Hamas Tacitly Admitted Its Casualty Figures Were Fabricated—but That Won’t Change Anyone’s Mind
Stop playing the numbers game.
April 8, 2025
Hamas Tacitly Admitted Its Casualty Figures Were Fabricated—but That Won’t Change Anyone’s Mind
Stop playing the numbers game.
Last month, something unusual happened: Hamas began revising its own publicly available records of war dead, reducing the overall number by 3,400, of them 1,080 children. But the correction has gone unremarked by the media, which routinely cite Hamas's statistics, also taken at face value by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It is, however, no surprise to anyone who has paid close attention that these data were not only unreliable, but falsified. Maurice Hirsch notes, for instance:
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