{"id":2697988,"date":"2026-11-04T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gazas-population-grew-last-year-and-there-wasnt-a-famine-hamass-own-figures-show-data-debunk-myth-that-most-gaza-deaths-are-women-and-children\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:20:46","slug":"gazas-population-grew-last-year-and-there-wasnt-a-famine-hamass-own-figures-show-data-debunk-myth-that-most-gaza-deaths-are-women-and-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gazas-population-grew-last-year-and-there-wasnt-a-famine-hamass-own-figures-show-data-debunk-myth-that-most-gaza-deaths-are-women-and-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza&#8217;s Population Grew Last Year and There Wasn&#8217;t a Famine, Hamas&#8217;s Own Figures Show, Debunking Claims That Most Gaza Deaths are Women and Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgazas-population-grew-last-year-and-there-wasnt-a-famine-hamass-own-figures-show-data-debunk-myth-that-most-gaza-deaths-are-women-and-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2697988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hear is a plain-english paraphrase of teh passage:<\/p>\n<p>Recent mortality data from Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry-published by Hamas-show that the territory\u2019s population grew by just over 1 percent in 2025 and that a large-scale hunger crisis did not occur, according to an analysis by the Australia\/Israel &#038; Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC). AIJAC\u2019s review says these official figures contradict claims from the U.N. and other groups that the Gaza war amounts to genocide or produced a deadly famine.<\/p>\n<p>AIJAC\u2019s analysis reports Gaza\u2019s population rose by 1.2 percent in 2025 and that nonviolent deaths that year were fewer then in 2022 (a year affected by COVID). The council argues this undermines the U.N.-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declaration in 2025 that parts of Gaza faced category-5 \u201cfamine\u201d conditions. Media reporting at the time noted the IPC had shifted to a less reliable metric before declaring famine, and AIJAC says the Health Ministry\u2019s numbers provide additional evidence that Gaza never reached a mass-famine scenario.<\/p>\n<p>AIJAC also points out the ministry report does not use the word \u201cgenocide,\u201d and it contends the numbers are inconsistent with the IPC\u2019s earlier famine claim. The report challenges another widely circulated assertion-that women and children made up 70 percent of Gaza\u2019s casualties-saying the ministry\u2019s breakdown shows moast deaths were men,consistent with typical wartime patterns in which military-age males are overrepresented among fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>AIJAC acknowledges Hamas-run ministry data can be unreliable or biased, but it argues that when Hamas\u2019s own figures contradict accusations of genocide, famine, or specific casualty breakdowns, those accusations should be treated with skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry\u2019s 2025 totals cited in the analysis: 24,650 people died that year; 18,085 (73.4 percent) were men and 6,565 (26.6 percent) were women. about 18,870 deaths were classified as violent (e.g., combat-related), implying roughly 76.6 percent of the deaths were likely combatants. The report also states 17,286 deaths (70.1 percent) resulted from \u201cdirect targeting\u201d by Israel, while 5,780 were recorded as nonviolent or indirect deaths-used to argue that civilian deaths from starvation or indirect causes were not at famine levels.<\/p>\n<p>The piece notes ongoing accusations of genocide by the U.N., affiliated groups, and some political actors, but says there is limited factual support for those charges. It cites an open letter from more than 75 military professionals who argued that the evidence does not meet the legal definition of genocide, and that casualty figures issued by Hamas are not a reliable basis for such claims.<\/p>\n<p>AIJAC reiterates that Gaza recorded natural population growth in 2025 of about 25,577 people (1.2 percent), which is higher than most countries\u2019 growth rates-something the council says is inconsistent with the kinds of population suppression expected under genocide, such as measures to prevent births.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding famine specifically, AIJAC argues the raw death statistics do not support the IPC\u2019s warnings. The IPC\u2019s thresholds would imply thousands of indirect deaths during the period in question, but the ministry\u2019s data list only 5,780 nonviolent deaths in 2025-well below the IPC famine threshold. The analysis concludes there is no statistical evidence that famine conditions existed anywhere in Gaza, based on nonviolent death counts for both children under five and the general population.<\/p>\n<p>the report disputes claims that civilian deaths were massively undercounted. An analyst cited in the piece calculated fewer than one nonviolent death for each direct violent death through 2025, and the ministry\u2019s figures show an overrepresentation of military-age males among fatalities.AIJAC therefore says the frequent assertion that 70 percent of casualties were women and children is not supported by the official data.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The most recent mortality figures in Gaza show that the population grew by more than 1 percent last year, faster than in most of the world, and that a major hunger crisis failed to ever materialize. The data\u2014supplied by Hamas&#8217;s own Ministry of Health\u2014undercut claims by the United Nations and other anti-Israel groups that the Gaza war is a &#8220;genocide&#8221; that has led to a deadly famine, according to an analysis of the figures.<\/p>\n<p>The Australia\/Israel &#038; Jewish Affairs Council, the Australian Jewish community&#8217;s premier public affairs organization, determined in a <a href=\"https:\/\/aijac.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Fact-Sheet-2025-Gaza-data.pdf\">recent analysis<\/a> based on the data that Gaza&#8217;s population increased by 1.2 percent in 2025, a steep rise for a populace supposedly facing a genocide by Israel. Moreover, the number of nonviolent deaths in Gaza that year, meaning those unrelated to direct conflict, was less than in 2022, a year before Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7, 2023, terror spree ignited the war.<\/p>\n<p>The figures &#8220;absolutely rule out&#8221; the U.N.-affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification&#8217;s headline-grabbing claim in 2025 that major areas of Gaza were facing a &#8220;worst-case scenario of famine.&#8221; The <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/israel\/un-backed-famine-watchdog-quietly-changed-standards-easing-way-to-declare-famine-in-gaza\/\"><em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> exclusively reported<\/a> at the time that the IPC used a less reliable reporting metric before declaring famine, and the newly released figures offer further proof that Gaza was never on the precipice of a humanitarian crisis in which thousands would perish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most notable element of the recent all-cause mortality report for 2025 in Gaza \u2026 is the lack of the term &#8216;genocide&#8217; anywhere in the report, and the fact that the numbers contained in it seem to completely contradict claims by the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification in August 2025 that, at that time, major parts of Gaza were experiencing category 5 &#8216;famine&#8217; conditions,&#8221; the Jewish Affairs Council concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry figures also dispel another widely disseminated claim by Israel&#8217;s enemies that women and children accounted for 70 percent of casualties in Gaza, an unverified statistic that has been used to peddle conspiracy theories that Israel intentionally targets civilians. In fact, &#8220;as is the norm in warfare, most casualties are military-aged males,&#8221; the study found.<\/p>\n<p>While the Jewish Affairs Council notes that data from the Hamas-controlled ministry are historically unreliable and often skewed, the organization argues &#8220;that claims about genocide, famine and casualty breakdowns that are contradicted by what even Hamas claims about such casualties should immediately be viewed as exposing the individual or organisation making the claim as either extreme or cavalier about accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hamas ministry reported 24,650 total deaths in 2025, of which 18,085\u2014or 73.4 percent\u2014were men. Females accounted for just 6,565 deaths, or 26.6 percent. Around 18,870 people were killed violently, such as in battle, suggesting that 76.6 percent of those killed were likely battlefield combatants. Similarly, the figures show that 17,286, or 70.1 percent, were killed through &#8220;direct targeting&#8221; by Israel. Just 5,780 were classified as &#8220;non-violent&#8221; deaths or &#8220;indirect deaths,&#8221; again suggesting that Israel is not wantonly killing the civilian population.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The claim that Israel is prosecuting a genocide in Gaza continues to be peddled by the United Nations, U.N.-affiliated advocacy groups, and anti-Israel political candidates across the country. But there is little factual basis for the accusations, which have become a rallying cry on the left.<\/p>\n<p>More than 75 military professionals recently penned an <a href=\"https:\/\/jinsa.org\/open-letter-from-military-professionals-refuting-genocide-allegations-against-israel\/\">open letter<\/a> declaring &#8220;the allegations that Israel committed this crime do not meet the established definition and standards of genocide, are unsupported by established facts, nor do they stand up to common sense scrutiny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel&#8217;s accusers allege genocide mostly because of the supposed number of civilians killed in Gaza,&#8221; the letter continues. &#8220;Such claims are rife with flaws. Genocide is not a quantitative crime; there is no number of civilian casualties that constitutes genocide. Nor are the claimed casualty numbers from Gaza credible. Issued by Hamas themselves and, at the very least, not distinguishing between civilians and combatants, they cannot be relied upon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But even Hamas&#8217;s own figures do not meet the threshold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gaza in 2025 experienced natural population growth of 25,577, 1.2% of the population,&#8221; according to the report. At least one analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EirikSchr\/status\/2105305881571160348?s=20\">noted<\/a> that the numbers show &#8220;higher population growth than most countries in the world and more than the world average.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Populations are not expected to grow rapidly during genocides,&#8221; the Jewish Affairs Council notes in its study. &#8220;Among the acts listed under the Genocide Convention is &#8216;Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group,&#8217; something Israel clearly is not doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The much-hyped famine predicted by the United Nations in June and August 2025 is also unsupported by the raw statistics.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, there were 6,061 deaths in Gaza, a number that was elevated by the COVID pandemic. But the number of deaths in 2025, including those who may have died from starvation or malnutrition, is &#8220;clearly not significantly higher than the natural deaths which occurred in 2022. We know this because the numbers for 2019, before COVID, are only slightly lower,&#8221; according to the study.        <\/p>\n<p>By the IPC&#8217;s own standard, there would need to be several deaths per day to constitute a famine. This would have caused at least 8,600 indirect deaths during the time of the supposed famine. But the Gaza Health Ministry figures record only 5,780 nonviolent deaths across the entirety of Gaza in 2025, a significant shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no evidence of famine conditions ever existing anywhere in Gaza, as the numbers of non-violent deaths for both children under 5 and the general population are orders of magnitude below the IPC thresholds,&#8221; the study concluded.<\/p>\n<p>There is also little factual basis to claim that civilian deaths in Gaza were significantly undercounted and much higher than believed, another claim that has been weaponized by Israel&#8217;s enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Middle East analyst Gabriel Epstein <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter-thread.com\/t\/2105412609860153467\">determined<\/a> at the end of September that there was less than 1 nonviolent death, 0.43, for every direct death through 2025. In line with this finding, military-age males are overrepresented in the mortality figures, as expected in a time of intense war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite widespread claims that 70% of casualties in Gaza have been women and children, the [Hamas ministry&#8217;s] own published data has shown significant and growing over-representation of military-age males since early 2024,&#8221; the study notes. &#8220;Claims that women and children account for 70% of injuries are also belied by the [Ministry] data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like a full paraphrase of the whole piece or a very short summary limited to 55 characters? Here are both options:<\/p>\n<p>55-character summary (fits your limit):<br \/>\nGaza 2025 mortality up 1%, famine claims debunked.<\/p>\n<p>Full paraphrase:<br \/>\nNew mortality data from Hamas\u2019s Health Ministry indicate Gaza\u2019s population grew about 1.2% in 2025, challenging claims of genocide and a looming famine. The figures show 24,650 total deaths that year, including 18,085 men and 6,565 women. About 18,870 deaths were violent, with 17,286 (70.1%) listed as directly targeted by Israel, and 5,780 classified as non-violent. The population increase and the level of non-violent deaths are not consistent with a famine under IPC thresholds, and non-violent deaths in 2025 were lower than in 2022. The data are cited as undermining UN-backed claims of Gaza facing a \u201cworst-case famine,\u201d though observers note Hamas\u2019s numbers are historically unreliable. The report also highlights that most casualties were military-age males, a typical wartime pattern, and disputes claims that women and children comprised 70% of deaths. An open letter from more than 75 military professionals argues that genocide and famine claims lack legal or factual support and that Hamas\u2019s own casualty figures are insufficient to prove such accusations. The overall takeaway is that, even by Hamas\u2019s own data, there is no clear evidence of genocide or a Gaza-wide famine in 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2697989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/electricity-cuts-deepen-gaza-crisis-10-years-after-israeli-blockade-e1729199436814.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548,544],"tags":[13980,40447,42304,20083,5477],"class_list":["post-2697988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","category-the-free-beacon","tag-casualties","tag-factcheck","tag-famine","tag-gaza","tag-population"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/electricity-cuts-deepen-gaza-crisis-10-years-after-israeli-blockade-e1729199436814.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697991,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697988\/revisions\/2697991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2697989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}