Gabriel Epstein

@GabrielEpsteinX

Senior Policy Associate @IsraelPolicy4m. Former Research Assistant @WashInstitute. Graduate @SAISHopkins.

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Gabriel Epstein
@GabrielEpsteinX
Aug 3
The 14th public iteration of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry’s (MOH) death toll list, dated to May 7, 2026 and containing 72,835 entries, was released quietly on July 5 by Iraq Body Count. Long analysis of data quality, demographics, unknowns, and post-ceasefire trends. 🧵
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Gabriel Epstein
@GabrielEpsteinX
5h
Sami Abu Shehadeh has withdrawn his candidacy after a warning from the Supreme Court that they would vote to disqualify him. The thread below details some of the challenges the Joint List will face in adjusting to this change to their Knesset candidate list. Broken by @mmagadli
Gabriel Epstein
@GabrielEpsteinX
Sep 23
Something I have not seen addressed yet: if Sami Abu Shehadeh's disqualification as a candidate for Balad is upheld by Israel's Supreme Court (an open question), how would the Joint List's candidate slate be affected? Some of it depends on how many seats the list gets. 🧵
Gabriel Epstein
@GabrielEpsteinX
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A pretty sizable IDF claim that 170 of the journalists commonly listed as killed in Gaza (pulling from multiple lists, not just CPJ's), were militants. Notably to me is that the first 110 are presented with a direct piece of evidence (official militant group claim, image in
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Gabriel Epstein
@GabrielEpsteinX
Sep 30
With new all-cause Gaza mortality data (meaning both violent and non-violent deaths) published by the MOH for 2025 (credit to @EirikSchr for catching, analyzing, and visualizing it in the post below), it’s worth revisiting a number of open questions about the Gaza death toll
Eirik Schrøder-Bråtane
@EirikSchr
Sep 30
Gaza Ministry of Health has now released mortality numbers for 2025. For the first time since the war, they give numbers for all deaths, including natural deaths. In 2025 there were a total of 24,650 deaths in Gaza. 18,870 (76.6%) of these were violent, of which 17,286 (70.1%)
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Gabriel Epstein
@GabrielEpsteinX
Sep 30
Fadi Hamdan Mohammed Abu Gharara (ID#: 424410215, age 17) has been claimed by Hamas as a militant in its Raed al-Attar (Yabna) Battalion, Rafah Brigade. He appears with another child combatant, Ahmed Abu Salima (ID#: 424126183, age 17), who was killed in the 10/7 attack. 🧵
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Gabriel Epstein
@GabrielEpsteinX
Nov 8, 2025
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One of the six—Fadi Hamdan Muhammad Abu Gharara—appears to be a child combatant: he is listed as 17 by the MOH. The scope of child combatants among Hamas and other militant groups is unknown, but the phenomenon exists.
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