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TheProle

(3,309 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:06 PM Wednesday

Hamas admits 72% of deaths are combat-aged men as it quietly reduces civilian death toll - report

Hamas quietly removed the names of thousands of Palestinians it had previously alleged were killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Salo Aizenberg, from the US-based non-profit organisation Honest Reporting told The Telegraph on Tuesday after analyzing Hamas’s March 2025 casualty update.

Hamas has previously claimed that 70% of casualties have been women and children, a claim no longer reflected in their recently updated lists, according to the research. Approximately 72% of fatalities between the ages of 13-55 are men - the demographic category aligns with Hamas combatants.

“Hamas’s new March 2025 fatality list quietly drops 3,400 fully ‘identified’ deaths listed in its August and October 2024 reports – including 1,080 children. These ‘deaths’ never happened. The numbers were falsified – again,” Aizenberg asserted.


https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-848592
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Hamas admits 72% of deaths are combat-aged men as it quietly reduces civilian death toll - report (Original Post) TheProle Wednesday OP
HAMAs falsifying casualty reports? MarineCombatEngineer Wednesday #1
HonestReporting is an advocacy group, not a journalistic/reporting group, fwiw. WhiskeyGrinder Wednesday #2
Fair enough TheProle Wednesday #3

MarineCombatEngineer

(15,018 posts)
1. HAMAs falsifying casualty reports?
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:08 PM
Wednesday

Tell me it ain't so.

Can't wait for the naysayers to try to dispute this and claim that Israel is behind this new report somehow.

WhiskeyGrinder

(24,575 posts)
2. HonestReporting is an advocacy group, not a journalistic/reporting group, fwiw.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:20 PM
Wednesday

It's also the org that was out there accusing AP, Reuters and BBC photographers of being "part of the plan" on October 7. Just deeply irresponsible shit.

TheProle

(3,309 posts)
3. Fair enough
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:39 PM
Wednesday

But I guess that makes the crux of the issue whether or not this is a blatant lie:

Hamas’s new March 2025 fatality list quietly drops 3,400 fully ‘identified’ deaths listed in its August and October 2024 reports – including 1,080 children.

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