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Re: "... its slaughter of innocents in Gaza...".....You might - but only if you have interest in facts - find this of interest:

What Percentage of Those Killed by the IDF in Gaza were Civilians?
MAR 26, 2024 2:00 PM BY HUGH FITZGERALD
As is well known, Hamas has a long history, going back many years, of undercounting its own losses
and exaggerating the number of civilians killed by the IDF. Think of the “massacre of Jenin,” where
Hamas claimed that “500 civilians” had been massacred by the IDF. In the end, both American and
Israeli intelligence concluded that 52 people had been killed by the IDF, at least 45 of whom were
members of Hamas. Or consider the Hamas claim that an Israeli airstrike hit the Al-Ahli Hospital in
Gaza, killed “471 civilians.” It turned out that not an Israeli airstrike, but a missile launched toward
Israel by Palestinian Islamic Jihad had misfired, and fell to earth in the parking lot of the Al-Ahli
hospital, not on the hospital itself.
Hamas continues to inflate the number of civilians killed by the IDF in Gaza. It counts as “deaths
caused by the IDF” all the civilians in Gaza who are accidentally killed by Hamas and its allied terror
group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) when their weapons, including missiles, misfire, as did that PIJ
missile at the Al-Ahli Hospital. How many victims of friendly fire” from Hamas have there been?
Hamas also counts all those who die of natural causes — about 500 Gazans a month — as having
been killed by the IDF. That’s close to 3,000 civilian deaths wrongly attributed so far to the IDF.
It turns out that as many as 75% of the Gazans killed may have been Hamas terrorists. More on the
calculation that leads to this conclusion can be found here: “More than half, and maybe as many as
75%, of Gaza deaths are Hamas terrorists. Here’s why.” Elder of Ziyon, March 17, 2024:
The Gaza ministry of health has not directly counted 31,000 dead. Their own documentation
says that they directly counted some 17,000 in their hospitals, and (as of March 4) over 13,000
from “trusted media sources.”
Those “trusted media sources” are the Hamas “government media office,” that the UN calls
“GMO.”
Now, let’s look at the incident from the Kuwaiti roundabout last week. The Ministry of Health
said that 20 were killed while the Hamas media office said 100 were killed.
The Hamas media office simply makes things up out of thin air. Just as we’ve seen from the Al
Ahli hospital explosion, they will inflate death tolls by 5 times or more. And the media knows it
– none of them reported the higher Kuwaiti roundabout figures (that were killed by Palestinian
gunmen.) Yet the UN relies on the Hamas media office for its statistics of women and children
killed, as well as the total number killed given by the MoH which includes the 13,000 from
Hamas, and then the UN figures get reported as factual by the media.
It was Hamas gunmen, not the IDF, who fired into the crowd of Gazan civilians who had been waiting
for food aid to arrive at the Kuwaiti Circle. Hamas wanted to scare them away – by shooting to kill —
so its own operatives could seize the food for themselves and their extended families. Yet Hamas
blamed the IDF for all of those deaths.
Now that means that the 31,000 killed reported by Hamas are highly suspect. We can imagine
there are some bodies that never made it to hospitals, but not anything close to 31,000.
In short, there are not 31,000 dead in Gaza. The real number is thousands less.
Let’s be generous and pretend that Hamas only inflates their portion of the death toll numbers
by a factor of 2. That would mean that the total Gaza death toll is closer to 23,000, not 31,000.
Now, Israel is reporting that it has killed 13,000 Hamas and other terrorists. From previous
wars, IDF estimates of terrorists killed were found to be accurate even though they were hotly
disputed at the time.
If the IDF has killed 13,000 terrorists, and the total Gaza death toll is 23,000 and not 31,000, that
means that 56% of those killed are Hamas.
If the real death toll is closer to 20,000 (which would be my guess with Hamas inflating their
numbers by a factor of 5), then the percentage [of Hamas members killed] goes up to 65% –
nearly two out of three being terrorists, which is an absolutely stunning number given how
much Hamas relies on human shields as its defensive strategy….
Do the math. It looks like there have not been 31,000 dead Gazans killed by the IDF but far fewer.
Once we take into account Hamas’ usual exaggerations of civilian deaths, and subtract the number of
Gazans killed by malfunctioning weapons of Hamas and PIJ, and “friendly fire” incidents by Hamas
shooting, by accident, its own, and subtract as well the natural deaths of Gazans, we arrive at a total
of about 17,000, with 13,00 of them being, according to the IDF’s calculation, Hamas operatives. That
means about 75% of the deaths in Gaza are of Hamas terrorists.
Do you think any IDF spokesman will be allowed to present these calculations on CNN, or the BBC,
or Agence France Presse? Do you think The New York Times or The Washington Post will examine
Hamas’ claims on casualties, and publish the results? No, of course not. They directly contradict the
incessant reporting about “31,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.” There is no evidence
that they were “mostly women and children,” but that is the Hamas phrase that the world media have
chosen to endlessly repeat, without examining its truth or falsehood. Still, for those who are willing to
sit still, and consider carefully the calculations presented by Elder of Ziyon, it should be quite a
revelation. To wit, up to 75% of those killed in Gaza are likely to have been Hamas members.
That means a 1:3 civilian-to-combatant ratio, that is, one civilian killed for every three Hamas
combatants, a ratio unheard-of in the history of warfare.