{"id":120261,"date":"2025-04-04T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=120261"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:59:10","slug":"04-00-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=120261","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Patently Falsified\u2019: Hamas Deletes Thousands From Gaza Death List, Including Over 1,000 Children"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018Patently Falsified\u2019: Hamas Deletes Thousands From Gaza Death List, Including Over 1,000 Children<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Debbie Weiss<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Palestinian fighters from the armed wing of Hamas take part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip, July 19, 2023. REUTERS\/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Hamas has quietly removed thousands of names from its official casualty reports in Gaza, prompting fresh scrutiny of the accuracy of the death toll figures that have been widely cited by media and international organizations since the start of the Palestinian terrorist group\u2019s war with Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

An analysis, conducted by Salo Aizenberg of the US-based nonprofit Honest Reporting and first reported on by the\u00a0Telegraph<\/i>, revealed that 3,400 individuals listed as killed in earlier updates released by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health in August and October 2024 no longer appear in the March 2025 report. Among those missing from the latest list are 1,080 children.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHamas has manipulated the number of fatalities they report since the start of the war, overcounting civilian deaths and concealing combatant losses,\u201d Aizenberg told\u00a0The Algemeiner.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI took all the unique deaths and ID numbers from the August and October lists. I combined them. I removed duplicates and then compared it to the March list. And there were 3,400 names that didn\u2019t appear,\u201d he said. \u201cIn my mind, the 1,080 children are particularly notable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Aizenberg said the systematic inflation of civilian death tolls by Hamas is not a new phenomenon. \u201cThey have done this in every round of conflict. For example, in 2009\u2019s Cast Lead, Hamas initially claimed that 1,300 Palestinians died and only about 50 were combatants. Months later Hamas\u00a0admitted that in fact 600-700<\/a>\u00a0were their fighters,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The casualty lists compiled by the Gaza Ministry of Health are distributed as downloadable PDFs and include personal details such as names, identification numbers, and dates of death. These lists have been widely cited by international media and relied upon by humanitarian groups and United Nations agencies monitoring the toll of the war. The health ministry is under the control of Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n

The discrepancy in figures has raised questions about the continued reliance on these data sets, especially given mounting evidence of inconsistencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe evidence is now all out there in the public domain,\u201d Andrew Fox, a former British paratrooper who has worked with Aizenberg on data-verification projects in the past, told\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>. \u201cThese Hamas numbers are error-strewn and clearly manipulated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Aizenberg built databases by converting the PDF lists into spreadsheets, allowing for comparative analysis across different time points. That process revealed the March 2025 report included significantly fewer names than earlier versions. The findings cast doubt on previously unchallenged casualty estimates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamas has claimed that more than 50,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began in October 2023. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it has killed 20,000 Hamas combatants during that time and maintains that it takes extensive precautions to avoid civilian casualties. \u201cThe IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target children,\u201d the IDF said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a December report authored by Fox and published by the Henry Jackson Society, nearly\u00a0half of those killed in Gaza are combatants<\/a>, directly contradicting claims that the vast majority of casualties are civilians. The report also pointed to demographic inconsistencies, including the repeated listing of women and children to support allegations of indiscriminate attacks, and the lowering of adult men\u2019s ages to inflate the number of minors reported killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t say it\u2019s a genocide when half the people that have died are combatants who are still fighting,\u201d Fox told\u00a0The Algemeiner\u00a0<\/i>at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The debate over casualty figures was intensified by a February 2025 article published in the medical journal\u00a0The Lancet<\/i>, which estimated that Gaza\u2019s true death toll could be as high as 64,000. That estimate was based on a statistical extrapolation using \u201ccapture-recapture\u201d methods applied to a subset of the ministry\u2019s data. The researchers behind the study said they only used what they called \u201chospital-recorded deaths\u201d from June 2024 and asserted that these records were the most verified.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Aizenberg said that claim does not hold up to scrutiny. He reviewed the same June dataset used by the\u00a0Lancet<\/i>\u00a0study and found that 881 names in that core group were later removed in the March update. In his view, this undermines the foundation of the statistical model used to estimate excess mortality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey do this very careful statistical analysis, taking three lists and doing capture, recapture from vetted lists of hospital recorded deaths,\u201d Aizenberg said. \u201cAnd then I took their June list that they used again [in the February report] and I found 881 were also removed from the March list. So even after a really careful study [its] core data sources are not valid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Past reports have noted that the casualty forms used to populate the lists could be submitted online by anyone with access to a Google Form, raising concerns about verification protocols.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite these issues, some international entities, including the United Nations, and news outlets have continued to cite the figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health, occasionally with the disclaimer that the numbers could not be independently confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fox said such caveats are insufficient and that the deletions from Hamas\u2019s own published records have, in his view, stripped away any plausible justification for continuing to rely on the ministry\u2019s figures. \u201cIt is malpractice and deeply irresponsible on the part of any media organization still using them. There is simply no excuse for repeating them as credible,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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