Rajan Menon, a professor emeritus of political science at The City College of New York, said in an email that Israel’s “excuse that the civilian deaths that result are not intentional wears thin” when mass civilian deaths in a densely packed urban environment are foreseeable. Mark Lattimer, the executive director of the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights, said of an airstrike on the Jabalya refugee camp, which killed over 100 people (many of whom, according to local doctors, were women and children): “Because it was a planned attack, it shows that Israel must have a tolerance for civilian casualties which is orders of magnitude greater than that that was used by, say, the U.S. Air Force in the war against ISIS.”
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