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"B’Tselem’s classifications of combatant-non-combatant status for deaths among Gazans are flawed by restrictive definitions of combatants. Furthermore, B’Tselem equates absence of evidence on combatant status with evidence of absence. The high m/f ratios, especially among males of fighting age, including those in their mid to late teens, suggests that the IDF classifications of combatant and non-combatant status are probably far more accurate than those of B’Tselem."