NefeshBarYochai
2023-11-01 19:50:51 UTC
Two weeks after the Hamas breakout assault on Israel on 7 October, a
clearer picture of what happened who died, and who killed is now
beginning to emerge.
Instead of the wholescale massacre of civilians claimed by Israel,
incomplete figures published by the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz show that
almost half the Israelis killed that day were in fact combatants -
soldiers or police.
In the interim, two weeks of blanket western media reporting that
Hamas allegedly killed around 1,400 Israeli civilians during its 7
October military attack has served to inflame emotions and create the
climate for Israels unconstrained destruction of the Gaza Strip and
its civilian population.
Accounts of the Israeli death toll have been filtered and shaped to
suggest that a wholesale civilian massacre occurred that day, with
babies, children, and women the main targets of a terror attack.
Now, detailed statistics on the casualties released by the Israeli
daily Haaretz paint a starkly different picture. As of 23 October, the
news outlet has released information on 683 Israelis killed during the
Hamas-led offensive, including their names and locations of their
deaths on 7 October.
Of these, 331 casualties or 48.4 percent - have been confirmed to be
soldiers and police officers, many of them female. Another 13 are
described as rescue service members, and the remaining 339 are
ostensibly considered to be civilians.
While this list is not comprehensive and only accounts for roughly
half of Israels stated death toll, almost half of those killed in the
melee are clearly identified as Israeli combatants.
There are also so far no recorded deaths of children under the age of
three, which throws into question the Israeli narrative that babies
were targeted by Palestinian resistance fighters. Of the 683 total
casualties reported thus far, seven were between the ages of 4 and 7,
and nine between the ages of 10 and 17. The remaining 667 casualties
appear to be adults.
The numbers and proportion of Palestinian civilians and children among
those killed by Israeli bombardment over the past two weeks over
5,791 killed, including 2,360 children and 1,292 women, and more than
18,000 injured - are far higher than any of these Israeli figures from
the events of 7 October.
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clearer picture of what happened who died, and who killed is now
beginning to emerge.
Instead of the wholescale massacre of civilians claimed by Israel,
incomplete figures published by the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz show that
almost half the Israelis killed that day were in fact combatants -
soldiers or police.
In the interim, two weeks of blanket western media reporting that
Hamas allegedly killed around 1,400 Israeli civilians during its 7
October military attack has served to inflame emotions and create the
climate for Israels unconstrained destruction of the Gaza Strip and
its civilian population.
Accounts of the Israeli death toll have been filtered and shaped to
suggest that a wholesale civilian massacre occurred that day, with
babies, children, and women the main targets of a terror attack.
Now, detailed statistics on the casualties released by the Israeli
daily Haaretz paint a starkly different picture. As of 23 October, the
news outlet has released information on 683 Israelis killed during the
Hamas-led offensive, including their names and locations of their
deaths on 7 October.
Of these, 331 casualties or 48.4 percent - have been confirmed to be
soldiers and police officers, many of them female. Another 13 are
described as rescue service members, and the remaining 339 are
ostensibly considered to be civilians.
While this list is not comprehensive and only accounts for roughly
half of Israels stated death toll, almost half of those killed in the
melee are clearly identified as Israeli combatants.
There are also so far no recorded deaths of children under the age of
three, which throws into question the Israeli narrative that babies
were targeted by Palestinian resistance fighters. Of the 683 total
casualties reported thus far, seven were between the ages of 4 and 7,
and nine between the ages of 10 and 17. The remaining 667 casualties
appear to be adults.
The numbers and proportion of Palestinian civilians and children among
those killed by Israeli bombardment over the past two weeks over
5,791 killed, including 2,360 children and 1,292 women, and more than
18,000 injured - are far higher than any of these Israeli figures from
the events of 7 October.
<continue reading>
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/what-really-happened-on-7th-october