5 days Ago By Shai Genish
A house in Kibbutz Nahal Oz after Hamas Attack – Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO Newly surfaced research reveals that has significantly revised its reported war casualty figures, quietly removing thousands of deaths from its official count. : It has been widely reported that in past conflicts, the reports of civilian casualties in all came from local agencies controlled by the terrorist organization Hamas. And analyses of the lists released showed they overwhelmingly named younger men who were likely Hamas terrorists.
According to Salo Aizenberg, a researcher with the U.S.-based nonprofit , Hamas’s March 2025 update on war casualties shows a marked decrease, with thousands of individuals previously listed as killed in 2024 no longer appearing in the latest figures.
The discrepancy raises questions about the accuracy and transparency of casualty reporting from Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip and is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, and other countries. The updated figures are expected to prompt renewed scrutiny of wartime narratives and the role of verified data in assessing the humanitarian toll of the conflict. “Hamas Ministry of Health official admits NATURAL DEATHS were included in fatality lists—a claim they always denied,” Aizenberg said on Twitter.
“There have been ~8,000 natural deaths since 10/7, or 16% of all fatalities. Admission further corroborates my Jan 2025 estimate of Gaza fatalities.” “Close review of Gaza casualty figures reported by UN OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) based on daily Hamas ‘Ministry of Health’ numbers proves they are FALSIFIED.
Women & children are grossly inflated,” he added. “This is easily proven but media ignores.” This is not all.
A December report by the claims that Hamas likely inflated the number of civilian casualties in Gaza to frame Israel as deliberately targeting innocent people during the ongoing conflict. Andrew Fox, the report’s author, suggested that Hamas’s recent deletions from its casualty lists are an effort to restore credibility after inconsistencies were exposed. “We knew there were rafts of errors in their reporting,” said Fox.
“Their systems reportedly went down in November 2023, which may explain some confusion—but the lists are so unreliable that global media should stop quoting them as credible sources.” Fox pointed out that the UN continues to publish Hamas’s casualty numbers with a disclaimer noting the data is unverified. The Hamas casualty lists—shared through public Google forms—include names and ID numbers but lack verification, according to Fox.
“They’ve been accepting names with no proof whatsoever,” he explained. “It looks like they’re now trying to remove names they can’t substantiate to make the figures appear more legitimate.” Working with researcher Salo Aizenberg, Fox’s team has been cross-checking names from Hamas’s PDF casualty reports by converting the data into spreadsheets to identify discrepancies.
Fox also highlighted that demographics within the casualty data challenge Hamas’s claims that the majority of those killed are women and children. “About 72% of the fatalities between ages 13 and 55 are men,” he noted. “That’s the typical age range for Hamas combatants.
It undermines the claim that civilians make up the majority of deaths.”.
