One is to say or imply that dead militants are civilian.
The other is not to count the dead militants.
Islamic Jihad has been steadily releasing lists of its "martyrs" over the past few months. Based on the sample I looked at, none of them were listed by the Ministry of Health.
Most of those listed are not grunts - they are commanders and platoon leaders. It would be reasonable to assume that they are releasing the leaders' names first, to mourn the major figures first.
The batch released on Saturday included 18 "group commanders."
On April 18, the batch included 18 "platoon commanders" and also several other major figures, like a sniper commander and a deputy commander for a battalion.
May 17 saw about 13 platoon commanders and commanders.
22 other commanders published on June 1.
Only on June 13 did I see a list of people who were not "commanders."
That's about 100 militants - and zero civilians. All from Islamic Jihad, not Hamas.
If the commanders were buried in tunnels, then it stands to reason that their groups were also killed.
The ratio of militants to civilians killed in Gaza keeps getting higher.
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