"About 72 per cent of fatalities aged 13-55 are men, which is the rough age range of Hamas combatants, Mr Fox said. “We know that Hamas uses child soldiers, and these statistics show clearly that Israel is targeting fighting-aged men.”
According to the Henry Jackson Society who’s entry in Wikipedia says: While describing itself as non-partisan, its outlook has been described variously as right-wing, neoliberal, and neo-conservative
This was a dumb part of the article, I agree.
IDF have claimed the ratio of civilians to militants was 2:1. If 72% of the killed were male then combining the two statistics would imply that about half the males “of age” were militants… FWIW.