As is well known, Hamas has a long history, going back many years, of undercounting its own losses and exaggerating the number of civilians killed by the IDF. Think of the “massacre of Jenin,” where Hamas claimed that “500 civilians” had been massacred by the IDF. In the end, both American and Israeli intelligence concluded that 52 people had been killed by the IDF, at least 45 of whom were members of Hamas. Or consider the Hamas claim that an Israeli airstrike hit the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, killed “471 civilians.” It turned out that not an Israeli airstrike, but a missile launched toward Israel by Palestinian Islamic Jihad had misfired, and fell to earth in the parking lot of the Al-Ahli hospital, not on the hospital itself.
Hamas continues to inflate the number of civilians killed by the IDF in Gaza. It counts as “deaths caused by the IDF” all the civilians in Gaza who are accidentally killed by Hamas and its allied terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) when their weapons, including missiles, misfire, as did that PIJ missile at the Al-Ahli Hospital. How many victims of friendly fire” from Hamas have there been? Hamas also counts all those who die of natural causes — about 500 Gazans a month — as having been killed by the IDF. That’s close to 3,000 civilian deaths wrongly attributed so far to the IDF.
It turns out that as many as 75% of the Gazans killed may have been Hamas terrorists. More on the calculation that leads to this conclusion can be found here: “More than half, and maybe as many as 75%, of Gaza deaths are Hamas terrorists. Here’s why.” Elder of Ziyon, March 17, 2024:
The Gaza ministry of health has not directly counted 31,000 dead. Their own documentation says that they directly counted some 17,000 in their hospitals, and (as of March 4) over 13,000 from “trusted media sources.”
Those “trusted media sources” are the Hamas “government media office,” that the UN calls “GMO.”
Now, let’s look at the incident from the Kuwaiti roundabout last week. The Ministry of Health said that 20 were killed while the Hamas media office said 100 were killed.
The Hamas media office simply makes things up out of thin air. Just as we’ve seen from the Al Ahli hospital explosion, they will inflate death tolls by 5 times or more. And the media knows it – none of them reported the higher Kuwaiti roundabout figures (that were killed by Palestinian gunmen.) Yet the UN relies on the Hamas media office for its statistics of women and children killed, as well as the total number killed given by the MoH which includes the 13,000 from Hamas, and then the UN figures get reported as factual by the media.
It was Hamas gunmen, not the IDF, who fired into the crowd of Gazan civilians who had been waiting for food aid to arrive at the Kuwaiti Circle. Hamas wanted to scare them away – by shooting to kill — so its own operatives could seize the food for themselves and their extended families. Yet Hamas blamed the IDF for all of those deaths.
Now that means that the 31,000 killed reported by Hamas are highly suspect. We can imagine there are some bodies that never made it to hospitals, but not anything close to 31,000.
In short, there are not 31,000 dead in Gaza. The real number is thousands less.
Let’s be generous and pretend that Hamas only inflates their portion of the death toll numbers by a factor of 2. That would mean that the total Gaza death toll is closer to 23,000, not 31,000.
Now, Israel is reporting that it has killed 13,000 Hamas and other terrorists. From previous wars, IDF estimates of terrorists killed were found to be accurate even though they were hotly disputed at the time.
If the IDF has killed 13,000 terrorists, and the total Gaza death toll is 23,000 and not 31,000, that means that 56% of those killed are Hamas.
If the real death toll is closer to 20,000 (which would be my guess with Hamas inflating their numbers by a factor of 5), then the percentage [of Hamas members killed] goes up to 65% – nearly two out of three being terrorists, which is an absolutely stunning number given how much Hamas relies on human shields as its defensive strategy….
Do the math. It looks like there have not been 31,000 dead Gazans killed by the IDF but far fewer. Once we take into account Hamas’ usual exaggerations of civilian deaths, and subtract the number of Gazans killed by malfunctioning weapons of Hamas and PIJ, and “friendly fire” incidents by Hamas shooting, by accident, its own, and subtract as well the natural deaths of Gazans, we arrive at a total of about 17,000, with 13,00 of them being, according to the IDF’s calculation, Hamas operatives. That means about 75% of the deaths in Gaza are of Hamas terrorists.
Do you think any IDF spokesman will be allowed to present these calculations on CNN, or the BBC, or Agence France Presse? Do you think The New York Times or The Washington Post will examine Hamas’ claims on casualties, and publish the results? No, of course not. They directly contradict the incessant reporting about “31,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.” There is no evidence that they were “mostly women and children,” but that is the Hamas phrase that the world media have chosen to endlessly repeat, without examining its truth or falsehood. Still, for those who are willing to sit still, and consider carefully the calculations presented by Elder of Ziyon, it should be quite a revelation. To wit, up to 75% of those killed in Gaza are likely to have been Hamas members.
That means a 1:3 civilian-to-combatant ratio, that is, one civilian killed for every three Hamas combatants, a ratio unheard-of in the history of warfare.
Rick says
Good calculations. And lets not forget the Palestinian way of firing their weapons. They shoot around the corner of a building with the weapon on one side and the shooter behind the wall at a right angle. In other words, shooting blindly. Another is what is called “spraying” which is simply blindly moving the weapon from side to side hoping a Jew is somewhere in that range. Of course the shots may be 30 feet higher so that some civilian sitting in their apartment will be hit. The Hamas/PLO/Islamic Jihad/al Aska Brigade/shooter will be safe behind the wall from which he is shooting aimlessly at unknown figures on the other side but every civilian is put in danger by this method. And if he is behind a car, he simply lifts the weapon over his head and shoots without seeing exactly where his fire is going. Why aim when you could pull the trigger on an automatic weapon and a burst of 30 or 50 lethal shoots go forth and maybe hit an IDF soldier but most likely will not and instead hit a person living in the building opposite the corner or from the car from which this “blind” shooter is emptying his clip at unknown person or persons without any regard of who that is.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
At this point, I don’t care! Every Israeli killed on October 7th was a civilian
James Lincoln says
Great point, Infidel.
abu taleb says
Muhammad approved killing civilians, including women and children. They are non muslims.
It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.
Reference : Sahih Muslim 1745a
In-book reference : Book 32, Hadith 30
No need for Muhammad to say anything about raping, raping has already allowed by Allah, and every jihadist knows it very well. And Muhammad himself liked raping a child very much.
Hudders. says
What percentage?
Hmmmm let me think.
Absolutely nil, nada, none, nishkies, zero… etc
They are combatants by virtue of their previous backwards behaviours & medevial minded words.
The animals inhabiting the dung heap that is Gaza, are all rabidly in favour of Hamas actions.
Why don’t other Arab countries want them?
-Because they are hat filled, terrorist supporting, trouble causing vermin of the worst kind.
They are an infestation on the earth that must at least be contained in the facal farm where they breed.
Without any doubt, islam is a death cult & the so called ‘civilians’ in Gaza, represent that blood soaked cult well.
maria says
Yes, you are right. Thanks for helping Israel
ed says
Zero
jdow says
Actually one could argue that so-called civilians forced to be human shields by Hamas were simply military draftees. Draftees are still soldier when they die in battle.
{o.o}
Kepha says
Whatever the numbers, this is the price of waging a “people’s war” and losing.
Kepha says
Whatever the numbers, this is the price of waging a “people’s war” and losing.
Mindy says
Why do media sources continually separate the gazans from hamas? hamas is a governing body supported by 83% of gazans and comprised of gazans , they are one and the same. The gazans as a whole wanted war, celebrated in the streets as mutilated Israeli bodies were drug thru the street, the “civilians” helped rape, torture, murder Israelites and other nationalities on Oct 7, babies, children, women, men, the did so gleefully. They wanted war, they now have what they desired , I do not have any compassion for demons. Israel has dealt with them compassionately , perhaps , it would have been best to level gaza at the beginning.
TIJERANDY says
1 – BELIEVE NOTHING THEY SAY
2 – There is no such thing as a ‘civilian’ in Islam. ‘it is the duty of every ‘good Muslim’ to fight the Jihad, with all means at his disposal, until the World bows down to Allah’
3 – they train the children to fight and kill; they do not separate women and children from ‘combatants’..
4 – ‘War is deceit’…
OLD GUY says
There are no civilians under islamic rule. Muslims/Islamist from childhood on to adulthood are trained to KILL non-muslims./islamists. They are all soldiers of the death cult called Islam.
terry says
It ain’t called ‘Pallywood’ for nothing!