A "Disproportionate" Victim in Sderot

Noam Bedein
Sderot Media Center
14 November '10

This article is dedicated to the memory of Yakov Yaakobov Z"L, a husband and father of two young boys, murdered by a Qassam rocket 4 years ago, on the 21st of November 2006, the first day of the month of Kislev.

It's been almost two years since the IDF incursion in Gaza sought to put an end to the Gaza terror regime's daily rocket attacks on the civilian population in Sderot and the Western Negev.

While attacks have been dramatically reduced, the construction of approximately 5,000 new bomb shelters in the Sderot region demonstrates that the "peaceful" situation isn't expected to last.

Israel was successful in its efforts to reduce the threat to its citizens, but not successful in changing world opinion. The international diplomatic and public relations damage has multiplied since the operation in Gaza, and Israel is still having to justify its military actions.

One common theme in global reporting on the IDF incursion focuses on the "disproportionate" death toll: 1,114 deaths in Gaza, and 13 on the Israeli side of the border.

The Gaza deaths are usually reported as mostly civilian casualties; but, according to a report in Haaretz this past week, Hamas admitted that 600 to 700 of those killed were armed terrorists. Given their history of misrepresentation, there's every reason to suspect that Hamas still under-reports its casualties and inflates the number of civilian deaths.

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