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Officials deny report that no more than 600 died in Gaza | Middle East | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com - 1/22/2009
Officials deny report that no more than 600 died in Gaza | Middle East | Jerusalem Post
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Despite a report by Lorenzo Cremonesi, a correspondent for Italy's Corriere della sera , that the number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead did not exceed five or six hundred, Israeli defense officials on Thursday said there were around 1,300 Palestinians killed during the fighting in ...
Gazan doctor says death toll inflated
ynetnews.com - 1/22/2009
Gazan doctor says death toll inflated
— ynetnews.com — Physician at Gaza's Shifa Hospital tells Italian newspaper number of dead in Israeli offensive 'stands at no... more than 500 or 600, most of them youths recruited to Hamas' ranks'. Senior Palestinian Health Ministry official denies claims, IDF estimate ... (more) Gazan doctor says death toll inflated

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Iran renews efforts to supply weaponry to bruised Hamas | Middle East | Jerusalem Post
— jpost.com — Iran has renewed efforts to supply advanced weaponry to Hamas and the IDF is concerned that the... terror group will try to smuggle long-range Fajr missiles into the Gaza Strip. According to the latest intelligence assessments, Iran, which was ... (more) Iran renews efforts to supply weaponry to bruised Hamas ...

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Top EU official: Hamas bears full responsibility for Gaza war | Middle East | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com - 1/26/2009
Top EU official: Hamas bears full responsibility for Gaza war | Middle East | Jerusalem Post
— jpost.com — Hamas bears full responsibility for the war in Gaza, a top EU official said Monday in the... Strip, calling the group "a terrorist movement." "At this time we have to also recall the overwhelming responsibility of Hamas," Louis Michel, European ... (more) Top EU official: Hamas bears full responsibility for ...

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A Blog For All:  You Don't Say: Gaza Death Toll Inflated

Little Green Footballs:  IDF Denies Italian Newspaper Casualty Report

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You Don't Say: Gaza Death Toll Inflated
A Blog For All — Despite all the hysterical rantings of the anti-Israel groups, anti-Semites, and others who considered Israel's Operation Cast Lead to be the start of a massacre, genocide, or worse, the facts always seem to show something quite different. The UN, as usual, swallowed the Hamas line and proffered casualty figures that have absolutely no bearing on reality. The number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead did not exceed five or six hundred, Lorenzo Cremonesi, a correspondent for Italy's Corriere della sera reported on Thursday. A Palestinian salvages... A Palestinian ...

IDF Denies Italian Newspaper Casualty Report
Little Green Footballs — Despite the report from Italian newspaper Corriere della sera, Israeli officials are standing by their estimate of 1300 Palestinian casualties in Operation Cast Lead, mostly Hamas fighters. Despite a report by Lorenzo Cremonesi, a correspondent for Italy’s Corriere della sera, that the number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead did not exceed five or six hundred, Israeli defense officials on Thursday said there were around 1,300 Palestinians killed during the fighting in Gaza and that a majority of them were Hamas operatives. The IDF’s Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration has already compiled a list with 900 ...

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