The toll carried out by the Ministry of Health under the authority of Hamas, in the context of the war in Gaza, seems to include around 5,000 Palestinians who, in reality, died a natural death – including patients suffering from cancer whose names appeared on a list of patients receiving continuing medical care, according to a new report that was compiled by a think-tank British.
The Henry Jackson Society also found that the majority of victims who were reported were men aged 15 to 45 – whose ages were often lowered by a year in an apparent attempt to make it appear that more miners had died, indicated the Telegraph in an article devoted to this research.
The think-tank said the death toll also included Gaza residents killed by rockets fired by terrorists that fell into the Strip, as well as residents who lost their lives during food aid distributions – which had been the case, among others, a 17-year-old young man who was shot dead by Hamas last December while waiting to receive humanitarian assistance for his family.
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The pogrom committed by Hamas – the armed men massacred more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251 people, taken hostage in the Gaza Strip – was at the origin of the current war in within the coastal enclave which, according to Hamas, caused more than 44,000 deaths.
A record which remains unverifiable and which makes no difference between civilians and terrorists. Israel, for its part, claimed, in November, to have killed 18,000 armed men in the conflict, in addition to a thousand who had been killed on Israeli soil on October 7.
Israel explains that it is trying to limit the number of civilian casualties as much as possible and emphasizes that the terrorist group uses civilians as human shields, launching its attacks from civilian areas – homes, hospitals, schools, mosques and others. The Jewish state faces growing international criticism over the deadly toll of the growing conflict in Gaza – Hamas says a significant number of children are among the victims. victims.
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