There has been a lot of questions about the Gaza health ministry death toll numbers.
UN and others were quoting it but few months ago, they revisited the number and almost halved it because a lot of the numbers were very questionable and not reliable.
The hamas numbers aren’t reliable and overstate the percentage of women and children casualties but news orgs are addicted to reporting them. Charitably because the Hamas numbers probably roughly match the actual scale of total deaths.
Would make sense that the death toll gets more inaccurate as a war progresses against the very institutions responsible for accurately reporting said toll.
what needs to happen is neutral investigators to come into gaza and analyze the records after the war. huge fog of war element where both sides have incentive not to be truthful.
If you’re referring to hospitals in Gaza, Israel repeatedly operated in/near them because they housed major Hamas bases. There was no war on the hospitals themselves.
There was a breakdown in the normal death reporting system which provided greater scope and temptation for Hamas’s propaganda side to fudge the numbers
No, the Hamas government bodies in general. The reporting agencies probably rely on various military, first responder, and local officials for their data. This data logically becomes less reliable as a war progresses and these government institutions break down.
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u/IPTV241 Jul 31 '24
There has been a lot of questions about the Gaza health ministry death toll numbers.
UN and others were quoting it but few months ago, they revisited the number and almost halved it because a lot of the numbers were very questionable and not reliable.