• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    That estimate has turned out to be wrong. Even the author of the lancet piece distanced themselves from it.

    Hamas has every reason to present a high death toll. There have been several adjustments of the numbers as well over time.

    They estimate another 10k buried under the rubble.

    The number of deaths has only been increasing slowly for months.

    Also notable is that Hamas and the other militants have not released a number of dead combatants.

    There’s enough proven death and destruction. Clinging on to false number from the Lancet is just spreading misinformation and doesn’t help Palestinians.

    Why was that BBC article even linked? It’s from November last year and the numbers have changed since.

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      11 days ago

      Yeah this is Hasbara propaganda. Nobody has dismissed the Lancet as wrong except Zionists and their lackeys.

      The zionist colony has been signalling genocidal intent for 18 months and has levelled Gaza with massacres every day but apparently the death count is overstated?

      There’s a reason the Zios have murdered over 300 journalists. So that bots can spread doubt about the number of the dead.