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Gutmann: Can We Trust the Casualty Numbers?
Articles on National Review Online — ... the Independent s The Camp that Became a Slaughterhouse. Finally, in August 2002, the U.N. sent a team to investigate charges of a massacre. The U.N. — no friend of Israel — found no evidence of a massacre , and it supported IDF claims that about 45 Palestinians had died, mostly men aged 18 to 45. It confirmed only three children and four women. Abu Ali s nine children were not among them. Fifty-two Palestinian deaths had been confirmed by the hospital in Jenin by the end of May 2002. . . . A senior Palestinian Authority official alleged in mid-April that some 500 were ...

How Many Gazans Really Died in the War?
Pajamas Media — ... against the Israelis, including all references to a “massacre.” I didn’t see what I was doing as necessarily pro-Israel. I guess I was just clinging to the quaint notion that my paper should stick to reporting the facts. When, some time later, it emerged that there had indeed been no massacre in Jenin (the Palestinians  claimed that first thousands, then hundreds had died; the final estimate by the UN was 55, including “a number” of civilians [see point No. 4 under Annex IV of its official report ]), I felt vindicated and pleased that I hadn’t contributed to the orgy of hatred ...