Reply #60: Does Hamas help the Palestinians? [View All]

[Gimel]

This seems to me to be a more pertinent question.

Are targeted assassinations like murdering collaborators? No. Targeted assassinations are to prevent future attacks at the commander level. Murduring members of one's people as a "collaborator" is say: "this is a traitor to our cause. If you do not show active support for strikes against Israel, you might also come under suspicion."

Another category of "killed by own side" is the suicide bomber, of which there have been over 200 Palestinian deaths by own hand. Some who did not succeed in detonating his explosive, strapped to his own body in a crowded area, did not succeed in killing Israelis. So there are more bombers who died than there were attacks. That means somewhere between 2 and 300 of the Palestinian deaths can be attributed to suicide. (Certainly not to IDF or civilian Israeli actions).