Conservative: Hamas Numbers Debunk ‘Genocide’ “Casualty data in the Gaza war” from the Hamas-run health ministry show “why Israel’s critics have been flailing since the end of the war,” explains Commentary’s Seth Mandel . It lists “68,800 deaths,” 25,000 of them Hamas fighters; another 10,000 are “natural deaths.” And the other 34,000 includes civilians “killed by Hamas and associated militant groups.” So: “Even when using Hamas’s numbers, Israel’s civilian-to-combatant death rate is close to 1: