Well, Top Cat, let's have a little think about this. Do Hamas have an army? Hmm, well no, not really. You wouldn't really want them to have one, would you? So what is a "civilian" then? If an Israeli soldier burst into my house, threatened my wife and kids, I punched his nose and made him scarper - well am a I still a civilian? Freedom fighter? Terrorist maybe? Military man? Would it be different if I'd cracked him over the head with a machete instead of punching him? You see, the reason you're trying to make a lot of this is that you would far rather dwell on the one-third of your "1431 casualties" who might just have been involved in the fighting (not forgetting, of course, that many might not have been, and neither you nor I has figures to put on that), and try to divert us away from the other two-thirds, who were definitely not involved in the fighting, and which included, among many other innocents such as women and elderly people, about 500 children. Or perhaps you'd like to persuade us that those kids were all carrying grenades or something. I wouldn't put it past you.