File under "1200 dead in Jenin" - Gazan doctor says death toll inflated

Ynetews:

Physician at Gaza's Shifa Hospital tells Italian newspaper number of dead in Israeli offensive 'stands at no more than 500 or 600, most of them youths recruited to Hamas' ranks'. Senior Palestinian Health Ministry official denies claims, IDF estimate on 1,200 casualties in Strip remains unchanged


What really is behind the numbers reported on the number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip? Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported Thursday that a doctor working in Gaza's Shifa Hospital claimed that Hamas has intentionally inflated the number of casualties resulting from Israel's Operation Cast Lead.


"The number of deceased stands at no more than 500 to 600. Most of them are youths between the ages of 17 to 23 who were recruited to the ranks of Hamas, who sent them to the slaughter," according to the newspaper article.

However, as it was in 2002, in Jenin the world CANNOT WAIT to declare as DER SPIEGEL said..."Thirteen hundred dead: That screams to the heavens. That is not an issue of "proportionality," which is impossible in any asymmetrical war. A pile of corpses like that is a nightmare, a catastrophe."

But of course, the 'news' reported by them is not factual in numbers, and as at Jenin, the 1200 which turned out to be 52, of whom 26 were positively ID'd as fighters, here now we have 1300, reduced to 500 or so, and most of them are HAMAS' genocidal murderers.

So why does world run again and again to believe these 'massacres' of delusion rather than say... ' we've been euchred by whoever is putting this out before '. What is it that makes whoever places these stories, and seeks to have them believed, need to believe evil of the jews?

Not that they are better or worse, but clearly news editors WANT the Israelis to be the icon for ...what?

Why?

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Despite the claims, the IDF stood behind its estimate that between 1,100 to 1,200 people were killed in the Strip during the fighting, more than two-thirds of them Hamas members.

The army initially believed that the number of civilian casualties was higher, as many Hamas men walked outside their houses dressed in civilian clothes, leaving their weapons at home.A Tal al-Hawa resident told the newspaper's reporter, "Armed Hamas men sought out a good position for provoking the Israelis. There were mostly teenagers, aged 16 or 17, and armed.

You mean like HIzballah in Lebanon in the 80's?

They couldn't do a thing against a tank or a jet. They knew they are much weaker, but they fired at our houses so that they could blame Israel for war crimes."

The reporter for the Italian newspaper also quoted reporters in the Strip who told of Hamas' exaggerated figures, "We have already said to Hamas commanders - why do you insist on inflating the number of victims?"

These same reporters mentioned that the truth that will come out is likely to be similar to what occurred in Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin. "Then, there was first talk of 1,500 deaths. But then it turned out that there were only 54, 45 of which were armed men," the Palestinian reporters told the Italian newspaper.

How can we believe ANYTHING coming out of Pallywood?