The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Zimbabwe has issued a strong condemnation of Israel, following revelations from internal data belonging to Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman). The data, which surfaced in recent investigations, reportedly shows that 83 percent of those killed in Gaza since the escalation of hostilities are civilians—directly contradicting repeated Israeli government claims that the majority of the dead are Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters.
According to the embassy, the disclosures dismantle Israel’s long-standing narrative about its military operations in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, have publicly cited figures suggesting that between 20,000 and 30,000 resistance fighters had been eliminated. However, Aman’s own records, as cited by the Palestinian mission, indicate these claims are based on unverified battlefield estimates, with many civilians posthumously labeled as “terrorists” in an effort to present inflated “achievements.”
“The discrepancy between Israel’s public statements and its internal intelligence reflects a deliberate campaign of misinformation,” the embassy said. “A culture of deception has taken root in the Israeli military establishment, masking the reality of mass civilian deaths.”
The figures paint a dire picture of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. Civilian casualty ratios in other modern conflicts—including Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bosnia—ranged from 10 to 40 percent. By contrast, Gaza’s toll, at over 80 percent, approaches levels seen in some of the world’s darkest chapters, such as Rwanda and Srebrenica. The Palestinian mission described this as “a damning indictment” of Israel’s actions and urged international prosecutors to treat the evidence as grounds for war crimes investigations.
Dr. Tamer Almassri, the Palestinian ambassador to Zimbabwe, warned that the international community’s failure to hold Israel accountable has emboldened its leadership. He accused Israel of normalizing practices such as civilian killings, starvation blockades, and the targeting of journalists. “Impunity has allowed Tel Aviv to flout the most basic principles of international law,” he said. “The world will ultimately pay a heavy price for its silence.”
The embassy’s statement went further, characterizing Israel as “a colonial entity” driven by “racist settlement expansion and eliminatory occupation.” It argued that Israel’s policies amount to ethnic cleansing and genocide, and predicted that its political and military leaders would eventually face international reckoning for their actions.
In its remarks, the embassy also condemned what it described as Israel’s “fascist attack” on the Nasser Hospital complex in Khan Younis and the “deliberate assassination” of five journalists in a single day. It argued that such targeted military strikes could only have been sanctioned at the highest levels of Israeli command.
“These atrocities should serve as a final wake-up call,” the embassy concluded, urging international organizations and “the leaders of free nations” to act decisively and end what it called the world’s “double standards” on Israel’s conduct in Gaza.
