Two ceasefires ...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Hard to know how many children 'are' fighters, and how many are forced/told to do things, as with child soldiers in Africa etc.

Does it matter? They're trying to kill you either way.

Estimated by who? --> there is not really any way of knowing how many Hamas fighters have died/ how many there were in the first place, certainly very few of the highest ranking Hamas officicals have been killed, and how many non-Hamas terrorists are still around

I was tempted to provide eight or nine laughing smilies, but instead Palestinian organizations have been claiming about 650-700 of the dead as civilians, it is safe to assume that the rest are not.

its not the civilians fault that Hamas happen to operate near to them...

Not in and of itself, but it does absolve the IDF of some of the blame for killing those civilians if Hamas was firing bullets, mortars, and missiles from right next to them.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/...aza/index.html

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default...=178&nid=15466

Well done Mars , you just justified dozens of bombings in Israel .

My turn.