Gaza: The Guardian and the Israeli-Palestinian media +972 reveal that 83 % of Palestinians killed are civilians

According to a survey by Guardian And Israeli-Palestinian media, internal data from the Israeli army reveal that 83 % of Palestinians killed in Gaza are civilians. Out of 53,000 dead in May, only 8,900 were identified fighters.

Such a rate of massacred civilians is exceptional in the recent history of conflicts and feeds the accusations of genocide carried by jurists, researchers and NGOs against Israel. Even former Israeli officers recognize that official balance sheets are handled and that “most killed” are non-combatants. These revelations contradict the official Israeli speeches, which regularly claim to have targeted “terrorists”. In reality, according to several military sources, civilians are systematically counted as combatants after their death, artificially inflating the number of militants killed.

The logic of mass destruction is accompanied by an assumed strategy of terror and forced displacement. Organized famine, indiscriminate bombardments and repeated evacuation orders: any contributes to making Gaza uninhabitable. For many observers, this policy no longer aims only to fight Hamas, but to destroy a people and erase their presence. While Gaza is already ravaged and its hungry population, these revelations confirm what voices have denounced for months: a war waged against an entire people.

Beyond the figures, it is the very meaning of this war that questions. Data from the Israeli army show that the target is not only military but demographic and political. What is played out in Gaza goes beyond the framework of a classic war: it is a genocide, where the systematic destruction of a population becomes a strategic objective. By reducing Palestinian society to an indistinct mass to eliminate, Israel is part of a colonial logic where the very existence of a people is considered a threat.