To the extent that any of them were killed for throwing stones, maybe it would also be constructive to find out in which countries of the world it is permitted for police or military personnel to use lethal force against people throwing stones.

I could be wrong but it seems to me that most democratic countries would make an effort to use some method other than lethal force against people throwing stones.

For instance, in Seattle while the WTO was having it's gathering there, protesters were doing things that were far more destructive than throwing stones, but I don't think the police were authorized to use lethal force to deal with that. So the question I would like to know the answer to is, when the Israeli police and military personnel have used lethal force because of stone throwing, what alternative methods did they use to try to deal with it before resorting to lethal force?

It might also be constructive to know to what extent the Israeli police and military forces stationed in the Palestinian occupied territories use lethal force, even if they are not authorized to do so.

I was watching an Israeli reserve officer being interviewed a couple of evenings ago. He said that he did use Palestinian civilians as human sheilds in Janin, and he authorized the soldiers under him to do it also. He said he did it because he felt that it was for a just cause. Using civilians as human sheilds is a war crime according to international law.

I'm guessing that the Israeli government doesn't officially authorize this practice. But it looks, from what I saw in that interview, as well as from some other things I've heard, like the police and military personnel have a certain amount of wiggle room with regards to this sort of thing.