At least 5 out of 6 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza are civilians, the discovery of the report
The defenders renew the calls in Canada to recognize a genocide in Gaza following the publication of a new report which revealed that at least five in six people killed in the War of Israel-Hamas.
A joint survey published Thursday by an Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 MagazineHebrew language exit Local call and the British media The guardianUsing a classified Israeli military intelligence database, noted in May 2025, Israeli intelligence officials enamed 8,900 fighters named Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”.
At that time, 53,000 Palestinians had been killed during attacks by Israeli defense forces (FDI) since October 7, 2023, according to the Gaza health authorities. With fighters named in the database representing only 17% of the total deaths, the survey determined that the remaining 83% of the dead were civilians.
CBC News has not seen the data and therefore did not check the report independently. However, the number of civil deaths reported in the survey is significantly higher than most modern conflicts.
In the Sudanese civil war, around 50% of the dead were civilians, according to the Uppsala conflict data program, which follows deaths in conflicts around the world. Uppsala claims that the civil mortality rate in the current war of Russia in Ukraine, in comparison, is around 10%.
Annelle Sheline, a researcher for the Middle East at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and former Foreign Affairs Officer of the United States Department of State, Gaza’s figures were comparable to CBC News are comparable to the genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica in the 1990s.
“Very clearly, this is far from the field of what the FDIs claimed, that they targeted Hamas fighters,” said Sheline.
“This reaffirms what should have been obvious, but is now clearly irrefutable: the fact that they were so blind and actually engage in what I would characterize the genocide.”
Experts have also told CBC News that the 83% figure for civilian deaths would probably be an underdece because it uses the own definition of FDI activists.
Israel has appointed Hamas journalists and political members as targets, for example, but international law prohibits targeting anyone who is not engaged in combat.
The conclusions of the investigation align with studies And reports which found that civil death chiefs were much higher than the figures for the declarations of Israeli officials, who said that the civil death ratio is as weak as 1: 1 – A civilian killed for each activist killed.
The IDF did not answer questions from CBC news sent via WhatsApp, but referred to An article on the social media platform Xof the spokesperson LT-COL. Nadav Shoshani, saying that the report figures are “incorrect and do not reflect the data available in FDI systems”.
The IDF did not explain what is specifically incorrect as to the reports, and did not offer different figures.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a cease-fire agreement approved by Hamas, and military bombings began in Gaza City, triggering more trips, destruction and despair for residents.
The number of “unprecedented” civilian deaths: non -profit
Airwars, a non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom that follows and archive civil losses in wars using geolocation teams, official documents, social media reports, among other sources, already documented An unprecedented number of civilian deaths in Gaza for the rest of October, after October 7, 2023, attacking Israel by Hamas activists.
He is a model he says to remained consistent In the nearly two years that followed.
In October 2023, Airwars noted that Israeli forces killed at least 5,139 civilians in Gaza – almost four times the number killed during the deadliest month that the group has ever documented, in March 2017, when an American coalition killed at least 1,470 civilians in Iraq.
Airwars also found that there were more than 1,900 children killed in Gaza in October 2023. It is almost seven times the number of children killed in January 2016 – previously the deadliest month for children ever documented by the group – when 279 children were killed by foreign actors in Syria.
The group found that at least nine women and children out of 10 killed in Gaza were in residential buildings at the time of their death.
What is it to be a child living through a war? By working with CBC Kids News, independent videographer Mohamed El Saife spoke with children living in Gaza City on August 3. Gaza City is the largest city in Gaza, a Palestinian territory which has been devastated by an in progress war between Israel and Hamas since October 2023. The children described the difficulties they have faced, as not being able to attend school, going, lying down, loss dowing they love ones. Some children have used music to cheer up and the spirits of those around them.
Emily Tripp, the executive director of Airwars, told CBC News that civil damage to Gaza had been more intense “on each metric” than everything that the organization has seen before, partly motivated by attacks against residential districts and schools where sometimes dozens of civilians are killed in a single air strike.
Airwars has also documented more than 200 cases of bullet by the Israeli army in and around aid sites and aid distribution sites.
Tripp says that the nature of this war is that “civilians carry the weight”.
Violence in Gaza “not like other conflicts”: advocate
Michael Bueckert, acting president of the Canadiens Defense group for justice and peace in the Middle East, told CBC News that the conclusions of the investigation were not surprising.
“Of course, this is the case,” he said about high civilian mortality rates. “We know it’s true.”
“Anyone who has followed the news in recent years has seen Israel engage in daily attacks against hospitals, refugee camps, schools housed inappropriate people, deliberately targeting medical teams, ambulances, journalists, whole neighborhoods.”
Bueckert hopes that the report is pushing the Canadian government to recognize the current violence of Israel in Gaza as a genocide.
“It is not a war. It is not like the other conflicts. It is a very important atrocity which takes place and which is arguing when we speak.”
Fatema Abdalla, the head of government affairs and public policies of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, also called on the government to recognize the war in Gaza as a genocide.
“This is the most documented genocide in the world of history,” she told CBC News. “I don’t think I have seen as many videos and photos of the horrible war against civilians.”
The United Nations rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, told the United Nations Human Rights Council last month that Israel was “responsible for one of the most cruel genocides in modern history”. Many lawyers, human rights, academia and academia for genocide groups have also qualified the military campaign of Israel a genocide.
Israel has always denied these claims, but its political and military leaders have openly used The genocidal rhetoric, in particular calling the Palestinians “human animals” and saying it “does not matter” if the children are killed. Last month, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported The Israeli soldiers were ordered to deliberately draw non -armed Palestinians in search of aid in Gaza.
Studies also found The official number of deaths of the Gaza Ministry of Health is probably considerably lower than the actual number of deaths.
This is partly due to the fact that the Gaza Ministry of Health records only the organizations that have been recovered, identified and reported by the Morgues hospital. It also does not record indirect deaths, such as deaths caused by famine and lack of access to water and sanitation facilities that were destroyed during the war.
Some scientists and public health experts have estimated that the actual number of deaths in Gaza is in hundreds of thousands.
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