The Israeli Military Claims to Have Successfully Killed 9,000 Hamas Militants Since the War Started in Gaza

Israeli military operations in Gaza. (Source: Israel Defense Forces)

JAKARTA - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims to have succeeded in killing thousands of militants from the Hamas group, when they published large data containing information on operations in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Lebanon, starting from the number of militants killed, to the number of locations attacked.

According to the data, more than 9,000 Hamas members and other militant group fighters have been killed by the IDF in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, in addition to around 1,000 militants in Israel as of October 7.

IDF data states that the military has killed two Hamas brigade commanders and 19 battalion commanders and other senior officials of equivalent rank, reported by The Times of Israel, January 15.

The data also reveals that more than 50 Hamas company commanders and members of the same rank have also been killed in their military campaign into the Palestinian enclave.

In Lebanon, the IDF said it had killed more than 170 members of the militant group, most of them members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Some 30,000 targets have been attacked in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, including more than 3,400 targets that Hamas claimed were located during the fighting. In Lebanon, around 750 Hezbollah positions have been attacked, according to IDF data.

Furthermore, the IDF said Unit 504 of the Military Intelligence Directorate had interrogated around 2,300 Palestinian suspects in the Gaza Strip. Some of them were arrested and taken to Israel for further interrogation.

Meanwhile in the West Bank, the IDF said its forces had arrested more than 2,650 Palestinians, including more than 1,300 people affiliated with Hamas, since October 7.

Internally, the IDF said 522 soldiers, reservists and local security officers had been killed and 2,536 others injured since October 7. Of these, 188 were killed and 1,113 injured in the ground attack on Gaza.

The IDF also recorded that 19 soldiers died due to misfire in Gaza and 36 others due to accidents during the war.

Even though the war in Gaza has now entered its 101st day and the death toll continues to rise, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says nothing can stop Israel from destroying Hamas.

PM Netanyahu said Israel would not obey the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where Israel is accused of genocide and could be ordered to stop its attacks.

"No one will stop us, not The Hague (ICJ), no axis of evil and no one else," said PM Netanyahu, as reported by CNN.