{"id":2071655,"date":"2023-10-18T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-cited-by-legacy-media-has-history-of-lying-about-civilian-casualties\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T12:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:43:53","slug":"hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-cited-by-legacy-media-has-history-of-lying-about-civilian-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-cited-by-legacy-media-has-history-of-lying-about-civilian-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas-led Gaza Health Ministry, known for false civilian casualty claims, highlighted by mainstream media."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-cited-by-legacy-media-has-history-of-lying-about-civilian-casualties%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2071655&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Major American news outlets fall for Hamas \u2064propaganda on civilian casualties<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major American news outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Associated Press routinely cite the Gaza Health Ministry\u2019s numbers for civilians purportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes, but \u2062the Hamas-run agency has a history \u200dof lying about these very numbers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After\u200c Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack\u2063 on Israel on October 7, the \u200cIsraeli government responded quickly and forcefully, bombing\u2064 Hamas targets in \u200cthe Gaza Strip and preparing a ground operation that is expected to begin any day. Quickly after\u2062 Israel responded to Hamas\u2019 attack \u2064with airstrikes on military targets, legacy media outlets began reporting numbers of Palestinian civilian casualties\u2064 fed\u200c to \u200bthem by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The New York Times perpetuates the deception<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the top of The New \u2063York Times\u2019 \u2064live updates on the war, \u200cthe legacy outlet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/10\/16\/world\/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza\/heres-the-latest-on-the-war?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">writes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cSome two million people remain trapped in Gaza, desperate for water and other critical supplies and fearful of Israeli airstrikes that Palestinian officials \u2064say have already killed more than 2,800 people and wounded more than 10,000 others.\u201d Those numbers come \u200bdirectly from the Palestinian Health \u2063Ministry, but the Times makes no mention of the agency\u2019s previous lies about its death tolls. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Times previously noted that the health ministry used deceptive tactics less than\u200d a\u2064 decade ago. In an article published by the Times on August 5, 2014 \u2014 in the midst of an Israeli operation\u2063 in Gaza to take\u2064 out terrorists \u2014 the news outlet \u200b <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/06\/world\/middleeast\/civilian-or-not-new-fight-in-tallying-the-dead-from-the-gaza-conflict.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that the \u201cPalestinian Ministry of Health does not categorize victims as civilian or combatant,\u201d meaning the Gaza-based reporting of civilian casualties was significantly higher than what Israel and the U.N. \u2062reported. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the 2014 conflict, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2014\/08\/12\/hamas-lies-about-the-gaza-civilian-death-toll-and-the-media-bought-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion piece<\/a> in U.S. News \u200b&#038; World Report highlighted Hamas\u2019 lies about \u200ccivilian casualties,\u2064 stating clearly that the numbers coming from \u200cthe Palestinian Health Ministry \u200bcannot be trusted. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Hamas&#8217; lies and \u200cthe\u2063 complicity of Western media<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHamas lies\u200c systematically, instructing civilians to misinform the foreign press. It lies habitually, with a \u200dformidable record of mendacity from previous conflicts. And it lies\u200d guiltlessly, convinced that the objectives of \u2018resistance\u2019 supersede quaint notions of truth-telling,\u201d Oren Kessler\u2063 wrote on August 12, 2014. The\u2064 report even went on to blast \u201cWestern media\u201d for going \u2064along with Hamas\u2019 casualty count. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNonetheless, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge over a month ago, Western media \u200dhave relied on Gaza\u2019s Hamas-run Health Ministry \u2013 as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSKBN0FV04K20140726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/israel-hamas-trade-fire-as-gaza-death-toll-mounts-1407579399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/archive\/missile-strike-al-shati-refugee-camp-kills-10-including-8-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u2013 for casualty tallies,\u201d the report added. \u201cAs one reporter told the Washington Post, when it comes to body counts, the Hamas Health Minister Ashraf\u200b Al-Qidra is\u200b \u2018the \u2063only\u2064 game in town.\u2019\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fog of war \u2063combined with the Gaza Health Ministry\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-cited-by-legacy-media-has-history-of-lying-about-civilian-casualties\/\" title=\"Hamas-led Gaza Health Ministry, known for false civilian casualty claims, highlighted by mainstream media.\">deceptive reporting makes gathering accurate information<\/a> on Palestinian civilian casualties \u200cnearly impossible. This was proven yet again when an \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/israel-defense-forces-terrorists-fired-rocket-that-killed-500-at-gaza-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explosion near a Gaza hospital<\/a> on Tuesday was blamed on an\u200b Israeli airstrike by Palestinian authorities, whose word was taken as truth by mainstream newsrooms. The Hamas-backed health ministry\u200d said the blast at the hospital killed at least 500 people, and that claim was plastered \u2064on the websites and in\u200c the newspapers of American legacy media outlets \u2014 again, with no explanation of the unreliable source reporting the deaths. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The media&#8217;s failure to fact-check<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York Times <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1714416589724864790\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">changed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  its headline <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231017194544\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/10\/17\/world\/gaza-news-israel-hamas-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">multiple<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231017203739\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/10\/17\/world\/gaza-news-israel-hamas-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u2062after the explosion near the Gaza hospital \u2014 initially running with \u200dthe Palestinian officials\u2019 version of the event before updating the headline as more information came out that indicated the blast came from \u2064a\u2062 failed Hamas rocket. The Times provided no editor\u2019s note explaining the revised headline. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the\u200d blast at the hospital, The Washington Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/10\/17\/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah\/f80150f0-6ca9-11ee-b01a-f593caa04363_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cBefore the al-Alhi Hospital deaths, Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 2,778 people\u2064 and wounded 9,700, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and nearly two-thirds of\u200b those killed\u2064 were children. Another 1,200 people across Gaza are believed \u200dto be buried under the rubble, alive or dead, health authorities said.\u201d The \u200ddeath count is reported as\u2064 fact with no Disclaimer \u200cabout the unreliability of the source it\u200b comes\u2064 from. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, the Associated Press <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u2064 \u201cA massive blast rocked\u200d a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians \u200bseeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. \u2063Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a rocket misfired by other Palestinian\u2063 militants. At least 500\u200b people were killed, the ministry said.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American news outlets <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians-hostages-updates\/#post-update-1871bc50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CBS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e2LL2kbNmiY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ABC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/chris-jansing-reports\/watch\/palestinian-officials-hundreds-killed-in-strike-on-gaza-hospital-195816517935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MSNBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/middleeast\/live-news\/israel-news-hamas-war-10-13-23\/h_1bc0ffaac9b123d607215ecabaadc3eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/israel-attacks-200-targets-in-gaza-ahead-of-biden-visit-cd6889d6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u200c have all followed suit by \u200creporting Hamas\u2019 propaganda as fact, and the health ministry\u2019s lies were also touted by sitting members of Congress, Reps. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RashidaTlaib\/status\/1714342122185191596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rashida \u2063Tlaib<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  (D-MI) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1714358704303157661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ilhan\u2063 Omar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  (D-MN). Both of the congresswomen have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RashidaTlaib\/status\/1714413463928229950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">doubled<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">down<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on accepting the Palestinian \u200dauthorities\u2019 lies and condemning President Biden for standing \u200bwith Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What steps should news \u200coutlets take \u200dto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tax-returns-leak-suspect-charged-faces-5-years-prison-time-if-convicted\/\" title=\"Suspect charged in Trump tax returns leak, could face 5 years in prison.\">exercise responsible journalism<\/a> in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and why is it \u2063important for them\u200d to \u200bpresent a \u2062balanced view of the\u200b situation<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u200c \u2064and countless other \u2062examples demonstrate <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 as a primary\u200d source for the tally of civilians\u200d \u2064killed\u2063 by Israeli fire,\u201d \u2063Kessler wrote.\u200d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This blatant \u2062propaganda by Hamas and the complicity of major American news outlets\u200d raises serious concerns about the media\u2019s role \u200din reporting conflicts\u2062 and\u200c the need for independent verification \u200bof\u2062 information. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u2063 Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry\u2064 has a clear incentive to portray high civilian casualties. By exaggerating the\u2063 number\u2064 of civilian deaths, \u2063Hamas aims to delegitimize Israel\u2019s defensive actions \u2064and \u200cdraw international condemnation. Hamas leaders \u200bknow\u200c that disproportionate global\u200b outrage \u2063could\u2062 pressure\u2062 Israel into\u200b making concessions\u2062 that would benefit the \u2063terrorist organization. \u200b <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, many media\u2063 outlets seem all too willing\u2062 to\u2062 amplify Hamas\u2019 narrative without critically examining the accuracy\u200c of the information\u2064 they are provided. This \u2062not only undermines \u2062the credibility of\u2062 the media \u2063but also\u200c perpetuates the \u2062cycle of violence by further demonizing Israel and eroding\u2063 public support for its legitimate defensive actions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u2062the midst of the current\u200d conflict, it is crucial for news outlets to\u2063 exercise responsible journalism by thoroughly vetting their sources \u2062and cross-referencing information before publishing. Failing to do so only serves to disseminate propaganda and exacerbate the\u200c biases and misinformation already \u200dprevalent in the reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, the media should give equal weight to Israeli and Palestinian perspectives, presenting\u200b a balanced view of the situation rather than \u200bperpetuating a one-sided narrative. By providing a\u200c fair and\u200b accurate representation of events, \u200bnews \u2063outlets can contribute to a more informed public debate and a better understanding of\u200d the \u200ccomplexities surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian \u200cconflict. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the media to present the facts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-strange-saga-of-an-ap-article-trying-to-condemn-gov-desantis-for-pushing-covid-19-treatments\/\" title=\"The Strange Saga Of An AP Article Trying To Condemn Gov. DeSantis For Pushing COVID-19 Treatments\">challenge false narratives<\/a>,\u200c and uphold journalistic integrity. Falling for Hamas\u2019 propaganda only undermines the\u2062 pursuit of truth and contributes to the perpetuation of\u200c violence and conflict \u200bin the region.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major US news outlets often rely on the Gaza Health Ministry&#8217;s figures to report civilian casualties in Israeli airstrikes. However, this Hamas-controlled agency has a track record of providing inaccurate numbers. 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