Advocates are renewing calls for Canada to recognize a genocide in Gaza following the release of a new report that found at least five out of every six people Israeli forces have killed in the Israel-Hamas war have been civilians.

A joint investigation published Thursday by Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine , Hebrew-language outlet Local Call and British news outlet The Guardian , using a classified Israeli military intelligence database, found that as of May 2025, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or "probably dead."

At that time, 53,000 Palestinians had been killed in attacks by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) since Oct. 7, 2023, according to Gaza health authorities. With fighters named in th

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