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Pretty sure even Israel has said the Gaza health ministry’s numbers are usually correct. They have also been found to be generally correct in the past.

Lastly the lower death count is the official health ministry number but the higher estimates are from others, e.g. The Lancet.

This isn't a claim you can drop without some very convincing source.

source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_in_the_Israel%E...

> Abraham Wyner, a Pennsylvania professor of statistics, wrote in Tablet that the GHM casualty figures were "faked".[68] Wyner's article was analyzed by professor Joshua Loftus of the London School of Economics, who concluded Wyner's article was "one of the worst abuses of statistics I’ve ever seen".

Do you need one when that ministry reports casualties exactly to single digits within minutes of any incident? Like "567 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital", just look down at your keyboard to see where that number came from.

This is completely false. Gaza Health Ministry provides the most accurate data. You could also just go on X or TikTok and see dozens of Palestinians murdered by the IDF every single day.

Provided - past tense. When they were alive back in March. That ministry was destroyed by targeted missile attacks, same as the journalists.

>You could also just go on X or TikTok and see dozens of Palestinians murdered by the IDF every single day.

Just make sure to not bother yourself looking up sources of the images/videos, lest you find that a lot of that is from Syria.

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