The Washington Post headline says:
Over the last week, Israel has unleashed a wave of airstrikes across the besieged Strip.... that Palestinians and humanitarian workers likened in intensity and lethality to those in the early weeks of the nine-month war.
Really? Because even Hamas disagrees.
The Hamas-run health ministry numbers claim that during the first four weeks of the war there were 9,485 killed - an average of 2,371 per week.
That is five times the number claimed by that same ministry over the past seven days: 466.
Since the humanitarian pause in November, the number of weekly deaths in Gaza has gone steadily down, even according to the Hamas authorities. Here's a chart.
The bump in the past week was entirely from Israel's airstrike aimed at the head of the Qassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif, nearly the most valuable military target in Gaza that more than justifies the apparently high death toll, according to the principle of proportionality under the laws of armed conflict as applied to every other war since the Fourth Geneva Convention was written.
But even with that airstrike, the number of fatalities this past week was less than every week of the war from October to April (excluding the humanitarian pause in November.)
The Palestinians and health workers are proven to be liars. The Washington Post embraces the lie so much that they place it in their headline.
Quoting the health workers and Palestinians saying the lie does not exonerate the newspaper. It should fact check them, and anyone who has been following the war - including the reporter Miriam Berger -would immediately know that it is a lie.
This is not an oversight. It is not a mistake. It is a consciously false attack on Israel by the Washington Post.
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