{"id":301724,"date":"2025-08-25T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=301724"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:39:50","slug":"classified-idf-intel-reveals-83-of-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-are-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/classified-idf-intel-reveals-83-of-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-are-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Classified IDF Intel Reveals 83% of Palestinians Killed in Gaza Are Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bodies of Palestinians, including children, killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential neighborhoods are brought to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for identification and funeral preparation on 21 Aug 2025.
(Photo by Khames Alrefi\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

The data show “a proportion of civilian slaughter with few, if any, parallels in modern warfare.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

21 Aug 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0An investigation published today belied Israeli government claims of a historically low civilian-to-combatant kill ratio in Gaza<\/a>, as classified Israel<\/a> Defense Forces intelligence data revealed that 5 in 6 Palestinians killed by the IDF through the first 19 months of the US-backed war were, in fact, civilians.<\/p>\n

A joint investigation<\/a> by Israeli journalist and filmmaker Yuval Abraham of +972 Magazine<\/em> and Local Call<\/em> and Guardian<\/em> senior international affairs correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison revealed<\/a> that, as of May, the Military Intelligence Directorate identified by name 8,900 fighters from Hamas\u2014which led the October 7, 2023 attack\u2014and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as “dead” or “probably dead.”<\/p>\n

At that time, the official Palestinian death toll in Gaza stood at 52,928, with the Gaza Health Ministry not differentiating between civilians and militants. Israeli officials<\/a> and independent peer-reviewed studies have either concurred with the ministry’s figures or called them an undercount<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The classified IDF data obtained by Abraham and Graham-Harrison show that at least 83% of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces through May were civilians, what Graham-Harrison called “an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare… even compared with conflicts notorious for indiscriminate killing, including the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars.”<\/p>\n

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