One way plausible way the lie could be on the #Gaza side is if they are massively and systematically UNDER reporting combatant deaths.

The #IDF are under reporting wounded dramatically according to #Israeli hospitals - I should find that news report, it's either #TimesOfIsrael or #Haaretz

This is very common in #war and would be easier than faking extra deaths, they'd just leave people listed as "missing in action" and or just not mention them at all.

Delaying is easier than hiding those deaths forever too. During #Covid we saw lots of strategies to downplay deaths, like "we need to get family consent first" (then do nothing to actually obtain that) or in this case there is the added option of "military secret".

#GazaMOH fully admit the list and count isn't comprehensive.

The #Gaza Ministry Of Health have a track record of reliability, but the militant wing of #Hamas do put out some creative numbers, or just word things to be very open to (mis) interpretation. Like "100 tanks damaged or destroyed" probably means "we scracted the paint work on 99 of them"?

Faking 20,000 deaths would be tricky, but covering up a a few thousand would be easier for the militant wing to hide from the MOH or pressure the MOH to go along with, particularly if it's a delay and feet dragging.

That would mean most of those reported 7000 militants killed are ADDITIONAL to the total the reported by #GazaMOH and the true TOTAL death toll in Gaza is A LOT HIGHER than the Gaza MOH report.

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Allegedly, most of those 20,000 reported dead have names and Israeli ID numbers?

And a lot have been recognised by #diaspora relatives.

For the deaths of women and children in #Gaza to be over reported by much #GazaMOH would have to be faking the deaths of vast numbers of real people who have documented identities (including in Israel) and real people who know them.

#WomenAndChildren

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Even if they include all their local allies or recent surges in recruitment that can't be more than double.

In the past the demographics reported by #GazaMOH have been less reliable than the totals, but not by ENOUGH to make 7000 #militants "neutralised" plausible (from memory, totals have been about 3% of and demographics up to 10% when compared to independent counts).

#AdultMaleCivilians #WarInGAZA

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There were airstrikes on Al-Shifa hospital on 27 October … but there's been airstrikes on hospitals most days? So possibly meaningless?

When the #IDF say Al-Shifa had a #HamasBase in it … do they mean a government office that was reporting on civilian deaths?

#Hamas were more than a decade over due for an election, which is … not great … but still, a lot of "Hamas" is not military.

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#27October #AlShifa #GazaMOH #GazaData #Entity
#حماس #غزة