Does IDF consider every man in Gaza to be Hamas?

What I would like to know is what is the IDF criteria for who is considered Hamas. Seeing as Hamas are the government of Gaza and have the political and armed faction. Like all governments, surely there will be civil servants and others who comes under their employment. So is anyone that has any link to the Hamas government killed?
From the figures the IDF have provided of Hamas members that have been killed, how is it known that they are members of Hamas?

"im sure there are Israelis who are not happy with how it’s being handled , but they are probably not comfortable speaking up."

I take it you haven't spent much time with Israelis 🙈 They're not exactly known for holding back their opinions. I don't know anything about what you were posting about so don't have an opinion on it myself, but to say that Israelis don't dare speak up against injustice is just wrong. Israelis protest all sorts of things all the time, including for the rights of Palestinians.

I take it you don't consider those who were 'hosting' the hostages as part of Hamas? Some of them were elderly.

I'm quite clearly not saying every single old person is Hamas, I'm saying some in Hamas are elderly. Just like some in Hamas are women, and some are teenagers. Not all members of Hamas are men and and not all men are Hamas.

Stop telling me I'm justifying any innocent deaths. That's a disgusting and false accusation.

This is from the Guardian earlier this week; An unlikely charge of intent to commit treason landed Meir Baruchin, a grey-haired, softly spoken history and civics teacher, in the solitary confinement wing of Jerusalem’s notorious “Russian Compound” prison in early November.
The evidence compiled by police who handcuffed him, then drove to his apartment and ransacked it as he watched, was a series of Facebook posts he’d made, mourning the civilians killed in Gaza, criticising the Israeli military, and warning against wars of revenge.

im sure there are Israelis who are not happy with how it’s being handled , but they are probably not comfortable speaking up.

@balamo most of hamas' Hierarchy would be considered elderly.

www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67103298

There are elderly, women and teenagers actively involved in Hamas too.

This is just sickening, and is only being said by the poster to justify the deaths of innocents. Why not include the children too since you're not ashamed to include the elderly? Why leave one group out.

You can understand where the confusion lies

www.jns.org/661-terrorists-tied-to-oct-7-to-get-pa-pay-for-slay-stipends/

Excuse you, I brought up a few examples of mass killings in a short space of time during a war to correct a false claim made on this thread that No war in history has ever killed over 30,000 in such a short space of time. I deliberately didn’t mention they were mass killings of Jews so as not to distract from the topic, yet that was the one thing you decided to focus upon in order to indulge in some moralising whataboutery rather than addressing a single point in my post.

The rest of my post was a continuation on how hyperbole and falsity is unhelpful here, with regards to the claim that the IDF are not to be believed, ever, not even when they admitted to their mistakes and actually confirmed some Gazan men they detained and mistreated were not Hamas.

Yes, I don’t know where to check all you wrote about but entirely agree that the results of the retaliation for 9/11 have been absolutely dreadful.

And widely believed now, I believe, to have been very counter productive. Isn’t that why Biden said to Israel something to the effect of, ‘Don’t make the same mistake we did’.

You are right to point out what we and the US did before, but it was not all right.

What double standard?

Sorry the above post was for @Bubbleohseven

Pretty sure the babies in the incubators weren’t terrorists, or the many many children with limbs blown off. But perhaps you think they should have been wearing T shirts that declared whether they were or weren’t?

We are repeatedly told Hamas are hiding in tunnels...

This thread is about Hamas in Gaza, I was trying to keep it brief.
Excuse me but you brought up the Second World War in this thread. Double standard strikes again.

Target attacks where exactly? Where exactly are the Hamas operatives? If it’s not that big a mystery I’m sure you’ll be able to inform me.

This. I believe babies are the most ardent supporters of hamas

Pretty much. It didn't matter whether my friends and colleagues were even Palestinian. When it came to the men, they were male so they were humiliated, injured and killed.

I think it's clear from the fact that they killed three escaped male Israeli hostages that they are targeting pretty much all males of military age.

I never forget them and thank you for the whataboutery used to deflect and not address my point in any way. Well done for All Lives Mattering the Holocaust.

I was addressing the claim that No war in history has ever killed over 30,000 in such a short space of time, and eradication being the objective- demonstrably false, as illustrated by the few examples I gave, of one group specifically and officially targeted for annihilation, killed in equally large numbers, but in the space of two days, during a war.
I can also talk all the live long day about the Roma, the other group specifically targeted for annihilation during the Holocaust if you’d like and happy to c&p a derailing wall of text if you feel you need it, but as this thread is about Hamas in Gaza, I was trying to keep it brief.

Hiding in plain sight.

A few examples of mass executions (by shooting) in much shorter periods of time during WW2, the objective being the eradication of one specific group of people.
Let's not forget that others, who the Nazi regime deemed "undesirable" such as Gipsies Roma, Jehovah witnesses, political opponents, gays, resistants, people of colour, people with learning and physical disabilities, Slavs, Russians and the list goes on, were also the victims of mass executions along side Jews.
They matter too.