male, with the majority between sixteen and thirty-five.[98]
According to OCHA, as of 29 July 2014 in the Gaza Strip, over 245,000 Palestinians have been displaced of which 200,400 are taking shelter in 85 UNRWA schools (over eleven percent of the Gazan population). UNRWA has exhausted its capacity to absorb displaced persons, and overcrowding in shelters risks the outbreak of epidemics.[6] 1.8 million people are affected by a halt or reduction of the water supply,[52] 136 schools and 24 health facilities have been damaged, homes of 9,395 families have been totally destroyed or severely damaged and homes of 4,735 families have been damaged but are still inhabitable. Throughout the Gaza Strip people receive only 2 hours of electricity per day. The destruction of Gaza’s only power plant had an immediate effect on the public health situation and reduced water and sanitation services, with hospitals becoming dependent on generators. And more than 255,000 IDPs are in need of emergency food assistance.[6]
Amnesty International stated that: "Israeli forces have carried out attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians, including through the use of precision weaponry such as drone-fired missiles, and attacks using munitions such as artillery, which cannot be precisely targeted, on very densely populated residential areas, such as Shuja’iyyeh. They have also directly attacked civilian objects."[139]
The Israelis have engaged in far worse, how about saying something about it too instead of showing your racial hatred for the other side, day and night? It is evident that putting all blame on Hamas's human shields isn't doing the trick and the usual rationalizations/justifications aren't working, been proven wrong by the International reporters in the Gaza strip.
The BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, has written, "I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields."[149] The Independent reported that no Gazans have said "they had been forced by [Hamas] to stay in places of danger and become unwilling human-shields", adding that "the outside is unaware of how small and confined the place is."[150] The Guardian reported as well that "claims [about Human Shields] have not been backed up by independent reporting from international journalists covering the war from Gaza."[151]
The assertions are also disputed by the Middle East and North Africa Director at Human Rights Watch, who said that "in most of the sites [that were bombed by Israel] we investigated so far (in this conflict) we found no valid military targets".[143]
Amnesty International has reported in a statement that it "does not have evidence at this point that Palestinian civilians have been intentionally used by Hamas or Palestinian armed groups during the current hostilities to “shield” specific locations or military personnel or equipment from Israeli attacks".
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