Every civilian death in war is tragic, but the Jew-killing terrorist group Hamas is infamous for sacrificing its own civilians, including children, to stir up world anger at Israel and the Jews.
After the surprise Hamas attack in Israel 1 1/2 years ago, which killed 1,200 Israelis, Hamas now claims 70% of the Palestinians killed by the IDF in Gaza are innocent women and children.
A new study by the Henry Jackson Society, however, says Hamas is exaggerating the deaths of its own civilians and hiding the deaths of its military-age males.
Looking at hospital records from the Gaza Ministry of Health, the Society says women and children officially accounted for 51% of deaths so far.
While that figure is tragic, the Society points out it is Hamas that forces its civilian population to remain in a combat zone even after the IDF publicly urged civilians to flee the fighting.
That occurred in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, in 2023, according to a Fox News story.
A phone call recorded by the IDF showed a Palestinian man telling the IDF that civilians in Khan Younis were being told by Hamas to remain in their homes.
Among the official hospital casualty numbers from the Ministry of Health, 76% were male of which 58% of those men are fighting age.
In its own casualty statistics, the Ministry of Health doesn’t identify any dead combatants even though the IDF says it has killed 20,000 fighters to date.
Dan Schneider, of the Media Research Center, says the liberal media repeats the Hamas propaganda because most reporters, correspondents and editors are “hard-left people” who hate Israel.
Even though the study puts the number of civilian casualties at 50%, Schneider says even that sad statistic is misleading because Hamas uses its own people as human shields.
“Is a 19-year-old carrying a fully automatic weapon, shooting at Jews, is that a child?” he asks. “Or just because somebody is a woman does not mean the person is not also a terrorist.”
Back in the United States, Schneider points out the liberal media also manipulates public opinion to create anger and sympathy. The media, for example, used the story of a deported MS-13 gang member in order to attack the Trump administration and its immigration policy.
More recently than that, Schneider points out CNN tracked down a literal Mexican gang member (pictured at right) for a news segment attacking Trump.
“It was just last week,” Schneider says, “one of our major news outlets interviewed a human trafficker and was asking how that human trafficker feels now that Donald Trump is clamping down on his business.”
