Posted on 05/13/2024 7:22:40 AM PDT by Twotone
The United Nations has significantly adjusted Palestinian casualty figures for the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, halving the number of women and children previously reported killed.
While more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children were reported among the fatalities by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on May 6, two days later that number was revised significantly downward. Today, under 5,000 women and 8,000 children are now officially listed by the UN as casualties. David Adesnik, director of research at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told the National Post he suspects the discrepancy stems from the UN’s decision to quietly stop using figures provided by the Hamas-run Government Media Office (GMO).
“So you see May 6 and before, the GMO (is listed as a source); all of a sudden, May 8, they don’t cite a source,” Adesnik told the Post over the phone on Sunday. He pointed to the similarity between the new figures and those from a May 2 Gaza Health Ministry (GMH) report as a tip-off suggesting the UN had ditched the media office’s figures in favour of those from the health ministry, “even though they don’t say (the Gaza) Health Ministry in the thing.”
“So clearly here we’ve done a switch from GMO’s big number, which never had any clear basis elaborated; like they just offered nothing but their own assertion. Whereas the Health Ministry does more to back its stuff up,” he said.
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Neither one can be trusted.
They attacked Israel, killed and kidnapped a bunch of civilians, and to date have neither surrendered nor in any way said they'll quit trying to destroy Israel "from the river to the sea".
Evidently, not enough of the Gazans have been killed for them to get the point.
PALIS have developed a method of putting HAMAS in charge & then crying when they get backlash over HAMAS actions against others.
Now halve it again....and then again...and then again....and so on and so on....
When the anti-American crowd reports their statistics, you can tell they’re BS. Those maggots all are liars.
There’s absolutely no precedent for separating a population from their government. The Japanese were accountable for the actions of their imperial government, the Germans were held accountable for the atrocities committed by the Nazis. The different approaches seem to depend upon the seriousness of the threat. The threat presented by the Axis powers in WWII was existential and endangered our national survival. We don’t feel threatened by the Jihad so we judge the Israeli approach as too harsh, despite the fact that the Jihad promises to completely annihilate the Jews. Maybe we should consider how they feel about a genocide and quit judging them from the safety of our bubble. I know; that’s just crazy talk.
>>>United Nations halves estimate of women and children killed in Gaza
UN stinks to high heaven!
number was revised significantly downward. Today, under 5,000 women and 8,000 children are now officially listed by the UN as casualties
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Casualties are not deaths.
Casualties include any injuries.
So even the UN can’t believe the numbers from Hamas.
I have no doubt that women and children were killed in Gaza. But this is the price you pay for allowing yourself to be served by islamic terrorist groups. Once you let them in to protect you, you are forced out of the decision of who is to be protected based upon their agenda and many times, not your needs. They did not choose wisely in 2006 and they sealed their fate in 2008 when free elections were stopped.
wy69
I have no doubt that women and children were killed in Gaza. But this is the price you pay for allowing yourself to be served by islamic terrorist groups. Once you let them in to protect you, you are forced out of the decision of who is to be protected based upon their agenda and many times, not your needs. They did not choose wisely in 2006 and they sealed their fate in 2008 when free elections were stopped.
wy69
Taqiyya.
The UN is hardly a reliable and honest source of anything — other than corruption.
Remember all that fake news they’ve been spewing for months on end? Never Mind
And the truth of it is probably less than half of even that.
gazans voted for ham ass. gazans joined ham ass in the slaughter of innocent women and children. gazans took hostages. gazans polled say they still support the Oct 7th atrocities.
gazans didn’t “allow (themselves) to be served by islamic terrorist groups”: gazans ELECTED, SUPPORTED AND JOINED the terrorists.
They’re largely getting what they deserve.
Yes, and I always say it is so EASY for us here on the North American continent to wave our fingers at Israel, but imagine if Mexico lobbed a bunch of missiles into the US killing 200 people. Would we stand for that?
How exactly were the Germans held accountable? Seems to me the average German got off Scott free.
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