The repetition of the figure — 35,000 Palestinians killed — with no mention of how many are Hamas fighters and how many are civilians (repeating the lie that most are women and children) just shows that when a lie is repeated over and over, it is very difficult to refute.
Israel, a democratic country with a free press, says about 15,000 of the casualties are Hamas fighters, and points out that Hamas deliberately fights from within the civilian population, making it impossible to avoid civilian casualties. That is not to say that the costs of this war are not tragic. But the blame must lie with the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 attack, not with the Israeli Defense Forces protecting their country.
Even the United Nations recently admitted that the number of women and children who have died in the war between Hamas and Israel was largely exaggerated. For those who want an explanation of how the “Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers,” I refer you to an article with that heading by respected University of Pennsylvania professor Abraham Wyner, in the March 6 issue of Tablet Magazine.
