Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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Well, that particular statement about how it's hard to square the UN's findings of indiscriminate attacks with the fact that more men than women had been killed.
It's gone.
The article's been edited to remove it.
And a few days later, the BBC added a note about a series of clarifications, such as the inclusion of some possible explanations for why men were disproportionately likely to be casualties.
Other researchers have told us that men are usually over-represented in counts of civilian casualties in war.
It can be about the tasks men undertake, how they socialise, and also that they may be, in general, more of a target, more easily mistaken for fighters.
We've been speaking to Mahmoud Aburama from the Almazan Centre for Human Rights in Gaza, which is a Palestinian group that has researchers on the ground gathering information and statistics on who has been killed.
He gave an example of an attack that hit a beach cafe where people were watching a World Cup match.
Haggai Elad from the Israeli Human Rights Group at Selem has researchers on the ground in Gaza, and he gave us a picture of how dangerous and how difficult their work is.
And how easy is it for researchers collecting statistics on the ground to tell who was a fighter and who wasn't?
I mean, they can ask people, but will they always get a straight answer?
Here's Haggai Alad again.
This is why they and the other groups we've spoken to say they do cross-checks.
They don't take what they're told at face value.
But counting the cost of war is always hard and usually controversial.
More or Less was presented by Tim Harford of the Financial Times.
The producer was Ruth Alexander.
You can download many more Radio 4 programmes at the Radio 4 website, bbc.co.uk slash radio4.
This is the short edition of More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Hello and welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service.
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