First on Fox: A new study disputes that Israel committed genocide in Gaza after Hamas’ 7 October 2023, with the argument that accusations of hunger, random bombing and deliberate civil murders do not miss verifiable evidence.
The report By researchers from the beginning-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-ILAN University, “Debunce the Genocide Consolgia: a re-examination of the Israel-HAMAS WAR” (2023-2025) (2023-2025), argues that the genocide story is driven by Defective Data for the disabled data for a disabled data.
An important element of the accusations of genocide is the claim that Israel deliberately starved the population of Gaza. The study argues that “claims of hunger before 2 March 2025 were based on incorrect data, circular quotes and not critically revised sources.” While UN officials and law groups claimed that 500 trucks per day were needed to prevent famine, pre -war UN figures that Gaza had on average 292 daily in 2022 -only 73 of those who wear food.
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The leader of the General Staff, LTG Eyal Zamir, carried out a field tour in the Gaza Strip. (IDF spokesperson)
The study says that Israel regularly surpassed the food supply that was needed during the war, on average more than 100 trucks per day until March 2025. During a deal of the Stakten-Fires for the host, that number climbed to around 600 daily.
“The idea that Hamas has no help is absurd,” said Orbach. “In every conflict, armed groups take the majority of humanitarian supplies. We have documents and testimonies that show that Hamas did this.”
The report argues that genocide feases spread through what Orbach called an “reverse funnel of information”. Journalists and care providers in Gaza were often dependent on Hamas-linked translators and fixers, whose accounts filtered in UN reports, regular media and online platforms.
“The average Westerner sees dozens of reports about Israeli crimes and assumes that they should be true. But they all follow back to a handful of Hamas,” said Orbach.
Israeli air strikes on Gaza a day after Hamas terrorists had invaded parts of South Israel. Oct 2023. (Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The second factor is “humanitarian bias” – the tendency to exaggerate disorders to cause action. “Organizations warn of famine before it happens and rely on dubious facts to change reality. Questions are becoming an immoral act,” said Orbach.
The accusation of genocide is also based on claims that Israel was deliberately aimed at citizens, but the study recognizes civil deaths and finds no evidence of a systematic policy of massacre.
Orbach quoted BBC data that showed that between May 2024 and January 2025 550 people were killed in designated safe zones – only 2.1% to 3.5% of the total victims, although half of the population of Gaza there were concentrated a large part of the period.
Hamas terrorists take positions in front of a hostage in Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip on February 8, 2025. (AP)
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“That indicates that the zones were relatively safe, even though Hamas used them to launch rockets,” Orbach said.
The report notes that context is crucial, which states that Hamas deliberately placed itself in civil areas, used human shields and blocked evacuations to increase the civilian victims and international conviction of Israel.
“Hamas deliberately exposes its own people to danger, so that Israel will be blamed,” said Orbach.
A Gazan-Man mourn family members who were killed at Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, in a Hospital Morue in Deir Al-Balah, Tuesday 9 July 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Although critics have accused the Israeli Air Force of random bombing, the study notes that strikes were generally aimed at military objectives, although the civilian victims were inevitable.
“The IDF is the first army in history that has targeted warnings, to offer large -scale help to enemy territory and surprise to protect citizens,” he said. “You can’t fight against an enemy embedded in 500 kilometers of tunnels, dressed as civilians without a massive destruction.”
The study pays special attention to victims figures published by the Hamas-Runned Gaza Health Ministry and claims that they were manipulated to create misleading impressions of the demography of the dead. It presents alternative statistical models that suggest that fatal victims may have been subscribed, causing the civil-to-face ratio to be disrupted.
Hamas terrorists who wear clubs and firearms, secure and lead humanitarian auxiliary cars in the Northern Gaza area of ​​Jabaliya in June. 25 (TPS IL)
The report says that genocide requires systematic intention to destroy a people – something that it finds absent in Gaza. “You don’t see the characteristics of genocidal warfare here,” said Orbach. “There are no campaigns of rape, frontal slaughter or executions of Close-Range. In other conflicts in the Middle East, dozens of such atrocities took place in just a few hours of fighting.”
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The IDF has announced that his troops are now active in Rafah. The troops remain ground activities in the north of and central Gaza. (IDF)
Orbach and his fellow authors conclude that accusations of genocide against Israel rely on politized stories, selective data and the exploitation of humanitarian discourse.
“Analyzing destruction or civilian deaths without understanding Hamas’s tactics is absurd,” he said.
