Human rights NGOs continue to lie about "missing in Gaza," trusting Hamas provable lies ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Human rights NGOs continue to lie about "missing in Gaza," trusting Hamas provable lies

The "Independent Commission for Human Rights" was established in 1993 by a presidential decree from Yasser Arafat.It is supposed to be a truly independent Palestinian institution for monitoring and reporting on human rights and violations by both Israel and the Palestinian leadership.

Recently, it issued a report on 11,200 people still supposedly missing in Gaza.

The report itself is not yet available on the site, so I have no idea where it got that number from. But it is identical to the number of missing persons that has been published by Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza - which is Hamas - in January.

Since then, hundreds have been recovered from the rubble, the Red Cross has re-united thousands of families, the number of "missing under rubble" has been found not to be anywhere close to the estimates and even the UN stopped referring to the higher numbers.

The Palestinian Civil Defense that is the source for this number also claims that 2,840 of the missing bodied were "melted" and left no trace. How they could come up with an exact count of invisible bodies is a remarkable achievement, and how Israel built a weapon that vaporizes bodies leaving not even bone fragments or shoes is another remarkable fact. Yet these 2,840 are apparently included in the 11,200 cited by NGOs.

The 11,200 figure from January seems to be the source for the ICHR assertion in July. Which means that the ICHR is not at all interested in reporting the truth, but in parroting whatever ridiculously high numbers anyone makes up to make Israel look evil.

The Ramallah-based Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics also repeats the 11,200 number as fact, today. For a statistics bureau to accept obvious lies makes one wonder about the entire organization that the world relies upon for official Palestinian statistics.

Yet they aren't the worst offenders.

Save the Children issued a press release in mid-2024 estimating 21,000 missing children. Their methodology was to add a complete guess by the UN spokesperson to a separate made up number by Hamas.

No one believes there are 21,000 missing children in Gaza - since even the UN no longer believes the 11,000 total figure.

But has Save the Children updated their estimate in the past year? Of course not.

NGOs are quick to believe the most unsourced, made up statistics to maximize incitement against Israel and extremely reluctant to correct their data when it is shown to be wrong.

NGOs have a "halo effect" that makes questioning them sound like sacrilege. Yet as we see clearly, their interest in telling the truth is next to zero when they have a political reason to exaggerate.

The ICHR is an active member of the Global Alliance for National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) with "A" accreditation. Save the Children is globally respected and achieves high charity ratings.

Which tells you something about the quality of human rights NGOs in the world.