Comment by mhb
2 days ago
The Gaza numbers that most Western media uncritically report are nonsense spewed out by Hamas whose agenda is aided by making that number as high as possible.
2 days ago
The Gaza numbers that most Western media uncritically report are nonsense spewed out by Hamas whose agenda is aided by making that number as high as possible.
That's not true. Many independent estimates have been made. Israel doesn't release any numbers at all, which they could easily do if they wanted to claim that casualty numbers were falsified.
I don't see what Israel could possibly provide which the people who mischaracterize war as "genocide" would find compelling. Are they going to produce examples of claimed casualties who actually turn out to be alive or imaginary? Well - surprise - they've done that.
If the war is indeed mischaracterized, then Israel sharing figures would provide an alternative source to the "Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry" for those who haven't already decided who's correct or don't trust those numbers. If Israel doesn't care to provide any information, then they are tacitly agreeing that the "Hamas" numbers are correct. That's just common sense politics.
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