Did you know that every person Israel killed since 2008 was a “Palestinian Civilian”? That there were no armed fighters, just “civilians”?
Well now you do.
From Gilead Ini’s article for CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis):
According to the United Nations, these are photos of civilians:
Which is odd, because Ahmed Abu Obeid and Saqer Abed were Islamic Jihad gunmen, killed in June 2024 during what the terror group described as a “fierce” battle with Israeli soldiers. And Said Izzat Jaber, killed that same month, was a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist.
If we zoom out to look at the whole month, it becomes clear that these are hardly the only casualties misclassified by the UN. In fact, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the primary body that tallies and characterizes Palestinian casualties, currently insists every single West Bank Palestinian killed by Israel in June was a civilian. The Hamas commander? A civilian. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade gunmen? Civilians. The Islamic Jihad militants? Civilians. The Hamas attackers? Civilians.
For that month, OCHA lists 34 West Bank fatalities, classifying all as civilians. B’tselem concurs with the number, but in detailing the circumstances of each death makes clear that the vast majority were combatants.
But wait. There’s more. From Mr. Ini’s article at algemeiner.com:
The UN’s wholesale misinformation remains when zooming further. In fact, according to OCHA, each and every conflict-related death in the West Bank since January 2008 (the earliest searchable date on its casualty portal) was a civilian.
The UN casualty portal classifies every one of the 1,897 West Bank fatalities it counts since 2008 as “civilian.”
You might at this point be wondering why Israel is indiscriminately killing all these “civilians”.
Or, assuming you have not recently been lobotomized, you might instead be wondering how in the world the United Nations, no matter how anti-Israel it is, can possibly pretend every one of these people – from a territory which wishes Israel complete annihilation and has spent decades trying to achieve it through armed conflict – is just an innocent bystander.
This is what Israel has to deal with every day in this supposedly benevolent, humanistic body.
I don’t know how Israel does it. But I do know that, if the United Nations were worth a damn, they wouldn’t have to.
