Even if they include all their local allies or recent surges in recruitment that can't be more than double.
In the past the demographics reported by #GazaMOH have been less reliable than the totals, but not by ENOUGH to make 7000 #militants "neutralised" plausible (from memory, totals have been about 3% of and demographics up to 10% when compared to independent counts).
The assumption I think the #IDF are using, is that all the ~500,000 men in #Gaza are Hamas Militants, meaning they have killed WAY less than half.
But "every man is Hamas military" is also comletely ludicrous, because the highest estimates reported anywhere before the war were 40,000 #Hamas #militants
7000 is about the total number of adult men the IDF have killed in #Gaza
So 7000 #Hamas #militants killed assumes the IDF somehow killed zero adult male #civilians despite killing 14,000 women and children (implausible).
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#AdultMaleCivilians #WomenAndChildren
Kirt