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He noted that the proportion of deaths reported through media sources has increased from about 30% in December to nearly 80% in the first quarter of 2024. There are irregularities in the death toll reported through media sources, like the gender breakdown of victims, which he says is "so skewed that it is almost hard to believe."
If one combines both categories of victims, he says, it appears that around 70% of victims are women and children, as Hamas has claimed. Utilizing only the first category of individuals, whose records the health ministry labels as "complete," about 60% of victims are women and children.
Adesnik referenced the work of economist Michael Spagat, a longtime proponent of the accuracy of the Ministry of Health’s data. Spagat recently found 3,407 records within the data set of supposedly complete records that have been duplicated, have missing or invalid identification numbers, or lack an age for the deceased. When these records are removed from the first category’s count, Spagat found that 53.3% of victims were women and children.
originally posted by: Lazy88
In other words. How many children deaths in Gaza are part of children under 18 fighting for extremists in some way?
Adesnik also encouraged closer scrutiny of children in Hamas’ death figures, explaining that many Hamas fighters are under the age of 18. "If you look at the gender breakdown of people who died under the age of 18, you can see the teenagers have a surplus of men," he explained.
Gabriel Epstein, a research assistant at The Washington Institute’s Koret Project on Arab-Israel Relations, reported in January the "many reasons to treat Gaza Ministry of Health and [Government Media Office] fatality numbers with skepticism," including their underreporting of male deaths. By March 26, Epstein noted that "discrepancies in official Palestinian counts and their growing reliance on questionable data" have ensured the ministry’s "numbers themselves have lost any claim to validity."
The Hamas government in Gaza celebrated the graduation on Monday of paramilitary camps geared at training high-school children “to follow in the footsteps of the suicide martyrs.”
The camps, titled “the pioneers of liberation,” are run by Hamas’s ministries of education and interior. Some 13,000 students in grades 10-12 participated in the one-week training camps this year, compared to 5,000 last year when the program was launched, Israeli sources with knowledge of the program said.
The corps of instructors consists mainly of active members of Hamas’s security forces, and the curriculum includes weapons training, first aid, self defense, marching exercises and “security awareness” classes on identifying Israeli spies.
Recruits aged 15 and up taught how to kidnap soldiers, use weapons, and infiltrate into Israel through tunnels
Thousands of recruits as young as 15 learned how to kidnap soldiers, use weapons, and infiltrate into Israel though tunnels at a Hamas paramilitary training camp in Gaza.
On Thursday, some 15,000 Gazan teenagers and young men graduated from the week-long training camps, called the “Pioneers of Liberation.” The 15-21-year-olds underwent military training for the armed wing of Hamas, Izaddin al-Qassam, six months after Hamas and other Gaza terror groups fought a 50-day war against Israel.
Drills included weapons training and exercises simulating kidnapping IDF soldiers and infiltration into Israel through tunnels. Portraits of Israeli leaders were used in target practice for sniper training. “We are participating in the camp so that we will know how to fight the Zionist enemy and regain our ancestral home of Palestine,” one teenager said, in footage from the training camps screened on Israel’s Channel 2 TV on Thursday night.
In a dramatic shift, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revised its data pertaining to the number of Palestinian casualties in the seven-month-old Gaza war, reducing almost by half the number of women and children it previously said were killed in the hostilities between Israel and the Iranian-backed terror group Hamas.
Hamas’ death toll figures have been disputed by Israel, which claims more than a third of those killed are combatants, yet they have been widely and unquestioningly quoted by the international media, humanitarian organizations and world leaders, including President Biden.
"U.N. agencies have consistently shown they prefer to trust the numbers coming out of Hamas-controlled sources rather than doing basic due diligence"
originally posted by: FlyersFan
UN Revises Gaza Death Toll - 50% Less Women and Children Killed Than Previously Reported
In a dramatic shift, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revised its data pertaining to the number of Palestinian casualties in the seven-month-old Gaza war, reducing almost by half the number of women and children it previously said were killed in the hostilities between Israel and the Iranian-backed terror group Hamas.
Hamas’ death toll figures have been disputed by Israel, which claims more than a third of those killed are combatants, yet they have been widely and unquestioningly quoted by the international media, humanitarian organizations and world leaders, including President Biden.
"U.N. agencies have consistently shown they prefer to trust the numbers coming out of Hamas-controlled sources rather than doing basic due diligence"
Israel for the first time has released its estimated civilian death toll in Gaza, saying that 16,000 have been killed in the war that began on Oct. 7 instead of the approximately 35,000 that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas' Ministry of Health is claiming.
Israel government spokesperson Avi Hyman tells Fox News that for 221 days, his country has been "condemned globally because of a fake and fabricated civilian death toll created and disseminated by Hamas.
"The United Nations has rubber-stamped these Hamas numbers and become a Hamas newswire to the world," he said. "In reality, Israel is setting the new gold standard for urban warfare with what appears to be the lowest civilian to combatant casualty ratios in history."
On Monday, Hyman, citing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a video that "we believe we have killed in excess of 14,000 terrorists and sadly around 16,000 civilians" inside the Gaza Strip.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
Israels their estimate of the dead in Gaza ....
14,000 terrorists
16,000 civilians.
If true, that's an extremely LOW ratio of dead civilians in urban warfare.
That's about 30,000 dead, which is lower than the 35,000 claimed by Hamas.
Hamas claims they are all 'palestinian civilians' ... of course.
Israel has the number about split even between civilians and terrorists.
Israel Issues Estimate Of Dead in Gaza
Israel for the first time has released its estimated civilian death toll in Gaza, saying that 16,000 have been killed in the war that began on Oct. 7 instead of the approximately 35,000 that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas' Ministry of Health is claiming.
Israel government spokesperson Avi Hyman tells Fox News that for 221 days, his country has been "condemned globally because of a fake and fabricated civilian death toll created and disseminated by Hamas.
"The United Nations has rubber-stamped these Hamas numbers and become a Hamas newswire to the world," he said. "In reality, Israel is setting the new gold standard for urban warfare with what appears to be the lowest civilian to combatant casualty ratios in history."
On Monday, Hyman, citing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a video that "we believe we have killed in excess of 14,000 terrorists and sadly around 16,000 civilians" inside the Gaza Strip.
originally posted by: FarqQ
Even if it is, they accept they have killed 16,000 innocent civilians in comparison to 1,200 Jewish people killed by Hamas ( I think around 800 civilians).
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: FarqQ
There is no excuse and the propaganda doesn't work I am afraid.
YOUR Hamas propaganda doesn't work.
The statistics, basic math, and the facts have proven it wrong.
Deal with it.
originally posted by: FarqQ
The math is simple and there is an admission from the Israeli Government they have killed 16,000 civilians at the very minimum.
originally posted by: FarqQ
The math is simple
and there is an admission from the Israeli Government they have killed 16,000 civilians at the very minimum.
That's an admission of mass killings, mass murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
You can do the math.
originally posted by: Lazy88
originally posted by: FarqQ
The math is simple and there is an admission from the Israeli Government they have killed 16,000 civilians at the very minimum.
The Allies fire bombed Germany to break the Germans will and surrender. Was that genocide?
So. You have Hamas that has used indiscriminate rocket and motor attacks into Israel in the ten’s of thousands for years.
Hamas broke a cease fire to murder, rape, torture, kidnap over 1000 people in Israel. I think there are still five American hostages not returned.
Hamas stated a war they couldn’t finish, where they do nothing to evacuate and protect their civilians.
Where they store munitions in schools. Then act shocked when civilians are killed when they use them as human shields.
Don’t want civilians killed. Don’t cower behind them and don’t use civilian infrastructure as bases of military operations.
More civilians are dying because Hamas keeps committing war crimes by using human shields.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: FarqQ
The math is simple
Yeah .. and I have given it. The Hamas math is a lie.
and there is an admission from the Israeli Government they have killed 16,000 civilians at the very minimum.
Yeah ... and that number is LOW for an urban war. And as I said, every dead civilian is fault of Hamas and the Palestinians. THEY are the ones that attacked Israel forcing it to defend itself. THEY are the ones holding the hostages and refusing to give them back. THEY are the ones continuing the war by not laying down their arms, all the while calling for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of jews.
That's an admission of mass killings, mass murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
You are delusional. That's no admission at all. There is no 'mass murder'. There are no 'war crimes' and there are no 'crimes against humanity'. Hamas propaganda and useful idiots suck it up.
You can do the math.
I did. And so did math experts. And the Hamas math LIES. It's not 35,000 dead women and children like their propaganda claims and that useful idiots like to repeat. It's around 16,000 dead men, women and children civilians. That's expected and it's a VERY LOW RATIO in an urban combat zone.
Pfffft. Willful ignorance.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
WAR isn't a matter of making numbers 'even'.