BBC NEWS | Middle East | Counting casualties of Gaza's war

In any conflict the number of deaths - of combatants and civilians - is a highly sensitive topic. Numbers can be used for propaganda purposes by all sides and they can play a role in determining perceptions of whether the sides have kept within international law's rules of keeping civilian casualties to a minimum. In the Israeli offensive on Gaza, far more Palestinians, including women and childre

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Jan. 28/’The Al Mazen Centre for Human Rights’/’It has told the BBC that 1,268 people were killed, among them 288 children and 103 women.’