In this Media Miss Minute, Israeli military data shows most of the Palestinians killed so far in its war with Hamas in Gaza have been civilians. And a key leader of the terror group ISIS is dead after a U.S. military raid in Syria.
Media Miss on the right: Israeli military data shows 83% of Gazans killed were civilians
Nearly two years into the war between Israel and Hamas, more than 62,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Now Israeli military officials say 83% of those killed since Oct. 7, 2023, have been civilians.
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The statistics are according to a joint investigation between The Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call. They say they got the info from a classified Israeli military intelligence database.
That investigation found that as of May, when the Palestinian death toll was just 53,000, “Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or ‘probably dead.’” That indicates only 17% of those killed in the fighting were combatants.
For comparison, the Russia-Ukraine War, which began three years ago, has seen between 10% and 21% of Ukrainian civilians killed, according to that same report.
Media Miss on the left: CENTCOM says it killed senior ISIS official in Syria
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Tuesday, Aug. 19, American forces killed a senior ISIS official during a raid in northern Syria.
They said the raid was specifically organized to target the individual, whose name and identity has not been released.
CENTCOM added the target was a “key financier” for ISIS who helped plan and organize attacks across both Syria and Iraq and who posed “a direct threat to U.S. and coalition forces and the new Syrian government.”
News of the raid comes as the U.S. is relaxing some of its sanctions against Syria after former leader Bashar Assad was ousted in December. President Ahmed al-Sharaa has been leading Syria since January.
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