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

[simple1]

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000. That apparent ratio of civilians to combatants among the dead is extremely high for modern warfare, even compared with conflicts notorious for indiscriminate killing, including the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/revealed-israeli-militarys-own-data-indicates-civilian-death-rate-of-83-in-gaza-war?utm_term=68a7eec751dbeb134aad07936cb8466e&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email

[Cameroni]

That's utterly shocking.

 

A death rate of 83% for civilians is clear evidence of genocide.

 

Netanyahu should be arrested and brought to the Netherlands as the criminal he is.

[coolcarer]

Yawn, not one named source reveals this data base, not that it does probably exist but to think only named terrorists have been killed and not 1000s of others is more than simple mind could even believe.

 

Response from IDF,

 

“The figures presented in the article are incorrect and do not reflect the data available in the IDF’s systems. Throughout the war, continuous intelligence assessments are conducted regarding the number of terrorists eliminated in the Gaza Strip, based on BDA [bomb damage assessment] methodologies and cross-checking efforts from various sources … [including] documents originating from terrorist organizations in the Strip.”

[Nick Carter icp]

This is a false claim by the Guardian .

The IDF can name 8900 dead Hamas members .

Some of the otter dead may also be Hamas , just IDF cannot name them .

Then you are also relying on the Hamas figures of deaths to be true and correct .  

   Another false story from the once reliable Guardian 

Israel knows the names of 8900 enemy combatants it's killed. In a war, you don't know the name of most enemy combatants you killed, so the actual number of enemy combatants killed is much higher. Also, the article is using Hamas-provided numbers for total fatalities, which of course are hardly reliable

[simple1]

4 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

This is a false claim by the Guardian .

 

<snipped for brevity>. The article is not a "claim"  by the Guardian, but reporting on data received  and then analysed by them and two Israeli organisations. IDF were asked to clarify their concerns regards the article by the Guardian, but failed to do so. One has only to see videos of the enormous level of destruction in Gaza for the report to make common sense.

 

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.