VFalcone posted... The problem is that statistically speaking, there were only 30,000 Hamas at the start of the war on Oct 7th compared to 2.5M population. That's 1.2% of the population. Not only that, Hamas is spread out across Gaza, West Bank, and other places in the world. Therefore it is literally mathematically impossible for there no be anywhere near the amount of Hamas dead as Israel claims there is.
If we apply those population stats to the current death toll, Hamas deaths don't even make it to 1,000 (441.6, to be exact). Now I can believe that Israel have probably killed a decent amount of Hamas.. factoring in the likelihood that more would be piled up in certain spots due to the war and for sure more have signed up throughout the months but rest assured, it is IMPOSSIBLE for Israel to have killed the 10k or 15k whatever the fuck they say they have.
40,000 Hamas fighters was the figure I was hearing earlier on in this "war", with some saying 30-40,000.
But I'm pretty sure there's been more than 1,000 Hamas fighters killed. Previously I was using the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor for death stats and at their last count back in Feb there were 38,066 people killed, of which 34,570 were civilians, which implies about 3,500 Hamas dead.
https://euromedmonitor.org/uploads/IMG_8905.png
None of the death stats include indirect deaths though. does anyone know if there's been any good studies showing "excess deaths"?? Because there's going to be tens of thousands more dead due to the collapsing health system, illness/disease, dehydration/malnutrition, etc which are not counted because they're not directly combat related but are still attributable to the Israeli offensive.