The Ministry breaks down its statistics on the number of dead people they counted in Gaza hospitals and those they did not. According to the latest report from March 3, 30,228 people had died, of which they counted 17,348 in hospitals, and the other 13,186 they counted from "trusted media sources."
Meaning, the Hamas media office.
43% of all Gaza deaths and demographic breakdowns come not from the doctors in the health ministry but from the masked terrorists of Hamas.
Let's assume that the Gaza health ministry is telling the truth about the people it counted in its hospitals, which they break down per hospital. For the ones that they count themselves, 42% are men and 58% are women and children. (English from Google Translate)
Yet they also say that 72% of the total deaths in Gaza are women and children, not 58%.
Somehow the demographics they see in their hospitals are way, way different from the ones that their "trusted media sources" claim.
To make the numbers work, the "trusted media sources" of the Hamas media office must be claiming an amazing 90% of their otherwise unreported casualties by MoH to be women and children. - roughly 12,000 women and children compared to 1,300 men.
Needless to say, this is virtually statistically impossible.
So even if one believes the health ministry on the numbers its hospitals counted, it is still reporting Hamas media office numbers - and vouching for their accuracy in their own summary reports. Which makes it just as unreliable as everyone else in Hamas.
(h/t Mark Zlochin)
