On the Israeli Army
Ex-Security Chiefs Turn on SharonFour former chiefs of Israel's powerful domestic security service said in an interview published Friday that the government's actions and policies during the three-year-old Palestinian uprising have gravely damaged the country and its people.
Also, a bigger story on
criticism from within. Some numbers from that article:
- Nearly 600 members of the armed forces have signed statements refusing to serve in the Palestinian territories.
- About 186,000 active-duty and 445,000 reserve troops.
Nearly 900 Israelis have been killed during the conflict -- more than 250 of them soldiers. Almost 2,500 Palestinians have been killed. It is difficult to determine how many of those casualties were civilians, with estimates by Palestinian human rights groups and Israeli research groups ranging as high as 85 percent and as low as 48 percent. No verifiable independent count exists, and the Israeli military provides no statistics on Palestinian civilian deaths.
* Ray, 11/18/2003 04:50:47 PM
