>>You keep mentioning this 80% statistic. Not disputing it, just wondering where you got it.
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>The numbers I've read say that of the 364 killed, 62 are women and children. That's about 17%. Add in some adult non-militant males, and it moves up to around 20%. For whatever reason, the number of adult non-militant males is not accurately reported.
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>Here's one report: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/29/news/ML-Gaza-Life-Under-Fire.php
>Here's a slightly earlier one: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
>Here's one even from Al Jazeera. Add up the numbers and you get (at that point) 115 killed of which 21 are civilians http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/01/20085251361239680.html

Thank you. Here is another one, published on the NY Times web site today ---

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/middleeast/31mideast.html?_r=1&hp

So far in the offensive, more than 350 Palestinians — about 60 of them civilians — have been killed, according to the United Nations. Four Israelis — three civilians and a soldier — have died.

So that's even more than 80% non-civilians if the numbers are accurate. Point conceded, for now anyway.