5 out of 6 killed in Gaza are civilians – NaturalNews.com

• Israel’s own military intelligence data confirms 83 percent of Palestinian deaths in Gaza are civilians — 44,100 out of 53,000 killed by May 2025.
• Israeli forces inflate militant death counts by retroactively labeling civilians as terrorists, admitting to fabricating statistics to justify slaughter.
• Civilian infrastructure — hospitals, schools and aid centers — has been deliberately targeted, while officials openly admit to a 50-to-1 Palestinian death ratio policy.
• Gaza’s 83 percent civilian death rate surpasses most modern conflicts, rivaling genocides like Srebrenica and Rwanda, yet Western leaders continue arming and shielding Israel.
• This is not self-defense but ethnic cleansing, with land seizure and collective punishment as the real objectives behind the unchecked destruction of Palestinian life.

A joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian has now confirmed what independent journalists and human rights groups have been screaming for nearly two years: Israel’s own military intelligence data proves that 83 percentof the Palestinians killed in Gaza are civilians. That’s not collateral damage. That’s not a tragic mistake. That’s genocide, plain and simple.

The numbers don’t lie, even if Israel’s leaders do. According to the classified database, as of May 2025, Israeli forces had killed approximately 8,900 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighters — either confirmed or “probably dead.” Sounds like a lot, right? Except the total death toll in Gaza at that time was 53,000. Do the math: 44,100 of those dead were civilians. Women. Children. Elders. Doctors. Journalists. People who had nothing to do with Hamas, nothing to do with October 7, and everything to do with simply trying to survive in an open-air prison under relentless bombardment.

How Israel inflates “terrorist” death counts

Unfortunately, the story gets worse. The investigation reveals that Israeli forces have been fabricating militant death counts to justify their slaughter. One intelligence source admitted, “People are promoted to the rank of terrorist after their death.” Another said that if he had believed the brigade’s reports, “I would have come to the conclusion that we had killed 200 percent of Hamas operatives in the area.” In other words, Israel isn’t just killing civilians; they’re retroactively labeling them as terrorists to pad their statistics.

And let’s not forget the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure. Hospitals. Schools. Refugee camps. Food distribution centers. Israel hasn’t just been waging war on Hamas; it’s been waging war on the very idea of Palestinian life. Since May, nearly 2,000 more Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid—starved, then shot, by the same forces claiming to be “the most moral army in the world.” Meanwhile, Israeli officials like former military intelligence chief Aharon Haliva have been caught on tape saying things like “50 Palestinians must die for every Israeli killed on October 7… it doesn’t matter now if they are children.”

If that’s not a confession of genocidal intent, what is?

A civilian death rate worse than Syria, Sudan and nearly Rwanda

Experts from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, which tracks civilian casualties worldwide, confirm that Gaza’s 83% civilian death rate is “unusually high”, even compared to the most brutal modern conflicts. The only wars with higher proportions of civilian deaths? The Srebrenica massacre, the Rwandan genocide, and Russia’s siege of Mariupol. That’s the company Israel is keeping now. And yet, Western leaders continue to arm, fund, and diplomatically shield this slaughter, all while parading as champions of “human rights.”

If the roles were reversed, if Hamas were killing Israeli civilians at this rate, the world would have already declared it the worst atrocity since the Holocaust. There would be emergency UN sessions, sanctions, maybe even a NATO intervention. But because the victims are Palestinian, the same governments that lecture us about “democracy” and “civilized warfare” are complicit in genocide. And the media? Mostly silent, or worse — repeating Israeli talking points without question.

And let’s not pretend this is about “self-defense.” If Israel wanted to dismantle Hamas, it could have done so years ago without turning Gaza into a graveyard. But this was never just about Hamas. It’s about land. It’s about ethnic cleansing. It’s about sending a message to every Palestinian—and every Arab—that resistance will be met with annihilation.

The data is out. The confessions are on tape. The bodies are piled in the streets. If we can’t call this what it is—if we can’t demand an immediate ceasefire, an end to U.S. funding, and war crimes trials for Netanyahu and his generals—then what do we stand for?

Sources for this article include:

MiddleEastEye.net

972Mag.com

TheGuardian.com