UN quietly stops reporting Hamas lie "10,000 missing under rubble" ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, February 13, 2025

UN quietly stops reporting Hamas lie "10,000 missing under rubble"

For months, the UN-OCHAOPT has faithfully reported Hamas statistics unless they were found to be completely bogus.

One of those statistics was the supposed 10,000 presumed dead Gazans missing or under the rubble, as this February 4 infographic says:

In its February 11 infographic, however, OCHA stopped reporting on that figure.

Others have also reported on the "10,000 buried under rubble" claim based on the UN quoting Hamas.

For example, the BBC on January 20:

I've been reporting that the "under the rubble" statistics were entirely made up for nearly a year now. But with the ceasefire now in its fourth week, and no impediments to recovering these thousands of bodies, the lie is more obvious every day - because the average number of bodies recovered daily keeps going way down.

Here are the numbers of bodies recovered, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, for each of the weeks since the ceasefire (current week extrapolated from the days counted):

Tuesday they recovered only two bodies.

It sure doesn't sound like there are 9,500 more bodies to be found.

The UN simply parroted what Hamas' Civil Defense said and publicized those numbers in other venues without question or caveat. Now, as it is increasingly clear that those estimates were simply made up to exaggerate the number of dead in Gaza, the UN has silently stopped quoting that figure.

But the numbers are still out there, quoted in the media and by NGOs.

Reporters should ask the UN about this sudden ceasing of transcribing Hamas lies.