Situational Update

• Last night, the IDF conducted approximately 80 air strikes targeting mid-level Hamas commanders and senior political officials in Gaza. According Israel’s most widely read media outlet YNet, the IDF launched a surprise operation in Gaza early Tuesday, striking 80 targets simultaneously. The strikes, which began at 2:10 a.m., lasted less than 10 minutes, with Israeli fighter jets hitting all designated targets within two minutes, the IDF said.
• The strikes did not target Hamas’ senior military leadership but rather mid-level commanders, including battalion and company leaders, as well as government officials such as the head of Hamas’ Shura Council, the justice and interior ministers and the prime minister of the terrorist group.
• The IDF reports: Essam al-Da’alis was eliminated. In his role, al-Da’alis served as the Head of the Hamas Government and the most senior figure of authority in Gaza and was responsible for the functioning of Hamas’ terror regime in Gaza. He also oversaw the integration of all of Hamas’ branches in Gaza and their use for terrorist purposes.

• The IDF said it is operating under a “gradual, evolving battle plan” against Hamas, adjusting intensity and scope based on real-time assessments.
• [WATCH] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the resumption of military action against Hamas.

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Thy Name in Vain: How Online Extremists Hijacked ‘Christ is King’: A Report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• The term Christ is King has been an important to Americans of faith for generations, uniting Christians under a shared set of values. And that’s a great thing. But a stunning new report by the NCRI shows that this familiar term is being misused by extremists to manipulate Christians…watch the video and read the report below.

• This report focuses on the phrase “Christ is King,” a profound declaration of faith, which is now being weaponized by some political extremists, distorting its meaning to advance exclusionary and hateful narratives. This hijacking of religious language echoes a broader pattern observed in the past decade, where identitarian ideologies—whether in the form of radical DEI initiatives or the excesses of “woke” moral policing—have restructured institutions by imposing rigid ideological conformity under the guise of moral progress.
• At its core, the phrase “Christ is King” has historically been a sacred affirmation of faith, rooted in the message of unity, hope, and moral guidance central to Christian theology.
• Key Data Points:
  • In 2024, more than 50% of all engagements around “Christ is King” posts were driven by extremists and fringe influencers. Posts by Nick Fuentes, Sneako, and Andrew Tate achieved over 13.6 million views and more than 100,000 engagements during Easter 2024 alone.
  • The top influencers on X in 2024 included extremists like Nazi-sympathizer Candace Owens, Muslim masculinity influencer Sneako, and Holocaust denier Jake Shields, who collectively drove a sevenfold increase in total engagements compared to the 2021 influencer cohort, which featured mostly moderate Christian voices.
  • Posts flagged through machine learning as hateful rose from 9% in 2021 to nearly double with a peak of 17.3% in May 2024, underscoring the semantic shift of the phrase towards a tool of extremist propaganda.
  • Google Trends data confirms the normalization of “Christ is King,” with search interest spiking a new maximum in March 2024, a 400% increase from its baseline in the previous decade.

    

  • Antisemitic associations pairing the term “Jew” with “Christ is King” rose sharply, with Jews becoming the single largest associated topic for the phrase in 2024 as revealed by language models.

  

  • Nearly 10% of all posts mentioning “Christ is King” during its historic chatter peak in March–April 2024 included antisemitic content, significantly outpacing mentions of other minority groups, which remained below 2–3.5% .
• However, the weaponization or hijacking of “Christ is King” represents a disturbing inversion of its original intent. Rather than sacralizing shared values, extremists have exploited this religious expression to justify hatred. Extremists such as Nick Fuentes and Jake Shields, in conjunction with “Muscular Muslim” influencers like Sneako and Andrew Tate, have distorted the phrase into a rallying cry for their shared animosity toward Jews.
• This manipulation of religious language signals not only an abuse of constitutional freedoms but also a direct attack on the civic and moral principles they are meant to protect. By transforming “Christ is King” into a hate meme, these actors have tried to hollow out its sincerity and reconstructed it to promote division and hate.
• This inversion of purpose is not merely a cultural distortion; it is an ideological threat. By co-opting sacred language to foster antisemitism and build bridges between disparate extremist ideologies, these actors risk eroding the moral authority of religious participation in public life while sowing discord within American civic life.
• Link to Full Report: Thy Name in Vain: How Online Extremists Hijacked ‘Christ is King’

Antisemitism

Dozens of Wikipedia editors colluded on years-long anti-Israel campaign, bombshell ADL report claims by Taylor Herzlich in New York Post

• More than two dozen Wikipedia editors allegedly colluded in a years-long scheme to inject anti-Israel language on topics related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Anti-Defamation League claimed in a bombshell report released Tuesday
• The rogue editors, at least 30 of them, flooded one of the world’s most popular sites with ‘antisemitic narratives, anti-Israel bias, and misleading information,’ according to the report by the ADL’s Center for Tech and Society.
• The alleged bias also extended to pervasive ‘pro-Hamas perspectives’ across Arabic-language Wikipedia content, the report claimed
• Conspiring editors deleted reports of sexual violence by Hamas from Wikipedia content, while others systematically removed references to terrorist violence from pages on Hamas, the report said.
• ‘The values of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation reflect our commitment to integrity and accuracy, and we categorically condemn antisemitism and all forms of hate,’ a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation . . . said, adding that it’s ‘unfortunate’ the ADL did not contact Wikimedia before the report’s release. . . . The battle between the leading human rights group in the US and the nonprofit group heated up last year when Wiki editors declared the ADL an ‘unreliable source of information’ about the Israel-Gaza war.
• In January, Wikipedia’s arbitration board took disciplinary action against six “suspicious editors,” banning them from editing certain topics for trying to bully or intimidate other volunteer editors into making certain page changes, the ADL said at the time.
• The nonprofit’s latest report claims alleged anti-Israel editors deleted references to antisemitism and cleaned up pages on Hamas in a years-long campaign, ramping up the rogue edits since the terror group’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.
• In another example, edits to the Wikipedia page for Samir Kuntar— a Lebanese-Palestinian Liberation Front member who participated in the deadly attack in Nahariya, Israel, in 1979—removed his murder conviction on terrorism charges
• The ADL added that media coverage of terrorists calling for the destruction of Israel was deleted from a Wiki page on Palestinian political violence.
• In the main Wikipedia entry on Hamas, a sentence indicating that many governments, including the US, designate it as a terrorist group was demoted from the top of the story, according to the report. Instead, the lead section of the page focuses on Hamas’ role as a political, social and military organization that promotes “Palestinian nationalism in an Islamic context.”
• Data going back to 2002, when the first of the ‘bad-faith editors’ joined the site, recorded more than 1 million edits on about 10,000 articles linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the ADL said.
• Link: Dozens of Wikipedia editors colluded on years-long anti-Israel campaign, bombshell ADL report claims

The International Red Cross: Exposed: The neutral humanitarian body is neither neutral nor humanitarian. And now, for the first time, we have proof. By Daniel Pomerantz

• In a groundbreaking new report, RealityCheck has uncovered specific evidence that the International Committee of the Red Cross (the “ICRC”) habitually violates its duty of neutrality, as well as its obligations under international law: putting Israelis, and the world at large, in danger.
• Surouq Hijjawi, who holds the position of “economic security” official for the ICRC, praised terrorism against Israelis on Facebook. Specifically, on July 20, 2023 Hijjawi posted a photo of several Palestinian terrorists who had died while carrying out attacks against Israelis, along with the caption, “May God have mercy on the martyrs #Congratulations on your martyrdom in heaven.”
• The ICRC frequently meets with armed non-state actors (including terror organizations) which, in a vacuum, would violate international law and basic human morality. However, the ICRC is generally permitted to meet with such groups because it claims to do so only for the purpose of visiting captives and providing aid to civilians, while maintaining a strict code of neutrality. Yet the ICRC habitually violates its own code of conduct, calling into question whether its actions may violate international law and encourage terrorism.
• According to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Red Cross officials met with the terror leaders to discuss “the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross in pressuring the Israeli occupation” and “efforts to expose the crimes of the Israeli occupation.” The content of this meeting violates ICRC’s standards for appropriate interactions with non-state armed groups.
• ICRC spokesperson Hisham Mhanna states that the ICRC’s “top priority” in Gaza is to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, which indicates that saving the Israeli hostages held in Gaza’s tunnels is a lower priority (if at all), as is the protecting Israelis from terror attacks. Many of the Palestinians held in Israeli jails were convicted of acts of terrorism, and their capture is therefore critical for the safety of Israelis and the world at large, an issue that Mhanna neglected entirely. Prioritizing Palestinians over Israelis, and advocating for the release of convicted terror operatives, violates ICRC’s obligation to maintain neutrality and to uphold humanitarian law.
• Moreover, Mhanna habitually refers to casualties in Gaza, including Hamas combatants, as “martyrs.” In Islamic thought, a “martyr” is someone who dies for their faith and for a noble cause. In the case of terror combatants, the “noble cause” is killing or attempting to kill Israelis. Mhana refers to the government of Israel as well as the IDF by the term, “the occupation authorities.” This is the vocabulary used by Palestinian terror organizations when referring to Israel as an enemy.
• The notion that the ICRC is not entirely neutral or humanitarian is not a new one, yet until now it has been notoriously difficult to accumulate actual data sufficient to overcome the ICRC’s fervent denials.
• Link: The International Red Cross: Exposed

Antisemitism Rears Its Head on the Right, Too by Gerard Baker with the WSJ

• In our polarized politics, extremists on both sides can agree on one thing: The Jews are to blame again. The eruption of antisemitism on the left … is the most potent form of Jew-hatred. … But since World War II it’s been mostly the right that’s energetically juiced the Jew-loathing … so that people who dominate much of right-wing talk seem eager to reclaim the Horst Wessel flag.
• Joe Rogan, the podcaster with the biggest audience, last week hosted a man who has made a living spreading sympathetic falsehoods about Nazi Germany. … He told a credulous Mr. Carlson that Winston Churchill was the ‘chief villain’ of World War II and that the Jews who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps somehow ‘ended up dead’ there. … Mr. Rogan has hosted others with vile views, including one who claims the Jews were responsible for 9/11.
• One quote captures the substance of the latest colloquy: “When did Hitler start going after the Jews?” Mr. Rogan asks. A rambling answer punctuated with elementary historical errors ends with this gem: “His antisemitism is what allowed him to love the German people.” Greater love hath no man than this: to hate the Jews for his own compatriots.
• With the widening acceptance of these casual intimations of a particular evil, we are establishing a perilous common groundwork for language and ideas—rapidly defining antisemitism down.
• Sheer dumbness is part of the problem. Our culture is dominated by people with epic levels of historical, economic and scientific ignorance.
• The larger problem is the steady undermining of truth itself. So much contemporary ideology rests on eradicated standards of objective reality … The abandonment of academic truth is partially to blame. … The collapse of trust in almost all our sources of information—media, government, experts—has allowed epistemic malignancy to flourish.
• Fifty years ago Nazi apologetics were malicious ahistorical fantasy … Today they’re just another interesting lie that will get you a fat paycheck on YouTube.
• Link: Antisemitism Rears Its Head on the Right, Too

AGAIN: Critics Avoid Antisemitism Documentary ‘October 8’: Reviewers ignored ‘Screams Before Silence,’ praised pro-Palestinian docs by Christian Toto

• It’s charitable to call the chilly reaction to “Screams Before Silence” a fluke. The 2024 documentary recalled the rape and torture behind Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Sheryl Sandberg’s documentary featured first-person accounts of the savagery perpetrated against female victims. We also saw some of the footage Hamas terrorists recorded during the invasion. It’s a tough but necessary watch.
• Pro-Israel celebrities like Debra Messing and Michael Rapaport join scholars in denouncing the antisemitic wave that crashed over Western culture over the last year-plus. Human rights groups stood down as Jewish students were attacked on college campuses and pro-Hamas rallies flooded major cities.
• College campuses coddled pro-Palestinian extremists. Ivy League presidents refused to defend Jewish students against protracted attacks against them.
• The media, in turn, too often trumpeted Hamas talking points rather than commit honest journalism. It’s a blistering film everyone should see, and it mostly succeeds in avoiding the political blame game. The documentary, released nationwide on March 14, boasts just 8 reviews at RottenTomatoes.com.
• What about The New York Times? The Wrap? Deadline? Variety? Indiewire? USA Today? CNN? Nothing. Now, compare that to the reception “No Other Land” received. The unabashedly pro-Palestinian film earned Best Documentary honors at this month’s Oscars ceremony.
• The film boasts a perfect 100 percent score from 94 professional critics at RottenTomatoes.com.
• Another pro-Palestinian film, “From Ground Zero,” also generated sizable support from the film critic community. That one boasts a 98 percent “fresh” rating from the 48 critics who weighed in on the film.
• “October 8” director Wendy Sachs told this reporter most Hollywood stars are afraid to publicly defend Jews against antisemitism. Doing so might harm their careers, Sachs suggested.
• What excuse do critics have for ignoring films that expose antisemitism?
• Link: AGAIN: Critics Ignore Antisemitism Documentary ‘October 8’

Israel/Middle East Related Articles

[HIGHLY RECOMMEND] Israel’s Second War of Independence by Michael Oren in Mosaic Magazine

• During the summer of 2024—because I could no longer bear the thought of not taking an active part in our ongoing war … I volunteered for the IDF reserves. … My assignment was to help guard a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee near the source of the Jordan River: an area that was then under constant rocket fire from Hezbollah terrorists based in neighboring Lebanon. … I attended a meeting of the community’s emergency committee, gathered to determine procedures in case Hizballah were to attack us directly. … If I closed my eyes and just listened, I could swear instead that we were not in 2024 but in 1948.
• Which if any of Israel’s previous wars did today’s war most closely resemble? … The obvious answer would have been the Yom Kippur War, which had erupted on October 6, 1973, exactly 50-years-and-a-day before this latest outbreak. Indeed, Hamas deliberately chose this date. … Israel in 2023 and 2024 has turned that initial rout into a military victory … so that cadets at West Point … will study our success in this war no less.
• As in our War of Independence, the current war has been fought not deep in enemy territory but nearby and indeed within the state itself. … Next, like its predecessor at Israel’s birth, this latest war has been waged not only or even principally against our armed forces but rather against our civilian population … This war … also recalls the War of Independence in a more fateful, morally direct, and in the end transformative way.
• This must be the war to correct, and to get right, the things we got wrong in 1948. … [I]n 1948, the state of Israel secured its territorial sovereignty at an excruciating cost … This, then, is the war in which the citizens’ army of Israel must and will become an army of all its citizens. … We must fulfill that responsibility, along with the responsibility to pursue an effective public diplomacy and protect our image in the world.
• Above all, we have every reason to be optimistic about the generation that has fought and continues to fight this war. … They are the greatest such generation we have known since 1948. They … transcend all of the usual Israeli divisions—politics, religion, ethnicity—to live and to fight as a single force and with singular purpose.
• This is the war for restoring our dignity, our identity, our independence, … for reaffirming and embracing our responsibility. This is the war after which … we can stress, without modification, elision, or irony … the final phrases that say exactly who we are: ‘a free people, in our own land, in the land of Zion, in Jerusalem.’
• Link: Israel’s Second War of Independence

Breaking ‘sumud’: Palestinian society must free itself of this fantasy by Avraham Russel Shalev with The Jerusalem Post

• US President Donald Trump’s plan to allow Gazans to emigrate from the war-torn enclave has provoked fierce rejection from the Palestinians and the Arab countries. Egypt recently proposed its postwar plan, according to which Hamas would cede power to an interim body until a reconstituted Palestinian Authority can take control of Gaza. Despite Arab and international opposition, the United States has reiterated its commitment to President Trump’s emigration plan.
• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is driven by Palestinian irredentism – the belief in reclaiming lost land at any cost. … There is a universal consensus among Palestinian groups, ranging from secular to Islamist, that Jewish sovereignty is inherently illegitimate and will ultimately end in ‘Palestine’s liberation.’
• In the Palestinian imagination, Jews are settlers who merely ‘pass’ through occupied Palestine, as opposed to the indigenous Palestinians who are deeply rooted in the land. As Darwish so vividly wrote … ‘So leave our country … Our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds …’ … This mythology of ‘return’ … sustains the century-long Palestinian war against Zionism.
• Despite sumud’s propagation by Palestinian nationalists, the facts show that Gazans overwhelmingly yearn to escape Hamas’ failed and repressive rule. According to a survey … 44% of Gazan youth were considering emigrating from the Strip. Nearly a third (31%) of the total population considered emigration. … By allowing those who reject Hamas’s rule to go, Israel and the international community can expose sumud as an artificial construct that only serves Palestinian revanchism.
• In his widely acclaimed book Embracing Defeat, historian John W. Dower demonstrates how Japan’s utter defeat in World War II wholly discredited Japanese militarism and fascism. … By embracing defeat, Palestinian society might rebuild itself along peaceful lines and accommodate itself to Israel’s existence.
• Currently, the international community colludes with Hamas to keep Palestinians trapped in Gaza. However, the fact of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians choosing to abandon Gaza would fatally undermine sumud and Palestinian nationalism … For the sake of peace, Israel and the international community must embrace Trump’s plan for Gaza.
• Link: Breaking ‘sumud’: Palestinian society must free itself of this fantasy

The Case for Palestinian Pragmatism by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib in The Atlantic

• Not long ago, I spoke at a university in New Jersey. I told students about the 33 members of my family killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. … I also said that Hamas’s kidnapping of Israeli women, elderly people, and children as hostages, and the killing of innocent civilians, were atrocities that did not represent Palestinian values. … Agitators affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine stood outside the lecture hall … They called me a ‘traitor.’
• How did we get here? … We always have choices, some of which produce better outcomes than others, even under circumstances of constraint. … The Palestinian political leadership and its vision of the national project have manifestly failed to inspire meaningful action that could achieve progress. Wishing for the disappearance of 8 million Israeli Jews is not a policy.
• What Palestinian politics need, and grievously lack, is pragmatism. … We must refuse the cycle of hatred, incitement, violence, and revenge and seek instead a commonsense approach to one of the modern world’s most persistent conflicts. … Embracing this sort of pragmatism would echo what the Zionist movement itself did in 1948, accepting something less than its leaders wanted in exchange for independence.
• Activism in the diaspora has been captured by extremists—and so it, too, has become an impediment to Palestinian aspirations. … The so-called pro-Palestine movement has no space for a Palestinian who opposes Hamas’s terrorism and promotes a future of coexistence with Israelis.
• Many things will become possible in Gaza once we recognize the necessity of political and security cooperation with Israel. … We could establish an artificial peninsula off the coast. … [We could] transform access to and movement in and out of the coastal enclave. … This is not a mere talking point but a necessity for Palestinian survival and self-determination.
• I have spoken with thousands of Palestinians over the years who believe, as I do, in the viability of a pragmatic path to peace. … Those in the diaspora should help put forward a new Palestinian narrative—one that makes Jewish Israelis our vital allies in solving this conflict … This is not a mere talking point but a necessity for Palestinian survival and self-determination.
• Link: The Case for Palestinian Pragmatism

’40 minutes too late’: IDF report details Hamas’ attack on Nir Oz and systematic failures: Compiled from Israeli media outlet YNet and Israeli journalist Marc Schulman

• The IDF on Friday published its investigation into Hamas’ attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, revealing shocking failures. The small kibbutz, abandoned during terror group’s October 7 onslaught, faced 500 terrorists alone — leading to 47 deaths, 76 kidnappings
• Massive Terrorist Infiltration: Approximately 400 to 500 terrorists stormed Nir Oz, overwhelming the small community of 385 residents. This number exceeded the number of civilians present.

• Delayed Military Response: Forty minutes passed from the moment the last of the roughly 500 terrorists left Nir Oz at 12:30 p.m. until any security force entered the kibbutz. The first to arrive were undercover Border Police officers responding to a police dispatch — not the IDF. The military was completely unaware of the massacre unfolding in Nir Oz for over seven hours.
• Intelligence Failure: Southern Command was blamed for a lack of awareness leading up to the invasion and for not utilizing signals intelligence (SIGINT) to detect the large movement of Hamas fighters. The deputy commander of the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion expected a quiet weekend with no border protests.
• Causalities and Hostages: On October 7, 47 civilians were murdered in Nir Oz, including six who were attending a nearby party. Seventy-six were kidnapped to Khan Younis — 67 alive, nine dead. Of them, 49 were later returned to Israel in hostage deals with Hamas. One released hostage, Hanna Katzir, died months after returning. Thirteen Nir Oz captives were executed in Hamas captivity, 13 bodies were returned and 14 remain in Gaza — five alive, nine deceased.
• Inoperable Equipment: Two stationary IDF tanks were assigned to the Nir Oz sector that morning, one was found to be inoperable. This was the same tank later paraded as a Hamas victory symbol, with terrorists waving Palestinian flags atop it.
• Lack of Coordination and Command: The operations room collapsed, and there was a lack of understanding by the General Staff and Southern Command, overwhelmed by reports from multiple combat zones. Command and control over the Nir Oz area were lost after the Southern Brigade commander was killed.
• Misdirected Forces: Despite the Southern Command’s decision to flood the Gaza envelope with troops, the deployment lacked focus, and troops were not sent to specific locations, often being halted by the first combat zone they encountered. Two IDF companies arrived at Ma’on Junction near Nir Oz at 8:46 a.m. but were not directed to the kibbutz.
• Communication Breakdown: Failure to coordinate aerial reports with desperate messages from trapped residents. Apart from a brief tank intervention at 9:55 a.m. that killed a few terrorists before withdrawing to rescue another unit, Nir Oz was defended only from the air. Israeli Air Force helicopters struggled to establish situational awareness but managed to eliminate dozens of terrorists. However, they also mistakenly struck some hostages. The failure to coordinate aerial reports with the desperate messages from trapped residents highlighted a critical breakdown in communication.
• Link: ’40 minutes too late’: IDF report details Hamas’ attack on Nir Oz and systematic fail

Hostage Update

There are now currently 58 hostages taken on 10/7 currently in captivity in Gaza (there are 59 hostages remaining in total)

• 38 hostages were released in the first phase of the 2025 cease fire agreement (including 5 Thai nationals)
• 24 hostages will remain in captivity after Phase I and have not been declared dead.
  • 5 hostages are Americans: Meet the Five American Hostages Still Held By Hamas: Edan Alexander is assumed to be alive, Itay Chen is assumed to have been killed on 10/7, and Gadi Haggai, Judi Weinstein Haggai, and Omer Neutra have been confirmed to have been killed.
  • 4 are soldiers
  • 7 are residents of the Gaza border communities
  • 11 were abducted from the Nova music festival
  • 2 are foreign workers: Bipin Joshi from Nepal and Pinta Nattapong from Thailand
• Link: These are the hostages to be released (and left behind) in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal’s first phase – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• On October 7^th, a total of 251 Israelis were taken hostage.
  • During the ceasefire deal in November of 2023, 112 hostages were released.
  • 193 hostages in total have been released or rescued
    • The bodies of 40 hostages have been recovered, including 3 mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.
  • 8 hostages have been heroically rescued by troops alive
• Of the 59 hostages still theoretically in Gaza
  • 31 hostages have been confirmed dead and are currently being held in Gaza
  • Thus, at most, 28 living hostages could still be in Gaza.
  • Hamas is now holding the body of 1 IDF soldier who was killed in 2014 (Lt. Hadar Goldin’s body remains held in the Gaza Strip)

Casualties (no change)

1,852 Israelis have been killed including 846 IDF soldiers since October 7th (no change since Sunday)

• The South: 407 IDF soldiers during the ground operation in Gaza have been killed
• The North: 132 Israelis (84 IDF soldiers) have been killed during the war in Northern Israel
• The West Bank: 63 Israelis (27 IDF and Israeli security forces)
• Additional Information (according to the IDF):
  • 2,584 (+1 since Sunday) IDF soldiers have been injured during ground combat in Gaza, including at least 498 (no change since Sunday) who have been severely injured.
  • 5,737 (+1 since Sunday) IDF soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, including at least 853 (+1 since Sunday) who have been severely injured.

• The Gaza Casualty Count:
  • According to unverified figures from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, 62,614 total deaths have been reported, with a civilian/combatant ratio: 1:1.
  • [MUST READ] Report: Questionable Counting: Analysing the Death Toll from the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in Gaza by Andrew Fox with The Henry Jackson Society
  • On October 7th, Ohad Hemo with Channel 12 Israel News – the country’s largest news network, a leading expert on Palestinian and Arab affairs, mentioned an estimate from Hamas: around 80% of those killed in Gaza are members of the organization and their families.”
  • Read this well documented piece from Tablet published in March: How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers
  • The Associated Press, an outlet with a demonstrated anti-Israel bias, conducted an analysis of alleged Gaza death tolls released by the Hamas-controlled “Gaza Health Ministry.” The analysis found that “9,940 of the dead – 29% of its April 30 total – were not listed in the data” and that “an additional 1,699 records in the ministry’s April data were incomplete and 22 were duplicates.”
• The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes official details on every civilian and IDF casualty.

Regular sources include JINSA, FDD, IDF, AIPAC, The Paul Singer Foundation, The Institute for National Security Studies, the Alma Research and Education Center, Yediot, Jerusalem Post, IDF Casualty Count, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Institute for the Study of War, Tablet Magazine, Mosaic Magazine, The Free Press, and the Times of Israel