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Shelled UN Building Used by Hamas

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pk1/15/2009 11:26:13 am PST

Al Jazeera has published a “breakdown” of 210 Gazan “child” deaths up till 9th December here: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200911591418168902.html
This includes names, ages and gender. I don’t want to belittle the death of innocent children in anyway, but after some very cursory analysis, I found that:
1. Three times as many boys as girls were killed
2. 22 of the “children” were 18 anyway.
3. In the age range 14-18, 79 males were killed as opposed to 8 females
4. In the age range 10-13, 41 boys were killed, as opposed to 16 girls
5. In the age range 6-9, 13 boys were killed and 11 girls
6. In the under 6 range, 24 boys died and 19 girls.
So there is a massive skew towards males in the mid to late teens. We all know that this is because they are being abused by Hamas as combatants, whether child soldiers, couriers, messengers or simply human shields, but here it is confirmed by Al Jazeera.