Who is Violent; the Occupied or the Occupier?

- This post is inspired while reading some comments on a couple of blogs regarding ‘Palestinian Suicide Bombers’ -

Pro-Israel justifications for storming the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the building of the Apartheid Wall, the killing of Palestinian civilians, demolishing Palestinian houses and infrastructure, annexing Palestinian agricultural land to Israel and Israeli settlements growth, range between "The Palestinians brought it on themselves because they are stupid" and "They strap bomb-belts to their children and send them to bomb ours".
The statistics bellow show that Israelis killed by Palestinians in suicide-bombings, since the out-break of the Second Intifada, are less than 50% of the total Israeli death toll. Only 13% of the Palestinian casualties by Israel were actually "wanted" by the Israeli government for "Terror Crimes", casualties of which were not put on trial. Why would a mighty security force, such as the Israeli one, fail to take out those individuals who make the State of Israel insecure and terrorised with fear, only, with minimum random casualties? The Summer Rain Offensive against Gaza is a good example for IOF’s screw-ups.
Some comments I read on blogs said things like, ‘Those civilians threw themselves in front of the danger’ or ‘The terrorists are more satisfied when the Palestinian civilians death toll goes up the roof’. An Israeli spokesperson recently said to a reporter on Al-Jazeera that all those who where killed or targeted in the Summer Rain Operation where armed and that the IOF distributed some leaflets amongst the Gazans, a week before the operation, to warn them of an offensive on Northern Gaza. Well, bollocks!
- It was very clear from different reports that there where children and civilians killed in their own houses or neighbourhoods;
- There were no such leaflets;
- The Israeli Occupation Authority closed Rafah border crossing on the 27th of June with no previous notice, trapping several hundreds of Palestinians - of whom 578 are of need of medical attention - for more than two weeks now [1];
- and, the IOF did target localities in Central Gaza and destroyed a main power generator and infrastructure.

Statistics
Palestinian Death Toll 08/09/2000 - 30/06/2006
Total Number of Palestinian deaths : 4285
(not including those who died after medical treatment was delayed due to restrictions of movement: 3554)

Palestinians killed by IOF in Occupied Palestinian Territories: 3453
(of them Armed: 1647)
(of them minors: 699)
Palestinians killed by IOF in Israel: 60
(of them Armed: 54)
(of them minors: 2)
Palestinians killed by Israeli citizens in Israel: (see Israeli Palestinian citizens killed by Israeli citizens in Israel)
Palestinians killed by Israeli illegal settlers in OPT: 72
(of them Armed: 15)
(of them minors: 8)
Palestinians killed as a result of Israeli shelling on OPT : 837 (included in those killed by IOF)

Deaths as a result of medical prevention at Israeli checkpoints : 117
(of them stillbirths: 31)

Palestinians extra-judicially assassinated : 579 (included in those killed by IOF)
(of them bystanders killed during extra-judicial operations: 257)

Palestinians killed in Gaza during Summer Rain IOF Offensive until 12/07/2006: 82 (not included in the statistics)

Error: - 0.14


Israeli Death Toll 08/09/2000 - 30/06/2006
Total Number Israeli deaths: 1008
(including Israeli-Palestinians killed by Israeli Police and IOF 1033)

Israeli soldiers killed by Palestinians in OPT: 243
Israeli illegal settlers killed by Palestinians in OPT: 236
(of them Armed: unspecified)
(of them minors: 39)
(of them killed in suicide-bombings: 16)
Israeli citizens killed by Palestinians in Israel: 443
(of them Armed: unspecified)
(of them minors: 80)
(of them killed in suicide-bombings: 381)
Israeli soldiers killed by Palestinians in Israel: 86
(of them killed in suicide-bombings: 48)

Israeli Palestinian citizens killed by the Israeli Police in Israel: 12 (in October 2000)
Israeli Palestinian citizens killed by IOF in Israel: 5 (in August 2005)
Israeli Palestinian citizens killed by Border Police: 1 (in July 2003)
Israeli Palestinian citizens killed by IOF in OPT: 4
Israeli citizens killed by Israeli Palestinian citizens in Israel: 3 (in October 2000 and September 2001)

Error: - 0.1

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[1] According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health report of the 12th of July - in Arabic, 578 Palestinians of those trapped on the Rafah border crossing are in need of medical attention. Four of them who died while waiting on the border crossing were identified;
- Abu Khaled Daoud, 78, died following a heart attack on the 8th day on the border crossing;
- Muhamed Sharaab, 15, died following complications in his health and lack of medicine. He was on his way back to the Gaza Strip from Egypt after having a successful heart operation in Cairo;
- Muna Ismael, 19, died following complications in her health and lack of medicine after a successful operation in Cairo; and,
- Hamza Abu Daleb, 18 months, died of sun stroke and lack of food and medicine.
The MOF reported that the Israeli Occupation Authority has forbidden medical teams, medicine of food to be delivered to the Palestinians trapped on the border crossing. The PA was not allowed by the IOA to allocate teams to evacuate the dead amongst those trapped on the border. The reader knows what that means: The IOA is committing another crime against the Palestinians' Human Rights.
The MOF also reported that amongst the Palestinians trapped on the border crossing present families and first relatives to martyrs killed by the IOF during the Summer Rain Offensive on the Gaza Strip. These relatives to the martyrs have lost their rights to paying the last respect to their dead.
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Notes on terminology:
IOF: Israeli Occupation Forces
IOA: Israeli Occupation Authority
OPT: Occupied Palestinian Territories
MOF: Palestinian Ministry of Heath
Israeli citizens: those who live to the east of the West Bank Armistice Line - mostly known as the Green Line- and East of the Gaza Armistice Line.
Israeli illegal settlers: those who live in illegal Israeli settlements on Occupied Palestinians Territories - within the Green Line.
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Statistics based on Miftah: The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center For Human Rights in The Occupied Palestinian Territories and Palestinian Ministry of Health