This has been clear from the outset, but no one wants to see it.
“Number of civilians killed in Gaza ‘inflated to vilify Israel,’” by Patrick Sawer, Telegraph, December 14, 2024:
The number of civilians killed in the Gaza conflict has been inflated to portray Israel as deliberately targeting innocent people, a report claims.
Researchers accuse the Gaza ministry of health of overstating casualty data by including natural deaths, failing to differentiate between civilian and combat casualties and over-reporting the numbers of women and children killed.
The study…claims the figures have been manipulated by the Hamas-run authorities in Gaza for propaganda purposes, with international media outlets happy to repeat them uncritically.
The Gaza ministry of health has estimated that more than 44,000 people have been killed since Israel launched its military response to the Oct 7 Hamas attacks.
…based on Israeli and US military and intelligence reports, around 17,000 of these were Hamas fighters, but claims that this has been frequently overlooked in media reports.
Its report states: “The ministry of health, operating under Hamas, has systematically inflated the death toll by failing to distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths, over-reporting fatalities among women and children and even including individuals who died before the conflict began.
“This has led to a narrative where the Israel Defense Forces are portrayed as disproportionately targeting civilians, while the actual numbers suggest a significant proportion of the dead are combatants.”
Critics of Israel say that even if anomalies are excluded from the casualty figures, tens of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in Gaza.
The report found numerous statistical anomalies and inaccuracies. Researchers say that around 5,000 natural deaths, which would have happened even without the conflict, appear to have been added to the list of casualties, including cancer patients who later appeared on lists of those still receiving hospital treatment.
Other errors – some of which were later rectified by the ministry – include adult casualties being recorded as children and several men being wrongly recorded as women, thereby artificially increasing the number of women and children recorded as killed.
Researchers, who established that the majority of those killed were men aged 15-45, said they found a pattern of victims’ ages being revised downwards by at least one year when compared to data on the Palestinian Population Register in an apparent attempt to inflate the number of children recorded as killed….
somehistory says
They find lies to be easy peasy.
Like it was back with the beginnings of covid *death* counts and a man killed on a motorcycle, as well as a skydiver were counted as covid deaths. As were heart attack and cancers.
Truth has been in very short supply for some time now. Many have gotten away with telling lies to benefit themselves or to advance an agenda.
What else can be expected from mozlums….they claimed that the fault of the war is Israel’s, that the deaths are all due to Israel….either directly or through faked famine reports, etc.
and certainly the hamas male terrorists wished to be counted as female.
This system is so full of lies; everywhere one looks, lies look back.
bill says
Taqqiya exemplified
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
You are correct about the covid-19 death counts.
They were inflated – both consciously and unconsciously.
Many died with it – rather than from it.
And it is very unlikely that we will know the real numbers…
JimJFox says
Covid deaths are Irrelevant in this case
Taffy says
If Israel was going after Hamas, and a bunch of “civilians” managed to get killed in the fray, I could not care less. First, when you start a war, you are putting your whole population at risk, and everything is fair game. All the “civilians” there were either Hamas, Hamas supporters, Hamas enablers, or Hamas sympathizers.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Other news at 11: Water is wet, and only women give birth
Andrew Blackadder says
Tell a lie, tell a big one and tell it often and it will become truth by itself…. Herr Goebbels.
This is exactly what the Western MSM is doing today
Tom Washburn says
Muslims do not always tell the truth?
andy says
Islam is lie.
Alex says
Here is the report
https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/questionable-counting/
robert says
It’s been said before ( The truth is the first casualty of war)
Garry Pollack says
We R used to the blood liables.
Garry Pollack says
We R used to the blood liables.
Garry Pollack says
We R used to the blood liables.
Left Coast says
We are more used to islam . . . a vile ideology incompatible with freedom & liberty ! ! !
Garry Pollack says
We R used to the blood liables.
Garry Pollack says
We R used to the blood liables.
John P says
Inflated casualty figures?
And this came as a surprise to whom, exactly?