Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war (Guardian, 2025-08-21)
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war (Guardian, 2025-08-21)
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war (Guardian, 2025-08-21)
As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found.
At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a toll that included combatants and civilians. Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians.
The military also considers the Gaza health ministry toll reliable, #LocalCall has reported ...