{"id":2244413,"date":"2024-05-14T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-appears-to-admit-its-tally-of-women-and-children-killed-in-gaza-was-vastly-inflated\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T20:11:03","slug":"un-appears-to-admit-its-tally-of-women-and-children-killed-in-gaza-was-vastly-inflated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-appears-to-admit-its-tally-of-women-and-children-killed-in-gaza-was-vastly-inflated\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Appears to Admit Its Tally of Women and Children Killed in Gaza Was Vastly Inflated"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fun-appears-to-admit-its-tally-of-women-and-children-killed-in-gaza-was-vastly-inflated%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=2244413&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--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\"> Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aaltomari\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span> \u00a0By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aaltomari\/%20\"><span>Anthony Altomari<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span> \u00a0May 14, 2024 at 10:20am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>In a change of course, the United Nations has significantly revised its data on the breakdown of Palestinian casualties in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, reducing the number of women and children killed in Gaza by almost 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has published daily reports on the Palestinian and Israeli casualties in the conflict, which began when Hamas killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, in a brutal terrorist attack on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has relied on statistics provided by Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health and Government Media Office in compiling its reports.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6 report<\/a> listed the number of Palestinian children killed in the conflict at more than 14,500 and the number of Palestinian women killed at more than 9,500.<\/p>\n<p>However, these figures were significantly different in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 8 report,<\/a> which listed the number of children killed at 7,797 and the number of women killed at 4,959.<\/p>\n<p>That represents decreases of at least 47.8 percent and 46.2 percent in the figures for women and children, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>To note, the May 8 report puts the total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pro-palestinian-graduates-cant-handle-jerry-seinfeld-storm-off-commencement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palestinian<\/a> fatalities at 34,844 but says only 24,686 of them had been identified as of April 30. The figures for children and women\u2019s deaths come from the identified totals.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs also points out in each report that the figures do not include more than 10,000 persons \u201creported missing or under the rubble,\u201d a figure also provided by Gaza\u2019s Government Media Office.<\/p>\n<p>Given that all the Palestinian casualty figures come from Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health and Government Media Office, both of which are controlled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tom-cotton-bidens-position-hamas-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamas<\/a>, many have questioned the reliability of the figures, which are widely reported by the establishment media.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Hamas has an incentive to provide inflated figures as it seeks global support in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the Gaza death toll has been exaggerated and that almost half of those killed were not civilians but Hamas fighters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-death-toll-netanyahu-un-civilians-women-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A March 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/policy-analysis\/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy characterized Gaza fatality data as \u201ccompletely unreliable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said the Ministry of Health relied on its hospitals and morgues to certify each death to compile its fatality reports, which had been the way the Ministry of Health had traditionally verified deaths.<\/p>\n<p>However, once hospitals in Northern Gaza began to be shut down or evacuated in early November, the Ministry of Health began relying on media reports as its underlying methodology for tracking fatalities from the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA comparison of the two methodologies, using MOH reports and claims published by the Hamas-controlled Government Media Office (GMO), yields wildly different and irreconcilable results, indicating that the media reports methodology is dramatically understating fatalities among adult males, the demographic most likely to be combatants,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis undercuts the persistent claim that 72 percent of those killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-send-arrested-palestinian-students-gaza-hits-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaza<\/a> are women and children,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Farhan Aziz-Haq, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/un-revises-gaza-death-toll-50-less-women-children-killed-previously-reported\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> that the U.N. has been unable to verify the figures coming out of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-israeli-un-ambassador-gives-epic-response-un-approving-palestinian-enhanced-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations<\/a> teams on the ground in Gaza are unable to independently verify those figures given the prevailing situation on the ground and the sheer volume of fatalities,\u201d Aziz-Haq said. \u201cIt is for this reason that all figures used by the U.N. clearly cite the Health Ministry in Gaza as the source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of where the figures come from, every death of an innocent woman or child that has come from this conflict is a tragedy, and the updated casualty numbers do not change this.<\/p>\n<p>However, we should use caution in trusting any statistics put forward by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult enough to estimate casualties in an ongoing war, and any resulting figures published in real-time should be carefully analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another thing to trust figures being published by one of the belligerents involved in the war, especially if it is a terrorist group that is trying to use casualty estimates to craft a particular narrative to drain its enemy\u2019s support on the world stage.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. 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Please don\u2019t wait one minute.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span> Donate right now<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"after-article-tags\">\n<p> Tags:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/death\/\" rel=\"tag\">Death<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/mainstream-media\/\" rel=\"tag\">Establishment media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/gaza\/\" rel=\"tag\">Gaza<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/hamas\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hamas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/islamic-terrorism\/\" rel=\"tag\">Islamic terrorism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/israel\/\" rel=\"tag\">Israel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\" rel=\"tag\">Middle East<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/palestinians\/\" rel=\"tag\">Palestinians<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/united-nations-un\/\" rel=\"tag\">United Nations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/war\/\" rel=\"tag\">War<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/world-news\/\" rel=\"tag\">World news<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45807\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aaltomari\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45807\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-45807\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45807\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45807\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Anthony Altomari is a commentary writer for the Western Journal. He focuses his writing on culture and politics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p> Anthony Altomari is a commentary writer for the Western Journal. He focuses his writing on culture and politics. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary \u00a0By Anthony Altomari \u00a0May 14, 2024 at 10:20am In a change of course, the United Nations has significantly revised its data on the breakdown of Palestinian casualties in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, reducing the number of women and children killed in Gaza by almost 50 percent. The U.N. 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