Israeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barrage
Israeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barrage
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says dozens of people have been killed in a refugee camp.
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Israel themselves said they would accept 15 dead civilians for low level Hamas staff and 100+ for higher ranking ones.
And they overshoot hard.
IDF count every male above 16 as Hamas by default. You're gonna get a lot of false positives that way
I'm using US estimates of combatant deaths, not IDF estimates.
The US puts the number of Hamas men injured at between 10,500 and 11,700, many of whom could keep fighting, a US official told the newspaper.
Just FYI the total stats for injured is way way way above 35k
The US estimates that there are 50K Hamas combatants, 30K soldiers and 20K armed police. Currently 30-35% have been killed (note your estimate was from January).
Hence about 15K Hamas killed.
About 2/3 dead are women and children according to most sources I see. 15K Hamas of 37K dead exceeds 1/3, so that can only be possible if you count numerous women and children as Hamas and valid military targets.
The most recent UN figures I saw count 4,959 women, 7,797 children, 10,006 men, and about 10,000 unknown. So that's still in keeping with 15,000 adult male combatants.
That's a lot of heavy lifting from the assumptions that the missing is majority men and also that all fighting age males would be Hamas
I'm just pointing out that it's not mathematically impossible, as you suggested.
And of course this is still assuming that all combatants are adult men. Women can also be combatants, and even older children are a possibility.
By the way, mass death from starvation on the way