🧵FACT: The WHO vaccinated this year 603,000 children under age 10 in Gaza—more children this age than existed pre-war. UN reports 60,000 births in Gaza in 2024—same as pre-war. These are fatal flaws in the Gaza "massive fatality undercount" studies and "genocide" claims: 1/
How many children under 10 lived in Gaza before the war? Using 10 years of actual birth data from Palestinian Authority we can estimate very closely. They report ~58,000 births/year in Gaza from 2007–2022 so that's about 580,000 children up to age 10. 2/ pcbs.gov.ps/statisticsIndi…
UNFPA reported 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza in both late-2023 and Dec 2024—equal to about 60,000 annual births, consistent with the historical average. Image from Jan 2025 UNFPA situation report. 3/
And it even increased in 2025 with the latest May 2025 issued UNFPA report showing 55,000 pregnant women in Gaza: 4/
The Palestinian Ministry of Health notes there are 60,000 pregnancies in Gaza as of late-2024. 5/
To be clear: Thousands of children have been tragically killed in Gaza, due to Hamas starting a war on 10/7, human shield strategy, refusal to release the hostages & surrender. But recent studies claiming massive casualty undercounts are undermined by WHO's vaccination data. END
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🧵Hamas & PIJ's own martyr notices exposed the broad militarization of Gaza's healthcare system. Dozens of purported "healthcare workers" have been identified as military commanders and operatives using hospitals as command centers. This ongoing thread documents the evidence.
1. Ibrahim Abdul Raouf Saleh Al-Farra
NURSE at Nasser Hospital
Hamas Group Commander
ID 803469477, age 31
Killed 10/20/23 - Strike on his home, Khan Younes
(Image shown in prior post, another one below)
2. Mohamed Ramadan Saber Qashqash
NURSE at Shifa Hospital
Hamas fighter
ID 407716422, age 22
Killed 02/25/2024 - Strike on his home, Beit Lahia
🧵Hours of Hamas martyr videos reveal Hamas' core battle strategy: fighters roaming Gaza in regular clothes, often unarmed, to blend into the civilian population. That tactic explains IDF errors such as tragic killing of 3 hostages and incidents in no-go zones. A PHOTO ESSAY:
Men in polo shits prepared IEDs, went in & out of tunnels, fired rockets, entered apartments with PRE-POSITIONS weapons (important) to fire at IDF forces – then when killed always listed as civilians. Every photo shown here is from combat action in Gaza filmed by Hamas. 2/
Thousands of Gaza buildings were booby-trapped – among the most common activity seen by Hamas operatives dressed in t-shirts and sandals. Which is a main reason why every place urban combat took place was destroyed. 3/
🧵Hamas regularly used child soldiers in Gaza—like 12-year-old Khalil Al-Dhaifi, killed in Al-Shati area on Sept 26, 2025. Khalil (ID# 434373940) is one of several Al-Dhaifi family combatants killed in the war and one of 1,000s of Hamas & PIJ child soldiers in Gaza. Details: 1/
Khalil appears on final Hamas MoH fatality list issued Feb 2026. Several Al-Dhaifi relatives were combatants e.g. Moman Al-Dhaifi (seen in recent Hamas martyr video). Family posts show the 12-yr-old with an AK-47; earlier images prove he used guns from an early age. 2/
Social media posts available upon request. The “Genocide in Gaza” site lists Khalil and his death details but crops out the weapon, as all entries are presented as civilians. 3/ gigaza.org/martyrs/%d8%ae…
🧵Hamas & PIJ’s own martyr notices now shatter claims that IDF airstrikes on homes in Gaza, many in 2023, were indiscriminate or targeted low-level fighters. Of 2,000 killed Gaza combatants identified so far, 157 were commanders killed where they were based—their homes. Details:
The first name on the list is Hamas Company Commander Shadi Awni Toutah. According to Gazan websites documenting fatalities, he was killed in an airstrike on his family home on the same day of the 10/7 attack. This was a highly targeted attack by the IDF. 2/
The second name on the list is PIJ Platoon Commander Bilal Abu Khousa who was killed in his family home on Oct 8, 2023 in Deir Al-Balah according to Gazan documentation. He was lauded as a martyr in social media but not revealed as a combatant until PIJ did so in May 2026. 3/
🧵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