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| Daily war deaths in Gaza from Gaza Ministry of Health and reported in Tablet magazine |
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| As above, but updated (by me) to May 2024 |
1. Data Consistency: Both charts are consistent with each other and reveal a “spurious accuracy”. In no war known to man are the casualties so evenly spread day in and day out. That in itself casts doubt on the Hamas figures.
2. Consistently Dodgy Data: Hamas figures are dodgy. Right at the beginning of the war there was an explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital on 17th October, which Hamas immediately blamed on Israel and said had killed 500 people. The world reported those figures, immediately and without question. They immediately blamed Israel.
A short time later it became clear that the “bombing” was not a bombing at all, but an errant rocket fired by their own side, by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. Nevertheless, the west paid little attention to the correction. And continued to report daily figures as if they were true.
Note too that, in the bottom chart above, there’s no drop off in reported numbers killed after April, despite the fact that, until recent attacks in Rafah, there’s been a de facto ceasefire for over a month. Again, dodgy).
3. The United Nations: Hamas lap-dog. The UN was nevertheless to embarrassed enough by the obvious errata in the data, that they issued a correction on 6 May. The new figures cut in half the number of “innocent” women and children killed in the conflict. Bearing in mind that women are often active in terrorism and that “children” includes people up to age 19, many of whom have been active since early teenage. In short, Hamas, via the Gaza Ministry of Health has falsely doubled the number of “innocent victims”.
The willing suspension of scrutiny of casualty figures by the west, based on obviously dubious Hamas figures, has been amazing to me. But perhaps I shouldn’t have been amazed, given what we’ve seen of rampant anti-semitism across the west.
More: the west seems consumed by the idea that in a War, an army can somehow enter enemy territory, chasing a terror group that uses civilians as human shields, including children, and somehow they will manage to kill those terrorists without killing a single civilian. Not good enough for them that the IDF of Israel has the lowest ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in any wartime in history. According to all qualified and authoritative analysts. Which is to say, not Hamas.
