According to often cited claims, Hamas alone had around 30,000 militants at the start of Oct 2023, representing approximately 1.3% Gaza's population.

So if you took a random sample of 5,000 people in #Gaza at that point, you would have picked more #Hamas militants than the Israeli military managed to target in hundreds and hundreds of airstrikes.

The #Airwars report includes a detailed explanation of their methodology and links to their full dataset, and is available for free here: https://gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org/.

The report has been usefully summarised by UK journalist #OwenJones in this 9 minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhGKDpH0vA.

A new report by UK #NGO #Airwars has extensively analysed all available data about the victims of 606 "incidents of civilian harm" (mainly Israeli airstrikes) that were recorded in #Gaza over the first 25 days of the escalation back in October 2023.

The newly published report found that a minimum of 5,137 civilians were confirmed killed in the strikes. (There were likely considerably more whose bodies were never recovered, or who have subsequently died of their injuries, or who have died due to the collapse of the healthcare system that began in these strikes). The victims included over 1,900 children, a toll for children around seven times greater than any previous month of warfare anywhere in the world analysed by Airwars (which was established in 2014). Gaza is by far the most intense and deadly conflict for civilians over this period.

Out of all those confirmed killed in the 606 incidents analysed in the report, Airwars found the number of #Palestinian militants (Hamas or otherwise) was between 30 and 58, meaning combatants were only 0.6%–1.1% of all deaths (=98.9–99.4% civilian death rate for these airstrikes).

This data does not point to a military that is attempting to limit civilian casualties, rather than opposite.