Introduction
The horror of any war is directly shown in the count of causalities of the war. The case is the same here too. On the Palestinian side, there were 342 deaths and among the dead, there were a significant number of children and women. 5320 people were injured and among them, 320 were very serious and many of them died later or became seriously affected. A huge number of people had to be displaced due to the incessant bombings, and roughly the number of displaced estimated is 50000. Over 2000 buildings were destroyed as shown in satellite images. Some agencies claim that in the death toll there were 35 minors were killed, 5 women and almost 83 men over the age of 50 were killed (Zunes, 200).
On the other hand, the Israeli suffered fewer casualties. 3 were killed among which there were 0 soldiers. 3 persons died in friendly fire and a total of 82 people were wounded in the case. The Israeli sources claim that over 700 Hamas fighters were killed during the three-week offensive while Hamas claims that 48 of their soldiers had lost their lives. Other groups like Popular Resistance Committee said that it had lost 34 men and Islamic Jihad had lost around 38 men, and they were fighting for Hamas. The Israeli authorities said that the figure of 300 and more dead children is nothing but aggravation by the media, while some claim that the deaths range from 900 to 200 in some cases. There is a general rule in war, for every one reported death there will be three deaths. Some war correspondences also claimed that a lot of Hamas fighters were seriously injured and they were not admitted to hospitals, but ta
ken to some secret places and the real death toll from the Hamas was not known (Carter, 2009).
The Human Rights Organizations working in the Gaza War can be termed as third party who was working on the battlefield and their views of the war can be looked at as neutral in the case of the war. These facts and statistics shown by the Human Rights Organizations were terrifying in the aspect that how a fully equipped army blasted on a small city with all the new advanced weapons and the results of the attack were unmatched brutality. Israel, as it is mentioned earlier, sealed the city of Gaza and launched the attack, to ensure maximum damage (Zanotti 2009). Some very important facts had come out in the findings of the human rights organizations. For instance, Israel had used some weapons that were unprecedented in war and the forensic reports and the medical reports on the dead and the injured confirmed that (Zunes, 2009). It is by their reports the people came to know that Israel had started to use white phosphorus as a weapon. It is an international rule that white phosphorus can be used only as a smokescreen in war. Israel had barred International reporters to enter the war zone during the combat and before starting the war Israeli forces tactically bombed the electrical towers and other communication centers of Gaza. Also, no Israeli fighter was allowed to carry a mobile phone in the war zone. So there was no way that one could get news from the war front that was inside except the human rights people. The Human Rights Organizations most importantly showed the World the war crimes by them (Peltonen, 200).