Hundreds of new shelters set up near Khan Younis as Palestinians flee fighting in Rafah

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    5 months ago

    I noticed they’re still using the numbers that Hamas puts out on the number of Palestinians killed. Even the UN has revised their numbers now.

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      Uh… No. They still use GHM numbers. The UN revised numbers are fully identified deaths, meaning people with a first and last name next to their entry in the GHM’s database. This is opposed to non-fully identified deaths, where it’s known that X number of people died (for example an Israeli bombed blew X people to smithereens and they’re unidentifiable or there’s nobody left to identify them because the whole family is dead). non-fully identified numbers are the same.

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      UN is unable to independently verify, since IDF keeps killing their staff. So they had to change how they verify deaths, which reclassified the people killed, not the total number of people killed. It’s a moot point anyway, since Palestinian figures are known to be highly credible. They have plenty of reasons to be diligent about it, and zero reasons to invent stuff.

      Historically, the UN and other agencies have found that overall figures produced by the Gaza ministry of health have been largely reliable. Among those agencies is the World Health Organization, which says the ministry has “good capacity in data collection” and its previous reporting has been credible and “well developed”.

      Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-ministry-revises-figures-for-women-and-children-killed

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            More credible than most of your sources I’m sure. Why else would they be the highest rated news channel in the country? Just because they speak out about narratives the MSM tries push on people doesn’t mean they’re not credible. They allow both sides of the argument and both Democrats and Republicans to give their views on stuff which is more than I can say about some of the other networks. They also don’t have reporters quitting because of bias being so bad like NPR does, or places like NBC who wouldn’t hire Ronna Mcdaniel because they say she lied about something. Fox however, hired Donna Brazile even though they know she lied when she said she didn’t give Hillary Clinton the questions ahead of time during a debate because she admitted it. Just like the drone footage of Hamas driving UN vehicles, yeah it was fox that reported on it. If I would’ve seen CNN or MSDNC report on it, I would have gladly sent you that link instead. Of course they’ll say they couldn’t verify it, but every story they hear about that’s negative on Trump, all the sudden they don’t need to verify it, just like the Russian dossier they ran with day after day month after month, and it was fake, lol

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          5 months ago

          Still waiting for that video to be independently verified. So far, no major corporate news network ran that video since they are unable to verify it.

          and btw, the UN minisrty of health is getting their numbers from Hamas, so I guess if you trust Hamas, it is what it is

          I do trust Hamas for the number of dead. They literally have a proven track record of keeping an accurate count that was independently verified after past Israeli crimes. After the Hamas attack, Israel let people in to independently verify the number of killed, yet they prevent the same for when they kill. Why?

          And it’s ironic that a random video gets more coverage than children getting murdered on mass. All the Israel supports are clinging to this video like it’s some vindication and justification for the genocide being committed. It’s not. If you care more about being right than children being brutally murdered, you are the problem in this world.