Original sentence: During the long bombing campaign prior to the ground war, many aerial attacks led to civilian casualties.Many thousands more civilians were killed during Saddam Hussein's repression of the internal Shia and Kurd uprising which followed the ceasefire.Notably, the deaths of civilians and damage to civilian areas was expressly avoided by coalition forces, unlike previous campaigns such as the Bombing of Tokyo in World War II.Other research, such as an investigation by Beth Osborne Daponte, has speculated on civilian fatalites as high as 100,000.Some estimates 2,300 to 3,500 Iraqi civilians were killed during the war.US and "coalition" forces also deliberately attacked Iraqi infrastructure, invariably to the detriment of civilan well-being in Iraq
Edited sentence: An estimated 2,300 to 3,500 Iraqi civilians were killed during the war.Notably, 'collateral damage' to civilians (or civilian positions) was expressly avoided by coalition forces, unlike previous campaigns such as the Bombing of Tokyo in World War II.Other aerial attacks also led to civilian casualties