Gaza death toll inflated to promote
anti-Israel narrative, study finds
Civilian death counts in the Israel-Hamas war have been inflated and distorted to portray Israel as deliberately targeting innocent civilians, a new study found.
The report from the UK-based Henry Jackson Society found that news outlets failed to distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties and relied on manipulated statistics from the Hamas-run Health Ministry when reporting on the war.
Gaza officials claim more than 44,700 people have been killed following the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, but does not acknowledge that upwards of 17,000 were Hamas terrorists — a fact the media often omits, the study found, citing Israeli and US military and intelligence reports for its data.
The “Questionable Counting” study, published on Saturday, charged that the ministry overstated casualty data by including natural deaths and over-reporting the numbers of women and children killed.
Men were included on lists of women killed in the conflict, while adults were included on counts of child deaths, researchers found.
“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 study’s author.
Around 5,000 natural deaths appear to have been added to the list of casualties, including cancer patients who later appeared on lists of those still receiving treatment, researchers said.
The errors have “led to a narrative where the Israel Defense Forces are portrayed as disproportionately targeting civilians,” the report states.
Deep State's legacy media from all over the world reported 500 deaths as a consequence of an Israeli missile strike. The strike turned out to be a hole in the parking lot no more than a foot deep. Israeli missiles would make a much bigger impact than that. Al Jezeera footage showed the rocket breaking up in the air with one portion falling in the hospital parking lot. Experts admit this was not an Israeli missile. Several cars were burned in the parking lot, so a few deaths were certainly likely. But for 500 people to die they would all have had to be standing within a few meters of the impact spot, an absurd idea that never occurred to the far-left media. The IDF told the truth, Hamas lied as usual.
It is easy to accept that Hamas' casualty numbers are close to twice reality.
The investigation looked at all articles with Gaza fatality statistics published from February through May 2024 across eight major outlets: CNN, BBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Associated Press, Reuters and the Australian ABC.
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