Posted on 01/29/2026 11:15:58 PM PST by Words Matter
Zero famine deaths and 60,000 newborns – IDF rebuts claims of Gaza "genocide". IDF confirms estimates of 70,000 fatalities in Gaza war, including 25,000 terrorists, as Israeli military says not a single famine death could be confirmed, while number of live births tops pre-war level.
By World Israel News Staff. Jan 29, 2026.
Israel’s military said Thursday that it estimates that roughly 70,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war with Hamas in October 2023, similar to the figures provided by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.
However, the IDF and the Gaza health ministry differ sharply in their estimates of the number of civilians killed during the war. Hamas officials have claimed that approximately 70% of the 71,400 deaths reported by its health ministry were women or children – a figure challenged by independent analyses, most of which place the number under 50%.
The IDF has estimated that at least 25,000 terrorists were killed, according to The Jerusalem Post, reflecting a 1.8 to 1 ratio of civilian to combatant fatalities. That places the Gaza war within the range of major contemporary conflicts and roughly equal to an approximately 2 to 1 ratio reported in the war in Iraq.
Despite a campaign promoting claims of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military reported that it could find no evidence of a single death caused by starvation during the war.
Aizenberg and others have noted that deaths by misfired Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad missiles are within those figures. The iDF recently revealed that about 13% of all rocket launches by the terror organizations in the first 6 months of the war were faulty, falling back into the Gaza Strip.
Additionally, deaths caused by Hamas reprisals against Gazans believed to be aiding Israel are also included among the “war dead.”
The IDF said on Thursday that it is working on its own evaluation of the GHM data integrated with its internal calculations of the number of combatants killed, although it gave no date for when this analysis would be published.
A report published by the Henry Jackson Society in early 2025 showed that the Hamas-run GHM had misrepresented the number of women and children killed in the conflict, claiming that over 70% of all deaths were in that category. That report found that during a roughly six-month period, from October 2024 to March 2025, just over half of all deaths were combat-age men.
That report found “extensive statistical anomalies, glaring inconsistencies, and a concerted effort by Hamas to inflate the number of civilian deaths – particularly among women and children – while systematically omitting combatant fatalities, especially amongst its own operatives.”
A previous report by the Henry Jackson Society even documented cases in which people killed by Hamas, or deaths of cancer patients, were included in the GHM’s list of war fatalities.
The GHM death figures have also played a part in accusations by international groups, such as the UN and affiliated nongovernmental organizations, which accused Israel of causing a famine at various points during the two-year war. In particular, several Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) reports were used to allege that Gaza was at the threshold or experiencing famine conditions.
The Israeli government, along with other analysts, pushed back against the claims, pointing out errors in the reports, which often followed from a failure to follow the IPC’s own methodology and guidelines.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/idf-gaza-death-toll/2026/01/29/id/1244050/
Whether it’s against the only Saturday nation (Israel rooting Hamas out of Gaza), or a not-yet-toppled Sunday nation (U.S. acting to deport criminal illegal aliens), all the same atheists, communists and islamists are hard at work worldwide spewing corrosive lies and demonic rhetoric.
Israel was just defending itself. If the blood thirsty Mozlems in Gaza had simply left them alone there would be no war causalities at all . Therefore ALL the dead are the results of Hamas.
Absolutely
Facts are not relevant to the Arabs or the leftist Jew haters.
They’ll just keep lying.
I was hoping the famine would let us skip a generation of Raping, Murdering Savages.
Hamas liars gonna lie.
Palestinians are the only group I’ve ever heard of who are “victims of genocide” for 50 straight years, and the population keeps growing steadily all through it.
no such luck Feck
Israel was just defending itself. If the blood thirsty Mozlems in Gaza had simply left them alone there would be no war causalities at all . Therefore ALL the dead are the results of Hamas.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Where’s the FReeper Allahu Akhbar Chorus this morning?
Too much schnapps and Horst Wessel last night?
You and me both.
L
Hey Israeli government, get your heads out of your asses.
Drop leaflets, set a dead line and Carpet bomb gaza from the river to the sea and then bulldoze whats left in to the river and the sea. Make it a moonscape.
The world does not I repeat does need a pal state, turn gaza in to a shooting range. Their masters and bankers are on the run.
The world will thank you.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.