Very odd statistics

Every day we hear about the death toll in Gaza, with x number of "Women and children" being killed... Gaza has one of the highest birth rates in the World, so where are all the men? In general it takes 2 to make children, both a male and a female, so how come few men in Gaza are being killed and it's mostly "women and children" dying? Are the statistics being inflated? Is Gaza using the deaths of women and children to gain sympathy? Are the men hiding and letting their women and children be killed? There is something very fishy about how this is being presented...

I'm not diminishing that Palestinians are being killed, nor disputing that it's happening, I just find it odd that in a place where so many are being killed that it's mostly "women and children" and so few men, the numbers just don't add up in a mostly male dominated society like Gaza...