Have you noticed how the number of dead Palestinians in Gaza keeps climbing, while the Israeli figure has been static for weeks?
Doesn’t seem much like a war, does it? More like a slaughter.
The BBC has created a little infographic which I’m stealing:
So: nearly five times as many injured Palestinians as Israelis.
More than seven times as many killed Palestinians as Israelis.
Of that last number, more than 132 times as many killed Palestinian children as Israelis.
… and we can’t be sure that any of the Israeli figures are accurate.
See, they were saying 1,400 Israelis had been killed, back on October 23 – but we know from The Cradle (and Haaretz) that by then, the confirmed figure was 683.
… so, nearly 15 times as many killed Palestinians as Israelis.
… and with the number of Israeli child deaths confirmed by Haaretz standing at 16 on October 23, that’s a monstrous 256 times as many Palestinian children killed as Israelis.
It’s entirely possible that more actual Israeli deaths have been discovered since October 23, but since the official number hasn’t increased, it seems doubtful.
And with so few Israeli children killed, we still can’t believe the daft “beheaded babies” story put out by Israel in the first days after the October 7 attack.
If all of the above seems ghoulish to you, think how I feel about having to work it out and then type it.
But it was necessary, because people like – would you believe it? – US President Joe Biden are saying they don’t trust… the Palestinian figures.
So, let’s see what the BBC has to say about that:
World Health Organization spokesman Richard Brennan said last week he believed the figures were trustworthy, adding: “We’re confident that the information management systems that the ministry of health has put in place over the years stand up to analysis. The data over the years has been quite solid.”
Let’s go into it a bit further:
The ongoing death toll in Gaza is released by the enclave’s health ministry, which is run by Hamas.
The ministry says that when a death occurs as a result of an Israeli strike or attack, a hospital registers the details into a computer. The details logged include full name, age, ID number and sex.
This information is transferred daily from individual hospitals into a central computer system and compiled by the ministry. Once processed, the data is provided to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
The PCBS told the BBC the figures only cover those who have died in hospital – it does not account for those killed under buildings or who cannot be identified.
A specific cause of death is normally logged but this is currently not happening due to the extremely high numbers being processed, PCBS president Ola Awak-Shakshir told the BBC.
So: the Hamas method is thoroughly-described and approved by the WHO – and the number of actual deaths is in fact likely to be much higher. The Israeli figures are according to “Israeli authorities”.
And the Israel Defence Forces have said “any information provided by a terrorist organisation should be viewed with caution”.
It’s a good thing they didn’t clarify which side they thought were the terrorists.
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