2y ago

Despite Biden's doubts, humanitarian agencies consider Gaza toll reliable

www.reuters.com

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And I actually expect that the numbers are considerably higher just because there are probably a lot of people unaccounted for under the rubble. But even if they are exaggerated it is still staggering human cost and there is no way around it.
- Last I read there's some 700 children currently missing
Biden Expresses Doubts That Enough Palestinians Have Died
The Onion really struggling to stay ahead of reality
Death toll releases
Biden: No, that can’t be right. Israel is merely “defending itself”
Death with names of victims releases
Biden: Sticks head in sand and yells gibberish
You see why neutral parties concerned for human life have been calling for a ceasefire now? Or do you want more blood on your hands? How children are enough? 1000? 2000? 5000?
Jfc, this is depressing…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
GENEVA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden has cast doubt on casualty figures provided by Palestinian officials in Gaza, but international humanitarian agencies consider them broadly accurate and historically reliable.
Although there is no dispute that Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed many people since Hamas ran amok in southern Israel on Oct. 7, Biden said on Wednesday he had "no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using", without saying why.
U.N. and other international agencies say there can be small discrepancies between the final casualty numbers and those reported by the Gaza health ministry straight after attacks, but that they broadly trust them.
New York-based Human Rights Watch also says the casualty figures have generally been reliable, and that it has not found big discrepancies in its verification of past strikes on Gaza.
"It's worth noting that the numbers that are coming out since October 7th are generally consistent or within logic for the scale of killings one would expect, given the intensity of bombardment in such a densely populated area," Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, said.
It reports casualty totals based on numbers it receives from hospitals, ambulances and emergency services, in coordination with the Red Crescent, a spokesman in Ramallah said.
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He prefers a number closer to or at zero. Anything else shows he backed and effectively promoted the murder of civilians, including children
"Hamas says it's right, so it's right", says group biased against Israel.
- Which groups mentioned in the article are biased against Israel?
- Damn, that's some childish argument.
- "US and israel politicians don't believe casualty numbers from Palestinian government, so it must be true" says group biased towards Israel
- Anyone with common decency should be against a war crime-comitting child-killing illegal state.
  
  Ohh what a fun argument! Is this comment referring to Palestine or Isreal???
- Pretty idiotic argument, even if im very pro Israel, UN is relatively neutral on that and the death toll doesn't seem to much out of place given the amount of attacks.
  But there is nothing possible to do about that either way.
  
  But there is nothing possible to do about that either way.
  Poor Israel has no choice but to kill 7k people.
  
  UN is far from neutral towards Israel and takes most of their data from the local government, regardless of their international status as a terror organization.
  
  Talking about the UN as a singular entity that has objective features is silly and quite honestly emphasizes your lack of knowledge

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