(Video of drone footage of the aftermath of Israeli attacks in Gaza.)
This article explains that while many people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 7, Hamas’ claims of the number of casualties can’t be trusted for many reasons, including the fact there there is no evidence of mass graves that their claimed 16,000 deaths would have required, the fact that Hamas is claiming that about 30,000 have been wounded when the total number of hospital beds in all medical facilities in Gaza is only about 3,000, and the fact that the Israeli forces usually attempt to warn residents before they attack an area.
[Note: In any event ultimately all sides of the conflict are being controlled by the same group of global elite individuals (link, and link), so of course any loss of lives on all sides are senseless and homicidal.]
Following are key points from a December 6, 2023 article entitled “Hamas’ Gaza Casualties Can’t Be Trusted; Biden Was Right the First Time.”
— News outlets have been reporting nearly 16,000 deaths in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip since the October 7th attacks, however those numbers come from the Hamas-run “Health Ministry” which has a history of making deceptive statements. Hamas’ founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of Jews, and in 1995 the United States had designated the Iran-backed group as a terrorist organization.
— Claims by the group that their causalities are “mostly women and children” are used to destroy support for Israel on the world stage and let Hamas survive by stopping or reducing Israel’s campaign of “indiscriminate” attacks, as is being advocated by congressional Democrats in the U.S. and the anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish left.
— Even if the casualty numbers being supplied by Hamas are correct (which they can’t be as is explained later), it would be a proportion of 2.63 civilian casualties to every 1 combatant causality, whereas in 2015 the UN put combatant to non-combatant deaths caused by the US and British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq at between 3:1 and 4:1. [Note: I think in all those cases the ratios are horrible as well, of course.]
— During the 50-day Israel-Hamas 2014 war in the Gaza strip, Israel had gone out of its way minimize the non-combatant deaths, including warning the civilians of the impending attacks in their neighborhoods.
— During the current conflict, the Israeli forces have been dropping leaflets, making phone calls by Arabic-speaking IDF soldiers, and otherwise warning citizens to flee from Hamas targets. Additionally Israel has even fired on Hamas soldiers to protect Palestinian civilians, as is explained in this article.
— After the 2014 war, Hamas has stopped specifying fatalities by age and sex, thus making them “fanciful propaganda statistics” as Lenny Ben-David of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs said in an article “The Casualty Figures in Gaza Are a Scam.” [Note: In the article he also says, “… Hamas facilities and leaders hide behind civilians and under schools and hospitals. Hamas fighters block civilians from evacuating. And then, Hamas’ Ministry of Health inflates the casualty figures. … Israel repeatedly warned Gazan residents of north Gaza to evacuate their homes. Leaflets were dropped in their neighborhoods, and even private phone calls were made by IDF Arabic-speaking soldiers. An estimated one million Gazans took the warnings seriously and avoided Hamas attempts to keep them in the north as human shields. Lower casualty rates of women and children should have reflected their leaving the north.”]
— In another analysis by the Jerusalem Center entitled “Hamas’ Numbers Warfare,” it is explained that neither the Hamas leadership or the Ministry of Health reported a single causality among the Hamas forces in the first five weeks of fighting, and it points out that no one questioned their claims of about 30,000 wounded when the total number of hospital beds in all medical facilities in Gaza did not exceed 3,000. The author Prof. Kobi Michael explains that he estimates the number of dead and wounded Gazans to be 50 percent of the total amount that is reported by Hamas officials, with at least half of those being Hamas members.
— A former US intelligence analyst Malcom Nance wrote a Tweet where he explained that there was no way that doctors would have been able to pass on information about the verified dead due to them not having a working integrated medical reporting system prior to the cease-fire; he also said there would have been no way for Hamas to know how many people have died outside the hospitals; and he said that it is in fact possible to make estimates of numbers of deaths from mass graves as he had done at Mariupol, Ukranian ISIS sites, however there is no evidence of 160 mass graves existing (assuming 100 bodies in each) that would have been needed to bury so many people. He ends his Tweet by saying “Sorry it is just Impossible to verify ANY HAMAS health ministry death tolls. The media, NGOs & UN uses HAMAS figures.”
— After their October 7th attacks, Hamas pledged to attempt more genocidal raids into Israel until the Jewish state and its Jews are destroyed. Israel believes the organization started the war with 30,000 gunmen, and Hamas terrorists fight among Gaza’s civilians, which means that eradicating them will continue to result in noncombatant deaths.