OK, so let's take a look at the data provided in that Tablet article.
That's all we've got. No information on the source of the data. That's a major red flag. Fortunately, I was able to find a
Lancet article that covered roughly the same period. This is what good data sourcing looks like.
A look at the data shows that the death totals more or less match between the two sources. So that at least indicates that the Tablet author isn't making stuff up, which is a good thing. It's still sloppy with attribution, but that's a lesser sin.
On to the Tablet author's claims of irregularities. They present this chart...
... and say:
The graph of total deaths by date is increasing with almost metronomical linearity, as the graph in Figure 1 reveals. This regularity is almost surely not real. One would expect quite a bit of variation day to day. In fact, the daily reported casualty count over this period averages 270 plus or minus about 15%. This is strikingly little variation. There should be days with twice the average or more and others with half or less.
This is where I take issue. The way the data is presented in the chart is guaranteed to show what appears to be near-linear results, because the changes by time step are much smaller than the y scale of the chart. If you look at their reported total deaths/day independently, you get this:
(My chart of their data in the JPG, daily deaths in blue) This is clearly not "metronomical linearity." There's a lot of variation day by day, and a clear downward trend over the two weeks. 270 is the mean, sure, but +/- 15% are shown at the 230 and 310 lines. 5 of the 15 data points fall outside of those bounds. The authors suggest that Hamas has chosen a daily average and is fudging the numbers around that. Does the data show that? Well, no. The 5-day rolling average (orange) doesn't follow the average either.
This is lousy analysis. Again, I'm not saying that Hamas' deaths figures are accurate. They may be fudged, and the proportion of women and children killed may be wrong. I'm saying that this analysis doesn't prove that Hamas is fudging the data. The numbers the Tablet author presents do not match their statements.
By the way, the Lancet article linked above says that the same data indicate that Hamas is not faking the death totals. I don't love their analysis method either, but it's at least published in a peer-reviewed journal.