I seem to have missed the MoH report that was published a week ago, on March 12 - so here is quick demographic breakdown of the most recent hospital fatalities records: - 149 deaths registered between March 3 and March 12 - 115 (77.2%) males, 34 (22.8%) females - 91 (61.1%) men, 30 (20.1%) women, 28 (18.8) children A couple of important observations: 1) Given that the male/female ratio in Gaza is about 1.03, this means that about 54% of all those hospital records are excess male fatalities, which gives us a good proxy for the percentage of combatants 2) 24 out of 28 children are boys, so it is likely that about 20 of them (13.4% of all death records) are 16-17-year old child soldiers
I seem to have missed the MoH report that was published a week ago, on March 12 - so here is quick demographic breakdown of the most recent hospital fatalities records: - 149 deaths registered between March 3 and March 12 - 115 (77.2%) males, 34 (22.8%) females - 91 (61.1%) men, 30 (20.1%) women, 28 (18.8) children A couple of important observations: 1) Given that the male/female ratio in Gaza is about 1.03, this means that about 54% of all those hospital records are excess male fatalities, which gives us a good proxy for the percentage of combatants 2) 24 out of 28 children are boys, so it is likely that about 20 of them (13.4% of all death records) are 16-17-year old child soldiers
@MarkZlochin The age of majority for both Jewish and Muslim males is 13. As early as it sounds in a modern Western world, it still works in the Middle East. Of course, Hamas likes to present such males as "minors".
@MarkZlochin > which gives us a good proxy for the percentage of combatants Not at all. The proportion of noncombatant casualties should be considerably higher among males than among the general population, simply because they are more likely to be mistaken for combatants.
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