But this was only one of Hinkle’s untruths: in the same 28 October posting he said that half of the Israelis killed during the Hamas assault were soldiers, many of whom died “during tank shelling”.

I never able found the claim on this, iirc the soldier is on the low side. Though there’s claim by a survivor that a lot of civilian died during the crossfire, by the hand of reckless IDF. They also shelled the home in Be’eri, though there’s no way to say how many of civilians caught in the shelling. This tell some part of story that IDF did not care about civilian safety when fighting against Hamas, but it did not say that Hamas only kill soldier.