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Number of Civilians Killed in Gaza “Inflated to Vilify Israel”

by Richard Eldred
15 December 2024 3:00 PM

A shocking new report has exposed how Gaza’s Health Ministry deliberately inflated death tolls, misclassified victims and included unrelated fatalities to fuel a narrative of Israeli atrocities. The Telegraph has the details.

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 by the Henry Jackson Society, a think tank, 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 October 7th Hamas attacks.

The Henry Jackson Society found that, based on Israeli and U.S. 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 a

ctual 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.

“This misclassification contributes to the narrative that civilian populations, particularly women and children, bear the brunt of the conflict, potentially influencing sentiment and media coverage,” said Andrew Fox, the report’s author.

The Henry Jackson Society said the casualty figures also failed to distinguish between Gazans killed by the IDF and those killed by misfired Hamas rockets or during the distribution of food aid.

Worth reading in full.

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Tags: GazaHamasIsraelIsrael Defense ForcesIsrael-Hamas WarMainstream Media

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago

Is equity what they want? I thought it was the elimination of melanin-deficient skin in toto. And Y chromosomes that belong to people that identify as male.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

I thought they were there to learn about data science not nobs and knockers!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

I do despair really. Trying to redpill young* intelligent people is such hard work – they just want to get on with their lives and pretend all this mad, evil stuff isn’t going on because it’s too horrible to contemplate. They just hope it will all go away of its own accord. But it won’t.

*I have limited energy and the young are the future.

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

And what about when the fighting starts?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  sskinner

Indeed. I kind of thought that “covid” would have woken more people up than it did as it was so obviously a complete scam, but it’s been memory-holed.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

This did make me laugh! 🙂 This is the Met police aiming to meet their DEI quota back in the 1930s. I have a feeling the definition of ”hefty” ( not to mention, ”fairly good looking”, LOL ) has changed somewhat since those days. Doubt there were many ‘Lesbian Nanas’ floating about either… 😮

https://twitter.com/realMattToomer/status/1766790065072603501

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Priceless🤣🤣 I just told the wife about having to be hefty, I just mentioned she could have joined!
I’m still mopping my blood off the ceiling 🫨

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

😂 Yes it’s funny how they blatantly discriminated against married women ( must’ve been the death knell for any career woman back then ) but “spinsters” are totally in!😃 It’s interesting to see the differences in what’s deemed acceptable decades ago compared with now.

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DS99
DS99
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

My grandmother was a teacher in the 1920s and when she and my grandfather married she had to give up work – maybe that was the law then, it was certainly the rule in the teaching profession.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

Diversity is the 21st century word for discrimination.

Substitute diversity for discrimination and the meaning of the sentence immediately.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

No doubt they will all be white male scientists. ——–The destruction of the west continues via the 5 main agendas —-Equality Diversity Race Gender and Climate.

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

It no longer matters as one of the males could wear a dress, buy some Tampax and claim to be a woman to ‘even’ up the statistics.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

funny but true

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

“Four new scientists, including experts from UCL and Imperial College London, were hired to help lead those efforts.”

UCL and Imperial. These four new blokes are bloody plants for Billy’s mob.

That is the story in a nutshell.

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Jim Cole
Jim Cole
1 year ago

Give qualifications to an AI machine and let it decide. May the best scientist win.

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Jackthegripper
Jackthegripper
1 year ago

Were the men the best candidates for the job? If they were, then what’s the problem.
All these DIE targets are destroying Britain socially and economically. Cut it out and grow up.

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