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Lest we succumb to blindly reblogging tweets like the pro-Hamas people, I went and found some sources.
Here is the article linked in the tweet:
It says that the Ministry of Health has “incomplete data” for about 10,000 of their reported casualties. They haven’t specified why the data is incomplete. The article also sources this earlier article on the same website:
The Ministry of Health is claiming to have gotten their data from “reliable media sources,” but won’t clarify anything else. That claim is sourced to this Wall Street Journal article, which I cannot read in its entirety because it wants me to pay for it:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hamass-numbers-games-civilian-death-counts-casualty-data-b99140eb
Trying to find a link to a primary source for that roughly 10,000 number led me in circles for a while, but so many sources are claiming it that it feels a little more credible. In fact, NPR's article on the topic claims roughly 13,000 people have been "identified" this way!
The original article is from Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is a neoconservative publication that has been accused of having a pro-war and anti-Muslim bias. For our purposes, they seem to be critical of PLO leadership, but take all of that with a grain of salt because my source is the Criticism section on Wikipedia:
In conclusion, Hamas has NOT claimed that they over counted or that their numbers are inaccurate (clearly), but it seems to be true that they did.
