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already close to half of them were identified as part of hamas.
an estimate of 320 from the unidentified are suspected to be part of hamas aswell.
and like the article says, woman and children were not counted in that number.
doesn't surprise me really though, I knew numbers like this were going to show.
Basing its work on the official Palestinian death toll of 1,338, the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration said it had identified more than 1,200 of the Palestinian fatalities and that 580 had been conclusively "incriminated" as members of Hamas and other terrorist groups.
Some 300 of the dead - women, children aged 15 and younger and men over the age of 65 - had been categorized as noncombatants, the CLA said.
Counted among the women, however, were female terrorists, including at least two women who tried to blow themselves up next to forces from the Givati and Paratroopers brigades.
Also classed as noncombatants were the wives and children of Nizar Rayyan, a Hamas military commander who refused to allow his family to leave his home even after he was warned by Israel that it would be bombed.
The 320 names yet to be classified are all men. The IDF has yet to complete its identification work in these cases, but estimates that two-thirds of them were terror operatives.
already close to half of them were identified as part of hamas.
an estimate of 320 from the unidentified are suspected to be part of hamas aswell.
and like the article says, woman and children were not counted in that number.
doesn't surprise me really though, I knew numbers like this were going to show.