Did Israel know over 80 percent of those it killed in Gaza were civilians?

Israel has bombard Gaza for almost two years, killing more than 62,000 people, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, but the actual number is probably much higher.

Israel says he’s aims at Hamas fighters, not civilians, but A military relationship disclosed reveals a different story.

The report indicates that 83% of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza were civilians.

How many people has Israel killed? And what does Israel say about killing them? Why is this last report so important? Here is what we know:

What does the report say?

The report was based on an internal Israeli intelligence database which records the death of combatants from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

The database estimated that Israel killed 8,900 fighters throughout his war against Gaza, according to May data. This is an estimate because, in this number, 1,570 names are listed as “probably dead”.

The figure of 8,900 is on 47,653 people that the database lists active combatants – 34,973 Hamas and 12,702 PIJ.

Let’s put this against the total number of people that Israel killed in Gaza, which was 53,000 in May, according to the +972 magazine. This means that 16.8% of the people that Israel killed or “probably” killed were fighters.

How many Palestinians Israel killed in Gaza?

According to the most recent figures from the Ministry of Health, Israel has at least killed 62,686 people In his 22 -month offensive on the enclave and injured 157,951. Thousands of others remain missing.

Studies have shown that the number of victims is much higher. A study evaluated by peers published in the Lancet Medical Journal said that the actual number killed in the first nine months of the war may have been 40% higher than that reported.

Many bodies of those who are killed by Israel are cremated during bombs or missile strikes, left to rot in the areas occupied by the Israeli army or remain crushed under the rubble of buildings destroyed with rescuers unable to reach them.

The number of civilian deaths is attacking Israel on Gaza City, who said has already startedeven more frightening.

What does Israel say about killing civilians?

Israel has repeatedly said that he could do everything he could to limit civilian victims and regularly disputes the number of the Ministry of Health.

In September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that Israel had the “lowest ratio of civil death and fighting in the history of modern urban war”, affirming that the army killed a civilian for each fighter he killed.

But it was months after the local call and the +972 reported an AI targeting system of the Israeli army which targeted the name of the Lavender, which, according to Israeli intelligence sources, marked tens of thousands of people in Gaza as potential and eligible fighters to be killed.

According to two of the sources, the army decided during the first stadiums of the war that it was allowed to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians for each junior of Hamas assigned to death by lavender.

And members of Netanyahu’s far -right coalition have shown little or no concern for Palestinian life when they are addressed to their domestic audience.

Speaking on Israeli radio last month, The Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu said: “The government rushes to erase Gaza, and thank God, erase this evil. All Gaza will be Jewish.”

The Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said a conference on the regulation in May: “Gaza will be completely destroyed”, and what remains of his people would be exiled to a narrow strip of land in the south.

Do the media reports on the War of Israel against Gaza suggest that Israel limits civilian victims?

They don’t.

Throughout the conflict, Al Jazeera reported many accounts Civilians being massacred while Food searchthe decrease in heavy ammunition on travel campsthe systematics Destruction of the Gaza health system And the deliberation kill his doctors as well as the use of Famine as a weapon of war.

“I think anyone who has closely observed the genocide in Gaza was not surprised by the report,” said Orly Noy of the local call in Al Jazeera.

“Everything we knew about war suggested that mass murder, destruction and brutality were blind.

How did the Israeli army respond?

When approached by local appeal and +972, the Israeli army confirmed the existence of the database on which the report was based.

However, when they are approached by the Guardian, the Israeli authorities said they decided to “reformulate” their initial response.

A brief declaration sent to the newspaper did not answer any questions directly on the data, but said that “the figures presented in the article are incorrect” without detailing what parts of the Israel Disputs.

He also said that the figures cited by the media “do not reflect the data available in the [Israeli military]Systems »without detailing the systems to which it referred.

What are the Israeli army numbers?

They varied wildly during the war.

In November 2023, a senior Israeli security official suggested that Israel had killed 20,000 people in Gaza, most of the combatants.

The following month, this number decreased to 7,860 fighters. In February 2024, the Israeli army said it had killed around 13,000 fighters, then reduced the figure by 1,000 per week later.

In August 2024, he claimed to have killed 17,000 fighters, but changed him at 14,000 two months later.

“We point out that many Hamas agents have been killed, but I think most of the people we point out as dead are not really Hamas agents,” said an intelligence source that accompanied Israeli forces in Gaza to Gaza at +972.

“People are promoted to the rank of terrorist after their death. If I had listened to the brigade, I could have concluded that we had killed 200% of Hamas agents in the region. ”

Ironically, the only set of coherent figures that the Israeli army uses is that produced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Do other wars have similar levels of civilian victims?

Not regularly throughout a war.

About 83% of civilians among people killed would be unusually high, especially since it has been going on for so long, “said Therese Pettersson of the Uppsala conflict data program, which follows civilian victims worldwide.