The US estimates that there are 50K Hamas combatants, 30K soldiers and 20K armed police. Currently 30-35% have been killed (note your estimate was from January).
About 2/3 dead are women and children according to most sources I see. 15K Hamas of 37K dead exceeds 1/3, so that can only be possible if you count numerous women and children as Hamas and valid military targets.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-to-believe-israel-killed-just-20-30-of-hamas-terrorists-in-gaza-fighting/
Just FYI the total stats for injured is way way way above 35k
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68387864
The US estimates that there are 50K Hamas combatants, 30K soldiers and 20K armed police. Currently 30-35% have been killed (note your estimate was from January).
Hence about 15K Hamas killed.
About 2/3 dead are women and children according to most sources I see. 15K Hamas of 37K dead exceeds 1/3, so that can only be possible if you count numerous women and children as Hamas and valid military targets.
The most recent UN figures I saw count 4,959 women, 7,797 children, 10,006 men, and about 10,000 unknown. So that’s still in keeping with 15,000 adult male combatants.
That’s a lot of heavy lifting from the assumptions that the missing is majority men and also that all fighting age males would be Hamas
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