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

• The family of hostage Matan Angrest has authorized the publication of another Hamas propaganda video. According to the Times of Israel, the 21-year-old captive IDF soldier, taken from a tank at Nahal Oz during battles there on October 7, 2023, says he has been held for 511 days, indicating it was likely filmed last week.

• 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)

Watch

[MUST WATCH] Hostage survivor Liri Albag describes her brutal 447 days in captivity in Gaza to Israel’s Channel 12 (in Hebrew with English subtitles)

President Trump met this week with a delegation of eight released hostages in the Oval Office. Watch their emotional testimony below.

Antisemitism

Barnard/Columbia

Barnard Students Hoist Effigy of College President, Disseminate Hamas Pamphlets as They Occupy Library

• A mob of Columbia University and Barnard College radicals stormed a campus library Wednesday afternoon, just one week after they took over another Barnard building and sent a security guard to the hospital.
• Once inside, the agitators handed out Hamas propaganda justifying the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack. They demanded the immediate reversal of “the three Barnard students’ expulsions,” “amnesty for all students disciplined for pro-Palestine action,” and a complete “abolition of the corrupt Barnard disciplinary process.”

• On Feb. 26, CUAD and Columbia SJP led a mob that stormed a campus building at Barnard, Columbia’s sister school. They clashed with security guards, sending one to the hospital, and caused $30,000 in damages—all in protest of Barnard’s decision to expel two students who interrupted an Israeli history class and targeted Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers. The culprits got off scot-free after the administration vowed not to pursue disciplinary action, shielded them from police as they exited the building after occupying it for over six hours, and agreed to continue negotiations the next day in a private meeting.
• The student radicals on Wednesday were handed out orders to vacate the library, but instead ripped the orders up and threw them in the air. One held a wanted poster featuring the president’s face that read, “For the Complicity in genocide.”
• Columbia issued a statement Wednesday morning reiterating its aim to enforce policies to “prevent discrimination or the targeting of community members in any form.” Two hours later, the Columbia anti-Semitic student groups took over the library at its sister school.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Jessica Costescu posts: Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for Storming a Barnard Building

• Nearly half the radical activists arrested Wednesday after storming a Barnard College library are Columbia University students, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
• Of the nine individuals arrested after storming Millstein Library, four are Columbia students: Gabrielle Wimer, Hannah Puelle, Yunseo Chung, and Symmes Cannon. One, Tramy Dong, is a Barnard student. One, Christopher Holmes, is with Union Theological Seminary. Three others are unaffiliated with surrounding schools
• They were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and obstructing governmental administration, according to an NYPD spokesman.
• [UPDATE] According to StopAntisemetim: Symmes Cannon, Gabrielle Wimer, Hannah Puelle, and Yunseo Chung have also now been suspended
• Link: Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for Storming a Barnard Building

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia by Maya Sulkin and Gabe Kaminsky with The Free Press

• The Trump administration is cutting off $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University, claiming it has failed to take steps to confront antisemitism on campus after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, The Free Press has learned.
• The cuts represent the federal government’s first round of grant cancellations for Columbia, according to the administration’s newly formed antisemitism task force, which is leading the effort.
• The Departments of Education and Health and Human Services plan to immediately issue stop-work orders on grants to the school, the task force said.
• Over $1.3 billion of Columbia’s $6.6 billion in annual operating revenue comes from federal research grants, according to a 2024 report. The National Institutes of Health accounts for 62 percent of these grants, totaling about $747 million in the financial year ending June 30, 2023, according to the school—although not all of those funds were allocated to research. Columbia’s Irving Medical Center is a significant recipient of federal funding.
• According to the WSJ, the administration was aiming to cut a much higher number of grants, worth billions of dollars altogether, but decided Friday to keep intact some National Institutes of Health grants to Columbia, a person familiar with the matter said. Columbia received more than $639 million in grants from the NIH, a division of HHS, in 2024, according to government data.
• Link: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia

DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System by Gabe Kaminsky in The Free Press

• The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the sprawling University of California system over concerns about antisemitism, The Free Press has learned. … ‘Our investigation is based on information suggesting that since at least October 7, 2023, the University of California may be engaged in certain employment practices that discriminate against employees who are or are perceived to be Jewish or Israeli,’ wrote DOJ officials…
• The investigation comes on the heels of the DOJ forming a task force in February made up of representatives from the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services to combat antisemitism. That follows the executive order President Donald Trump signed in his first days in office allocating federal resources to address ‘the explosion of antisemitism’ on college campuses.
• The antisemitism task force is being led by Leo Terrell, a civil rights attorney and recent Fox News contributor. It is under the auspices of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, an office that Trump tapped attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who has not yet been confirmed by the Senate, to lead.
• This UC investigation comes less than 48 hours after the Trump administration announced a review of federal funding to Columbia University, … where dozens of students were arrested last spring for participating in encampments and taking over a campus building. … Trump’s antisemitism task force is looking into more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments to Columbia as part of the review—led by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the General Services Administration.
• The investigation follows a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter sent by the Department of Education’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights two weeks ago which warned universities that the department ‘will no longer tolerate the overt and covert racial discrimination that has become widespread in this Nation’s educational institutions.’ … The letter states the department will ‘vigorously enforce the law on equal terms’ to any K-12 or higher education institution which receives federal funding.
• Link: DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System

A BBC Scandal Exposes the Sham Industry of Anti-Zionist Documentaries by Seth Mandel with Commentary Magazine

• The BBC is officially in crisis. The UK broadcaster’s reflexive anti-Israel posture and slackening standards created a perfect storm that has smashed the Beeb’s credibility to pieces. Don’t take my word for it—here’s BBC Chair Samir Shah: ‘What has been revealed is a dagger to the heart of the BBC’s claim to be impartial and trustworthy… We will get to the bottom of this and take appropriate actions.’
• On Feb. 17, the BBC aired a documentary called How to Survive a Warzone, a demonization of Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza narrated by a Palestinian teenager. It all fell apart a day later thanks to the work of superb investigative journalist David Collier, who revealed that the boy was actually the son of a prominent Hamas official and the ‘documentary’ was therefore a literal work of official Hamas propaganda funded by British taxpayers.
• The following week, the Telegraph revealed that interviews with Gazans used in the film were systematically mistranslated to clean up what was said in Arabic for the program’s English subtitles. … On at least five occasions the words Yahud or Yahudy — Arabic for ‘Jew’ or ‘Jews’ — were changed to ‘Israel’ or ‘Israeli forces’, or were removed from the subtitles altogether. An interviewee praising Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, for ‘jihad against the Jews’ was also mistranslated as saying he was fighting ‘Israeli forces’.
• And that is why Shah, the BBC chair, was in front of a government panel expressing his deep regret on Tuesday. … The government is letting the BBC take the lead on the investigation, but it is making clear that this is a uniquely shameful tale of BBC infamy. … There are two important lessons here.
  • First, a great deal of the ‘journalism’ on the war is being done by members of terrorist organizations fighting in that war.
  • Second, in order to paint Israel as a convincing villain, news must be fabricated. Documentaries are perfect vehicles for such audience manipulation.
• Link: A BBC Scandal Exposes the Sham Industry of Anti-Zionist Documentaries

Israel/Middle East Related Articles

[HIGHLY RECOMMEND] How Hamas Can Be Destroyed With Military Force by John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point, in Newsweek

• Some argue that Hamas cannot be destroyed through military means. This assertion not only misrepresents history but also ignores the shifting political and military realities of the battlefield. Dismissing Israel’s ability to dismantle Hamas militarily fails to account for the constraints the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) faced in the past 16 months and the unprecedented opportunities it may have in the future.
• During the initial phase of the war, the IDF was forced to operate under significant restrictions not placed on militaries throughout history.
  • First, Arab nations—especially Egypt—pressured Israel to conduct military operations in a manner that left civilian populations in areas within Gaza rather than relocating them to safer zones outside the battlefield. Hamas exploited this situation, using civilians and hostages as human shields and creating safe havens in areas the IDF was prevented from entering.
  • Second, Israel faced external political constraints. The Biden administration and other international actors imposed severe limitations on IDF operations.
  • Third, the IDF’s operational focus was split. Israel had to divert substantial military resources to northern Israel to counter Hezbollah’s attacks and the persistent threats of a large-scale ground assault.
• The IDF is likely to receive increased U.S. political backing, ensuring fewer restrictions on military operations. There is a strong possibility that civilians in Gaza will be temporarily relocated, removing one of Hamas’s key defenses. Israel may also mobilize a greater number of forces than were used in the entirety of the war so far. Additionally, the IDF will benefit from battle-hardened troops, replenished supplies, and strategic adaptations made over the course of the war.
• Just as importantly, Hamas is no longer the formidable force it was at the onset of the conflict. While still dangerous, Hamas lacks the centralized command structure, heavy weaponry, and defensive strongholds it once had.
• The IDF must fully seize and clear territory, rather than conducting short-term incursions
• This will likely require a temporary occupation of Gaza by the IDF or another security force to provide stability and prevent a resurgence of Hamas. While politically complex, securing and governing Gaza post-Hamas is essential to ensuring that a new militant force does not simply take its place.
• Hamas’s complete destruction—both militarily and politically—requires a clearly defined political end state. While Israel’s military actions can set the stage, Israel’s political leadership must outline a vision for a post-Hamas Gaza.
• Yes, Hamas can be destroyed militarily. The constraints that once limited Israel’s ability to achieve this objective are changing, and with the right approach, Israel can dismantle Hamas’s military and political apparatus.
• Link: How Hamas Can Be Destroyed With Military Force

Judge the Seriousness of the Arab League Plan by How Seriously It Takes Hamas by the Koplow Column with Israel Policy Forum

• On Tuesday, Arab League representatives met in Cairo to discuss a plan presented by Egypt aimed at breaking the deadlock over Gaza. It comes at a tipping point amid several uncertainties: the future of the continuing ceasefire, the status of President Donald Trump’s vision to evacuate Gaza’s population, and the question of whether Israel will resume full-scale fighting in Gaza. While the plan itself was not released as of this writing, the initial communiqué issued by the participant states was not encouraging. It suggests that rather than take advantage of what is both an important and dangerous moment, Arab states are largely dithering and discounting the Israeli and American determinations not to treat Hamas as a garden-variety foe.
• …the biggest problem with what emerged from Cairo is not what was there, but what wasn’t. The Arab League statement was missing even one mention of Hamas, and therein lies the massive blind spot that is its biggest problem.
• The Arab states have so far been silent on what mechanism they believe will serve as a bridge between Hamas’ current status and their aim to have a technocratic transitional Palestinian administration run Gaza. But whatever their thinking is, yada-yada-ing Hamas is not going to work. Without a plan to disarm Hamas that is front and center, any discussion of the day after is a meaningless academic exercise.
• If the plan does not take disarming Hamas seriously, then neither the U.S. or Israel will take the plan seriously.
• It can’t be enough to simply take away Hamas’ administration of government ministries, or to exile a few top Hamas leaders and then integrate tens of thousands of Hamas fighters into the next iteration of a Gaza security force as if they didn’t participate in massacring and torturing civilians. Not making an effort to genuinely disarm Hamas only guarantees the inevitability of the next Israel-Hamas war.
• A viable Arab plan is the only opportunity to avert what will be an endless military campaign for Israel, the near-certain death of many remaining living hostages, and a human and humanitarian catastrophe for Palestinians. What’s needed is a demonstration from Arab states that they are as committed as Israel to disarming and neutralizing—and not just sidelining—Hamas through their own sustained commitments on security.
• This has to begin with a real and detailed security plan that treats Hamas with the gravity it requires. Otherwise, what is happening in Cairo this week is the diplomatic equivalent of fiddling while Gaza burns.
• Link: Judge the Seriousness of the Arab League Plan by How Seriously It Takes Hamas

There were 5 warning signs the night before the Hamas invasion, but IDF officials explained them away by Yoav Zitun with YNet

• No fewer than five warning signs were received by Military Intelligence (Aman) and the Southern Command in those hours, including dozens of SIM cards from mobile phones that were activated in Gaza, suspicious movements in Hamas’ rocket deployment, and other unclear indicators. Despite this, intelligence officials found plausible explanations for each warning, primarily arguing that similar incidents had occurred in the weeks, months, and years preceding the war.
• These findings were outlined in an IDF investigation into the night before the massacre, published Thursday as part of the military’s core inquiries. … The accumulation of warning signs did not even lead to the lowest level of intelligence alert. As a result, after a joint nighttime assessment, Southern Command Chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman and Chief of Staff Halevi decided not to raise the alert or readiness levels of the 671 soldiers stationed with the Gaza Division for the Simchat Torah holiday. On October 7, 157 of them were killed in battle.
• The investigation found that the primary intelligence failures that night stemmed from the lack of a structured intelligence assessment. Instead, officials relied on entrenched assumptions to explain away the warning signs, preventing any alert about potential terrorist activity. Additionally, excessive emphasis was placed on protecting intelligence sources at the expense of increasing troop readiness.
• One of the most critical failures that night was the reluctance to expose intelligence-gathering methods … The events of those hours expose a fundamental failure in Unit 8200’s intelligence-gathering efforts. … ‘We were deaf and blind on both sides of October 7, even on Friday afternoon, when Hamas began preparing for the invasion— from dozens of operatives initially briefed on the plan, to hundreds by Friday evening, and to thousands of Gazans overnight.’
• The investigation concluded: ‘Enhanced preparedness could have been achieved without compromising intelligence sources. … If a single authority had had the full picture that night, it is likely an alert would have been issued. That night, the IDF had a rare opportunity to correct years of flawed assumptions — and perhaps at least disrupt the invasion.’
• Link: There were 5 warning signs the night before the Hamas invasion, but IDF officials explained them away

The Dream Palace of Gaza by Elliott Abrams with National Review

• It [Yasser Arafat International Airport] has existed only in memory for the past two decades — until now. The creation of an airport for Gaza is part of a 100-page Arab plan, drafted by the Egyptians and adopted on March 4 at an Arab summit in Cairo as an alternative to the Trump proposal. Those who think that Trump’s idea — to empty the ‘demolition site’ of today’s Gaza of all its residents and rebuild it from the ground up — is unrealistic should take a look at the Arab plan, which might work on another planet but certainly not in Gaza. The proposal for a new Gaza international airport is typical of the Arab plan: It makes sense only if you leave behind any notion of history or reality.
• Like the new Arab plan for Gaza, RAND’s proposal [from 2005] was lovely to look at, well illustrated, and completely out of touch with the political and military issues at stake. The new Arab plan … does not mention Hamas and deals with security issues largely by ignoring them. It suggests that if we all just recommit to the ‘two-state solution,’ security issues will magically fade away.
• The Arab plan insists that no one should move out of Gaza and that the Palestinian Authority should run it very soon. … Who would manage Gaza, under the Arab plan, during the proposed $50 billion reconstruction project? A Gaza Administration Committee will be established to manage Gaza’s affairs for a transitional period of six months. … The plan acknowledges that more will be needed: ‘It is proposed that the UN Security Council (UNSC) commences a study concerning establishing international presence in Palestinian territories.’
• Oh, boy. The famously divided Security Council will do a “study” whose goal is to send international forces — to Gaza and the West Bank. Why the reference to the West Bank here, when the subject is supposed to be Gaza? To prevent Israeli forces from fighting terrorism in the West Bank, just as UNIFIL got in the way of the Israelis in South Lebanon without ever confronting Hezbollah itself. It’s hard to think of anything less likely to help bring security to the West Bank than a U.N. force.
• Challenging? In other words, the authors of the plan have no real idea how to deal with terrorist groups — except the ridiculous notion that if Israel only agreed to the ‘two-state solution’ and ‘restoring the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people,’ those ‘challenging’ terrorist murderers would simply go home. … The Arab plan, which has no answer to the threat of Hamas, instead uses a hundred pages to take us back to pretty pictures … By comparison, the Trump plan is pragmatic, down to earth, even hardheaded.
• The United States rightly rejected the new Arab plan. A National Security Council spokesman said, ‘The current proposal does not address the reality that Gaza is currently uninhabitable and residents cannot humanely live in a territory covered in debris and unexploded ordnance. … President Trump stands by his vision to rebuild Gaza free from Hamas.’
• Call that the reality principle at work: much more realistic than the Arab plan, at least, about current living conditions in Gaza and about the real problem — Hamas.
• Link: The Dream Palace of Gaza

Nasrallah’s funeral was Hezbollah’s desperately needed lifeline by David Daoud with FDD

• Hezbollah is in a crisis. The group suffered an unprecedented drubbing by Israel, which decimated most of its arsenal, eliminated a substantial number of its fighters, and killed its iconic Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. … [E]specially among Lebanese Shiites—these developments have left the group vulnerable to criticism. Many can now plausibly accuse Hezbollah of compounding five years of severe economic hardship, beginning with Lebanon’s 2019 financial collapse, with an unnecessary war that has left their homes in ruin and reconstruction uncertain.
• Hezbollah derives its domestic strength … not through force of arms alone but through widespread popularity among Lebanese Shiites, Lebanon’s likely largest and fastest-growing sect. … This extensive support reflects the group’s ‘Nation of Hezbollah’ model of membership, first articulated in its foundational 1985 Open Letter, which prioritized a party’s ‘responsiveness with the masses’ over territorial control.
• Popular support will also prove critical to Hezbollah achieving its post-war priorities, the first of which is retaining its arms. … The group’s new Secretary-General Naim Qassem bowed to reality and the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement … But Qassem and the rest of Hezbollah have insisted that the agreement does not apply north of the Litani, meaning that the question of Hezbollah’s arms in the rest of Lebanon must be resolved through Lebanese consensus. … Hezbollah’s other, equally important priority is ensuring that post-war reconstruction funds reach its battered community.
• Enter Nasrallah’s funeral, the purpose of which … was not only an outpouring of grief but also a domestic show of force. Vast attendance was therefore necessary. … The final say on turnout … came from [the] research and consultancy firm Information International. … They estimated that 700,000 to 900,000 people attended Nasrallah’s funeral.
• But that turnout now also serves to forestall any potential action by Lebanese authorities … Both the ostensibly sovereigntist President Joseph Aoun and longtime ally, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, have accepted Hezbollah’s position on resolving the question of its arms. … With the numbers it brought out on February 23, Hezbollah can threaten the premier with—at a minimum—obstructionism … if the group senses his government is moving against its arms or withholding reconstruction aid.
• Most Shiites who support Hezbollah are not unwavering Khomeinists. … But the relationship between party and population isn’t entirely transactional. … By bringing the community out to Nasrallah’s funeral in the hundreds of thousands, Hezbollah sent a message to its domestic opponents and the government: An attack on Hezbollah is an attack on the Shiites writ large.
• Link: Nasrallah’s funeral was Hezbollah’s desperately needed lifeline

How the UN turned Palestinians into permanent refugees with Barry O’Halloran in Spiked

• The vast majority of those living in Gaza, those professing strong feelings of attachment to their homeland, are actually classified as ‘refugees’. For all the international outrage over Trump’s threat to turn Gaza’s Palestinians into a displaced people, the truth is that the vast majority are already viewed and treated as such by the UN. Indeed, the refugee status of Palestinians is one of the unique features of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
• In 1948, a combination of the foundation of Israel and the Arab-Israeli war displaced around 750,000 Palestinians, turning them into refugees. Incredibly, nearly 80 years on, the number of Palestinians classified as refugees has actually increased, to nearly six million.
• At about the same time, at the insistence of Arab states, a second UN refugee organisation was established to deal specifically with the 750,000 Palestinian Arab refugees. It was called the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, otherwise known as UNRWA. … Not only has it failed to tackle the original refugee crisis. It has also actively overseen an 800 per cent increase in the number of Palestinian refugees it is responsible for.
• UNRWA has played a central role in fueling the conflict with Israel. In 1967, it unilaterally extended the definition of refugee to include third-generation descendants. And then, in 1982, it decided to include the descendants of all male Palestinians. Under UNRWA’s unique classification rules, refugee status had become hereditary.
• This cuts against the grain of international law, which says that once a refugee acquires citizenship in a country, he or she loses his or her refugee status. But for UNRWA, citizens in other countries can still be Palestinian refugees.
• To illustrate the absurdity of what has been happening, take the case of Mohamed Anwar Hadid. His father fled Nazareth in 1948 … He ended up in California where he became a property developer building luxury mansions and hotels … Bella [Hadid], who reputedly earns up to $20million a year, regularly posts anti-Israel sentiments on social media … Amazingly, the two sisters, their father and other members of the Hadid family are all still registered as Palestinian refugees with UNRWA.
• Over several decades, the ‘right of return’ has allowed successive Palestinian political leaders to continue a war against Israel by other means – by insisting on their right to return to land ‘occupied’ by Israel. … In 2018, [Hamas] organized a massive protest … The objective … was to ‘break the walls of the blockade, remove the occupation entity and return to all of Palestine.’ No wonder novelist Amos Oz … has argued that ‘the right of return is a euphemism for the liquidation of Israel.’
• The twin issues of refugee status and the right of return have taken on enormous symbolic significance for Palestinians. They have also made, and will continue to make, any peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis inordinately difficult.
• Link: How the UN turned Palestinians into permanent refugees

Casualties (+1 since Wednesday)

1,852 Israelis have been killed including 846 IDF soldiers since October 7th (+1 since Wednesday)

Yaheli Gur, 17, who was critically injured in last week’s car-ramming terror attack at the Karkur junction near central Israel’s Pardes Hanna, sadly died of her injuries on Wednesday.

• The South: 407 IDF soldiers during the ground operation in Gaza have been killed (no change since Wednesday)
• The North: 132 Israelis (84 IDF soldiers) have been killed during the war in Northern Israel (no change since Wednesday)
• The West Bank: 63 Israelis (27 IDF and Israeli security forces)
• Additional Information (according to the IDF):
  • 2,582 (no change since Wednesday) IDF soldiers have been injured during ground combat in Gaza, including at least 497 (no change since Wednesday) who have been severely injured.
  • 5,726 (+1 since Wednesday) IDF soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, including at least 851 (no change since Wednesday) 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