A similar report by the Henry Jackson Society in December also concluded that Hamas had inflated the number of casualties in the war.
“We knew there were rafts of errors in their reporting,” report author Andrew Fox said.
“There’s a reasonable explanation in that their computer systems went down in November 2023 so it’s been challenging for them to report accurately, but: 1. the lists are so unreliable that the world’s media shouldn’t be quoting them as reliable. 2. “The UN also just takes Hamas’s figures and publishes them with a note stating the figures are unconfirmed.”
Fox explained: 1. Hamas will “have gone through the list, trying to make it as convincing as possible. 2. They’ve been accepting names onto that list with no evidence whatsoever,” 3. “So what I’m guessing they’re trying to do is thin out the names they cannot substantiate at all.”
“Salo’s research would be looking for names that were on previous lists but have now disappeared,” Fox explained. “Hamas releases lists as PDFs, so it’s harder to do comparisons but we transfer names to an Excel sheet to do a mass comparison this way.”
Nothing startling here... Everything from the terrorists -- inflated lies World deliberately deaf and blind to Israel's dire straights, taking them to task over everything they do or don't do... but letting the terrorists, off the hook
