Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Elder of ZiyonSince the start of Israel's military response, the country's attacks have killed at least 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 16,500 children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.Really? Because the last time the Gaza health ministry reported on the number of children killed, at the end of August, it said there were 11,355, not 16,500.
Here's its English language poster from its Telegram channel:
Unless 5,000 kids were somehow killed in the past month, NPR is lying.
It isn't the health ministry that makes up the statistics of 5,000 fake dead kids. It is from Hamas' media office, meaning its propaganda arm - and that is who NPR is quoting, not the slightly more reliable health ministry.
Hamas posted Monday:
A whole year and the occupation has killed more than 16,000 Palestinian children, including 171 infants who were born and martyred during the genocidal war, as well as killing more than 11,400 female martyrs.
Let's do some math, for the innumerate NPR editors.
Hamas claims 41,800 total dead, of whom 16,000 are children and 11,400 are women. That adds up to 27,400 women and children.
The MoH counts 34,344 total as of August 31, of whom 17,652 are women and children.
That means Hamas counts 9,748 more women and children than the MoH did - but Hamas counts only 7,456 more total deaths than the MoH.
In other words, if every single person killed between August 31 and October 7 was a woman or child, Hamas would still be claiming 2,292 more women and children deaths than are mathematically possible.
In short, Hamas is provably lying. And NPR not only accepts the lies, but it claims that they came from the ministry of health and not some anonymous guy wearing a keffiyeh who literally makes up numbers from a bunker with Internet and a Telegram account.
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Not that the health ministry is above lying. While according to its August 31 numbers, women and children make up 51% of the total deaths, in its October 7 post it claimed "the number of martyrs reached 41,909, more than 60% of whom were children and women."
Time for some more math. If this is true, it means that over the past five weeks, they verified the gender and age of 7,565 more deaths - of whom about 7,490 were women and children (60% of 41,909.)
That's 99% of all the new deaths being women and children. It is statistically impossible for the women and children death rate to be 51% for a year and then 99% in five weeks.
So the ministry of health is not exactly trustworthy, either, and we see it from their own posts being impossible to reconcile with each other.
Yet the media is uninterested in doing what I just did in five minutes with a spreadsheet.
Because the media isn't interested in the truth. They are interested in a narrative of Israeli evil, and the Hamas propaganda institutions are convenient ways to fulfill that desire.
The numbers are simply too good to check.
(h/t Irene)
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