>*“This painstaking research provides strong validation for both the first Ministry of Health list of the dead and the reliability of social media posts from Palestinians collected by Airwars covering the same period,”*
I thought a few months ago they “accidentally” halved the death count for women and children (somehow not adult men) and then claimed the issue was because they were not identified.
So which is it? Are they identified or not (somehow only adult males are 100% identified.)
I’m skeptical of accepting numbers provided by a terrorist organization at face value. It was only in May that the UN acknowledged that far fewer women and children were killed than what they had previously stated.
>On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children. >On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been killed, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children.
If the UN’s correction is accurate, the numbers provided in the Hamas document must be false.
Let me guess: the “Gaza Ministry of Health” (run by Hamas, of course) says that every single one of them was an innocent civilian and not even a single one of them was a Hamas fighter.
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Anticipating some commentators are likely to show up with certain claims:
>***The Gaza Health Ministry’s statistics are considered credible by independent watchdogs and have been cited internally by U.S. officials,***
Source: [https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-officials-publish-list-of-those-killed-in-israeli-assault-the-first-14-pages-are-babies](https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-officials-publish-list-of-those-killed-in-israeli-assault-the-first-14-pages-are-babies)
Further reading: [https://gaza-civilians.airwars.org/](https://gaza-civilians.airwars.org/) :
>*“This painstaking research provides strong validation for both the first Ministry of Health list of the dead and the reliability of social media posts from Palestinians collected by Airwars covering the same period,”*
I thought a few months ago they “accidentally” halved the death count for women and children (somehow not adult men) and then claimed the issue was because they were not identified.
So which is it? Are they identified or not (somehow only adult males are 100% identified.)
Edit: event Im referring to https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/14/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah
I’m skeptical of accepting numbers provided by a terrorist organization at face value. It was only in May that the UN acknowledged that far fewer women and children were killed than what they had previously stated.
[UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed](https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-800772)
>On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children.
>On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been killed, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children.
If the UN’s correction is accurate, the numbers provided in the Hamas document must be false.
Let me guess: the “Gaza Ministry of Health” (run by Hamas, of course) says that every single one of them was an innocent civilian and not even a single one of them was a Hamas fighter.