The Hamas Ministry of Health recently downgraded the number of people who died in Gaza since 7/10/23.

The numbers were reduced as of 24 March 2025, to 50,810 dead Gazans and 115,700 wounded.

Two important points.

Hamas still does not differentiate between combatants and non-combatants.
Their death figures include everyone who died in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

These figures include people who died of natural causes, sickness or any other medical condition, those that died in accidents, or who were killed in domestic or civil violence and crime of which there are many in a corrupt and tribal Palestinian society.

Last December, the Henry Jackson Society estimated that natural deaths accounted for approximately 5,000 Gazans in the given period from 7.10.
According to the IDF, they have a verified total of more than 20,000 Hamas personnel and at least 3,000 personnel of other terrorist organizations. The number of wounded terrorists is not known but is probably at least similar to the number killed.

At least 23,000 out of a Hamas-given 50,810 total deaths offers an combatant-civilian ratio that is extraordinarily low, the lowest ever recorded in urban warfare.

And this has been confirmed by two neutral non-Israeli military experts - Britain's Colonel Richard Kemp and John Spencer (West Point) both of whom have independently and regularly visited Gaza during the conflict how Israel is conducting its warfare and to check the facts and figures.

Please bear these numbers in mind when you hear people , espcially the media and the anti-Israel action groups, some guised as human rights organizations, rant about excessive deaths, and accuse Israel of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.

Simply show them the figures for that is where the truth resides.

Barry Shaw,
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.