NETANYAHU'S WAR ON TRUTH Israel's Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians

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10. Even taking Hamas' 35k figure, that is low for urban warfare.

The U.N. nearly halved its estimate of women and children killed in Gaza after relying on figures from Hamas-controlled organizations.

The U.N. offered no explanation for the sudden change. On May 6, the body’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released an infographic showing that more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children had been killed in Gaza. Two days later, OCHA’s updated graphic cut those numbers nearly in half, showing that 4,959 women and 7,797 children had actually lost their lives — a combined reduction of more than 11,000.

When a reporter pressed U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq to explain the revision, all he received was a standard disclaimer that “in the fog of war, it’s difficult to come up with numbers.”

Translation: a completely unethical terrorist organization invented numbers to advance their false narrative and we accepted them and splashed them all over the media, no questions asked, until it was glaringly obvious Hamas’s numbers were complete fabrications.

Of course there’s nary a mention of the revised numbers in the media since rather than proving the false narrative that Israel is wantonly killing civilians and committing genocide, these numbers show that, in fighting a defensive war that Israel was dragged into on Oct 7 when Hamas broke the existing ceasefire and invaded Israel, killing over 1200 civilians and raping, torturing, and kidnapping hundreds more, Israel has avoided killing Palestinian civilians, used by Hamas as human shields, at a ratio lower than any other nation has ever achieved in urban warfare. https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urban-warfare-why-will-no-one-admit-it-opinion-1883286

While every civilian death in war is a great tragedy, each of these deaths is unequivocally the fault of Hamas, which sought and benefits from the death and suffering of its own people.