Defenders renew calls in favor of Canada to recognize the genocide in Gaza after issuing a new report that found at least five of every six people who were killed in the Israeli war of civilians.
A joint investigation published on Thursday by the Israeli -Palestinian publication +972 magazineHebrew language port Local call British news port GuardianUsing a secret Israeli military intelligence database, it was found that as of May 2025, Israeli intelligence officials included 8,900 fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad as dead or “perhaps dead”.
At the time, 53,000 Palestinians have been killed in attacks by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since October 7, 2023, according to the health authorities in Gaza. With the naming fighters in the database, which represents only 17 percent of the total deaths, the investigation decided that 83 percent of the dead were civilians.
CBC News did not see data and therefore not independently verified from the report. However, the number of civilian deaths reported in the investigation is much higher than most modern conflicts.
In the Sudanese civil war, about 50 percent From the dead they were civilians, according to Conflict data program in OppsalaWho follows deaths in conflicts all over the world. Obsala says that the civil death rate in the current war in Ukraine, in comparison, says, 10 percent.
Anil Shelin, a research colleague in the Middle East at the Queens Institute for the responsible fold and a previous foreign affairs official at the US State Department, told CBC News that Gaza numbers are compared to genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica In the nineties.
“It is clear that this is far from the world of what the Israeli Defense Army claimed, which was that they were targeting Hamas fighters,” she said.
“This confirms what should have been clear, but it is now clearly not surprising: the fact that it was very heterogeneous and actually participated in what I would like to distinguish as a collective genocide.”
Experts also told CBC News that the number 83 percent of civilian deaths is likely to be a hidden work because it uses the IDF definition for gunmen.
Israel has appointed journalists and political members in Hamas as goals, for example, but international law prohibits the targeting of anyone who does not participate in the fighting.
The results of the investigation with the previous studies and Reports This was found that civil death charges were much higher than the numbers in statements by Israeli officials, who claimed that the civil death rate is low to 1: 1 – one civilian was killed for all militants who were killed.
The Israel Defense Army did not answer the questions that CBC news was sent via WhatsApp, but was referred to Published on the social media platform xFrom LT-COL spokesman. Nadaf Shoshani, saying that the numbers in the report are “incorrect and do not reflect the data available in the Israeli Defense Army systems.”
The IDF did not explain what is specifically incorrect about reports, and did not provide different numbers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the ceasefire deal agreed upon by Hamas, and began the military shelling in Gaza City, which led to more displacement, destruction and despair for residents.
The number of civil death is “unprecedented”: not profitable
AirWars, a non -profit institution based in the United Kingdom that tracks and established civilians in wars using geographical location teams, official records, news and social media reports, among other sources, Already A “unprecedented” civilian death in Gaza for the rest of October, after October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel by the Hamas militants.
This is a pattern it says She remained consistent In nearly two years since then.
In October 2023, AirWars found that the Israeli forces killed at least 5139 civilians in Gaza – that is, nearly four times the number of dead in the most deadly month that the group has ever documented, March 2017, when an American alliance killed at least 1470 civilians in Iraq.
AirWars also found that there More than 1900 children were killed In Gaza, during October 2023, the number of children killed in January 2016 – in January 2016 – was previously a bloody monthly for children documented by the group – when 279 children were killed by foreign representatives in Syria.
The group found that at least nine of 10 women and children were killed in Gaza, they were in residential buildings at the time of their death.
How does it seem to be a child living in war? By working with CBC Kids News, independent video photographer Mohamed Seif spoke to children who live in Gaza City on August 3. Gaza City is the largest city in Gaza, a Palestinian region that has been destroyed by a continuous war between Israel and Hamas since October 2023. Children have described the difficulties they had directed, just as they were hugging them to school. Some children use music to raise their lives and the souls of those around them.
Emily Trip, Executive Director of AirWars, told CBC News that civil harm in Gaza was more intense “on every one scale” than anything that the organization had previously seen, partially driven by attacks on residential neighborhoods and schools where dozens of civilians are sometimes killed in one air strike.
AirWars also documented more than 200 cases of individuals who were called the Israeli army at relief sites and around aid distribution sites.
Trip says that the nature of this war is that “civilians bear the greatest burden.”
Violence in Gaza “not like other conflicts”: the lawyer
“The investigation results are not surprising.
“Of course this is the case.” “We know this is true.”
“Anyone who follows the news for two years for nearly two years has witnessed Israel participating in daily attacks on hospitals, refugee camps, and schools that include the displaced, targeting medical teams, ambulances, journalists, and toured the entire neighborhoods.”
Boker hopes that the report will push the Canadian government to recognize Israel’s continuous violence in Gaza as a collective genocide.
“It is not a war. It is not like other conflicts. It is a very great atrocity that occurs that is rising while we are speaking.”
Fatima Abdel -Ala, officials of high government affairs and public policy in the National Council for Canadian Muslims, also called for the realization of the war in Gaza as a collective genocide.
“This is the most documented genocide in the world in history,” she told CBC News. “I don’t think I saw many videos and photos of the heinous war against civilians.”
United Nations special course Francesca Albaniz The United Nations Human Rights Council said Last month, Israel is “responsible for one of the most dangerous genocide in modern history.” He also described many lawyers, human rights groups, genocide and academics, Israel’s military campaign as a referral.
Israel has constantly has He denied these claimsBut political and military officials have Publicly used The Aplide discourse, including the description of the Palestinians “human animals” and their saying “does not matter” if children are killed. Last month, The Israeli newspaper Haritz mentioned The Israeli soldiers ordered the fire deliberately to the non -armed Palestinians asking for assistance in Gaza.
studies It was also found The number of official deaths in the Ministry of Health in Gaza is likely to be much lower than the actual death number.
This is partly because the Ministry of Health in Gaza is only registered bodies that have been recovered, identified and reported by Morgez Hospital. It also does not record indirect deaths, such as Deaths caused by hunger And the lack of access to the water and sewage facilities that were destroyed in the war.
Some scholars and public health experts estimated that the actual death in Gaza In hundreds of thousands.
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