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If you accept the Hamas claim that
but you also think that Israel is getting its 2:1 value by counting corpses rather than by just making it up, that would imply that they're counting all dead men (and 5% of dead women and children) as Hamas fighters.
However, given that approximately half of the population of Gaza is under 18, 70% would imply that over 93% of Palestinian casualties are civilians (based on the assumption that adult men make up 100% of Hamas fighters but only 25% of the civilian population). That's 14 civilians killed for every fighter, more than twice as bad as the Russian siege of Mariupol. I don't believe this because (1) it doesn't correspond to the level of destruction we're seeing, (2) I think Biden would act very differently if it were true, and (3) Hamas has a great deal of motivation to lie.
If Israel were killing literally everyone, women and children would be 75% of the dead. This is what Hamas is saying when they say "more than 70%". I think it's absolutely ridiculous but it's what some people apparently believe and what the Western media reports uncritically.
Note that if if we accept the 2:1 casualty ratio Israel claims but believe they're counting dead Hamas fighters completely accurately, that would mean 50% of casualties would be women and children and 17% of the casualties would be civilian men. If we think Israel is also exaggerating, then 7500 Hamas fighters killed, a 3:1 casualty ratio (pretty bad but not necessarily unjustifiable) would mean 56% of the casualties would be women and children and 19% would be civilian men. So I think the true fraction of women and children among the dead is somewhere between 50% and 56%.