A horrible survey. According to an investigation by the British media, the guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian newspaper +972 Magazine, as well as a local information call, five in six Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in Gaza are civilians and no Hamas Fighters.
The figures were discovered in a classified database of Israeli military intelligence services. These figures “largely contradict the public statements of the army and Israeli government officials since the beginning of the war.”
And for a good reason: intelligence services “have generally advanced a relationship of one to one or two civil victims compared to activists”, as reported by the magazine Site of Information +972.
17% of Hamas combatants killed
In the 19 War month, 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks. This evaluation includes Hamas fighters that represented 17% of the dead, which remains 83% of civilians.
These figures of the service analysis “corroborate the conclusions of several studies that suggest that Israeli bombings in Gaza have killed civilians at an unprecedented rate in modern wars,” explains the magazine +972.
According to British media, these figures are extremely high “even compared to the conflicts known for their blind massacres, particularly Syrian and Sudanese civil wars.”
“It’s just a great lantern”
Itzhak Brik, a retired general, told The Guardian that Israeli soldiers in service knew that political leaders would exaggerate the Hamas registry.
The general who was also the advisor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the beginning of the war also said that “there is absolutely no link between the announced figures and reality.” “It’s just a big lantern,” he said.
In addition, the results of the victims of Hamas members were inflated by Israeli officials in their public statements, according to Muhammad Shehada, a Palestinian analyst.
“Israel is expanding the borders to be able to assimilate each person to Gaza in Hamas,” said the specialist with The Guardian, adding that “all this is to kill at that time, for tactical purposes that have nothing to do with the extinction of a threat.”
The three media that conducted this survey contacted the Israeli army at the end of July, which assured that these figures “are incorrect and do not reflect the data available in ASAHAL systems.”
Tsahal’s military operation in the Gaza Strip left at least 62,192 dead, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas Government Ministry of Health for Gaza. The Ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the UN, does not specify the number of killed fighters.
Source: BFM TV
