More proof of Hamas casualty lies

About a week before the ceasefire, Hamas said that there were 11,200 missing people in Gaza buried under the rubble.

On the day of the ceasefire, Hamas updated that figure to the very authoritative sounding 14,222 missing people in Gaza presumed dead under the rubble. 

Since the fighting has stopped and there are no impediments to recovering bodies, we should be seeing hundreds of bodies arriving in hospitals every day, right?

The first days after the ceasefire, dozens of bodies were reported recovered by the Ministry of Health. Since then, the number of bodies has been going steadily down.

That is 457 bodies recovered so far, half of which were recovered in the first three days. (They didn't issue reports on three days.)

Based on these trends, the total number of bodies expected to be recovered is probably less than a thousand, certainly not 14,000 or the 10,000 that NGOs parroted from Hamas for months. 

Hamas lied. And no media outlet noticed.

Also, the MoH counts 17 "martyrs" who succumbed to their injuries since January 20 and 22 "new martyrs" that they claim Israel is still somehow killing, that the media hasn't managed to find out about. (There are occasional articles in Palestinian media claiming Israel is still killing Gazans. The Institute for the Study of War has consistently stated in their daily reports that it "has recorded no verifiable reports of kinetic activity in the Gaza Strip or attacks from the Gaza Strip into Israel" in every daily report since then, meaning Israel is holding to the ceasefire.)

So who is the ministry counting? People who are dying of natural causes? The people being executed by Hamas?

Or are they just making this up, like they have been the past 15 months?

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