Around 75 percent of those killed in Tuesday's Israeli attacks on Gaza were civilians, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The figure is based on data from both health authorities in Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Israeli military.
After the attacks, the military said that observation posts, rocket launchers, a weapons production facility and “dozens of prominent terrorists” had been hit. Military spokesman Avichay Adraee said that 26 “terrorists” were killed, including nine Hamas company commanders and others with links to the extremist Islamic Jihad movement.
This roughly corresponds to the figures from the authorities in Gaza. According to them, 46 children and 20 women were among the 104 killed. Haaretz, for example, tells the story of the Dalal family, whose house in Nuseirat was bombed in the attacks. 18 people were killed there, including the two-year-old twins Sham and Yahya Abu Dalal, but not the target of the attack: an alleged company commander for Islamic Jihad in central Gaza.
The Israeli strikes on Tuesday came after armed Palestinians opened fire on Israeli forces in southern Gaza, killing one soldier. Israel has accused Hamas of being behind the attack, which Hamas denies.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared an article on X that claimed that "at most 1.5 civilians" in the Gaza Strip had been killed for every armed man during the war. However, that figure does not match most of the figures collected during the war, writes Haaretz.
