Posted on 12/14/2024 11:48:55 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The number of civilians reported killed in the Gaza conflict has been exaggerated to depict Israel as deliberately targeting innocent people, according to a new report cited by The Telegraph on Saturday.
Researchers say the Gaza ministry of health inflated casualty figures by including natural deaths, failing to distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties, and over-reporting fatalities among women and children.
According to the study by the Henry Jackson Society think tank, these figures have been manipulated by Hamas-run authorities in Gaza for propaganda purposes, with international media often repeating the claims without scrutiny.
The report highlights that, based on Israeli and US military and intelligence assessments, around 17,000 of those killed were Hamas terrorists—a fact it says has been largely overlooked in media coverage.
Its findings state: “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 argue that even after correcting for anomalies, tens of thousands of innocent civilians have still been killed in Gaza. Simple math shows the number is closer to ten thousand, and that Israel warned Gazans to leave terrorist areas it was targetting, but Hamas often prevented them from doing so.
The report uncovered numerous statistical discrepancies, including approximately 5,000 natural deaths being added to casualty lists, such as cancer patients who were later found listed among those still receiving hospital treatment. Other errors, some of which were subsequently corrected, involved misclassifications of adults as children and men as women...
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fixed it
SSDD
Who knew?
Everyone.
We always knew this.
Would it be “RACIST” of me to say that once again PALEOstinians lie in order to vilify Israel and the Jews?
This so-called people or movement lives for one thing only, not to create and independent state but to erase (read genocide) an existing one - Israel. They live to kill or be killed and this is the Arab mentality that everybody is familiar with but deny that it is reality.
Why are we not surprised about this pallyWood,Pallyweid..
“Palestinivermin”
Thanking God for the ability of FRiends’ ability to know truth before truth is put into print.
I have an old friend from my NY days who believes with complete faith that IDF is going around indiscriminately killing civilians in a revenge-crazed frenzy, and cites as his source the carefully researched work of—no. seriesly—drum roll...the NY Times and the Guardian. He served a hitch as medic in Vietnam and then Cambodia, and became so disenchanted as a result that he turned hard left. I don’t hold it against him. But there are plenty of people who sincerely believe the gas-lighting. I had a huge falling out with my “financial adviser” at the small-time investment platform where I have a few hundred in play, who repeated the same BS, and he said he trusted El Jazeera, and assertedd that they can’t print “fake news”. He’s no longer my adviser. His advice was for sh!t, and being that gullible, it’s no wonder.
You knew that IDF was deliberately targeting tranny men who were girls at heart?! So they identified as five-year-old girls. We should respect that after this horde of transphobic murderers deliberately targeted them./sarc
To elaborate and hopefully cause no confusion, my echo was of “headline” and prior knowledge of devious propaganda of all factions wishing Israel’s destruction. If my prior post was confusing, please accept my apology.
They claim that Israel has killed more people than actually live in Gaza. Last time I checked, it was 300,000,000 children killed.
these figures have been manipulated by Hamas-run authorities in Gaza for propaganda purposes
WHAT??? Nooooo!
The pure as driven snow and long suffering Hamas led authorities LIED? On purpose and knowingly?
Ai-EEEEEE!
The very definition of a GNS moment!
I know. I’m playing with the whole idea of mis-identifying men as women and adults as children. Talk about mis-pronouning.
“Ai-EEEEEE!”
Hey. That’s a Japanese death scream from WW II-era comic books. You can’t Ai-EEEE! It’s cultural appropriation. Would you like it if a Japanese officer chewed on a cigar all the time and came up with innovative insults for his men, who all adored him? Huh? Huh? Huh?
Let’s respect each other’s respective stereotypes.
You’re right...
I am properly abashed.
Oh worra worra...
Oy vey.
Well, DUH!
We also know how they would vote if they were here....
“The number of civilians reported killed in the Gaza conflict has been exaggerated to depict Israel as deliberately targeting innocent people”
and then that fake news was picked up and amplified by Israel haters in the media.
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