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The Strategic Dilemma of Homicide Bombings
(Ha'aretz) Ze'ev Schiff - Since the signing of the Oslo agreements through August 8, 2002, some 135 people have blown themselves up out of 198 attempted suicide attacks. Suicide bombings are only 0.6 percent of all the attacks. But they have caused 50 percent of the Israeli casualties. Out of 605 Israeli deaths, 455 were civilians (75 percent). Some 84 percent of all the casualties were civilians. Some 75 percent of the dead, 344 people, were killed inside the Green Line, including Jerusalem.