Zero famine deaths and 60,000 newborns – IDF rebuts claims of Gaza [so-called] "genocide". Posted on by Words MatterZero famine deaths and 60,000 newborns – IDF rebuts claims of Gaza "genocide". However, the IDF and the Gaza health ministry differ sharply in their estimates of the number of civilians killed during the war. That places the Gaza war within the range of major contemporary conflicts and roughly equal to an approximately 2 to 1 ratio reported in the war in Iraq. The IDF claims to have killed around 25,000 combatants during the war, which leaves around 35,000 other deaths.