Some 3,400 previously identified deaths from its August and October 2024 reports can no longer be found in the PDFs released by the ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between combatants and civilians.

At least 1,000 children are among those no longer on the list, according to two research reports, which corroborated each other’s findings.

The discrepancy has made researchers concerned about the possibility of numbers being intentionally inflated by Hamas, especially since the health ministry’s figures are widely reported in international media and seen as relevant by the likes of the UN, and triggering widespread social response and even political developments.

    • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winOP
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      1 day ago

      What’s that expression?

      ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 50,000 times I become a rabid terrorist supporting gullible rube’.

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        20 hours ago

        If only half of the deaths are true (the articles talks about 3400 removed deaths), it’s still a genocide.

        Do you have an expression for rabid genocide supporting zionists? How many mistaken deaths is the minimum for a genocide to become acceptable?