Surely It Would Be Better For Them To Tell The Truth.

Hamas' claim that women, kids are 70% of those killed in Gaza is 'demonstrably false': report.

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Monday, May 12, 2025

Palestinians stand around a charred fishing boat that was hit by an Israeli airsrike on the Mediterranean coast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. | Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images

Claims that 70% of the casualties in Israel's ongoing war with the Hamas terror group are women and children in Gaza do not appear to be factual and are propagated to craft a narrative that the Israeli military is indiscriminately targeting civilians, according to researchers. 

In a paper published by the foreign policy think tank Henry Jackson Society last month, Professors Lewis Stone of the mathematical sciences department at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and Gregory Rose of the University of Wollongong in Australia accused Hamas' Government Media Office of distorting the data presented by the Gaza Ministry of Health.

The ministry, which Hamas also controls, has produced casualty data throughout the war in Gaza, which began after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in southern Israel killed about 1,200 people. The data is often cited in media reports without much questioning of its validity. The Gaza Health Ministry published a list in March 2025 of 50,021 fatalities during the war, a figure that the professors noted was inconsistent with Gaza hospital records. According to the researchers, the real proportion of women and children killed during the war is just under 51%. While the professors stated that they do not doubt that a large number of civilians have tragically lost their lives throughout the war, the researchers questioned the integrity of Hamas' data due to many anomalies, such as the inclusion of living people on the list of reported casualties. CP.