Hamas has quietly revised its previously published casualty figures from the ongoing conflict with Israel, removing thousands of names it had originally listed as fatalities, according to Salo Aizenberg of the U.S.-based watchdog group Honest Reporting. Speaking to The Telegraph, Aizenberg said his conclusions were based on a detailed examination of Hamas’s updated fatality list from March 2025.
Previously, Hamas asserted that 70% of those killed in the war were women and children. However, their latest casualty records no longer reflect that claim, Aizenberg’s analysis shows. The new data suggests that roughly 72% of those killed between the ages of 13 and 55 are males—a group that aligns with the typical profile of Hamas fighters.
“Hamas’s new March 2025 fatality list quietly drops 3,400 fully ‘identified’ deaths listed in its August and October 2024 reports – including 1,080 children. These ‘deaths’ never happened. The numbers were falsified – again,” Aizenberg asserted.
Back in December, the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank, published similar findings, accusing Hamas of significantly exaggerating the number of people killed.
“We knew there were rafts of errors in their reporting,” report author Andrew Fox said. “There’s a reasonable explanation in that their computer systems went down in November 2023, so it’s been challenging for them to report accurately, but the lists are so unreliable that the world’s media shouldn’t be quoting them as reliable.”
“The UN also just takes Hamas’s figures and publishes them with a note stating the figures are unconfirmed.”
Fox said the recent revisions suggest that Hamas is now trying to make its casualty reports seem more credible. “They’ve been accepting names onto that list with no evidence whatsoever,” Fox explained. “So what I’m guessing they’re trying to do is thin out the names they cannot substantiate at all.”
He added that Aizenberg’s method likely involves tracking which names appeared in past versions of Hamas’s lists and are no longer present. “Salo’s research would be looking for names that were on previous lists but have now disappeared,” Fox explained. “Hamas releases lists as PDFs, so it’s harder to do comparisons but we transfer names to an Excel sheet to do a mass comparison this way.”
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