A new report shows how Hamas’ inflated death tolls distorted the narrative of the Gaza war.

A report by the UK’s Henry Jackson Society (HJS) reveals that death tolls published by Hamas-led organizations in Gaza over the past 14 months have been inflated, leading major news channels to report it incorrectly.

The rapport independent 36-page paper is called “Questionable Counting” and concludes that approximately 17,000 terrorists were killed in Hamas’s war, but that the media continually uses a figure of more than 40,000 deaths, implying often civilians.
“This report raises serious concerns that Gaza health ministry figures have been overstated,” writes Andrew Fox, l’ author of the report. “The data underlying these figures contains natural deaths, deaths that occurred before the start of the conflict, and deaths of people killed by Hamas itself; they do not mention the deaths of Hamas fighters and overestimate the number of women and children killed.

The HJS report gives examples of deliberate errors in Hamas’s calculations, such as a 22-year-old being considered a four-year-old child and a 31-year-old being considered a baby. The data also reveals numerous cases of deaths of men listed by Hamas under false female identities.

Global media coverage of the figures was also analyzed. In the four-month period from February to May this year, 84% of some key media outlets in the US, UK and Australia “failed to make the essential distinction” between deaths civilians and combatants, Mr. Fox said.

“This omission creates a biased narrative portraying all victims as civilians, thereby shaping public opinion and international policy based on incomplete or manipulated data.”

According to the report, only 5% of media outlets surveyed, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, the Associated Press, CNN and the BBC, cited figures released by Israeli authorities, while 98% of They cited Hamas figures.

A worrying 19 percent of the 1,378 articles analyzed over a four-month period treated Hamas-controlled figures as fact, without attributing them to anyone.

The HJS report follows several academic reports revealing evidence of fabrication and data manipulation, to specific data analysis on the British public service broadcaster, the report Assersonwhich reported 1,553 breaches of the BBC’s own impartiality guidelines, and one rapport on BBC media coverage since October 7, 2023, written by a former director of the corporation.

Inaccurate and biased reporting has led to Israel’s biggest public relations battle to date, including accusations of genocide against Palestinians, arrest warrants for Israeli leaders and the rise anti-Semitic hate crimes around the world.

Recent examples of anti-Israel protests in the UK includeshocking intervention of pro-Hamas speakers and students at the Oxford Union, followed by another vitriolic demonstration against Jews and supporters of Israel, under the guise of a charity fundraiser.

At a concert in south London on Friday, singers including Paul Weller and Paloma Faith took to the stage to accuse the Jewish state of committing “genocide” in Gaza.

Billed as a fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians and Gaza Forever, the Daily Telegraph reported that members of the public said the evening had become a “political rally” filled with “one-sided propaganda,” as the crowd was led in chants of “Free, free Palestine.”

One of the country’s largest circulation newspapers was also recently accused by an employee to adopt anti-Semitic attitudes. Jay Rayner, a Jewish food critic and journalist, said he couldn’t stay at the company because of racism.

Speaking to Paul Calvert, Adam Levickco-editor of CAMERA UK, explained that the Guardian newspaper began predicting Israel’s aggressive and disproportionate response to the Hamas massacre, just two weeks after Hamas’s invasion and attack on Israel on October 7 last year, and even before the ground invasion of Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

After 10 months of conflict between Hamas and Israel, CAMERA obtained 100 corrections from the BBC’s Arabic channel, Mr. Levick said, a channel from which he was revealed that She employed Hamas supporters. He added that CAMERA’s work in holding the BBC to account on its own standards is particularly important, given the corporation’s global reach.

“The manipulation of events and facts on the ground throughout this conflict confirms that a terrorist organization like Hamas distorts the truth to serve its own goals,” declared Priti Patel, British opposition foreign minister, to the Daily Telegraph.

“The media must be attentive to this and report the information and events that are taking place in a responsible and balanced manner.

It could have been justified to avoid covering any of the figures due to their unreliability,” wrote Jonathan Turner, chief executive of UK Lawyers for Israel, in August, in the section “Recommendations for media organisations”.

“However,” he continued, “given that the Gaza ministries’ figures for the total number of people allegedly killed have been repeatedly mentioned in media coverage, it is unbalanced and misleading not to mention the figures with the same regularity. provided by the Israeli Defense Forces regarding the killed Palestinian fighters.

“This unbalanced and misleading media coverage is likely a major cause of the rise in anti-Semitism,” he added.

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