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Recent Examples of noncombatant
Hamas data claiming 42,000 Gazan deaths without distinguishing between combatants and noncombatants stirs emotions and is endlessly repeated by the international press.
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Lana Melman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
The 25-year-old West Point graduate was a noncombatant, attached to Harney’s expedition as a mapmaker and topographer.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
More than two thousand have died and some ten thousand have been injured, many of them noncombatants.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Those images are contrasted with two videos of drag queens, plus a clip of Dr. Levine — who is currently Assistant Secretary for Health and an admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (which is not part of the Department of Defense and is only comprised of noncombatants).
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
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Lana Melman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
The 25-year-old West Point graduate was a noncombatant, attached to Harney’s expedition as a mapmaker and topographer.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
More than two thousand have died and some ten thousand have been injured, many of them noncombatants.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Those images are contrasted with two videos of drag queens, plus a clip of Dr. Levine — who is currently Assistant Secretary for Health and an admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (which is not part of the Department of Defense and is only comprised of noncombatants).
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Noncombatant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncombatant. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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