🧵Major change in Gaza fatality report by UN: They now publish only identified fatalities admitting large number are made up by Hamas. Women & children half the “14,000 kids” killed often claim. Now 24,700 fatalities identified and >14,000 are combatants according to IDF. 1/3
For months UN & media claimed Gaza “health authorities” report numbers based on bodies counted, but as far back as April 7 Hamas admitted it was missing data on >11,000 claimed deaths. First time the UN finally stops parroting the 34,000 number that is literally made up. 2/
The 34,000+ number now includes 10,000 "missing" or “under rubble” which means no one has any idea. This missing/rubble number comes from the "Government Media Office" not the “health authorities.” Media at this point cannot credibly report 34,000 “have been killed in Gaza.” END
It is possible to interpret the chart as ~35,000 fatalities plus 10,000 under rubble/missing for 45,000 total. It just makes it even more absurd -- only 25,000 identified plus 10,000 under rubble plus another 10,000 just from the air?(not missing or under rubble?)
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🧵UN Human Rights Council issued a "report" claiming, without a shred of evidence, that IDF forces by national policy identified, aimed & killed Palestinian children as such, sometimes for target practice. I wrote a rebuttal for @UNWatch summary below. 1/ unwatch.org/un-watch-legal…
1. Failure to provide corroborating evidence of any incident of IDF soldiers targeting children: A review of the incidents cited by the COI shows no evidence supporting the report’s headline allegation. In none of the cases can the COI definitively establish that a civilian Palestinian child was identified by an IDF soldier and intentionally targeted for death. That conclusion is speculative throughout. The COI’s methodology effectively assumes that a child killed in Gaza was both killed by the IDF and intentionally targeted merely because the child died.
2. Erasure of Hamas as a belligerent: The Report erases Hamas and other armed groups as active belligerents despite their deployment of tens of thousands of operatives throughout Gaza and their extensive military infrastructure built over 17 years, including vast tunnel networks, weapons stockpiles, booby-trapped buildings, and command facilities embedded within civilian areas.[2] There is no acknowledgement or discussion of Hamas’s use of hospitals, schools, mosques, residential buildings, and humanitarian zones for military purposes, or its openly acknowledged strategy of operating from within the civilian population.[3] A reader would come away believing the IDF was deployed in Gaza against only women and children. By ignoring the existence of Hamas and other armed groups as an opposing fighting force in Gaza, the COI creates a framework in which the deaths of children are presumed to reflect deliberate targeting rather than the realities of combat in an urban battlefield.
🧵IDF struck a car in Khan Younes on Jun 26, 2025 widely portrayed as killing "civilians"—but Hamas admitted today that victim Manar Al-Farra was a commander; Haitham Al-Agha was in Hamas' Sahm unit. What are the chances the other three men killed were "civilians"? Detail: 1/
How do we know Manar Al-Farra and Haitham Al-Agha were killed in this attack? This was widely reported in social and other media. And Hamas released today a 4-minute martyr video identifying Farra as a commander. 2/
Haitham Agha is openly identified by Gazans on social media as a Hamas operative. The other three will be eventually identified as combatants too, as they were not simply riding with a Hamas commander & Sahm operative to go shopping. END
🚨Ahmed Samir Muhammad Washah, killed today by the IDF, was NOT an Al Jazeera journalist but a Hamas operative. Social media posts lauded him as a mujahid and show him armed. His brother Muhammad was also a combatant, like dozens of terrorists now proven as fake "journalists" 1/
His brother Mohamed Washah was a commander in the anti-tank unit, confirmed by numerous photos. 2/
Dozens of fake journalists have been outed by Hamas and PIJ themselves, it is no longer an Israeli claim. Here are just a small sample of the many confirmed terrorists posing as journalists. END
🧵The head of Gaza's Nursing Association and a nurse based at Kamal Adwan Hospital, Mohammed Al-Kafarna, was a platoon commander! —confirmed in a new Hamas martyr video. He's shown firing rockets and in tunnels. Absolute confirmation hospitals were strategic bases for Hamas. 1/
Over 20 medical workers throughout Gaza’s hospital system have been identified as Hamas or PIJ combatants, more examples in thread below. This was a systematic strategy to militarize hospitals as the peak of the human shield strategy. 2/
Note that Al-Kafarna was already known as a combatant in Feb 2026 from social media sites, see below. But now Hamas does not even bother to hide it, with a lengthy video of his training and combat activities. 3/
🧵Reuters' Gaza reporter Nidal Al-Mughrabi reported that an IDF strike on a car in Gaza on Feb 13, 2024 killed six civilians. But one victim, Salim Al-Ghamari is now widely hailed as a Hamas fighter skilled in launching rockets. Not a civilian. Not a random strike. Details: 1/
His brother Ahmed Al-Ghamari was recently revealed as a platoon commander in a recent Hamas martyr video. When checking social media for more information, his brother Salim appears prominently as a combatant too – the “civilian” killed in the car that day. 2/
Reuters reporter Nidal Al-Mughrabi was constantly citing “medics” and other locals as trustworthy, presenting all deaths in Gaza as civilian, like the victims of this strike on the car. Nothing he reported out of Gaza can be trusted as accurate. 3/
🧵NGO @airwars is treated as an authority on civilian harm. In Gaza it assumed fatalities were civilian unless proven otherwise, despite Hamas fighting in civilian clothes and hiding its losses. Here are TEN cases where alleged "civilians" were later identified as combatants. 1/
An IDF airstrike near the European Hospital in Gaza on Nov 4, 2023 was reported locally and by @airwars as killing innocent civilian Bilal al-Tabash for apparently no reason. But Hamas admitted he was a commander. 2/
Gazan media claimed an IDF strike hit a "tent housing displaced people" on Apr 13, 2025. @airwars, automatically believing Gazan "journalists," listed Ahmed Abu Mohsen as an innocent civilian killed. But Hamas admitted Abu Mohsen was a commander. 3/