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Pentagon: US ‘Probably’ Played Role in 200+ Mosul Deaths

Pentagon: US ‘Probably’ Played Role in 200+ Mosul Deaths
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The Pentagon admitted that its air campaign in Mosul "probably had a role" in the mounting civilian death toll in Mosul, including the recent loss of dozens of lives under the rubble of a house that was allegedly booby-trapped by Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] to maximize casualties.

Pentagon: US ‘Probably’ Played Role in 200+ Mosul Deaths

Mounting evidence of an underreported civilian death toll in Mosul was recently noted by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Both organizations criticized the modus operandi of the US-led military campaign.

Entire families in Mosul are being killed by airstrikes in their own homes following repeated instructions from Iraqi authorities to stay inside, AI said this week.

The NGO further emphasized that the coalition forces must have known the strikes were likely to result in civilian deaths.

In one of the deadliest single incidents of the Mosul siege, dozens of people lost their lives in the Jadida neighborhood on March 17.

With the exact number of casualties still unclear, Mosul's municipality chief, Abdul Sattar al-Habbo, who was supervising the rescue, said 240 bodies had been pulled from the rubble.

Confirming that the US is conducting its own investigation into the March 17 incident, the Pentagon admitted that its air power could have been a contributing factor to the mounting civilian death toll.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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