An investigation by The Associated Press (AP) billed as “the most painstaking attempt to date” of its kind has found that Israeli strikes on Palestinian homes in Gaza killed mostly civilians.
The news agency examined 247 Israeli airstrikes, “interviewing witnesses, visiting attack sites and compiling a detailed casualty count.”
Of the 844 Palestinians killed in these attacks, 508 were “children, women and older men.” One-third of the total were children younger than 16, “including 19 babies and 108 preschoolers between the ages of 1 and 5.”
“The youngest to die was a 4-day-old girl, the oldest a 92-year-old man”, says AP.
Only 96 of those killed were “confirmed or suspected militants”, a mere 11 percent of the total.
According to AP, “the count tracked all known airstrikes on homes.”
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