Gaza health ministry mysteriously adds 499 more "martyrs" to the total count ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Gaza health ministry mysteriously adds 499 more "martyrs" to the total count

The Telegram channel of the Gaza health ministry says, "499 martyrs were added to the cumulative statistics of martyrs, whose data was completed and approved by the judicial committee following up on the file of reports and missing persons....The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 46,537 martyrs and 109,571 injuries since October 7, 2023."

Andrew Fox noted that the "judicial committee" is supposed to verify the people whose names were entered in the online form with incomplete data.

But as we've noted before, the health ministry keeps two sets of records. One is the ones whose names they have, and the other is the numbers seemingly made up by Hamas which, the health ministry now says, includes the deceased with incomplete records.

If the judiciary committee approved 499 names on the incomplete list, the number of total "martyrs" should not increase - only the number of the verified ones.

Yet the health ministry added the 499 to the higher number that already included the unverified victims, not the lower one. Which sure makes it look like they are double-counting them.

Maybe there is a valid explanation. But given what we've seen from the health ministry, which has consistently done everything they can to exaggerate the death count, this seems unlikely.

And no one knows anything about this "judicial committee" - is it part of the health ministry? Part of Hamas' judiciary? Who is on it? What is their methodology?

No one knows. And too few people care.