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The war between Hamas and IsraelDossierBetween relativization and outright negationism, many commentators deny the fact that Hamas has committed crimes or minimize the number of Israeli civilian casualties. At the expense of conspiratorial contortions and despite countless pieces of evidence.
On October 7, Hamas and later other Palestinian groups entered Israeli territory, causing nearly 1,200 casualties. At this point, the identities of 790 of these civilians are already known: 508 men and 282 women, including 37 minors (including 11 children aged 10 or younger) and 126 people aged at least 65 years (including 23 over 80 years old) . a count provided to CheckNews by the Israel National Insurance Institute (NIOI) in mid-December. There are also the names of more than fifty police officers and more than 300 soldiers.
Hamas has not acknowledged these crimes against the civilian population. In the first days after the attack, the movement tried to justify the unjustified by refusing to consider as “civilians” those it considered participants in a permanent siege of the Gaza Strip. But this speech, rendered incomprehensible by the horror of the images and testimonies, quickly turned into a denial of the very existence of the crimes and the victims. In a series of interviews with Western media in October, the movement's spokesman, Ghazi Hamad, repeated, contrary to evidence, that Hamas had not targeted civilians, but simply referred to collateral losses associated with the fighting against the IDF. When he was against him, on the BBC, q