Study Refutes Genocide Claims, Highlights Gaza Data Bias

A comprehensive 311-page study by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem critically challenges the widely reported narrative that Israel committed genocide and deliberately starved civilians in Gaza during the ongoing conflict with Hamas from 2023 to 2025. The report scrutinizes humanitarian and casualty data, highlighting that claims of starvation are based on inaccurate and uncritical data, noting that food supplies entering Gaza during the war often exceeded pre-war levels. It also questions the reliability of casualty figures from Hamas-controlled sources, suggesting a possible underreporting of combatant deaths and an inflated civilian casualty ratio. The study emphasizes Hamas' tactics of embedding operations within civilian areas and using human shields, which complicates the conflict and civilian safety. The authors call for a new methodological framework for conflict analysis to resist politicized narratives and stress that the evidence does not support the legal definition of genocide against Israel. These findings stand in contrast to positions like that of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which recently declared Israel's actions meet the legal genocide definition.