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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83%

www.theguardian.com

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.

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.

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Remember when they claimed that they killed 9000 in first 3 months? https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-war-goals-unachieved-1.7087509
- Luckily the mainstream media published these Israeli statements uncritically.
Where do they get that 17% ?
The Palestinian Army?
17% of 60K is about 10,000 adults (I hope) .. what are they Hamas?
Or maybe medical, emergency, municipal employees don't count as "civilians".
What they really must mean is that they were men between the ages of 16 and 50 who could potentially be resisting the massacre. They are racist enough to exclude women and children as warriors.
@genevaconvenience
- I interpret this as 17% of the unconfirmed killed by Israel were targeted by the IDF. This does not mean they were military members, simply that Israel wanted to kill them. So journalists, scholars and doctors etcetera are all targets.
  At least 83% of those directly killed by Israel were not on a target list and certainly not military targets.