I don't really care what they mean because i know they're lying anyway. It's safe to assume they have basically zero actual Hamas fighters. If there were any fighters among the prisoners they would know for sure who and how many they were, they wouldn't need to use words like "estimate" and "affiliated".

But yeah for them probably being a doctor and having the audacity to save the lives of innocent people who the IOF dropped bombs on is enough to get you branded as "affiliated with Hamas". Because how dare they interfere with the genocide that the "most moral army in the world" is trying to commit?