Israeli information disclosed confirm one of the highest civil tolls in modern conflicts.
A classified Israeli military database shows that the vast majority of Palestinians killed in Gaza are civilians, according to a joint Guardian investigation, the +972 magazine and the local call.
The figures examined by the points of sale revealed Thursday indicate that in May 2025 to 19 months after the War of Israel against Gaza – Israeli military intelligence had listed 8,900 fighters from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as being confirmed or “probably” dead.
During the same period, the Gaza health authorities recorded at least 53,000 deaths after Israeli attacks, which means that the nominated combatants represented only 17% of people killed, with civilians at around 83% of the total number of deaths.
Conflict researchers say that the ratio is almost unprecedented in modern war. Only the Rwandan genocide, the 1995 srebrenica massacre and the siege of Mariupol in 2022 in Russia recorded a higher civil mortality rate, the authors noted.
Rights defense groups and genocide specialists argue that the results also support the affirmations that Israel commits a genocide in Gaza, highlighting the mass civilian dead alongside deliberate famine.
When he was asked to comment on the Guardian, the +972 magazine and the local call, the Israeli army did not deny the existence of the intelligence database or the figures listed for the victims of Hamas and the PIJ.
Instead, a spokesperson said that “the figures presented in the article are incorrect”, but did not clarify which figures were disputed. The declaration also said that the data “does not reflect the data available in systems (Israeli military)”, without explaining what these systems contained.
Israeli politicians and military leaders have long swelled death tolls, sometimes affirming up to 20,000 fighters killed or insisting on a civil / fighter ratio of 1: 1 – believes that the report notes that they do not believe in private.
Meanwhile, Israeli rhetoric has more and more reflected genocidal language.
In disclosed audio recordings broadcast on Israel 12 channel, Aharon Haliva, the former chief of military intelligence, said: “The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations.”
He went further by saying: “For each (victim) on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die … There is no choice, they need a Nakba from time to time to feel the consequences.” Nakba, or “disaster”, refers to the murder and ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians in 1948 to make way for the creation of Israel.
In March, the number of Gaza deaths reached 50,000; He has since been 62,000 people, according to the Enclave Ministry of Health. The total number of injured has now exceeded 157,000.
The International Criminal Court published arrest mandates against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between October 2023 and May 2024.