H.E. Mr. Boaz Modai:

Yes. First, there was confusion because we thought that Senator Daly had referred to another matter when he spoke about humiliation. It was translated here by people who speak Hebrew.

I thank him for that and I take it for granted, but we do not ever compare ourselves to them. We compare ourselves to western countries.

The figures are not that clear but we believe almost half of the people killed in Gaza were people who belonged to Hamas and the other terrorist organisations. It still means hundreds of innocent people died which, of course, is terrible, but if one compares that to different actions taken by the Americans or British, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, one notes there were many operations in which, for every terrorist killed, 19 civilians were killed. When one speaks about that kind of warfare, one must realise it is different from any other. When the terrorists are among the civilians, these things happen. It just shows how much effort we made to try to avoid that. I mentioned Kosovo already. The number of civilians killed there was quite enormous, but I take the point.